Reflection on my personal effectiveness as a care worker • My communication skills • My caring Skills • My strengths and weakness My communication skills; Communication is the process of sending and receiving verbal and non-verbal messages‚ which involves exchange of information‚ feelings‚ needs and preferences. Communication consists of‚ Verbal skills: The tone‚ volume and the words we use. Non-verbal: Your body Language‚ facial expressions‚ touch and personal
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NURSING EXAMPLE A Summary of Proposed Research Program for Master of Philosophy Title: The Delivery of Quality Nursing Care: A Grounded Theory Study of the Nurses ’ Perspective Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the delivery of quality nursing care from the perspective of practising nurses working in the acute public hospital setting of Western Australia (WA). The study will examine the actions and interactions attributed to quality‚ and factors identified as enhancing
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For the hospital reflection journal‚ I chose to discuss my experience in the place I could perceive myself working in during my nursing career – the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). My NICU hospital experience occurred on Sunday‚ March 26‚ 2017 at the Honor Health Scottsdale Shea center. My nurse and I were assigned to two premature infants – a 4-week-old female and an 8-week-old male. The infant I decided to do my assignment on was the 4-week-old female. She was born on 02/20/2017 at 25 weeks
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Demonstrative Communications Rachel Mains Aug. 22‚ 2011 When someone says they will do something than they fail to do so‚ what does that say about them? There are so many sayings that can sum it all up. One of the most famous being “Actions speak louder than words”. Unknown who first coined this phrase but the phrase” actions are more significant than words” was first published by Gersham Bulkeley in his book “Will and Doom”. From this quote many new adaptations were born. “well done
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REFLECTIVE JOURNAL As a second year nursing student I felt mixed emotions of excitement and anxiety when I was thinking about my upcoming clinical placement because even though I have been working as a patient care assistant at Royal Darwin Hospital for a year and had already undergone clinical teaching block for one week . The responsibility of being a nurse is big and much complex than my current job [1.2 Fulfils the duty of care] especially when handling assigned patients. Thus‚ need to have
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Politically speaking‚ mentoring truly matters in nursing because the relationship that is created between the new graduates with their mentors provides positive feedback and is indeed a great investment in the health care. On the long run‚ confident nurses improve the overall health outcome of the system as a whole as well as patients’ health‚ which naturally leads to reduction of fiscal spending on patient’s readmission into hospitals and less occurrence of medical errors. A mentor possesses many
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Reflection The incident that I am going to reflect had happed during my nursing studies. I was posted in a busy emergency care (EC). My role was to observe and assist a RN. Ms. X came to EC with severe abdominal pain. After the initial assessment Doctor ordered a list of blood tests. I accompanied RN to observe blood sampling procedure. Ms. X was clearly not cooperating for the procedure and was screaming. I helped to position the patient with the help of family members so that the RN could carry
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The Importance of Nursing Roles Nurses have always been the backbone of healthcare and first response teams. Nurses are the first interaction a patient will have. The observations that a nurse makes through symptom analysis will aid the doctor in diagnosing the patient. This paper will first give a brief history of nursing and nursing roles and will focus on nursing theories and theorists. This paper will answer the question of how nursing theories helped to structure the nursing profession of
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in meeting the module learning outcomes and build up my clinical skill such as Privacy and Dignity‚ Personal Hygiene‚ Elimination‚ Fluid Balance. Catheter Care‚ Pressure Area Care‚ Moving and Handling‚ Observation and Rapid Assessment. Kim & Loretta (2003)‚ stated that Atkinson & Murphy (1993) identified the key skills needed for reflection as ‘self awareness‚ the ability to recollect and describe accurately key aspect of the situation‚ critical analysis of the situation and synthesis of new knowledge
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Nursing Theory Wendy Benson Chamberlain College of Nursing Theoretical Basis of Advanced Nursing NR501 July 20‚ 2013 Nursing Theory Nursing theories are the basic concepts that define nursing practice and provide the explanation to why nurses do what they do. Nurses are exposed to theories everyday in their practice. Did I give much thought to nursing theories prior to becoming a student? No‚ I did not. Of course I utilized them in my everyday nursing practice‚ but never put much thought
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