Description of event: I am currently on my clinical posting at one of the public hospitals in New South Wales. My clinical postings started in the mid of the February in Haematology ward. I was very excited that I would work in a new place. I was ready to experience how it will feel to be a Registered nurse in Australia. The first couple of days were good. Then new students came in for their clinical placements from their college and I started …show more content…
It gave me a feeling of rejection in the new environment and I kept thinking of various reasons that could be possible for their behavior. I thought they might be doing this because we are coming from overseas. After this event I did some research on how overseas nurses feel in Australia during their initial clinical postings. I realized that everyone felt scared at first. Another reason which came to my mind is that due to staff shortage or having an additional overhead of observing a student might have triggered this …show more content…
Nurses spend more time with the patient and family members than any other care provider in the hospital. In such situation, poor communication can lead to such events. The NSW code of conduct (Code of conduct 2015) #4.1 stated that we should promote a positive work environment with a collaborative work approach and productive working relationship. Also, NMBA Standard #1 (NMBA Standards 2016) states that we need to think critically and analyses nursing practice. Improving our skills, specially nursing students on clinical placements, on the basis of evidence based practice, literature, observing the registered nurse on duty and then following the same practice can help in reducing the burden on RN. This will also help in building the confidence of budding professionals and will improve their professional relationship with registered nurses. We can infer the same from NMBA standard #2 (NMBA Standards 2016) which states that we should engage in therapeutic and professional relationship. NMBA standard #3 states that we should maintain the capability of practice by using a lifelong learning approach, actively engagement with the profession and by identifying the integral role of nursing practice and profession in influencing better health outcomes for people. In this situation, I gained trust of supervising RN by demonstrating my capability in patient care in