Lesson Reflection In Nursing

This journal is a reflection of my experiences and lessons learned thus far within this course. Upon my reflecting, there were lessons that stood out the most. Also, there are nursing practices in my associate’s degree of nursing program (ADN) that correlates with the standard of care that was recently discussed. This reflection also prompt me to consider more in depth the necessary skills and attributes to become a competent nurse.

Lesson Reflection Within this course, the lesson that held the most value to me was in week seven. We discussed nursing theory and reflected which theorists would support the practice we foresee ourselves in nursing. This lesson holds utmost value because many of the theorists we discussed built a framework

QSEN is started as an initiative to give future nurses the quality education necessary to provide the quality care and safety for the community (Potter, Perry, Stockert, Hall, & Ostendorf, 2017). This nursing care ties in with the standard of care in competency because QSEN is providing the level of education needed for future nurses to be competent to provide the appropriate care for patients. Nursing process is break down of the care and treatment a patient is given depending on their illness in 5 stages of assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation. The standard of care that can be defined by this nursing care is available information given. Nurses assess patients based on the chief complaint that patients give. The importance of this correlation is the rapport that is builds between nurse and patient. For example, if a patient does not disclose recreational use of opioids and the nurse gives them a sedative, such as propofol, for a procedure, the patient’s respiratory system will decline immediately. This is an example of lack of information given in which the nurse was not able to give the appropriate care and treatment. Last but not least, is the nursing care established on evidence-based practice. An example of this is the use hand sanitizers before and after enter a patient’s room. This practice has become a policy at many facilities to decrease infection. This correlates with the standard of care of following approved