REFLECTIVE PRACTICE Reflection has been defined as an active‚ persistent and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge (Dewey‚ 1933. Dawn‚ 2007). Reflective practice is a process to improve quality of performance in the workplace‚ skills up to date throughout workplace and leads to understanding the field of care. Reflection requires self-awareness and analysis (Schutz et al‚ 2004). To reflect the incident‚ I have used Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle because it easy to follow
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or her clinical judgement when interpreting patient data and implementing nursing interventions. In the clinical setting‚ clinical judgement is defined as "an interpretation or conclusion about a patient’s needs‚ concerns‚ or health problems‚ and/or the decision to take action (or not)‚ use or modify standard approaches‚ or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient’s response” (Giddens‚ 2017). When narrowing down this comprehensive definition‚ it remains evident that clinical judgement
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Critical analysis of prescribing episode Introduction The following assignment will discuss and analyse a prescribing episode‚ within practice‚ furthermore will outline safe prescribing from the Nurse Prescribing Formulary (NPF‚ 2013-2015).To be able to analyse and reflect on my new role as Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber (CPNP) I will use Gibbs (1988) reflective model and a structure that will allow the use of a consultation model (Appendix1‚Fig1). The focus on prescribing within
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Electrolyte | Hypo | Cause | Clinical Manifestations | Hyper | Cause | Clinical Manifestations | Sodium (Na+) | <125 meq/L | * Inadequate intake * Hypoaldesteronism * Excessive diuretic therapy * Furosemide * Ethacrinic acid * Thiazides | * Extracellular volume contraction and hypovolemia (but may not if water excess) * Increased intracellular water; edema * Brain cell swelling‚ irritability‚ depression‚ confusion * Systemic cellular edema‚ including weakness‚ anorexia
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Valcarcel 1 Mr.Wiglesworth ELA Block 3 March 15 2016 Clinical Depression Clinical depression can affect a large number of people in many different ways. Some may start to eat and sleep more than usual while others may lose weight and have difficulty sleeping. They may feel agitated or may continuously feel worthless
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• You are approached by a potential client suffering from clinical depression. He has been treated on and off by doctors for over 20 years‚ has a lifestyle of moving around and engaging in hedonistic activity. He is not currently registered with a doctor. He wants to use CBT to control his depression alongside smoking cannabis. How would you respond to this case? 1. Only accept him with signed GP consent and liason with the GP in relation to treatment 2. Goals – medication compliance and reduction
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Labor Practices Paper By: Kristopher Watkins For: Chris Mendoza PHL/320 December 15‚ 2014 Labor Practices Paper Many companies are using sweat shops to manufacture their products at a much cheaper cost. However‚ there is a much deeper cost of using sweat shops then what can be placed in monetary value. I think it is time people begin to consider what sweat shops are doing to the people in this world and how dangerous they can be. Sweat shops may save companies money‚ but
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Thyroid Clinical Case Study 1. The thyroid gland is part of and a major organ of the endocrine system. This gland is composed of two cone-like lobes connected together forming a butterfly shape ( shown in figure 1).The isthmus is a thin band of connective tissues which connects the two lobes of the thyroid gland is located between the pyramidal lobe and the trachea. (Cohen and Wood 2000) The thyroid gland is situated on the anterior part of the lower neck‚ below the larynx (voice box) and
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Controversy of Clinical versus Actuarial Prediction One of the important goals of psychology is predicting future events or behaviour. About 40 years ago‚ Paul Meehl‚ a famous psychologist‚ raised an important question about how we should predict future behaviour in his paper with the catchy title “When Shall We Use Our Heads Instead of the Formula?” (268). The “head” in the title of the paper refers to clinical prediction. In clinical prediction‚ psychologists use their clinical experience to formulate
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This problem concerns clinical negligence by omission for failing to diagnose Jane for meningitis and encephalitis. For the hospital to be held vicariously liable for the actions of its doctors‚ Jane must prove misdiagnosis was carried out negligently and directly caused the injury. Lord Bingham said‚ ‘For the purposes of analysis‚ and for the purpose of pleading‚ proving and resolving the claim‚ lawyers find it convenient to break the claim into its constituent elements: the duty‚ the breach‚ the
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