Reflective Practice Journal

What went well about the event is that it taught me to slow down and to think before I do an action. What didn’t go well was that I could have potentially hurt myself or my patient (dexter at the time). I think I acted this way out of stress and being nervous. Thinking about it objectively, I think even though it was a stressful moment, without emotion I think that I should be thinking ahead and not just acting before thinking.If I would have thought about my actions before reaching up, I could have stopped myself from doing it.

Conclusion

Gathering all the information above, next time I would slow down and think before I act. Simply by trying to calm myself down and walk through the steps in my head, I think I would have realized to put my instrument down before adjusting my light. Slowing down and thinking about my actions before going through with them would have saved me from reaching up.

Action Plan

Encountering the event again, I think I would act differently as I have realized the risk to my patient and myself. Next time I would work on calming myself down and talking myself through the steps in my head. The first step would be working on different skills that I can use to calm myself down during an examination. The second being that I need to think about an action before I do it, when it comes to every single action I do. This will help endure that

Reflective Journal 2

Description

In clinic, I dropped an instrument while working on dexter and not thinking I picked it up off of the ground with gloved hands. At the time it was just an automatic movement and without second thought I was reaching towards the ground to grab the instrument.

Evaluation and Analysis

If I was working on a real client this would not have turned out well. What is good about this is that I have learned to think about something before automatically doing it. For me, I believe it was an automatic reaction such as reaching for something that fell on the floor in my bedroom or kitchen.

Conclusion

Gathering all the information, I believe I would have thought before I reacted. To think about actions and how they effect everything such as myself and the client.

Action Plan

Encountering the event again, I think I would react differently. Next time I need to think before I act instead of just instinctively reach for a contaminated object with my PPE on. The first step would be to think before actions. I need to be able to think about infection control and the safety towards the client.