SNPG 950 ASSESSMENT 2 REFLECTION FOR PRACTICE
Reflection for practice in health care is predetermined skilled activity where individual evaluates and explains own ideas, feelings, behavior and intervention and provides clinical reason of its effectiveness. Reflection is a process of looking at own behavior and changing self rather than expecting others to change. While changing self, values and moral should be considered. However cultural background, workplace culture highly influences the values. For example: medical restrain: Medical restrain is restricting the movement of a patient with slight pain in order to prevent harming themselves and others. At the time when I used to work in an institution I have seen many cases of restrain. I value …show more content…
Anger is seen in most of the psychiatric case. However, sometimes general patient can be aggressive due to the long-term hospital stay, confusing medical treatment, attitude of staff member, high cost and disease condition (Pulsford et al., 2012, p.304). If the patient is more aggressive then in many hospitals restrain is applied to reduce the harm that may cause by the patient. while working in ICU, a patient was admitted with the diagnosis of poison. He was very aggressive and was not cooperating with the staff member. He was harming us as he was not listening to us. To carry out our medical intervention we had to restrain him because there was no any option left for us. While discussing with other health team member we decided to restraint him following the protocol of restraint. In a question of what is my role? My role was to restraint the patient because he was too violent and harming himself. As the case was poison case and patient was aggressive and hard to handle. So we decided to restraint the patient. Although, it was a hard decision for me including my coworker, using protocol for restraint we restraint the patient. I was trying to assure the safety of patient and others as he had a potential to hurt others. At first, I had negative feelings of physical restraint but then I started to collect knowledge on the use and benefit of physical restraint which filled the gap …show more content…
Though it is the medical procedure it should be minimizes and should be applied as a last alternative. A newspaper by IN DAILY, (Siebert, 2016, p.3), reveals that the use of restraint was 400 times in 2014-2015 in south Australia, it also reveals that the use of restraint compromises the human rights, treatment value that results the emotional stress to the patient. Despite of the fact, the use of restraint is high in south Australia the State Mental Health System and it is performing well while comparing with other using lowest use of restraint. The issue related to restraint is not related of physical harm to the patient because physical harm is very less in restraint but it is due to human rights and ethics. There are three types of restraint: physical restraint, chemical restraint and mechanical restraint. Newspaper published by ABC news reports the experience of patient on restraint. Indigo Daya after suicide attempt was admitted in hospital, she was under chemical restraint locked in a room for several days. The patient experience was so horrible and sad that she could not live her life and benefit from restraint was least. It was like horror movie scenario to her. And there was no further monitoring she explains (Lauder, 2016, p.2). The MEDPAGE, Lupkin (2016, p.4) explores that the use of the restraint should be performed in medically needed condition by applying least restraint. The
Reflection for practice in health care is predetermined skilled activity where individual evaluates and explains own ideas, feelings, behavior and intervention and provides clinical reason of its effectiveness. Reflection is a process of looking at own behavior and changing self rather than expecting others to change. While changing self, values and moral should be considered. However cultural background, workplace culture highly influences the values. For example: medical restrain: Medical restrain is restricting the movement of a patient with slight pain in order to prevent harming themselves and others. At the time when I used to work in an institution I have seen many cases of restrain. I value …show more content…
Anger is seen in most of the psychiatric case. However, sometimes general patient can be aggressive due to the long-term hospital stay, confusing medical treatment, attitude of staff member, high cost and disease condition (Pulsford et al., 2012, p.304). If the patient is more aggressive then in many hospitals restrain is applied to reduce the harm that may cause by the patient. while working in ICU, a patient was admitted with the diagnosis of poison. He was very aggressive and was not cooperating with the staff member. He was harming us as he was not listening to us. To carry out our medical intervention we had to restrain him because there was no any option left for us. While discussing with other health team member we decided to restraint him following the protocol of restraint. In a question of what is my role? My role was to restraint the patient because he was too violent and harming himself. As the case was poison case and patient was aggressive and hard to handle. So we decided to restraint the patient. Although, it was a hard decision for me including my coworker, using protocol for restraint we restraint the patient. I was trying to assure the safety of patient and others as he had a potential to hurt others. At first, I had negative feelings of physical restraint but then I started to collect knowledge on the use and benefit of physical restraint which filled the gap …show more content…
Though it is the medical procedure it should be minimizes and should be applied as a last alternative. A newspaper by IN DAILY, (Siebert, 2016, p.3), reveals that the use of restraint was 400 times in 2014-2015 in south Australia, it also reveals that the use of restraint compromises the human rights, treatment value that results the emotional stress to the patient. Despite of the fact, the use of restraint is high in south Australia the State Mental Health System and it is performing well while comparing with other using lowest use of restraint. The issue related to restraint is not related of physical harm to the patient because physical harm is very less in restraint but it is due to human rights and ethics. There are three types of restraint: physical restraint, chemical restraint and mechanical restraint. Newspaper published by ABC news reports the experience of patient on restraint. Indigo Daya after suicide attempt was admitted in hospital, she was under chemical restraint locked in a room for several days. The patient experience was so horrible and sad that she could not live her life and benefit from restraint was least. It was like horror movie scenario to her. And there was no further monitoring she explains (Lauder, 2016, p.2). The MEDPAGE, Lupkin (2016, p.4) explores that the use of the restraint should be performed in medically needed condition by applying least restraint. The