assignment. Please reference your work. Referencing guides are available on the OLS under Assessment Guidelines. Task Read the case study and answer the following questions. Case study You are an aged care worker in a hostel. Mrs Jones‚ a resident‚ comes to you one morning saying that the evening aged care worker demands she be in bed with the TV off by 8.00pm as that is when there is sufficient staff available to assist her into bed. Mrs Jones wants to be able to watch her TV from her chair in her
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Nursing Diagnosis 1. Acute pain R/T: inflammation and obstruction of the gallbladder AEB: patient verbalizes abdominal pain of 7/10‚ grimaces‚ rubs his stomach‚ BP 158/79‚ T990F 2. Deficient knowledge R/T: lack of knowledge about the importance of incentive spirometer AEB: patient says that he does not know how to use and needs to know more about its importance. 3. Risk for deficient fluid volume R/T: restricted intake 4. Risk for imbalanced nutrition less than body requirement R/T: impaired
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organizations work hard for health in general. Health contains a lot of categories; the most important category is healthcare. There are many types of health care; two of them are Primary care and Acute care. Understanding what is needed to be known about health care are the definitions‚ similarities‚ and differences between Primary care and Acute care. What is health and how it has evolved? All that will be explained as follows. In ancient times Human Beings were using traditional ways to heal the injured
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An analysis of the student’s performance in care management‚ within an acute care setting. This assignment aims to analyse my performance in care management‚ within an acute care setting‚ a scenario has been chosen and areas of clinical governance have been identified and applied to this case. It will conclude with a discussion of what I have learnt from analysing the scenario. Clinical Governance is the application of ethical‚ legal and professional principles. It is a framework through
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Introduction My placement with the Nursing home and Residential care home was to help me understand the concept of growing old in this country and what different family values have when it came to caring for their elderly‚ in comparing with what happens in southern Africa. My home fulfils my needs and holds some of our family memories and reflects my priorities and taste. The placement gave an insight into the necessities of the existence of care homes‚ as to balance a full life cycle of some aged people
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A REFLECTIVE ESSAY This is a reflective essay based on a event which took place in a hospital setting. The aim of this essay is to explore how members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) worked together and communicate with each other to achieve the best patients outcome. Reflection is an everyday process and is very personal matter. Jasper (2003) suggests that reflection is one of the key ways in which we can learn from our experiences. Reflective practice can be defined as process of making sense
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Stage 1 – Understanding There are 42 acute care hospitals in the state of Colorado. The complication rate for specific procedures varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Sepsis mortality and morbidity rates also range from low of about 8% to high of just over 39%. No one hospital provides the best care for all conditions and procedures. Several problems may account for these discrepancies: • Small rural hospitals may have limited staff that is not certified in all specialties. • Smaller hospitals
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Reflective Essay Why we use reflection It is important that we use reflection in order to further develop our skills in practice. No matter which reflective cycle chosen it is important that you identify what has been learned from the experience‚ how it has helped‚ if it is negative‚ how to overcome the problem in the future‚ and how it relates to theory and knowledge you have been taught. Reflective practice has been identified as one of the key ways in which we learn from our experiences in practice
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Reflective Essay Home start: Whilst on placement I was given the opportunity to observe an agency called Home Start who offers a unique service of recruiting and training volunteers‚ who are usually parents themselves to visit families at home. The highly trained and skilled volunteers help these families by offering informal‚ friendly and confidential support. It has been said that the first five years of a child’s life from birth to school are vital for a child’s development. Children
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REFLECTION ONE The purpose of this essay is to reflect on the assessment conducted on a student who was doing a case study. I will use a reflective model to discuss how am achieving the necessary level of competence in my nursing profession as an assessor and as am preparing my self to the role of a preceptor. The reflective model I have chosen to use is Gibbs model (Gibbs 1988). This model provides structure for reflection on a nursing experience or situation as it follows the six distinct stages
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