3463205 Michelle James Assignment (Essay) 40% The ageing of the world’s population is a global phenomenon increasing the demand for adequate health care services available to older people. It continues to challenge those who plan and manage the services for older people and even more importantly those who deliver the professional and clinical care within the system such as Nurses. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009) predicted that the number of older Australians‚ as a proportion of the total
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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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This is only guidance on what you need to include in your reflective account to provide evidence for the units you are doing‚ you will need to look at the units you are doing and be guided by the Assessment Criteria Ensure that when writing your account write reflectively‚ using “I” statements‚ i.e I recorded in the clients daily notes‚ not it was recorded. You need to ensure you are writing what YOU did‚ HOW you did it and WHY you did it the way you did. A brief history of the candidate
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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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M Middleditch REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT HSC 2028 J/601/8027 After helping Mr A get washed and dressed and as he is unable to weight bear or walk‚ in accordance with the risk assessment in his care plan he needed to be transferred into a wheelchair using a hoist. On explaining our desire to transfer him using the hoist ‚ he declined ‚ stating that he could do it himself ( he has some degree of short term memory loss ) and he asked
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Certificate in Education and Training. Reflective Account Considering your learning in this unit or drawing on your own experience‚ provide a reflective account in relation to the following: a. Explain why it is important to promote appropriate behaviour and respect for others. b. Ways to promote equality and value diversity. c. The importance of identifying and meeting the needs of learners. d. Ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment. I have been in
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Assignment 304 Principles for implementing duty of care in health ‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Task B Reflective Account BI – Describe two situations which demonstrate a conflict or dilemma between exercising a duty of care and the rights of an individual Conflict and dilemmas may arise between the duty of care and individuals rights could be staff having a difference of opinion over an service user for example a staff member believing that they have seen signs of
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individuals with dementia. As a nurse this is an important skill to have. Initiative is another of these skills‚ in which I developed during my second placement at a specialist support centre for adults with learning disabilities. The service users there had various disabilities and needs such as Cerebral Palsy‚ in which I was able to communicate with and support. Nursing is such a
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EVIDENCE GATHERING FORM EVIDENCE NO: DATE: IDENTIFY EVIDENCE TYPE DIRECT OBSERVATION □ REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT □ QUESTIONS □ EXPERT WITNESS □ PRODUCT □ WITNESS TESTIMONY □ CANDIDATE NAME: Suzanne Gibson EVIDENCE : Unit‚ PCs Knowledge Equality is ensuring individuals or groups of individuals are treated equally and fairly and less favourable‚ specific to their needs including areas of race‚ gender‚ disability‚ religion/belief‚ sexual orientation and age. This means in my work place whilst working
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of Life and Dementia Care . Credit Value : 2 This unit must be assessed in accordance with Skills for Care and Development’s QCF Assessment Principles. Learning Outcome 1 : Understand considerations for individuals with dementia at end of life Assessment Criteria 1.1. Outline in what ways dementia can be a terminal illness Dementia is brain atrophy. It’s a degenerative disease‚ which is progressive‚ and for the time being‚ incurable condition. Dementia is a terminal
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