REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT I started my shift at 7:15 am. My work clothes are comfortable and unrestrictive; my footwear is flat‚ sensible and offers protection to my feet and ankles. When I arrive to the service user’s home‚ I knock on the door and wait to be let in either by one of the service user’s or by a work colleague. Once inside I greet the service user‚ if they are awake. I then head to the sleep in room‚ to start verbal handover with my work colleague. After the 15 minute handover‚ I then
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According to Somerville and Keeling (2004) nursing is a profession where reflection is important whereby it helps to identify strengths and weaknesses. Jarvis (1992) mentioned that reflective practice can also be known as a learning process through and from the experiences towards gaining new ideas. The two type of reflective practice by Schon (1987) are the capacity in reflecting in action and on reflecting on action. Based on Schon (1987) theory reflection in action is a process which allows us to
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Unit 40: Dementia Care P1: Describe types of dementia and common signs and symptoms. What is dementia? Dementia is a common condition that affects about 800‚000 people in the UK. Your risk of developing dementia increases as you get older‚ and the condition usually occurs in people over the age of 65. Dementia is a syndrome associated with an ongoing decline of the brain and its abilities. This includes problems with: memory loss thinking speed mental agility language understanding
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Reflective Account When I started my work placement at my setting I was working with my members of staff and manager who told me how to monitor children when they eat and which child cannot eat certain food because of their religion or culture. Before I started to give out the food for the children I had to read the food policies and procedures to know how to serve the food and drink for the children. At my placement I learnt how to monitor the children when they ate and how much they ate‚ and
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(DEM304 4222-367) Knowledge Workbook Enable rights and choices of individuals with dementia whilst minimising risks Learner name: C&G Reg. No: Learner signature: Date completed: Recommended GLHS: 15 Assessor name: This unit is about developing the learners’ knowledge‚ understanding and skill of enabling the rights and choices of the individual with dementia whilst minimising risks. You will also be observed in your workplace environment You
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Reflective Account – Poster Presentation. This reflective account is regarding my involvement within a group to produce an academic poster presentation. My feeling when we were initially told we had to do a presentation was; please no! and my heart immediately sank! This was one main worry I had when I was accepted into university but I knew I had to overcome this fear. A few sessions ago‚ we all decide which groups were going to work together. I was pleased with who I was working with as we
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Reflective account 12 Date: 03.05.12 Aneta Ten I am let in the children world now; they completely trust me and don’t fear me. I stepped in the classroom today and from the door the children said –“Hello”‚ and smiled. Child S. even gave me a hug. We had 4 indoor activities set for them today‚ promoting physical‚ creative and social development. They enjoyed them very much. In the quite room we have a computer on which they can practise their fine motor skills with the computer mouse and can
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Reflective Account I’m looking back on today’s work I did with some young pupils I work with‚ they are a little group called ‘ Super Stars’‚ they are called the super stars because they aren’t as up to speed with the other children in class but they have a lot of potential to work with. The super stars are a group of 5/6 children aged up 7-11‚ today we did phonics we did ‘OI’‚ we had to pronounce ‘oi’ sounding it so that they can speak it clearly‚ and I also asked the group to think of words or
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Reflective Account Moving & handling One day I was ask to transfer Mrs X from bed into wheelchair. Mrs X is paralised so to transfer her a full body hoist is needed. I had to call for help‚ it wouldn’t be safe to do this by myself. So while I was waiting for the other carer to arrive I have explained to Mrs X what and how we are going to do it. I have also cheked the hoist and battery if its fully charged and operational. I put right size sling on Mrs X with her cooperation. I carefully
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A reflective account A new little boy started recently in nursery‚ as he entered nursery i bent down‚ smiled giving him eye contact i then said hello using his name and told him mine and he smiled back. He had never been to nursery before and he was very excited and had no awareness of the daily routine. i calmly held out my hand and he held out his. holding each others hands i showed him where his name card was‚ he picked up his name card and we walked over to the self-registration board. i asked
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