A reflection on how the module content and associated practice experience has contributed to the student’s development as a nurse. This essay is a discussion on how the module content and practice experience has contributed to personal development as a nurse. Therefore it will focus on firstly the concept of individualised care and its relevance to nursing assessment and care delivery‚ secondly the ethical and professional issues that impact nursing such as confidentiality‚ consent and dignity
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Nursing (RCN) produced clinical practice guidelines in the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy‚ together with chemotherapy Nursing Practice Standards (CCA 2006) these set out safe working practices‚ thereby protecting both patients and staff from the risks associated with the handling and administering of cytotoxic drugs. By following national and local guidelines the nurse also has a professional duty to adhere to their Code Of Conduct devised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2008) to provide
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REFLECTIVE PRACTICE OLUBUNMI COKER Flipping through a pile of handouts on the theries of learning‚ none seemed to offer a straight-jacked answer to the scenario that had occurred in the class that day. My mentor had been approached and rudely told off by a student that morning that all she does in the class is shout at the top of her voice and set the class in disarray. You can imagine how bad she felt. And I certainly did sympathise with her but at the same time‚ the incidence at hand gave me
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Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring Analaura Rodriguez NUR 403 September 12‚ 2011 Kimberly Frommel For years caring and nursing have been interconnected. Most people choose nursing because of their passion to care for others and that is why this has led to caring being a central part of nursing and has opened the doors to the development of several caring theories. One well known caring theory was developed in the 1970’s by an American nursing scholar and nursing theorist named Dr. Jean
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lay down a set of codes that people must follow. Ethics are relative to peers‚ profession‚ community‚ society and nation. Morals are and are dependent on an individual’s choice or beliefs or religion and can mean doing the right or wrong thing. An example to help you understand the difference would be: Abortion is legal and therefore medically ethical‚ while many people find it personally immoral. Ethics can be relatively simple to follow‚ while applying morals can be decidedly tougher. There can be
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of providing optimum help for a service user (Hornby and Atkins‚ 2000). Goodman and Clemow (2010) explain that collaborative practice is actually based around two ideas. The first is that nurses need to be able to work with other professionals‚ and the second is that they need to be able to work with ‘people’. They go on to explain that the concept of collaborative practice is based on the idea that excellent patient care relies on the expertise of a number of care providers. Day (2006) points out
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manifests itself as an effect of patriarchy drawing from a theoretical body of work which has been developed so recently that it would have been impossible to write this essay thirty years ago. <br> <br><b>Feminist Theory and Patriarchy</b> <br>Although ¡§¡K patriarchy is arguably the oldest example of a forced or exploitative division of social activities¡¨ and
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am going to choose an appropriate model and reflect on this episode and within this reflection examine my own values and beliefs relating to the individual receiving care. I will also explore the values and beliefs that will underpin my future practice as a nurse. Values are ideals‚ attitudes and beliefs held by individuals or groups to represent what they consider to be important. They are used to guide behaviour as are morals‚ which provide standards of behaviour where a decision about right
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place. Attitude is the most critical ingredient of success to the KASH model – Remember Attitude determines ALTITUDE! Skill: How well to do things Skills are those capabilities and competencies that are gained through experience and learnt through practice. Technical skills‚ communication skills‚ analytical skills‚ and presentation skills are some such skills that will help the employees in their communication and delivery of performance. Habit: What we repeatedly and consistently do without any effort Habits
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Evaluation of Bowlby’s attachment theory Bowlby’s theory of attachment has several studies to support it. A study on imprinting in non-human animals were undertaken by Lorenz (1952) supports Bowlby’s view that imprinting is innate. The study showed that goslings imprinted upon the first moving object they saw‚ regardless of what it was‚ backing up the idea that attachment is adaptive and innate and not a process that has to be learned. However while this study does support Bowlby’s view‚ it
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