Reflection is a natural human activity. It is important for nursing students during practice placements when they are making sense of clinical surroundings and making decisions about care. This article uses a reflective framework to consider the placement experiences of a third-year undergraduate children’s nursing student in an acute general setting, caring for an adolescent with anorexia. It focuses on the decisions made when assisting an inexperienced junior doctor during a venepuncture procedure. Reflecting on placements provides nursing students with important transferable skills to use in practice as registered nurses.
Nursing Children and Young People. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.2018.e1112
CitationSmith S, Hunt J (2018) Communication skills: placement reflections of a children’s nursing student. Nursing Children and Young People. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.2018.e1112
Peer reviewThis article has been subject to open peer review and has been checked for plagiarism using automated software
Correspondence Conflict of interestNone declared
Published online: 24 December 2018
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