a fair share of challenges should be faced by a renowned health facility‚ patients‚ and their family members. Medical practitioners are supposed to observe high level of professionalism when discharging their services. Despite the high expectations‚ medical practitioners are also human beings prone to making mistakes. Subsequently‚ as a nurse‚ I try to avoid a number of factors that may affect the safety of both the patients and their families. When taking care for Josie‚ I exercised vigilance and
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my increased confidence and ability to recognize assessment results that stray from the norm‚ such as a blood pressure of 90/60. This was particularly made apparent a few times within these past few weeks‚ but more particularly when working with a patient whose temperature averaged around 34.5 degrees Celsius. As that is well below what one’s average temperature could be and could be a warning sign to a more serious issue‚ I spoke to my co-caring nurse so we could intervene. Additionally‚ another
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for my patient on 11/06 on P5 room 10. I was given report from the leaving nurse about my patient shortly after I got on the floor. The nurse that I was assigned to was from the ICU and she was a floating nurse for that day. My patient was an 8 week old baby boy who came into the hospital on 11/03 for failure to thrive. During the report‚ the nurse showed us where the position of NG tube on the patient. After the report‚ the nurse and I did a whole physical assessment‚ and vital on the patient. First
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Summative Communication & Cultural Safety Reflection | | | Following an adaption of Johns’ model of structured reflection (Jasper‚ 2003)‚ I will discuss an event that occurred during my residential placement as a nursing student‚ what I have learnt and how I would act if the situation arose again. Lastly‚ I will discuss what I have learnt in relation to the Nursing Council of New Zealand competencies for cultural safety and communication. Description
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ASPECT OF NURSING CARE) Reflection on Clinical Practice – First Placement (Year 1) The following essay is a reflective account on an event that I‚ a student nurse encountered whilst on my first clinical placement in my first year of study. The event took place in a nursing home. All names have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the patient (NMC‚ 2008). Throughout this essay I shall be using Gibbs model of reflection. The
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MSc. Nursing Module: Advance Research Methods Module co-coordinator: Gillian Paul/ Catherine Clune Mulvaney Assignment title: A Qualitative research on nurses perceptions on delivery of quality nursing care in nursing homes in Ireland. Student no. :13120999 Submission Due Date: 14/11/2013 Date submitted:13/11/2013 Word Count: 4000 Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery
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thickened fluids. My mentor asked me to observe her feeding Mr Comer. She had prepared my learning the week previously by providing literature on the subject of feeding elderly patients and discussion on safe practice for feeding patients with dysphagia. I was alarmed and unprepared for the physical sight of this patient‚ who was coughing noisily and laboriously and a thick‚ green stream of mucus was exuding from his mouth. I observed Mr. Comer being fed and noticed he was coughing more than
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Hospice use is increasing but less than half of nursing home residents with advanced dementia receive hospice care. The focus of care should always be the comfort of the person with dementia. Physical comfort is a paramount human need‚ yet pain is experienced by at least one-third of nursing home residents with advanced dementia in the last year of life. This is frequently undetected and undertreated. Person-centered care honors preferences in social‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ and physical care (Kuhn
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this author will describe a recent real-world event that relates to this course. This nursing leader is looking forward to learning how to apply the knowledge gained from this course to her current role as well as learning how to be a more effective and efficient nursing leader. This author feels that this course will be very beneficial and is excited to learning how to become a stronger more educated nursing leader. Topics of Most Interest Module number three appears to be a very interesting
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developed her self-care deficit theory of nursing under three interrelated theories known as the theory of self-care‚ theory of self-care deficit‚ and theory of nursing systems. Each of these theories explains concepts of basic conditioning factors to support her general theory. Orem’s theory suggests that all individuals have a need for self-care action on a continuous basis. When self-care can no longer be performed due to injury or illness the patient develops a self-care deficit and requires
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