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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M Middleditch REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT HSC 2028 J/601/8027 After helping Mr A get washed and dressed and as he is unable to weight bear or walk‚ in accordance with the risk assessment in his care plan he needed to be transferred into a wheelchair using a hoist. On explaining our desire to transfer him using the hoist ‚ he declined ‚ stating that he could do it himself ( he has some degree of short term memory loss ) and he asked
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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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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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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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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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An event occurred that did not exemplify best practice as a nursing student‚ and soon to be registered nurse was when I was administering medication last week on a respiratory floor. I had given my patient the medication‚ and realized there was no water at the bedside. I quickly went to get my patient water for her to swallow the capsules more easily from the bathroom. When I arrived back‚ she stated that she had already taken them. I had informed my preceptor and she advised me to look on her bed
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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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