Remembered pain keeps us on guard against its recurrence‚ and memory exists even in our unconscious mind. Let us remind ourselves that our unconscious mind exists either because we are indifferent to certain things or because we are afraid to re-awaken the memories of unpleasant or painful experiences. Let us remind ourselves that the totality of the records of all our unpleasant and painful experiences are hidden in the depths of our unconscious mind. If we realize the meaning of this‚ we will be
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Pain The statement made by Diane Ackerman “Being able to withstand pain depends to a considerable extent on culture and tradition‚ “means that the pain people feel can basically be in the mind because of the way they were brought up and what they have seen and heard in their upcoming. People really don’t know anything different besides their cultures and traditions. In Diane Ackerman’s essay she provides multiple examples to prove this statement but I will only share two. The first example she
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CHEST IMAGING IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT Chest diagnostic imaging is essential when dealing with a critically ill patient. At present‚ direct visualization of the lung parenchyma is performed with a chest x-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT)‚ with the patient in the supine position (Gardelli et al.‚ 2012). Plain chest radiograph: In the ICU‚ CXRs are only performed on patients in the supine position. The x-ray beam is positioned directly onto the chest at a distance that is less than
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I am reflecting on medication administration using different stages of Gibbs Reflective Cycle such as description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and action plan (Gibbs‚ 1988). Medication administration is a key element for nursing practice. During my CPU class‚ my tutor demonstrated how to administered medications to patient using five rights which were right patient‚ right drug‚ right time‚ right dose and right route (Bullock & Manias‚ 2013)‚ to follow the OSCA criteria step by step
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Dimmesdale’s chest as there are many theories of what’s on his chest and he reveals it in public with Hester. In Hawthorne’s novel the Scarlet Letter‚ an illusion to argue to the truth or reveal on what can be on Dimmesdale’s chest. The readers are wondering what’s on Dimmesdale’s chest it’s something to think about and make our head scratch to know what’s on his chest. To help us understand all the theories that’s been going on towards the end of the book of him not wanting to reveal his chest then to
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This semester I am currently working with Patient Voices Network with another one of my colleagues. Patient Voices Network is a network that works by connecting interested volunteers that are a variety of different age groups and giving them a voice in health care. Health care partners are the facilities that can utilize these volunteers for their projects. The focus of the last student group to work on this project was to identify barriers to volunteering and engage the college population. Our focus
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Reflective report This reflective report has been structured following Gibbs’ (1988) model. Gibbs’ model provides an iterative model of reflection which I am going to use to answer a series of ordered questions: the answer to each question leads onto the next stage of the reflective cycle. Description I will be discussing an incident that occurred while I was on duty in a nursing home where I work as a healthcare assistant. A nurse confronted a carer in an unprofessional manner during handover
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Event | Evidence | On 4th June‚ H’stix was done to a patient. | It is my first time to perform H’stix to patient. I misunderstood that a small drop of blood was enough but it should be more for the blood glucose detector to measure. | From 5th - 7th June‚ Vital signs taking was done | There is a big time improvement for vital signs taking after three-day practice. The procedure of vital signs taking becomes smoother.Since the patient is an isolation case‚ there is another BP machine to measure
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losses; overall‚ pretty commonplace‚ small town lives. Here‚ hidden in the ordinary‚ Wilder begins to weave one of his themes and uses Mrs. Gibbs to advance it. She is raising two children‚ married to the town doctor‚ and just a regular housewife. Hers is a perfect life for Wilder to expand upon the theme of finding extraordinary in the ordinary. Mrs. Gibbs as a character strengthens the idea that even the most ordinary‚ run-of-the-mill lives can be special and meaningful to the people living them
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Using Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (or Gibbs’ Reflective Model) Gibbs’ reflective cycle is a theoretical model often used by students as a framework in coursework assignments that require reflective writing. The model was created by Professor Graham Gibbs and appeared in Learning by Doing (1988). It looks like this: Action plan If it arose again what would you do? Descripiton What happened? Conclusion What else could you have done? Feelings What were you thinking and feeling
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