Clinical Incident Report

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How can you reflect on your practice to grow?

I can only recall one situation during my clinical where I felt terrible about myself for not doing my best. One of my responsibilities as a student nurse to help other residents and not cause any harm to them. I remembered an incident where I had to go into a resident room to take her vital signs. And accidently causing her to have a skin tear while taking her blood pressure. I absolutely felt awful about it even though the resident was extremely lovely and did not get upset at all. And as soon as I filled the incident report with my instructor I was reviewing with myself why this happened? I asked myself what should I have done? I was asking all these questions to myself because I did not want

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