Reflective writing One shift during the night At 19.50 I walk thru the entrance to my work place to begin my night shift. The first thing I did was to sign in in the fire booklet. Because we have to according to the health and safety at work act in case there is a fire and if there is a fire‚ I am in charge according to the policy at the work place and need to know who is in the building in case of a fire. Around the corner the staff was waiting‚ RN and carer‚ to give a rapport so they could go
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To my future colleagues‚ Psychiatric nursing is a challenging career laden with ethical‚ moral‚ and judicial dilemmas. In this letter I hope to equip you with tools to adequately face these inevitable challenges. I will particularly focus on the consideration of ethical principles‚ as I believe they are critical to maintaining your integrity as nurses. This letter will discuss the application of ethical principles in reference to three morally distressing situations outlined in the research Mental
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role in rendering medical assistance at community and national level when natural disaster and health crisis occurs. According to World Health Organization (2009)‚ nurses and midwives are important in the global healthcare workforce as they have a part in delivering care to primary‚ acute and community settings. Recently in Singapore‚ there have been debates suggesting to make nursing as a national service for all females for the purpose of solving nursing shortage issue due to the possibility of
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Reflective Journal 1 This is a reflective journal on the nursing care of psychiatric patients in the inpatient setting. This journal will reflect on the milieu management‚ new learning experience‚ and my expressions of my own feelings towards the psychiatric facilities at John Hopkin’s hospital in Baltimore‚ Maryland. Milieu Management Milieu management‚ also known as environmental management‚ is a driven method put in place to ensure restorative benefit from the environment in which the patient
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For my finial reflection I have decided to reflect on the reflective practice itself and my abilities to practice reflection‚ as it appears I am having some issues with the process. After receiving an A- on my last reflection‚ I spoke with my Faculty Advisor (FA) with the intention of discovering why I was not achieving marks in the A+ range on my reflections‚ and what I need to work on to improve on the quality of my reflections. Her feedback was that I was too broad in my approach; I spend too
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Identity v. Role confusion | Maslow- food‚ safety‚ belonging‚ self esteem‚ self actualization. Developmental crisis- individual part of maturing‚ normal part of life‚ get married Situational crisis- individual‚ unanticipated Adventitious- community tragedy‚ Katrina Impulse control- Frontal lobe Visual hallucination (<occipital lobe) Auditory (Temporal lobe) Short term memory (hippocampus) Long term (Cortex- grey matter) asymmetrical ventricles Id-impulsive (limbic system- flight
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RETURN TO NURSING PRACTICE REFLECTIVE LOG MODULE LEADER: STUDENT NUMBER: 1 INTRODUCTION This essay demonstrates the significant learning that resulted as a consequence of using critical reflection on my practice. The reflective process helped me to realise how my practice needed to change after I experienced a personal and practice-related issue during and after my clinical placement. Reflective practice is an important component of all
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My thoughts and reflections were summarised over the four weeks and captured in the ensuing journal. Sustainability I hadn’t considered the inter-plays that exist between the social‚ environmental and economic aspects of sustainability‚ I subscribe to the three pillars of sustainability (figure 1)‚ that is each has an impact but they are independent of each other. Figure 1: Three pillars of sustainability Source: Wallis‚ A. M.‚ Graymore‚ M. L. M.‚ & Richards
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but a learning experience”. (Jarvis 1992) This is a reflection on an incident that occurred during a shift on the labour ward. I have chosen Gibbs model of reflection (1988) to guide my reflective process. (Gibbs 1998) (Appendix I). Gibbs model (1998) goes through six important points to aid the reflective process‚ including description of incident‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and finally action plan. The advantage of Gibbs’s six-stage model is that it allows you to learn from experiences
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Community health Nursing is a population based nursing practice which promote and protect the health of a population‚ while Public health nursing is “the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing‚ social‚ and public health sciences” Public Health Nursing Section (2013).It focuses on improving all population health by emphasizing prevention‚ and attending to multiple determinants of health. It is almost impossible to talk about public health without
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