Nursing

Nursing Experience in Clinical Placement



Nursing Experience on Clinical Placement

Introduction

As a Nursing student, I had an experience of clinical placement with a dying patient Indigo at the Hospice. The aim of the experience was to reduce the suffering of the patient through extraordinary care and sensitive measures. Few studies show that providing extra care to the individuals through individual attention provided to the patient would reduce the anxiety of the patient. It may also reduce the worries of the patient for a fair while, and that is the motive of such care and attention.

Besides learning about how the patient reacts to my attention and care, the other main purpose of the experience were to learn from real expenses that would help me gain knowledge, so I can teach post registration, and postgraduate palliative care. The experience will help understand the affects of such treatment on patients. Since the patient is nearing death, it is more likely that the relatives of the patient may not like such treatment. For them, medical treatment that is dealing with the patient's problem is more significant than any emotional attachment or care to the patient (Vissers, W., Hutschemaekers, G., Keijsers, G., Van der Veld, W., & Hendriks, G, 2010).

The fundamental idea behind such practice is easing suffering, and reflective practice. My experience and analysis say that the hospice is ideal under threat with the medical gaze on symptom management under the rubric of specialized palliative care, and the inadequacy of this approach to respond to suffering. Hospice may become a special treatment in the future. Hence the main aim of my study and experience was to learn about the effectiveness of such treatment on patients.

Reflection

Reflection is a name given to the practice through which I implement different concepts, and learn things with different experiences. Reflection signifies my effort to learn how Hospice affect release chronic stress. My experience with Indigo gave me a chance to learn and experience what I was trying to learn.

Indigo was nearing death, and she needed meticulous care, and attention. I had a great chance to learn and experiment what I wanted to know about such treatment. When I entered her room, I saw few relatives of her sitting with her who included her sister, her niece, and a man whom I was unable to identify. Indigo is a spiritual women, and I thought my extra care and attention would do a lot of good to the women. When I first entered the room, she welcomed me, and in accordance with my assumption and earleir thoughts, I went close to her and held her hand. The person sitting next to her whom I did not recognize acted as if he did not like this special attention given to her. It was quite natural as all the relative only wanted her disease to be cured and not any other thing. The important thing for me was the fact that she felt comfortable when I came close to ...