“Programme: BSc Midwifery Course Title: Values for Professional Practice Assignment Title: Reflect upon one episode of care that you have been in during your clinical placement.(Uses Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle.)”

Jane was a primigravida, full term, low risk pregnant young lady. She had support from her boyfriend and her best friend.

Jane was contracting two  three in ten minutes and was coping well with the pain. Jane was examined by my mentor and appeared to be four centimetres dilated which meant she was in established labour (NICE, 2007).

I was given the responsibility of listening into the fetal heart every fifteen minutes, timing and documenting contractions half hourly, monitoring maternal pulse every hour, monitoring fluid input and output and keeping records up to date with all my findings including keeping the partogram up to date as per the NICE guidelines (2007).  Later on that evening my mentor was called out of the room and did not return for over an hour. When she finally returned, she checked on the progress of my observations and explained to myself and Jane that there we…(short extract)