Community Health Nursing Reflection Maria Jelyn Engelhardt-Parales NUR/405 August 27‚ 2012 Amy Weaver Community Health Nursing Reflection Community health nursing practice aims to improve community health by promoting a healthier group of people‚ individuals‚ families‚ and residents within the community. The goal is to maintain‚ preserve‚ and promote health by providing information‚ education‚ teachings‚ and health care services to the population. The focus is on the collective good of
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The Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC) standards of proficiency for pre-registration nursing education (2010) sets out exactly what student nurses must achieve to enable registration onto the first part of the register. Another NMC publication; Standards to support learning and assessment in practice (2006) lays out what a post registration nurse requires to fulfil in order to formally assess student nurses. These two sets of standards make it clear what is expected of both students and mentors
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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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References12 Introduction In this assignment the discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of using reflection in nursing practice is undertaken. Boyd and Fales‚ 1983 states reflection is "the process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern‚ triggered by an experience‚ which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self‚ and which results in a changed perspective"(p 3). Reflection entails identifying a predicament‚ asking questions‚ analysing evidence‚ examining suppositions and
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Teaching Care Plan Ativan Assessment Diagnosis Plan/ Goal Implementation Evaluation *Assess patient’s knowledge of lorazepam. *Assess knowledge of intended response of medication. *Assess knowledge of when‚ and how to take medication. *Assess knowledge of side and adverse effects. *Assess patient’s degree of anxiety. *Assess patient for alcohol withdrawl symptoms. Knowledge‚ deficient r/t non exposure of information. Noncompliance r/t medication misuse. Patient should understand
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for example whether it is forensic‚ community nursing speciality‚ what you have learned about yourself and the complexity of the Learning Disability nurse’s role within it. You are expected to apply a reflective framework of your choice and support your reflection with appropriate references. This piece of reflection will focus on my experiences whilst on practice placement; I will be using the (Gibbs 1988‚ cited in Jasper 2003) model of reflection. Gibbs cycle is set out in order of categories
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Reflection - IOM Future of Nursing Kavitha Joseph Grand Canyon University Trends and Issues in Today’s Health Care NRS 440V June Helbig April 14‚ 2013 Reflection - IOM Future of Nursing Knowledge can give nurses greater power to take action and lack of knowledge can leave nurses powerless to provide safe or effective care ( Innocent‚ 2011). During this difficult economic time many recruiters prefer to hire experienced nurse with knowledge. To gain knowledge one must have education. Education makes
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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 the
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One aspect that I believe to have been a successful part of my practice over these past few weeks is 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
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Confucius Teachings: Pillars in the Nursing Care Sandra Joy T. Dela Vega Wagner College Abstract “Thus‚ nurses serve beyond theories… that beyond the dosage of medicine they give‚ an ounce of humanistic touch must be extended to their patients.” Nurses serve the patient beyond theories. There must be a combination of heart and brain among the health care practitioners‚ particularly nurses. Caring people is human welfare and human welfare is no joke. It is a profession
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