Future Encounters Using Tanner’s Model
Professional caring requires nurses to develop empathetic responses to enact during future encounters with abuse (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Now that a meaningful critical incident has been selected from the clinical setting, I can use Tanner’s model to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the concept of abuse and apply it to future encounters (Tanner, 2006). Using Tanner’s model helps me demonstrate professional caring by allowing insight into situations and informing me about what I notice and interpret, how to set priorities and nursing responses, and lastly, reflecting on the situation (Tanner, 2006). The first step occurs by nurses noticing patterns in behaviours, so that what I learn …show more content…
Nurses use reflective practice to assess how their own beliefs, values, and clinical encounters with abuse affect them in their practice (Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2005). The chosen experience and concept in the NICU was a result of my love for newborns, and secondly, my lack of knowledge about the NICU. It was interesting to learn that the NICU is a home for not only the tiniest and most ill babies, but also for babies who are not sick and only need specialized nursing care. Because of my love for newborns, I think the shock of how people can harm a fetus or abandon a newborn is what negatively affected me the most in this situation. On the other hand, I noticed a positive environment because the nurses were incredibly devoted and loving towards these babies, that they took the time to sit down with them and give them the love and affection they need. Because of this knowledge gap, there was a big difference between what I had anticipated the NICU to be and my actual experience. I anticipated it to be only critically ill newborns that experienced generic complications during pregnancy or birth. However, I learned that it also includes newborns with out parents by both choice and by legal obligation. From this situation, I learned that in order to care for a population that is in the hospital for a way of life and not a disease, it is especially important to consider all socioeconomic backgrounds when caring for a patient - whether it is a life addicted to drugs or alcohol, a life built on domestic violence or a life not ready to be started. It would be interesting to ask the primary nurse to reflect on what the experience is like working in a specialty with critically ill newborns, and how it feels to makes a difference in someone’s life that can’t communicate gratitude. This encounter enabled me to learn that I value family and health a lot, especially because there are people who are not as
Professional caring requires nurses to develop empathetic responses to enact during future encounters with abuse (McEwen & Wills, 2011). Now that a meaningful critical incident has been selected from the clinical setting, I can use Tanner’s model to gain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the concept of abuse and apply it to future encounters (Tanner, 2006). Using Tanner’s model helps me demonstrate professional caring by allowing insight into situations and informing me about what I notice and interpret, how to set priorities and nursing responses, and lastly, reflecting on the situation (Tanner, 2006). The first step occurs by nurses noticing patterns in behaviours, so that what I learn …show more content…
Nurses use reflective practice to assess how their own beliefs, values, and clinical encounters with abuse affect them in their practice (Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2005). The chosen experience and concept in the NICU was a result of my love for newborns, and secondly, my lack of knowledge about the NICU. It was interesting to learn that the NICU is a home for not only the tiniest and most ill babies, but also for babies who are not sick and only need specialized nursing care. Because of my love for newborns, I think the shock of how people can harm a fetus or abandon a newborn is what negatively affected me the most in this situation. On the other hand, I noticed a positive environment because the nurses were incredibly devoted and loving towards these babies, that they took the time to sit down with them and give them the love and affection they need. Because of this knowledge gap, there was a big difference between what I had anticipated the NICU to be and my actual experience. I anticipated it to be only critically ill newborns that experienced generic complications during pregnancy or birth. However, I learned that it also includes newborns with out parents by both choice and by legal obligation. From this situation, I learned that in order to care for a population that is in the hospital for a way of life and not a disease, it is especially important to consider all socioeconomic backgrounds when caring for a patient - whether it is a life addicted to drugs or alcohol, a life built on domestic violence or a life not ready to be started. It would be interesting to ask the primary nurse to reflect on what the experience is like working in a specialty with critically ill newborns, and how it feels to makes a difference in someone’s life that can’t communicate gratitude. This encounter enabled me to learn that I value family and health a lot, especially because there are people who are not as