HSC 51 Reflective account In my role as senior care worker‚ I work with variety of individuals including‚ colleagues‚ management‚ professionals‚ clients and their family members. The main group that I work with on day to day basis are residential clients that are both elderly and varied degrees of learning difficulties. These are individuals with limited ability to understand and process information given to them. This sometimes causes a barrier and challenge for the staff and especially for
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Reflective Account “End of Life” Last year 23 September 2012. I had a resident called “Mrs X” she was a 72year-old widowed living at ---‚ a Nursing Care Home. She’s not a religious type of person as she was Atheist. She has lived in the home for the past two years‚ and during that time I was assigned as her key worker. Mrs X had One Son and 3 grand daughters they are all regular visitors to the home. She has recently been diagnosed with renal failure‚ and her life expectancy is only a couple of
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1. For Reflective Account 3 you should use one of your child observations. 2. Describe how you did this observation. a. Did you sit away from the child and observe from a distance (unobtrusive) so the child was not disturbed? b. Did you sit near to the child or even sit in on the activity? 3. Describe the type of observation you did- tick list‚ written‚ event sample. Where you using paperwork from the setting or did you design your own? 4. Explain why you chose the method
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Reflective Account 4 Description I am currently on placement within an acute setting of a general hospital. The ward in which I am a student is a haematology ward which is defined as ’the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs’.(World net web‚ 2013) Within the ward patients can receive a wide range of treatments such as chemotherapy‚ bone marrows‚ platelets and all blood related disorder medicine. Throughout my time in the ward I have been exposed
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Administering Medication reflective account The legislation which governs how medication is administered‚ stored and recorded include the following: The Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 COSHH Regulations 1999 Access to Health Records Act 1990 Data Protection Act 1998 Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 Common types of medication which I deal with and support my clients with are: Paracetamol- usually prescribed as 500mg
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IMPROVEMENT I try to organize the childminding service I provide the best I can but also my ambition is to improve it after reflecting my practice in terms to improve outcomes for children and to increase my confidence. I set up realistic but challenging targets and try to put my plans into practice all the time (e.g. I have started cache level 3 diploma course on May as I planned couple months
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Introduction As part of my studies in the MA social Work and Law module I attended Hull Crown Court. During the visit I witnessed three sentencing sessions. In this paper I aim to project a reflective account of my own thoughts and feelings regarding the Crown Court environment and my initial perceptions of the power dynamics of the Court room officials. The profile and demographics of the defendants will be briefed‚ with the aim of finding links between them. We will then introduce the nature of
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References: Bradbury‚ A.(2000) Successful Presentation Skills.2nd ed. London: Kogan Page Ltd. Bulman‚ C.; Schutz‚ S. (2004) Reflective Practice in Nursing.3rd ed. London: Blackwell . Jootun D. And McGhee G (2011) Effective communication with people who have dementia. Nursing Standard‚ vol 25‚ 25.p .40-46.EBSCOhost: Business Source Premier. http://search.ebscohost.com [accessed:12
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Managing Continence: Reflective Account Client M is a wheelchair user who has been assessed as requiring assistance to manage continence as she is unable to weight bear‚ and therefore cannot self transfer. This assistance is through use of a passive hoist and sling system as outlined in her Moving and Handling Plan. This type of manoeuvre involves two trained staff. Client M has her own personal toileting sling which is kept in a secure cupboard within the group for infection control purposes
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Skills My belief is every child should have the opportunity to achieve their potential so I am passionate about making sure this objective is potentially a reality. Consequential of spending years amongst children as a mum and aunt‚ one of my greatest attributes is the ability to adapt my practice to suit the various stages of human development. This was evident within my placements where I had no problem engaging with‚ and forming and maintaining appropriate relationships with families and children
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