Reflective Journal - Week 15

 1. What did you learn from the unit?

I learned about risk management and I learned more about how to make my portfolio better for our final submission and to get some points back. I learned a lot from the articles I chose and read this week.

2. Discuss your feelings/experiences from the team activities? Did it change your opinion on the subject? If so, how? If not, why?

The team activity we had this week was about a patient who accidentally lit himself on fire while trying to get out of restraints. We considered the risk management and what we should have done to prevent this from happening, as well as what needs to be done after an event like that. Everyone came to a consensus in my group that a one-to-one should be applied to patients at high risk for hurting themselves, or if they need the supervision for another important reason. My opinion was that the hospital shouldn’t have to take blame for this patient’s stupid choice. I don’t know if anyone agreed. I still feel the same, but I do think there can be things done to help prevent them from doing stupid things and hurting themselves. 

3. How will you utilize the information learned in your nursing practice?

I will utilize the information I learned from the team activity to always do very thorough assessments, no matter what you are assessing. We never found out in the activity where the lighter came from, but I wondered if he had it the whole time and managed to hide it from the nurse. That was my biggest takeaway is that we need to do thorough assessments.

4. Your personal feelings about the material covered:

I really hate conflict and accidents, so it was interesting to learn how to deal with them. I really liked making my portfolio, even though it was really hard. I bet it will pay off one day!