Reflection Competency in Communication Skills This reflective essay is based on my experience as a health care assistant in the operative theatre working as a circulating nurse for a vascular access list. It will also highlight the important aspect of communication within the theatre practitioners when working with patients who are under local or general anaesthetic. I will explore a critical incident and also reflect on my own personal experience. I aim to use this experience to bring out the
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just losing a few marbles”‚ never bothered me. As my first clinical course comes to a close‚ I realize the flaws with that statement. The elderly are often stereotyped as not being as sharp or having lost some mental tact. I have learned many things about life from one semester of working with older patients. It is important for nurses to realize that the elderly are often more experienced and seasoned when it comes to life and what they know. If people go in with this mindset‚ they will be able to
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SOCI 1015EL 10 Understanding Society Essay Two November 21‚ 2014 Elder Abuse In its most basic sense‚ elder abuse is harm to an older adult. The World Health Organization defined abuse and neglect of older adults as: “…single or repeated acts‚ or lack of appropriate action‚ occurring within a relationship where there is an expectation of trust‚ which causes harm or distress to an older person.” Sadly‚ elder abuse is prevalent in our society and while elderly abuse may not be a new phenomenon‚ it
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Informational Essay Currently there is an extremely important issue that the public should understand more about due to its enormous impact on many citizens. This issue pertains to the safety concern surrounding the elderly while operating a motor vehicle past the age of 70 years old. This debate whether old people should be allowed to drive is often brought up by younger drivers‚ the reality is that all able bodied people who are physically and mentally healthy should be able to drive but
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and Assessment in Practice module which requires me to produce a critically reflective account of my experience mentoring and assessing a student in practice. The areas that will be discussed through the assignment are (1)‚ student learning styles‚ (2)‚ communication and (3)‚ confidence. I will initially talk through the first meeting with my student‚ followed by my reflective account covering all three areas. The reflective model used for the assignment will be Boud et al (1985). What? Mentoring
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In our week three Practice Foundations tutorial the class participated in a role play exercise designed to assess our ability to utilise interpersonal communication skills to obtain a basic patient health history of a fictitious patient. My assigned patient was a seventeen year epileptic old male who had suffered three colic seizures‚ one at home and two after admission to hospital I was looking forward to this task I was initially concerned about this task as I am comfortable found
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abuse that elderly abuse gets over looked. Every year an estimated 2.1 million older Americans are victims of this abuse. Elderly abuse is nothing to be taken lightly. It is one of the most unreported crimes in the country and the abuse usually occurs when someone is taking advantage of a fragile or disabled elderly person‚ using physical and mental tactics or neglecting them. Elderly abuse is not only morally and ethically wrong but it is wrong in the eyes of the law Alzheimer’s patients or those
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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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Falguni Patel ENC1101-35 Elizabeth Barnes February 12‚ 2013 Prison Studies by Malcolm X 1) In this essay Malcolm X describes how he educated himself while he was in prison and how it changed his whole life. His interest in learning how to read and write increased because of one of his prison inmates whose name was Bimbi. Bimbi took control over all conversations because of his huge knowledge. This made Malcolm X kind of jealous and motivated him to start learning. He started to copy a whole
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ELDERLY PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 SHOULD HAVE TO RETAKE THEIR DRIVING TEST Abstract This paper talks about the risk of elderly drivers. I talks into detail of the health problems that elderly have. The things that elderly people have done and could do to put you or your loved ones in danger. It gives lots of real life examples of dangerous situation’s elderly have put themselves in and others. A recent story “Fatal crashes involving senior drivers renew debate over licensing‚ testing requirements”
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