Reflection Assignment Following Johns Model of Structured Reflection. – 1.Write a description of your experience. Ask yourself: ‘What are the significant issues I need to pay attention to?’ ‘What was I trying to achieve?’ ‘Why did I respond as I did?’ ‘What were the consequences of that for the patient?’

For this placement I was on an elderly male medical ward. As I have had no previous experience of care in a healthcare setting their were numerous things with which I had to a accustom myself to. On my first day on the ward it was decided that I should shadow one of the staff nurses to become familiar with the ward. During this induction we had to assist an elderly gentleman with sever diarrhoea the gentleman in question was quit large and almost completely immobile. On inspection of the patient he was incontinent of both urine and faeces the staff nurse then talked with the patient explaining to him what had happened and that we needed to clean him and change his bedding….(short extract)