Reflection of Placement

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Promoting health and well-being is a valuable part of a health care professional, it takes on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2008) principles that all individuals should be treated with the utmost respect and receive the highest standard of care. This reflective essay aims at explaining how learning experiences in two different health care settings have helped build on my ability to protect those vulnerable people in society and promote good health and wellbeing. Gibbs (1998) model of reflection will be used throughout the essay to describe the event, feelings, evaluation analysis and conclusion and out an action plan in place for future events. My first placement was a residential unit for those people with learning disability, my second setting was a maternity unit and I experienced both neonatal and antenatal care. Pseudonyms will be used in accordance with The Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC, 2008) to protect confidentiality. I will reflect back on both my learning disability and maternity placements to highlight what could have been done better.
Reflection is important in life and we reflect everyday however in nursing it is a vital skill that helps practitioners think through experiences in the hope of bettering their understanding of the situation (Hood, 2007). The Department of Health (DH, 2000) defines a vulnerable adult as a person aged 18 or over who may need services provided in the community due to a disability, illness or age. These people may not be able to protect themselves from significant harm therefore it is the duty of health care professionals to provide the best care to protect the individual from harm. In my learning disability placement all of the clients where vulnerable in their own way, each had their own personalities and traits and depended on the workers for stability. Safeguarding vulnerable adults (DH, 2009) was an

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