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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Nurse Educator The AACN Preferred Vision of the Professoriate in Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs (2008) states that “courses in the nursing program will be taught by faculty with graduate-level academic preparation and advanced expertise in the areas of content they teach.” There is national recognition‚ however‚ of the growing shortage of nursing educators to fill faculty and other educator roles within the healthcare delivery system. Master’s programs that prepare graduates for nurse
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Japan Journal of Nursing Science (2008) 5‚ 71 doi:10.1111/j.1742-7924.2008.00111.x EDITORIAL Nursing theory – remembering our future Modern nursing theory began with Virginia Henderson in the 1960s. In her grand theory of nursing‚ she defined nursing as “assisting individuals to gain independence in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery (Henderson‚ 1966‚ p. 15). Since the 1970s‚ the literature on nursing theory has focused upon two levels of nursing theories: the
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Reflective Paper: Teaching Biblical Principles Jolie A. Thorpe Liberty University Education 531 September 2‚ 2012 Professor Kelly Bingham Reflective Paper: Teaching Biblical Principles According to Websters Dictionary a principle is defined as a “comprehensive and fundamental law‚ doctrine‚ or assumption‚” (principle‚ 2012). There are two different ways to understand the concept of principle‚ worldview and Biblical perspective. The worldview of principles focuses on human direction‚ and
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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1 Reflective Paper MTH 157 July 2‚ 2013 Gina Loscalzo Evan Schwartz Reflective Paper 2 Math for Elementary Teachers II is the second part in a two part series. The mathematical concepts that were focused on throughout the second part of Math for Elementary Teachers were on measurement‚ geometry‚ probability‚ and data analysis. Just like part one of Math for Elementary Teachers‚ part two also address the relationship of the course
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remember I was a sick child and‚ I figured that I wanted to be a nurse someone who was always helping people and that at a point of time in my life they helped me. Nursing is a health care profession that involves taking care of another person in which a person needs the formal education and training in the art of science of nursing. Nurses help individuals‚ families‚ and groups to achieve health and prevent diseases‚ and they care for the sick and injured using procedures based on knowledge‚ skill
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from anything deleterious and mischievous… or harmful drug.” The profession evolved into a very complex arena in the last century. Nurses now must confront life-and-death decisions and in short periods‚ even on an hourly basis. Medical advancements in new technology have the equal potential of benefit and harm. Today’s nurse makes her own decisions‚ that is‚ without the influence of her employer. But how she does is under the control of a Code of Ethics to which she swears (Wilkins). In general‚ nurses
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Online Classes This online class has helped me in some ways as in learning new techniques of how to explain in more detail of what I am trying to write about. I have struggled with this online class too and think I would have benefited more going to actual class. I believe I struggled with learning many of things because I learn better when I am one on one with a teacher. The Argumentation paper was fairly simple‚ but hard to explain many details. I believe I learned many of things
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What is nursing? What exactly does it mean to nurse a patient‚ and how has this definition changed over the past centuries? What does the discipline of nursing consist of? In this essay‚ I aim to attempt to answer these questions‚ along with the help of a myriad of nursing researchers whose studies have helped to broaden my perspective on what exactly it is that I now do for a living. I will be discussing the different types of nursing knowledge that assists us as nurses to care for patients and
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