REFLECTION ON MY SEMINAR PRESENTATION In this reflection‚ I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle. This model is a recognised framework for my reflection. Reflection is vital both for learning by experience and for developing new skills‚ for it highlights patterns of action and intuitive performance‚ so enabling people to assess how they respond to a situation (Jarvis‚ 1991). Gibbs (1988) consists of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my nursing practice continuously
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Unit 365 1.1) There are many different types of dementia and causes of dementia. The first cause is Alzheimer’s disease‚ which is caused by nerve cells dying in certain areas of the brain. This therefore also affects the connection between the affected nerve cell causing them to deteriorate. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. Vascular dementia is the first form of dementia‚ which is caused by damage to the brain through deprivation of oxygenated blood. If areas of the
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It includes memory loss‚ difficulties with thinking‚ problem-solving or language‚ and etc. Brain damage due to symptoms by certain diseases is result of Alzheimer’s. Alois Alzheimer was the first person who describes the disease. It is a physical disease and also a progressive disease that affects the human brain. It slowly damages the parts of the brain‚ at first it is generally mild but they get worse over time and start to get involved
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Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage‚ Dementia‚ and Poetry‚ is a true story written by Rachel Hadas. In it‚ Hadas gives the account of her journey after her husband is diagnosed with early-onset dementia at only 61 years old. Following his diagnosis‚ Rachel’s husband‚ George‚ begins to disappear before her eyes. Though he is there physically‚ she loses him in every other way day by day. Strange Relation gives readers a window into the time when George lived at home with Rachel caring for him and
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My reflective report will be about bed bathing. The format of the report is based on Gibbs’ (1988) guidelines to reflective writing. The service user will be identified as ‘Mr Jones’‚ so as to maintain patient confidentiality in keeping with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code of Conduct NMC (2008)‚ and the Data Protection Act of 1998. Reflective writing is a fundamental part of growing into a more confident healthcare practitioner; it highlights areas of strengths and weaknesses so that
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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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• Identify and record and health issues such as poor hearing‚ poor eyesight‚ dehydration or problems with dentures to ensure there is no miscommunication with your care recipient. • Be aware that most people with dementia will revert back to their native tongue and/or other languages they have learnt. • Care recipients should always be given the choice to use professional translators and interpreters. Provide professional translators and interpreters to your care recipients and/or to their family
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Introduction For over a decade‚ there have been different definitions of reflection in relation to reflective practice (Dewey‚ 1938; Kolb‚ 1984; Schön‚ 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically analyse that event in terms of what went well‚ what can be improved and the overall outcome of that situation. Teachers have become comfortable with the idea of
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I believe the hand off was very successful. I gained a great deal of information about my client from my nurse partner. She was knowledgeable‚ well informed‚ and open to answering any questions I had pertaining to the information in the chart I did not understand. The hand off opened up an imaginary door to the client so that I could learn a small amount about him medically‚ physically and personally before we even met each other. I believe as a social worker‚ this gave me an advantage. The
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A 2000 word reflection‚ using Gibbs reflective model (1988) to focus on ONE specific conversation where personal communication and interpersonal skills has had a direct impact on the patient’s nursing care. Introduction This essay is going to discuss aspects of effective communication using Gibbs model of reflection G Gibbs (1988). The conversation took place whilst I was on my first placement with a community mental health team. The conversation I witnessed took place at the patient’s home
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