recently attended placement at a local residential home‚ where I would talk to and assist in caring for the service users. It was at this placement that I discovered the importance at providing support to people who may be feeling confused or distressed‚ particularly 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
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Reflective account 6 Description Throughout this reflective account i will refer to the individual I was working with as Gloria. I have not used her real name throughout this piece to protect her identity and to ensure that I am maintaining confidentiality. “You must respect people’s rights to confidentiality” (NMC 2013) Gloria is a 74 year old lady who lives at the residential care home at which I am currently on placement Gloria is under the Adults with Incapacity Scotland Act 2000 due to a diagnosis
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Friday Claudia did a home visit for only 5 minutes. Viviana asked Claudia for assistance calling the insurance because she received a bill from the hospital. Claudia told Viviana that she cannot help with that issue; she came only to see how the baby is. On Monday Oct 19 @ 7:36 pm I received a text message form Viviana‚ she stated that Claudia didn’t show up for a home visit. Viviana stated that she doesn’t want to continue with the program. I invited Viviana to the support group bc I will be there
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Erick Erickson’s Life Span Theory is known as the 8 ages of development as he defines 8 major life crisis’s which he says are significant in terms of human growth and development. During each stage Erickson believes that there is a life crisis which we need to work through. There are 2 outcomes one positive and one negative‚ which will have implications for the development of our identity. We will develop a mixture of both outcomes from each stage. If the positive outweighs the negative then ego
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is that the patient was a respiratory‚ and psychiatric patient. She had a history of severe depression‚ anorexia‚ seizures‚ and schizophrenia. The patient was on a form 1‚ then placed off of it on my shift as she left the hospital and was found at home without official discharge. Also‚ she had stated she had a bowel movement the night before and did not want the laxatives and stool softeners. She felt that she did not need the medication as she was not constipated. There are no cultural‚ spiritual
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patient with COPD: a reflective account Barnett M (2005) Caring for a patient with COPD: a reflective account. Nursing Standard. 19‚ 36‚ 41-46. Date of acceptance: October 15 2004. Summary Reflective practice has been a familiar topic in nursing journals and the term is regularly used in professional nursing practice. However‚ it was not until I used Johns’ (1994) model to analyse and explore my feelings and actions in daily practice that I fully understood the concept of reflective practice and discovered
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I work in a Jewish care home on EMI dementia nursing unit for the elderly. My clients suffer from dementia. They are in different stages of that illness‚ from mild to severe. Some of them are in end of live care. My clients come from different backgrounds then me and where raised in a very different way to how I was raised. It is important that I will remember this and respect their beliefs‚ as we all have personal beliefs and preferences based on our background and upbringing. I have been brought
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patient. I’ll spare you all the triggering details‚ just know that I wasn’t too happy about this. During my first month‚ I attended group therapy as well as individual sessions. Despite my social anxiety‚ I managed to attend 2 sessions. Fast forward to January; had been accessing regular leave and even stayed at home for 2 weeks at Christmas. 2 days after I arrived back‚ I was ‘assaulted’ (in proper terms) by another patient. It’s now March‚ and I’m officially done with tier 4 care and moving onto
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baby room there were always three level 3 qualified early years’ practitioners. This was the same in the 2-3 room plus a support practitioner. All the children in the baby and 2-3 room had an individual learning plans; this helped the children achieve the best they could out of their time in the setting. All the planning in the setting was based on each individual child’s individual needs and was age appropriate. All the children also had key workers. The key workers carried out observations and were
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As a requirement of my role as Support Worker for Options Of Independence. I must support my service users with administering medication‚ in order for me to administer medication safely under the Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidelines‚ Handling Of Medication in social care 2007‚ and under Dundee City Council guidelines‚ I must check that the medicines are correct by checking the medication pack and label on the box must be by the pharmacist or dispensing gp‚ and identify the service user correctly
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