The first week lesson was focused on the historical development of the Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) role and evidence-based practice from the perspective of various philosophical and theoretical foundations. In which I have learned about various roles and responsibilities of APN. As the scope of practice for APN is vary from state‚ I have explored the role and scope of practice of Nurse Practitioner (NP) in Texas. The second week lesson was focused on the complexity theory and selected skills
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Reflection The incident that I am going to reflect had happed during my nursing studies. I was posted in a busy emergency care (EC). My role was to observe and assist a RN. Ms. X came to EC with severe abdominal pain. After the initial assessment Doctor ordered a list of blood tests. I accompanied RN to observe blood sampling procedure. Ms. X was clearly not cooperating for the procedure and was screaming. I helped to position the patient with the help of family members so that the RN could carry
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Reflection of Values in Practice Introduction Nursing always attracted me as a profession because of the need for caring and helping each other. To me nursing is a profession that allows a person to develop strong ethical and moral values. It also instills a sense of responsibility and accountability for an individual as they provide effective delivery of health care services (Donovan 55‚ 1983). Personal Values Being a mental health nurse‚ I have my own personal values which have included respect
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City University of Hong Kong Department of Applied Social Studies BSSSW (Social Work) SS2273 Counseling Skills Lab Tutor: Dr. Kathy Leung Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home SID: Chan Man San 53025616 Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home In fact‚ this is my first time to visit to the elderly home. Before this visit‚ I think that will be a boring experience for me. As I don’t have any experience which visit to the elderly
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Introduction: In this essay‚ I will discuss several issues that seem to bind nursing practice with questions of ethics‚ sociology and management. Reflective practice is an important aspect of nursing management and in this essay we discuss implications of discrimination in nursing care and examine the importance of anti-discriminatory perspectives in nursing. In this paper‚ the case study I will elaborate is of an elderly woman who was of a non-British ethnic origin and spoke little English. A junior
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One aspect that I believe to have been a successful part of my practice over these past few weeks is my increased confidence and ability to recognize assessment results that stray from the norm‚ such as a blood pressure of 90/60. This was particularly made apparent a few times within these past few weeks‚ but more particularly when working with a patient whose temperature averaged around 34.5 degrees Celsius. As that is well below what one’s average temperature could be and could be a warning sign
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How will I remediate? I will look over my practice assessments for my areas of weakness and write down the terms I am unsure of and review the content and take my practice test. I will look at the areas where most of my questions were missed and focus on Chapter 21-24 and review ATI Questions. I need to review my alterations in body systems: chp. 18‚ 57‚ 87. I will practice my pharmacology and review the adverse effects and contraindications to medications I will also use my Nurse Mastery Application
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Reflection Paper Koury Cook RP 500 Basic Restorative Practices In reflecting upon the class RP 500‚ Basic Restorative Practices‚ I have been exposed to a new level of understanding of the essential theories that were presented in various papers. Over the course of this class I was able to explore various corner stone concepts as well as being presented with a new approach to my thinking‚ which was provided by my peers. In this reflection paper I will attempt to provide evidence
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Beauty has been defined in many ways. In some cultures beauty is everything‚ its what makes them who they are and in some cases represents where they come from. For example in America white teeth and pink gums are desired to fulfill a beautiful smile; however the women of Senegal and the Philippines believe this is not true. To beautify their smiles‚ Senegalese tattoos their gums black‚ and the women of the B’laan tribe file and blacken their teeth. These women also convinced themselves that they
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assignment critically discusses a reflective practice with regards to a clinical placement I undertook. In the following critical incident that I encountered I will utilize the Gibbs Reflective Model. Gibbs reflective model is fairly straightforward and encourage a clear description of the situation. Analysis of feelings‚ evaluation of the experience‚ analysis to make sense of the experience‚ conclusion and action plan where other options are considered and reflection upon experience to examine what you would
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