Reflective Essay On Clinical Experience

Summation of 120 clinical hours

The clinical experience helped me with a deeper understanding of all facets of nursing care. I found it thought-provoking how information from patient’s questionnaires and open-ended interview techniques are used to build a teaching plan. In the past, I have used the information assembled from handouts for patient teaching. Today’s patient-centered teaching is taking education strategies and thinking outside the box to make sure patient learning is occurring. In the past, we didn’t consider whether the patient learned information taught. Open-ended questions and assessing the knowledge of illness those patients already know help educators convey the concepts and focus on knowledge that patient need to learn. Patient-centered teaching uses a holistic nursing approach to teach the learner. As an educator, I realize there are gaps of knowledge for what patients are taught and what patients learned. According to Bastable (2014), new evidence supports the roles of nursing educators in promoting patient-centered teaching (p.16). The patient–centered teaching approaches help fill these gaps in knowledge and educate patients to make sure learning is occurring.

He stated, “It makes me feel clean”. This particular experience was an eye-opener. It made me realize the information I taught needed to reflect what the patient believed is important to him. This was a good experience for me to change the way I usually taught. I took his belief and used it in his teaching plan. We were able to come to a mutual agreement for him not to use the Vick’s suave for a couple of week to promote healing. This experience showed me there are different ways to get around problems and letting patients help guide the treatments and