Students in their first semester of year one‚ attached to the ward for 3 weeks. • The skill that will be taught to them will be blood pressure monitoring using a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer. • Cork A (2007) suggest that nursing students should be using manual BP monitoring I l practice instead of depending on automated monitors• Learning takes place in surgical ward and hospital’s stimulation lab. • The first debriefing session was conducted in stimulation lab. The
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INTRODUCTION In this essay‚ I will reflect upon my practice placements and discuss my development in relation to professional/ethical practice‚ care delivery‚ care management and personal/professional development. These are the four domains related to the learning outcomes required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC‚ 2004)) for entry in to the professional register. They are all concerned with promoting high standards of professional practice and good quality of patient’s care. I will also
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COMMUNICATION IN NURSING PRACTICE. In order to fully discuss effective communication in nursing practice‚ one first should define communication. As stated in the business directory‚ communication is “ the two way process of reaching mutual understanding‚ in which participants not only exchange (encode – decode) information but create and share meaning. “ (www.thebusinessdirectory.com : Nov 25th). Or as in the free dictionary‚ “The exchange of thoughts‚ messages or information by
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cover sheet Student Number (the 8 digit number on your ID card) 130026914 Module Code HSM 051 Module Name Leading and Managing in Professional Practice Word Count (actual number of words in main body of text) 2‚010 Assessment Title Patchwork essay Year / Intake 2013 Nature of submission Please tick First submission X Resubmission Yellow sticker for a Student who has been diagnosed as having a Specific Learning Difficulty. Please make sympathetic allowances for spelling and written expression
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Introduction The aim of this essay is to explore evidence based nursing intervention in the care and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in an acutely ill patient. The acutely ill patient involved in this essay was admitted to hospital due to cerebrovascular accident and had a past medical history of myocardial Infarction‚ left Ventricular failure‚ peripheral vascular disease and duodenal ulcer as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. This essay will provide a rationale
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Philosophy of Nursing: The Art and Science of Caring Stephanie Gray Jacksonville University Philosophy of Nursing: The Art and Science of Caring According to Chitty (2004)‚ “Philosophies of nursing are statements of beliefs about nursing and expressions of values in nursing that are used as bases for thinking and activity” (p. 230). Developing a personal philosophy of nursing must integrate the elements of nursing‚ the individual‚ the environment‚ health‚ and illness. Throughout this paper
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which a person have a pattern of behaving‚ thinking and perceiving to situations. Individuals may also experience difficulties in cognition and impulse control. . Nearly one in ten individuals in the community (Samuels J. Personality disorders: epidemiology and public health issues. Int Rev Psychiatry 2011;23:223–33)and 30–50% of psychiatric patients [ Melartin TK‚ Rytsa¨la¨ HJ‚ Leskela¨ US‚ Lestela¨-Mielonen PS‚ Sokero TP‚ Isometsa¨ ET. Current comorbidity of psychiatric disorders among DSM-IV major
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This essay utilises an ethical decision making framework to critically analyse a nursing scenario. The process of arriving at a professional and ethical nursing decision is critically analysed‚ followed by a critical discussion of the leadership and management attributes required to enable a registered nurse to implement those decisions. What are ethics? Ethics are a philosophical study of moral or immoral action. For nurses it is extremely important to understand ethics and to adhere to ethical
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There are two distinct models of disability that seek to empower those with disabilities- the medical model and the social model. The medical model refers to a disability as a “physical or mental impairment of the individual and its person with social consequences. It regards the limitations faced by people with disabilities as resulting primarily‚ or solely‚ from their impairments” Wasserman et al (2011). Under the medical model people are defined by their illness or medical condition. The medical
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Introduction Tele-nursing is the use of telecommunications technology such as videos‚ computers and tele-monitoring technologies to provide nursing care and advice at a distance. This growing technology offers many advantages in the delivery of healthcare information‚ disease monitoring‚ health promotion and disease prevention services‚ as well as nursing diagnosis‚ treatment and education to patient at home from a centralized location. Tele-nursing can be instrumental in helping patients
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