Nursing Reflection Papers

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When I was a freshman in college, I started my first semester with four basic classes, English, algebra, chemistry, and developmental psychology. Back then I did not see the significance of those classes other than the fact that I had to take them to meet general education requirements. I knew that the purpose of general education was to create a well-rounded student with a variety of skills and knowledge, but I did not understand why a nurse would need to know how to write a five page paper on the Arab Spring. Fast forward to my last semester of college and more importantly nursing school, where for the first time I am realizing how important those courses were for my nursing school career.
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First of all, nursing courses require a lot of critical and strategic thinking skills. These courses are meant to teach us how to take care of patients with specific illnesses and we are also taught how to keep them safe while we care for them. I am referring to the legal, ethical, and safety practices that we are taught all throughout nursing school. I have been fortunate enough to witness quality safety practices throughout all my rotations, but that is not to say that the potential for a violation has not been present. The most recent example I can think of deals with safety practices with patients who are restrained. I have noticed the use restraints to be an option that can cause great distress if abused, but is quite frequently necessary in a unit such as the one I am currently on, which is the medical intensive care unit. Although it is concerning, many of the patients who have required restraints have been ones that are constantly pulling out tubing such as Foley catheters, nasogastric tubes, and IVs. At this point in my education, I have not attended a rotation where an incident report while filed, but I have come to learn that on units such as med-surg, common incident reports filed are about patient falls. I have come to that conclusion based on my personal experience during clinical rotations. The majority of the time I have gone to clinical, the patient has been elderly, frail, or

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