Reflect the concepts addressed in this week’s lesson plan and required reading. Recall a challenging experience in either your personal or professional life. In the initial response, start with an introduction that includes a brief description of four core values that influence your nursing practice and interaction with others. Provide a concise description of the challenging experience. What core values were challenged in this experience? What lessons were learned from this experience? How did the experience inform future professional behaviors, decisions, and actions? Provide a specific example on how lessons learned from the challenging experience were applied in your professional practice. Use at least one outside scholarly reference to support your position.

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According to Rasheed (2015), nursing practice embodies core values to guide the nurses in difficult situations that require critical thinking and decision making. As stated by Arbour and Wigand (2014), these core values include human dignity, aesthetic, altruism, equality, accuracy, freedom, and justice. As a nurse, I have encountered a plethora of emotional, physical and mental challenges. In a certain occurrence, human dignity, accuracy, freedom and justice core values were at stake as I had to strike equilibrium regarding the values. Whilst working at the intensive care unit (ICU), I encountered a 90-year old male patient with acute kidney failure. The patient’s condition was extremely delicate and required immediate intervention. His….Please click the Paypal icon below to purchase full solution for only $5