Question

Midterm Clinical Reflective Journal Guidelines: Reflect on how the clinical education experience has affected your critical thinking abilities, healthcare attitudes and professionalism. Write an essay that describes your experience of clinical education for the first half of the semester • Include descriptions of situations where you O Provided patient centered care, including use of the nursing process o Collaborated with healthcare providers i.e. nurses, therapists, doctors, to provide care o Communicated effectively with patients and healthcare team o Researched evidence to plan safe and effective patient care o identified processes to improve the healthcare system O Maintained patient and staff safety o Utilized the electronic health record to research and document patient status and care • Maintained professional behavior while in the clinical setting • Include any specific issues that you've encountered Minimum of 250 words.

Answer 1

Clinical education is the one of the major part of nursing profession . Having simultaneous training on practical and theoretical knowledge is the key elements of nursing . Giving more priority to clinical skills . Clinical education makes the base of our nursing practice . Even we can say that one can survive with clinical experience if he or she don't know the theroitical part in a mild way .

It has an major impact on me . Having experience in clinical education is itself an honour . It has helped me to know what is evidence based practice and how to imply it in my daily practice because of which i have emerged overall as an person . It helped me to know more about the medical ethics ,what professionalism is ? , how to interact with other healthcare members , what are the communication skills etc

I have been posted in Medical ICU , there we used to use evidence based practice along with nursing process . We used to have a good communication skills with the other healthcare members . Therapeutic communication skills were used with the patients and healthcare team . Followed the policies and rules of the organization like patient safety policies , ethical policies that has to be dealth with the patient will providing care . Many research were done to upgrade the patient care . Use of electronic health record to keep the health data of patients safe and mainatined for long years . Also it helped to spend more time in patient care rather than on paper work . It has made the complex system smooth . All these helped to update and upgrade in health filed also has improved the reputation of the organization .