Nursing Reflection

Putting knowledge into practice I feel is the fundamental concept of nursing. Each clinical practice and SIM gives me the opportunity to further comprehend the concepts of decision making, reflect on what worked well in my assessments and decision, and what areas I can continue to work towards improving my technical skills, clustering of data and relational capacity with clients. I feel with each experience in practice, my depth of understanding of nursing diagnosis and intervention is expanded. The patient assessment and basic medication administration SIM helped pull together the client, health history, risk factors, determinates of health, medications, current health issues and psychosocial factors that influence the clients healing …show more content…
It makes total sense. However, I feel scattered when I am in practice. When I am in relations with a client, I forget some of the important steps, conduct my assessments in the wrong order, and forget or not to consider salient data which is necessary in my decision making and nursing interventions. The concepts are clear, however details get scattered when my brain is trying to process all that is happening. I just understand this is learning process will take time to develop these skills. I just feel my brain does not work well in a linear process. I feel I need spend some time coming up with a system for me to remember and strategies for not jumping around. As well, allow more time to deepen my …show more content…
Using the PQRST assessment enables the nurse to figure out where the pain is, what influences it, type of pain, how intense it and if it changes over time. By means of nursing knowledge of analgesic medication the nurse can figure out if pain control, managing the pain or contact the client’s HCP to collaborate on changes to improve the quality of pain