1. Think of a surprising or challenging practice situation in which you felt underprepared, unprepared, or uncomfortable.
2. Select an important nursing issue/topic that was inherent to the identified situation.
3. Bri
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1. Think of a surprising or challenging practice situation in which you felt underprepared, unprepared, or uncomfortable.
2. Select an important nursing issue/topic that was inherent to the identified situation.
3. Briefly explain the situation
4. Identify the nursing issue inherent in the identified situation
1. As a method of refection, use Carper's Patterns of Knowing to analyze the situation. In your discussion, address ONE of the following Patterns of Knowing:
1. What do you think was the underlying reason for the situation? (Esthetics)
2. What were your thoughts and feeling in the situation? (Personal)
3. What was one personal belief that impacted your actions? (Ethics)
4. What evidence in nursing literature supports the nursing importance of the identified issue? (Empirical)
5. What new insights did you gain through this reflective practice opportunity? How will this apply to your practice as a nurse practitioner? Be sure to use scholarly literature to support your position.
As a registered nurse working on a med-surgical unit I have encounter many situations that I felt underprepared and uncomfortable. One situation was a 23 year old young man admitting for severe abdominal pain, He was away on campus his senior year getting ready to graduate that year. He was having other symptoms but never really pay attention to them. He thought it was probably anxiety and studying and not eating properly. He was experiencing abdominal pain for few months, but the pain would come and go away until one day he couldn’t bare the pain anymore and called his parents to come to pick him up to take him to the hospital. When he got admitted the doctors ran many different test and blood work to
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