Dementia is a broad description that consist of numerous different types and involves several symptoms‚ therefore‚ making this disease the greatest misunderstood conditions in medicine today. The cause of dementia are factors such as age‚ family history‚ hardening of the arteries‚ heavy alcohol consumption‚ high blood pressure‚ high cholesterol and diabetes which leads to damaged neurons. When the brain cells become injured‚ they lose the ability to communicate with other cells‚ leading to memory
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this prevents conflict from not getting resolved‚ and allows for open communication. Communication is the next assessment tool completed‚ and scored a fifty-one. Thus‚ placing me in the middle category where it states that I am proficient at communicating but at times have problems communicating. This is another took that I am not surprised by the
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advanced dementia receive hospice care. The focus of care should always be the comfort of the person with dementia. Physical comfort is a paramount human need‚ yet pain is experienced by at least one-third of nursing home residents with advanced dementia in the last year of life. This is frequently undetected and undertreated. Person-centered care honors preferences in social‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ and physical care (Kuhn‚ 2013). Connections are made for people with advanced dementia by tapping
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Effective communication involves a two-way process in which each person tries to understand the viewpoint of the other person. Communication is a cycle because when two people communicate they need to check that their ideas have been understood. Good communication involves the process of checking understanding‚ using reflective or active listening. Michael Argyle argued that interpersonal communication was a skill that could be learned and developed in much the same way as learning to drive a car
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Effective communication is achieved by being able to exchange information with the ease of understanding between individuals and also being able to notice and understand others. All this is done whilst maintaining factors like emotion‚ body language‚ confidence and comfort. While someone is communicating he or she should have proper posture and keep a good level of eye contact as the lack of these factors could send negative non-verbal messages. Such a skill is required between both colleagues
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This is a reflective essay based on a situation encountered during my first six-week placement on an ear‚ nose and throat ward at a local hospital. In order that I could use this situation for my reflection the patient will be referred to as "Mr H". This is in order that his real name is protected and that confidentially maintained in line with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct to "Treat information about patients and clients as confidential and use it only for the purpose for which it was given
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Reflective Essay Why we use reflection It is important that we use reflection in order to further develop our skills in practice. No matter which reflective cycle chosen it is important that you identify what has been learned from the experience‚ how it has helped‚ if it is negative‚ how to overcome the problem in the future‚ and how it relates to theory and knowledge you have been taught. Reflective practice has been identified as one of the key ways in which we learn from our experiences in practice
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Dem 210 Understand and Enable Interaction and Communication with Individuals with Dementia 1.1 Describe how memory impairment can affect the ability of an individual with dementia to use verbal language In People who have dementia‚ memory impairment can make it very difficult to make verbal communication through language. Dementia can make people forget words and even confuse some words with others causing confusion and other people cannot always understand them. The individual might understand
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Reflective essay: Related to an area of my work In this task I will be reflecting upon an incident undertaken on area of my work. The model of reflection I’ve chosen is Gibbs (1988)‚ which involves reflection on the description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ conclusion and action plan (Gibbs 1988). The Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle is fairly straightforward and encourages a clear description of the situation‚ analysis of feelings‚ evaluation of the experience‚ analysis to make sense of the experience
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Reflective account on communication This assignment is a reflective account on communicating with a patient who cannot communicate verbally. To remain confidential I will call the patient‚ Patient A. I’m going to discuss the importance of non-verbal communication within a healthcare setting. Patient A was a 63 year old lady suffering from MND which resulted in her losing her speech. This was my first shift back from having a few days off and I returned to work on a night shift. Patient A was
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