ReflectionThe purpose of the assignment is to reflect on a critical incident that has had an impact on practice. To do this I will have to write an exploration of the meaning and use of reflection, an investigation into the different models used to reflect in practice. I will also need to be able to understand what could have been prevented or improved in my critical incident, what I would do next time if I found myself in the same situation, and what I learned. I will need to support all my research and information with relevant literature. The Nursing and Midwifery Council states "You must respect people's right to privacy." This means that this service user's information needs to be kept confidential and safe, which is why I have changed my people's name to keep everything confidential and safe and they will now be called Miss Peters. Miss Peters is 16 years old and suffers from diabetes. She was recently admitted to hospital for blood sugar evaluation and monitoring involving a series of venipunctures. The first blood samples taken by the nurse that day were defective; he therefore needed to repeat the procedure. Miss Peters was sleeping when the nurse approached. Instead of waking the patient, he proceeded to inspect Miss Peter's arm for a vein. Miss Peters promptly woke up and looked at the nurse, who instead of explaining the procedure to her simply asked, "Are you ready?" According to Reid (1993, p.306) “Reflection is a process of reviewing a practice experience to describe, analyse, evaluate and then inform learning about the practice”. This means making sense of the practice and learning from it. It is when a nurse looks back and focuses on a certain experience.....We must be able to communicate well with the patient so that the individual is able to understand what is happening around him or what type of care /treatment is given to him or her on paper in a relevant or age-appropriate way, so that the individual is able to fully understand and is given the opportunity to ask further questions if they are unsure about what is happening 'similar experience like this again in the future I would make sure to speak up and be more confident in telling the nurse how I feel about the situation and that it would be a better idea to wake the patient up to explain what happened and if it was okay that the nurse would continue or leave the patient until was fully awake before approaching to perform the procedure.