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Reflective Account on Clinical Placement with Community Mental Health

Description

The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is a group of professionals that provides

assessment, treatment and support for people experiencing mental health problems. I am on

Clinical placement duty for 4 weeks as part of the requirements for the Nursing course. My role

is to get involved in supervised practice in clinical situations under a qualified Community

Psychiatrist Nurse (CPN) which include teaching in hospitals, clinics and community health

centers.

Feelings

I feel obliged to render clinical placement duties in order to comply with the Nursing

course requirement. It is my duty to assist members of the community team in their noble task of

providing people-centered support to people who are under 65 years of age and suffering from

mental health problems. Initially, I was nervous in interacting with professionals because they

might tease me along the way which could probably lead to my surrender. Their presence made

me uncomfortable. As my work progresses, I began to realize that self-respect to one another is

essential to the success of my training. I have observed that our interactions have become

mutual and so the lingering doubts inside me began to disappear.

Evaluation

Working under a supervised practice is not an easy task because the supervisor might

think of you as an incompetent and unreliable trainee, which is perfectly understandable. The

remorse feeling eventually dissipated as it made me realize that whats important is commitment

to the job. The experience serves as a challenge to me to overcome the feeling moving forward

and to be successful in my clinical placement duties.

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Analysis

Being a nursing trainee is endowed with responsibilities that need to be nurtured to

ensure respect and harmonious relationship among concerned people including the supervising

professional. I managed to control my feelings and I believed the ill-motive within me regarding

my superiors has been properly suppressed in time. Their practice of constantly seeking my

service through kind words contributed to the decline of my persistent uncomfortable feeling. A

mutual cooperation between the parties (me and the professional) has resulted to consistency of

actions and words, gain of respect to each other.

Conclusion

It is my firm belief that mutual respect for one another is essential to maintaining close

relationship. My training will be greatly enhanced if I regularly follow the orders imposed upon

me by the head and continuously portray the value of commitment and perseverance. Practicing

self-discipline is also a necessity in order to attain my objective of completing the clinical

placement program and the consequent completion of the course. Feelings of discomfort are just

products of distorted imagination that needs to be rectified through proper actions.

Action Plan

Having learned from experience, I intend to adjust myself to the same situation in the

future. This attitude should always be carried by me especially if I successfully completed the

course and become a professional on my own right. A professional nurse should always be

attentive to the needs of his subordinates and trainees to dispel fear and the feeling of inferiority

among them as what I had experienced. If such an event occurs again in the future, I will do

what has to be done encourage cooperation and mutual respect to one another, and observe

self-discipline as well as show the value of commitment to work to achieve the goal desired.

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Reference:

Jasper, M. (2003) Beginning Reflective Practice Foundations in Nursing and Health Care,

Nelson Thornes, Cheltenham.