related to legal requirements and codes of practice applicable to your job; your work activities; the job you are doing (eg domiciliary‚ residential care‚ hospital settings) and the individuals you are working with. Values underpinning the whole of the Unit The values underpinning this unit have been derived from the key purpose statement1‚ the statement of expectations from carers and people receiving services‚ relevant service standards and codes of practice for health and social care in the four
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Reflective Writing The Learning Centre • http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au A great deal of your time university will be spent thinking; thinking about what people have said‚ what you have read‚ what you yourself are thinking and how your thinking has changed. It is generally believed that the thinking process involves two aspects: reflective thinking and critical thinking. They are not separate processes; rather‚ they are closely connected (Brookfield 1987). Justify actions • Solve problems Deeper meaning
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Description It is my first day of work after graduating from nursing school. I am currently in a remote island of Maldives. It is a small hospital consisting of 50 beds and almost 20 staffs working in 3 shifts. I came for morning duty and the nursing in-charge shown me maternal and surgical ward as my first work place. After taking handing over from the night shift staff I made everything ready for the ward round as the doctors will be here in no time. Just before the doctors arrival we got a patient
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Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals‚ families‚ and communities so they may attain‚ maintain‚ or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care‚ training‚ and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope
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Catherine Edmonson Writing as Inquiry Ms. Allen February 12‚ 2014 What are the effects of tanning beds? Meet Natalie. She started tanning when she was 16 years old because she was convinced it made her feel prettier. During her college years‚ she would go once every 2 weeks and then began going once a week. She always joked about how she would get skin cancer‚ but thought it would never happen to her. When she was 21‚ her doctor noticed a spot on her back‚ which turned out to be melanoma; she went
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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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Situation Whilst on clinical placement‚ a male resident with dementia and I were sitting in his room within the nursing home for which he resided for the past two years. The resident was becoming anxious about his family‚ stating that they lived far away and he missed them. He showed me a card from one of his daughters she had sent for his birthday. As I was reading what she had written I became overwhelmed with empathetic emotion and wanted to cry due to her emotive words. Target To maintain
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Reflective Essay Vivan Bearing‚ a Philosophy Professor of 17th Century Poetry‚ was informed by Dr. Kelekian that she has a very aggressive form of Stage IV ovarian cancer that has metastasized. This is described as an isidious cancer with pernicious side effects. Vivian consented to the very aggressive and experimental treatment plan that her doctor advised. Dr. Kelekian also instructed Ms. Bearing that she would have to stop teaching for her treatment. I feel that the patient here
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preceptorship was without a doubt unique but I feel its uniqueness was in what I made of it‚ something every nursing student can do for themselves. If there is one lesson to gain from reading about my experiences it should be that the success of a clinical is entirely what the student makes of it. My first day I walked into the ICU and almost ran right back out‚ thinking “ Get me out of here” it was a 10 bed unit‚ the traditional glass ICU room doors‚ two crash carts at either end of the unit‚ patient charts
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University of Technology Jodian Allen I.D #: 1305502 Business Etiquette Assessment Reflective Paper Lecturer: Dr. Jennifer Yee-sing Date: September 27‚ 2013 Reflective Paper Shifting my head slowly from left to the right I glanced at my classmates‚ as the lecturer entered the room I was awfully anxious with muddled thoughts flowing through my head. I sat patiently in the room amongst the others‚ looking peculiarly sneaky as fear had already numbed my body to a pulp. However‚ as Dr
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