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Nursing Reflection

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This semester, I hope to gain the confidence in my nursing skills necessary to help me work more independently with my patient care. Expanding on my assessment skills, communication skills, clinical judgment skills, and safety skills are important in gaining more independence in my care for my patients. I hope that this semester I can learn how to work with chest tubes, be more direct with what I need from my patient, be more confident with my knowledge in medications, improve my skills in delivering an SBAR, and learning the terminology used at Mayo Clinic and in nursing. My assessment skills could benefit from practice both in and out of the clinical setting. My assessment technique of my patients needs to have more of an order to it, so in order to improve this I need to get comfortable with an order of steps in my assessment skills, so then later on I can base my assessment order on what the priority assessments are. In order to work towards this, I need to decide on a general order, and then practice that order both in and out of the clinical setting. Learning to assess the patient completely, without the need to reference my notes, is important because then my focus can be more on the needs of my patient, rather than on the steps that need to be completed. Communication in nursing is important in patient teaching, patient understanding, and patient care; it is important to have the ability to communicate with the healthcare team, the patient, and the patient’s

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