‘Critically analyse the physical care‚ well being and interventions used in a client in your care’. This reflective essay focus’s on a 54 year old service user who suffers from schizophrenia. Coinciding with her mental health illness she has a diagnosis’s of diabetes type 2‚ she is obese‚ and has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). For the purpose of this reflective essay I shall be focusing on how her diabetes was managed during her time on an inner city psychiatric assessment ward
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“Forensic nursing is a cross between a healthcare profession and a judicial system profession” (How to Become a Forensic Nurse: Career and Salary Information 1.) Because I am torn between Law School and Medical School‚ forensic nursing sparked my interest. A forensic nurse is a registered nurse who cares for violent crime victims after the attack or incident. A forensic nurse is also trained and expected to gather evidence and evaluate the patient’s state. The International Association of Forensic
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Reflective Essay At the beginning of the semester‚ my impression on writing essays was that doing them was bothersome and tiring. Towards the end of the semester‚ my feelings have completely changed. First I changed my writing style and then I changed my personal habits. For the actual writing part I took more time developing the outline. With concern to my own personal habits I simply organized the way I managed my allotted time between working on the paper’s structure and the paper itself. Moving
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Education is something one could say gives you a better understanding of the world.Without Education in this day and time you may find a job but a career is much harder to obtain. Choosing what to go to school for after graduation can seem challenging.The medical field is rapidly growing career field that is increasing in demand every year‚ with higher patient demands and growing technology. As long as we are here‚ the demand for medical field careers will continue to be here as patients need to
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Emergency Departments (EDs) are a vital hub in the health care system as they handle acute injuries and illness‚ particularly if the patient’s physician is unavailable at the time. Additionally‚ EDs are also key gateways in the admission to hospitals with 60 percent of admissions to hospitals taking place through EDs. Because of the integral role played by emergency departments in hospitals‚ challenges in the other departments may also significantly affect the operations of the EDs. Thus‚ due to
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have noticed nowadays that reflective practice does play a major role in the nursing field. It is not just a personal opinion as‚(Teekman 2000‚pg 1125-1135) states that reflective practice is becoming an essential element of nurse education as professional nursing bodies world wide are being impressed by literature on learning by reflection. It is nearly the same conclusion that is brought by Boud‚ Keogh and Walker(1987‚pg 11) and this is proof as well that reflective practice isn ’t a new concept
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Telehealth in Nursing Practice The last few decades have been marked by tremendous technological advancements providing for ever-increasing possibilities when it comes to transmitting‚ accessing and storing information. As many others professions‚ the nursing profession is embracing technology in an effort to make nursing care more efficient‚ cost effective and flexible. This paper will explore how telehealth is reaching a wide variety of clients as in hospice‚ virtual wards and remote cardiac monitoring
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Thesis Statement for Reflective Essays Should contain: 1. Event/ topic of focus 2. Event’s impact on you Example / A friend’s forgetfulness helped me see beyond my contempt of my great grandmother to contempt of myself for loving so conditionally. Are these thesis statements or not?? This past summer’s lesson was perhaps the most memorable one yet. Gazing from across the pasture to the creek‚ I realized that love is universal among earth’s creatures‚ that they all possess the
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in the emergency room I had to develop leadership skills in order to effectively deliver quality care and maintain safety in a fast paced environment. By identifying safety risks associated with the assignment of inexperienced nurses to triage and discussing the breakdown in communication between physicians and staff‚ caused by inaccurate triage acuity levels‚ I effectively facilitated the change in the process of assignments to triage. Once the need of education‚ mentoring and nursing collaboration
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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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