THE PRACTISE ARENA AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Within this assignment‚ I will critically analyze the significance of my practice arena as a context of learning. I will then go to explore how I as a mentor can contribute to learning in practise in order to improve the learning environment. In order to ensure confidentiality‚ no names of practice areas and person are identified. However‚ a pseudo name (with an asterisk) has been given where applicable. For centuries it has always been the tradition
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Introduction Learning is one of the most important processes in a person’s life. As a result‚ there are different learning environments that have been created throughout the history of mankind to help in the passing of knowledge and skills from one generation to another. Different approaches are therefore used to guarantee that the learner is able to gather as much knowledge and skills as possible. Amongst the learning environments and strategies that are being employed in the modern world is the
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THE PRACTICE ARENA AS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Learning‚ as a technical term‚ connotes the efficient understanding of and reaction to internal and external information. Learning‚ in the social context‚ defines how individuals perceive their work experiences. It can be attained through factual information or from implicit or inferred sources‚ e.g.. a gut feel. From this viewpoint‚ it can be said that from social interactions in a conventional workplace emerge learning .
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Clinical practice in hospital plays an important part of learning environment for nursing curriculum. Mc Cabe (1985) thinks that clinical learning experience provides students for knowledge and socializing in professional education. ‘Furthermore‚ the professional socialization of nursing students occurs largely in the practice setting’ (Windsor 1987.Lee & French 1997). I am a registered staff nurse working in emergency department with experience almost for nine years. Before this I’m one of the
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The Emergency Department (ED) nurse is unlike any other. The population in the ED is highly diversified by both age and disease process. The ED cares for all ages and populations across a broad spectrum of disease‚ injury prevention and life-saving measures. For example‚ a person can come in unconscious‚ the next with an earache. The scope of emergency nursing practice encompasses the standard nursing process: assessment‚ diagnosis‚ treatment‚ and evaluation. In addition‚ emergency nursing practice
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our Ministry of Health in order to be a qualified as a Medical Assistant. My speciality is in Emergency and Trauma care management‚ with sixteen years working experiences in the Emergency Department (ETD) and currently attached to the ETD in one of the hospital located in central region. In this assignment I will discuss and explore how practice arena can assist in learning as well to identify the learning opportunity available for learners and how I integrate my professional role to develop health
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Emergency Department Triage Triage is an essential element of providing care to patients who present at a hospital emergency department. Triage is defined as a brief clinical assessment that determines the time and sequence in which patients should be seen in the emergency department. During triage‚ an emergency department nurse interviews a patient or the patient’s representative about the medical problem causing concern‚ makes a brief evaluation of the patient‚ and takes the patient’s vital signs
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Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Joyan Thomas University of Phoenix Online OPS/HC 571 Patience McGee March 7‚ 2011 Emergency Department Bottleneck Proposal Introduction Most hospitals experience the affects of the unexpected‚ ambiguity and uncertainty‚ and as a result‚ face challenges with quality. Middletown Hospital is a 200-bed general not-for-profit hospital. The hospital has a 20-bed Emergency Department (ED). It averages 100 patients per day. The CEO of the hospital
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Emergency Department Northeastern Intermediate Clinical Practice 04/23/2013 Emergency Department Experience I started my day in the emergency department (ED) by meeting the staff. One charge registered nurse (RN)‚ five staff RN’s‚ four paramedics‚ one patient care technician‚ and one doctor. Jennifer Thomas was also in the ED today and informed me that to get the best experience I should invite myself into the rooms as the patients arrive. Most Common Medical Diagnosis The first patient
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Triage and Emergency Department Experience Triage and the emergency department is not always as the movies picture it. However‚there are also other times that triage and the emergency department become a wild place for all kinds of people at varies degrees of danger. Many people cannot distinguish between a life-threatening situation and a situation that does not require emergency intervention while in an anxiety mode. Therefore‚ those people become angry and frustrated with the waiting and are
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