The reflective account is regarding Inter Professional Learning session involving nursing students and physiotherapy students. The session involves a scenario where two actors played the role of a mother, who has a medical condition, and her daughter who is preparing for her GCSE exams. The practice involves the actors took place in a room that was furnished to look like a patient’s home in the community. Two physiotherapy students were the first to go in to assess the patient. Their brief was to assess the patient and hand over whatever nursing need(s) to the nursing students. The remaining students were to watch and give constructive feedback after each assessment.

I learnt more about the importance of effective communication when providing care for patient any setting, their homes included. For instance, I gave positive feedback the physiotherapy students on account of how they positioned themselves so that they were not talking over the patient who was still lying in bed. The students also used the right tone of voice while talking to the patient, as well as using active listening skills. The physiotherapy students were able to assess the patient and find out that the patient had a wound on her leg needing dressing, and this was subsequently handed over to the nursing students as a nursing need. The scenario also gives me an insight into how other professional handover patient to the nursing team.

Going forward I would take on board what I learnt in the scenario to improve on communication with patients. Things like introducing myself when meeting a patient, respecting their personal space, speaking to them with the right tone of voice, and seeking consent before providing any care. The scenario also highlights the importance of including the patient’s family in their care, and the importance of not assuring patients outrightly that you will divulge to you will be kept confidential, but rather we should tell them it depends on what they tell us because if what they are about to divulge reveal that they, or the public are going to be at risk, we would have no choice than to pass the information to relevant authority. I also get to appreciate more the role of constructive peer feedback in helping me develop in my nursing training thus far, and the opportunity to give feedback helps to build my confidence in giving feedback constructively going forward.

The role play addresses the section 2.0 of the NMC The code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates, in that it creates an opportunity for physiotherapy students to assess a patient and refer her to the nursing for care in relation to wound dressing. By so doing the students of the two different professions were working in partnership to ensure care is delivered effectively. The patient was listened to, and her preferences were taken into consideration.