One of the situations I experienced in clinical this week was my conversation with 38 years old man‚ a man married to a nurse‚ a father of three girls and a writer‚ who was in for a dual diagnoses of depression also drug and alcohol use disorder. He was talking to me on how he got into drug and extreme alcohol abuse. He was telling me on how he got injured at his former work place back in 2001 and the whole time he was talking to me I couldn’t help but feel bad for him but at the same time question
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After this experience‚ the rest of the clinical shift went astonishingly well. With that great self-confidence and the motivation to efficiently accomplish all the other tasks‚ I realized that the coordination with my partners was the primary influence towards my self-esteem today. My partners and I communicated with each other on every aspect to clarify and divide responsibilities. We started the shift by splitting up and individually going into the patient’s room to wake them up and ask if they
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EDN 100 Clinical Observation Reflection Introduction During the course of my fall semester at Elgin Community College‚ I had the opportunity to observe an elementary school‚ middle school‚ and high school classroom. For my classroom observations‚ I went to Westfield Community School and Jacobs High School. Each classroom visit was to be five hours‚ making the required observation time fifteen hours. My themes for my paper will be classroom management and time on task. Theme 1: Classroom Management
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This essay is written to reflect an critical incident that I have experienced during my Professional Practice Experience 4 placement at Bankstown hospital using Gibbs Reflective Cycle. At the time of the incident‚ I was following the clinical guidelines and practice my medication administration skills by giving subcutaneous injection to a patient at the abdomen site‚ under the supervision of an register nurse. Before the injection‚ I have checked the site for redness‚ bruises and pain‚ which there
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Throughout my high school years I dealt with depression. At the start of my sophomore year‚ I was diagnosed with clinical depression‚ a type of depression that is linked with fatigue. While in social settings‚ internally there was an urge to lay down and rest‚ while on the outside I was perky and all smiles! I was without goals and always off with friends to distract myself; feelings did not phase me because I was used to shutting them out. My mother decided after a while that I needed help to get
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Clinical supervision according to Machado & Botnarescue (2011‚ p. 56)‚ “was initially promoted to improve instructional practices by providing supervisors with a structured and cooperative approach”. I am struggling as to what to say to Ms. Jones based upon her performance. Since my evaluations are short and sweet with little needing improving‚ I find it hard to be on the other end of an evaluation. First‚ I would sit down and provide Ms. Jones with the checklist that we were given and go down
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in a pediatric simulation with my clinical group. The simulation took place in the simulation lab at Western Regional School of Nursing. My clinical group‚ two nursing instructors‚ and I were present during the event. Our clinical group was there because it was a clinical component of our pediatric clinical rotation. We were required to apply our knowledge and use critical thinking during the simulation‚ acting as if it were a real life experience. Our clinical group was separated into two smaller
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(1982-2011)‚ CINAHL (1996-2011)‚ Embase (1982-2011) and BNI (1982-2011) Mckibbon and Mark (1998) states that CINAHL and Medline databases are the most appropriate methodological to identify studies that report high quality research which can be used for clinical application. Most of the search result‚ produced articles that were Control Randomised Trails (RCT). Torgerson and Torgerson (2008)‚ states that RCT is the gold standard for research method and for addressing the what? question in ‘evidence-informed’
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Reflection on Temperature‚ Pulse‚ Respiration and Blood pressure I am a nursing student from Australian Catholic University. This role play is about the vital signs. Now‚ I am going to write a reflective write about the video of my role play of TPR which is a part of assignment and done by me and my other two friends. Firstly‚ in my video when I play a nurse role‚ first of all I asked about the patient’s condition such as how are you today. I also make the eye contact while taking to patient
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Alternate Clinical Experience: A.A. Meeting The meeting I attended took place at 8 pm Sunday night at Holy Name Church in Pompton Plains. It was an open meeting and held in the basement of the church. Upon entering I was introduced‚ greeted warmly and was offered coffee and cake. To my surprise‚ I ran into two members that I knew in the past. There were 16 attendees excluding me and another student. Among the attendees there were fourteen males and only two females with their ages being
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