Reflective Practice Portfolio Q1: Recall a situation in your clinical experiences in which an ethical decision was being made. If you have not been involved in this process yet‚ ask your preceptor to share an experience with you. Be sure only to discuss the situation as a case scenario without use of names of persons involved. Which ethical decision-making principles came into play? What impact did the ANA and/or ICN codes of ethics have on the decision that was made? Answer A 48 year old African-American
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Reflective Practice Reflection: Reflecting on the experience of a person who is incontinent. Time and date: May 5th 2012 Pat is a patient where I am doing my work experience in a nursing home. I introduced myself as one of his carers sat down beside him I made sure he was comfortable I introduced myself and asked was it ok to sit down beside him maintaining good eye contact and speaking in a low friendly tone of voice. Thinking and feeling: I felt that I was able to talk to Pat and I made
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The aim of this assignment is to review a reflective account of events that occurred during a clinical placement‚ whilst on operational practice in an out of hospital environment. This incident involved a physical assault on a young woman. Siviter (2004) defines reflection as gaining self-confidence‚ identifying when to improve‚ learning from good or bad mistakes and behaviour‚ being self-aware and improving the future by learning the past. Therefore reflection can enable the Paramedic to use
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I believe that implementing strategies to promote‚ maintain‚ and restore health is key to the nursing career; the main goal of nursing is to improve an individual’s health. In my clinical experience‚ it’s to maintain the individual’s health issues or diseases. An example of using teaching/learning principles is when taking a resident’s blood glucose a family member asked me what the normal range for blood glucose is. I explained that a blood glucose level between 70-100mg/dL is desired. Then I went
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organization at that time? In the emergency department (ED) the most frequently encountered circumstance with respect to self-determination‚ is the patient who arrives via emergency medical services (EMS) in extremis who is a no code and objects to extraordinary measures‚ however‚ the family desires intervention. Emergency nurses retain a legal and ethical obligation to affirm the patient’s autonomy regarding the decision for no resuscitation and allowance of a natural death (Emergency Nurses Association‚ 2014)
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me. I have to the opportunity to precept with Wayne Martin‚ who is currently the manager over the Emergency Department at Southeastern Health. He is also managing the MedCare Unit which is a critical care transport team for the hospital. To begin the morning‚ we started with a financial meeting with different departments such as the IT department and different business departments. The emergency department is required to go to this meeting because this is the initial part of patient care. Discussions
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Reflective Journal Implementation of the evidence review on best practice for confirming the correct placement of nasogastric tube in patients in an acute care A nasogastric tube is inserted to a patient for medical administration‚ feeding and for drainage of gastric content‚ it is very commonly be used in the ward‚ especially for critically ill patients in acute care ward and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). And according to our previous knowledge‚ we have learnt several methods to check the correct
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Reflective practice enables us to develop our reflective skills which can be used during the learning process‚ enabling health and social care professionals to improve the quality of care they deliver to patients (Baillie‚ L.‚ Black‚ S. and Dr‚ 2014). According to Dewey (1929)‚ the Educational theorist‚ he argued that “we do not learn by doing but by doing and realising what came out of what we did“(Baillie et al‚ 2014. P.264). In addition‚ (Howartson‚ J.‚ 2010) emphasises that when one reflects
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Name of Programme: BSc (Hons) Nursing Student Name: Siti Aminah Ariffin Student Number: J9168783 Name of Module Acute Medical Care management Module Code: SDH 3010-N Module leader: Leslie Inayatullah Assignment title Reflective Essay Date of submission 10th September 2010 Word count: 3485 words Nursing as a profession is committed to the care of patients and families throughout health and illness and across all setting of care. Nurses assess and plan care to deal
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Reflective Essay This essay aims to critically review my strengths and weaknesses as a self-regulated learner‚ in relation to key skills which demonstrate my ability to use reflective practice. Also‚ the essay will identify and implement the learning skills required to complete the modules in Year 2 of the programme. It will produce and make use of individual learning plans that reflect how I could improve upon my interpersonal skills and implement a personal development plan. Furthermore‚ a demonstration
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