Reflective Essay On My Clinical Experience

In this clinical practicum, I had been learnt a lot of extensive knowledge, not only for the medical information, but also my personal growth from working in the hospital. In the past, because my defective practical experience, I only knew the abnormal readings in the vital sign, but not to consider further solution against the patient’s physical conditions. In the first few weeks of my clinical practicum, I just simply reported the abnormal findings to my teacher after took observations. However, as a nurse, we were meant to solve problems but not just report, I could not execute my role in ward at first. As a result, after doing some research and the accumulation of experience, I found out some basic actions contrary to different abnormal situations.

Then, if patient was in a sitting position, it needed to be changed into a lying one to resolve the symptoms. After that, checked if there was any antihypertensive drugs such as Zestril (ACEI), Inderal (beta-blocker), Minipress (alpha-blocker), Norvasc (calcium channel blocker), or Lasix (diuretic) in order to confirm there was a medical treatment for this high blood pressure, then reported to case nurse if necessary. Finally, recheck the blood pressure at least 15 minutes afterwards. I learnt that when I faced a problem, I should use my knowledge to diagnosis the matter by doing some assessments, then, I needed to try some solutions to overcome that, in the end, if the problem could not be solved I needed to report to teacher first then to the case nurse. I also could practice my reporting skills, communication skills and enhance my confidence in this