Within the context of this essay I will focus on a clinical skill in which I have achieved and demonstrated competency in practice. I will utilize the Gibbs [1988] six stage reflective cycle in order to reflect on my personal experience from the work based learning module. I will examine my thoughts‚ feelings and evaluate and analyse the rationale of why I have developed my particular clinical skill and the benefits of this to the patient‚ service and role development. Reflection is characterized
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Nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing LIZ BERRAGAN BN‚ RGN‚ PGCE‚ RNT Freelance Nurse Teacher‚ Agency Nurse‚ c/o General Supply Squadron‚ Cyprus Logistic Unit‚ RAF Akrotiri‚ BFP0 57‚ Cyprus Accepted for publication 8 December 1996 Summary • This paper explores the proposition that nursing practice draws upon several different ways of knowing. • It highlights difficulties often faced by practising nurses in defining what they do and hence what it is that constitutes
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MASTER THESIS AMBIDEXTERITY AND PERFORMANCE AT BUSINESS UNIT LEVEL: A COGNITIVE AND RELATIONAL SOCIAL CAPITAL PERSPECTIVE MAARTEN VAN BRUSSEL Exam number: XXX Program: MSc in Business Administration - Strategic Management RSM Erasmus University Tel: XXX e-mail: mlmvanbrussel@XXX Master Thesis Coach: Raymond van Wijk RSM Erasmus University First Co-reader: Michaéla Schippers RSM Erasmus University March 2009 PREFACE Declarations The author declares that the text and work presented
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Nursing is one of the professions that is on a calculated growth to the top. The main focus of nursing from Florence Nightingale to now is to provide safe and effective care and to better the health of each and every patient. Dr. Patricia Benner believes that “all entry level nurses should begin at a baccalaureate level and eventually receive their masters within a few years”. Why is the bachelor’s degree the golden standard for most medical facilities and hospitals? As research shows having a Bachelor’s
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complexity in regard to their health care situation. Despite such hardships‚ nurses must find ways to preserve their caring practice and Jean Watson’s caring theory can be seen as indispensable to this goal. Care and caring as described by Benner and Wrubel (1989‚ Benner‚ 1994)‚ is a requirement of human being‚ a part of ‘what it is’ to be human. So caring is ontological. Caring endorses our professional identity within a context where humanistic values are constantly questioned and challenged (Duquette
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The mentor looks for assignments that will accentuate and stretch the experience level of the mentee. A good mentor will also attempt to learn from the mentee. This builds a bond between them and ultimately strengthens the nursing team as a whole (Benner). A good nurse is a mentee
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that culturally based care is the most holistic way to learn‚ interpret‚ and predict beneficial congruent care practices. She contends that care is the underpinning of nursing and is its unifying aspect. She states that this tenet eclipses the 4 metaparadigms of person‚ health‚ environment‚ and care as the most dominant and central theme of nursing. According to Leininger‚ understanding how these powerful features Influence expressions of care via a holistic
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The United States going into World War II had a tremendous affect on nursing. The huge shortage caused Dr. Mildred Montag‚ a doctoral student at Teacher’s College and Director of Adelphi College’s School of Nursing‚ to initiate nursing programs that will allow nurses to graduate sooner and yet still be clinically prepared to care for wounded soldiers. The program was instilled with the idea that the United States would quickly produce “technical bedside nurses” working along with the more experienced
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Bloom bases this knowledge on three subcategories: cognitive‚ affective‚ and psychomotor. In relation to nursing education‚ faculty providing instruction to students in the clinical setting‚ need to have a theoretical foundation for their teaching (Benner‚ 2001). Skills in the cognitive domain focus on knowledge‚ comprehension‚ and critical thinking on a particular topic. There are six subcategories within the cognitive domain. The first subcategory is knowledge in which the learner can recall facts
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A critical incident is an incident that an individual believes an intervention made a difference in the patients care whether that be directly or indirectly‚ a situation that went well‚ a situation that in which there was some type of breakdown or unplanned even that occurred‚ a situation that was demanding for an individual‚ or a situation that shows what nursing is about. The incident that occurred on October 29‚ 2017‚ was an incident that something did not go as planned putting the patients’ health
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