A Reflection on my Expectations in OB & Peds

Description

Studying this course will enable me to excel as a health care provider for prenatal and post-natal patients. I am very excited and cannot wait to learn from my lectures and activities on how to deliver safe health care. I expect to gain a lot of knowledge and experience from learning materials and activities that are informed by evidence-based research. I look forward to the successful completion of this course and expect that I will have all the necessary skills and knowledge that will qualify me to offer services that enhance the quality of patient outcomes. For this plan to be successful, I need to have a solid grasp of the various techniques and procedures that are essential for the Obstetric and Pediatric Nursing occupation.

Reflection

My present technological skills and aptitudes will be handy in this endeavor as they will find significant use in evaluating the data of my future patients and also enable me to properly document the various processes of providing them with care. The reason why I went for this course is that I have come to admire the high professionalism portrayed by various healthcare providers from various interactions I’ve had with them in hospitals and from various media such as documentaries, films, and YouTube videos. I look forward to internalizing all the rules, and codes of ethics, and standards of professional conduct so that I can also be an inspiration to future generations of health care workers.

Influencing factors

I look forward to asking lots of questions in the various classes and lectures, obtain a deeper understanding of the content through group discussions and library research. I also look forward to the challenge of doing well in the assignments and tests that will help me evaluate areas of the course material for strengths and weaknesses to be able to focus on excelling in the course. I will also comply with the various rules and regulations guiding my conduct as a student. I will therefore take time to familiarize myself with those requirements to comply with them satisfactorily. All in all, I will explore the various areas of care such as how to diagnose and treat various complications affecting the pregnancy, or the child.

What I plan on improving

Collaborating with fellow students has not always been my strong suit. This is an area where I would like to improve on during this course. In the past courses, I kept on thinking that I would work on this and form a study group with others but all my efforts were not very successful because of inadequate preparation and planning. To counter this challenge, I plan on carefully selecting the students who are as ambitious as I am to excel in this course and ultimately in their careers. After selecting and approaching these students we will together delineate goals and what we expect to obtain from the group and lay down rules to be followed in these discussions. I want to work on my listening skills which in the past have prevented me from fully benefiting from group interactions.

Learning

I look forward to learning from my instructors and role models on how they used their time and the strategies they employed to cope with the various challenges they encountered. I will then come up with a standardized plan supported by empirical evidence that will enable me to excel in the course and my career as a neonatal and postnatal health care provider. The nursing profession is infused with a lot of moral and ethical dilemmas which I expect to learn how to navigate. I also look forward to strengthening my values such as my belief in a strong work ethic and the inviolability of human life. I look forward to building my knowledge, skills and experience that will enable me to make a difference in my patients’ health outcomes.