Reflective Account- Support individuals to access and use services and facilities For this reflective account I am using the example of when I take Mr B to College for his cookery lessons. Mr B goes to College every Thursday‚ more often than not I am the support worker that goes with him‚ as Mr B is unaware of dangers such as when something is hot it may burn you and as Mr B does not verbally communicate it is necessary for a support worker to be with him at college. Mr B has a risk assessment
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HSC 51 Reflective account In my role as senior care worker‚ I work with variety of individuals including‚ colleagues‚ management‚ professionals‚ clients and their family members. The main group that I work with on day to day basis are residential clients that are both elderly and varied degrees of learning difficulties. These are individuals with limited ability to understand and process information given to them. This sometimes causes a barrier and challenge for the staff and especially for
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Reflective Account “End of Life” Last year 23 September 2012. I had a resident called “Mrs X” she was a 72year-old widowed living at ---‚ a Nursing Care Home. She’s not a religious type of person as she was Atheist. She has lived in the home for the past two years‚ and during that time I was assigned as her key worker. Mrs X had One Son and 3 grand daughters they are all regular visitors to the home. She has recently been diagnosed with renal failure‚ and her life expectancy is only a couple of
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1. For Reflective Account 3 you should use one of your child observations. 2. Describe how you did this observation. a. Did you sit away from the child and observe from a distance (unobtrusive) so the child was not disturbed? b. Did you sit near to the child or even sit in on the activity? 3. Describe the type of observation you did- tick list‚ written‚ event sample. Where you using paperwork from the setting or did you design your own? 4. Explain why you chose the method
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Assignment 304 Principles for implementing duty of care in health ‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Task B Reflective Account BI – Describe two situations which demonstrate a conflict or dilemma between exercising a duty of care and the rights of an individual Conflict and dilemmas may arise between the duty of care and individuals rights could be staff having a difference of opinion over an service user for example a staff member believing that they have seen signs of
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Reflective Account 4 Description I am currently on placement within an acute setting of a general hospital. The ward in which I am a student is a haematology ward which is defined as ’the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs’.(World net web‚ 2013) Within the ward patients can receive a wide range of treatments such as chemotherapy‚ bone marrows‚ platelets and all blood related disorder medicine. Throughout my time in the ward I have been exposed
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EVIDENCE GATHERING FORM EVIDENCE NO: DATE: IDENTIFY EVIDENCE TYPE DIRECT OBSERVATION □ REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT □ QUESTIONS □ EXPERT WITNESS □ PRODUCT □ WITNESS TESTIMONY □ CANDIDATE NAME: Suzanne Gibson EVIDENCE : Unit‚ PCs Knowledge Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated equally and fairly and less favourable‚ specific to their needs including areas of race‚ gender‚ disability‚ religion/belief‚ sexual orientation and age. This means in my work place whilst working
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Administering Medication reflective account The legislation which governs how medication is administered‚ stored and recorded include the following: The Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 COSHH Regulations 1999 Access to Health Records Act 1990 Data Protection Act 1998 Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 Common types of medication which I deal with and support my clients with are: Paracetamol- usually prescribed as 500mg
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References: Bradbury‚ A.(2000) Successful Presentation Skills.2nd ed. London: Kogan Page Ltd. Bulman‚ C.; Schutz‚ S. (2004) Reflective Practice in Nursing.3rd ed. London: Blackwell . Jootun D. And McGhee G (2011) Effective communication with people who have dementia. Nursing Standard‚ vol 25‚ 25.p .40-46.EBSCOhost: Business Source Premier. http://search.ebscohost.com [accessed:12
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Managing Continence: Reflective Account Client M is a wheelchair user who has been assessed as requiring assistance to manage continence as she is unable to weight bear‚ and therefore cannot self transfer. This assistance is through use of a passive hoist and sling system as outlined in her Moving and Handling Plan. This type of manoeuvre involves two trained staff. Client M has her own personal toileting sling which is kept in a secure cupboard within the group for infection control purposes
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