ASPECT OF NURSING CARE) Reflection on Clinical Practice – First Placement (Year 1) The following essay is a reflective account on an event that I‚ a student nurse encountered whilst on my first clinical placement in my first year of study. The event took place in a nursing home. All names have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the patient (NMC‚ 2008). Throughout this essay I shall be using Gibbs model of reflection. The
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Critical incident The aim of this reflection is to describe my personal experience in wound care and its management. Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle has been adapted in order to provide structure to the reflection process. Description At the care home I had to nurse many client’s who had developed pressure sores. One particular wound stands out from the rest‚ it belonged to a lady in her late 70’s who was immobile and suffers from incontinence and slight dementia. Her wound was extremely large
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Reflection Reflection is a successful approach to enhance leadership style. Setting aside time for the duration of the day to reflect‚ regardless of the fact that it is just ten or 15 minutes‚ can enhance authority style and aptitudes. Numerous organizations backer weekend getaways for upper administration to permit time for broadened reflection. Setting Examples of Behavior Enhance leadership style by setting cases. Carry on the way you expect the individuals who work with you to act. One of
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Leadership Interview & Reflection Paper Grand Canyon University: LDR600 January 28‚ 2015 Interview Transcript Interview: - Franchesca Santana Director of Operations at First Service Network. Miss Santana is a twenty eight year old Dominican woman who graduated at the top of her class in Business Analytics’ she has successfully started her own companies which she later sold. Miss Santana currently works for First Service Networks (FSN); First Service Networks is a multi-site facilities maintenance
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Transformational Leadership a Personal Reflection A Transformational Leader is a person who assesses a country‚ or organization/company‚ and recognizes the need for a change in the entity and is able to envision what this change should be. The transformational leader not only envisions the necessary change but has the required personality and strength of character that will enable them to influence others to buy into their vision and make it their own‚ and hence be willing to follow the leader in
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Reflection for path-goal Leadership Key behaviours among group members Most of us were participative and had a supportive leadership path‚ which means being more people-oriented. Differences among individual members 2 of us are task focused when it comes to leadership. One is directive and another is achievement-oriented. What results were surprising? What were possible causes of the differences? We had thought that our leadership styles would be the same. Giri and Santra (2010) found that
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Mr. Comer was admitted to his local community hospital for respite care. He has suffered multiple‚ acute strokes in the past‚ which has left him with severe disabilities. These include paralysis rendering him immobile‚ aphasia (speech loss) and dysphagia (swallowing difficulties). He relies on carers for all normal activities required for daily living (Roper et al 1996) and is advised to have a pureed diet and thickened fluids. My mentor asked me to observe her feeding Mr Comer. She had prepared
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Reflection about Instructional Leadership EDD8113 Nova Southeastern University April 29‚ 2012 Effective school leadership today must combine the traditional school leadership duties such as teacher evaluation‚ budgeting‚ scheduling‚ and facilities maintenance with a deep involvement with specific aspects of teaching and learning. Effective instructional leaders are intensely involved in curricular and instructional issues that directly affect student achievement (Cotton‚ 2003). The writer
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Arrest Leena Justus Introduction Nursing is a profession where we have to work collaboratively with both our colleagues and the interdisciplinary team. In emergency like cardiac arrest‚ if nurses work as a team without any role confusion‚ time is saved resulting in saving many precious lives. Background It was the time when I started to work in a medical ward for the first time after my graduation in Nursing. I had been caring for one patient during my shift‚ a 38 year
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experience‚ it is quite transparent that servant-leadership and the community present a tremendous role in many lives. Learning how to effortlessly communicate with many people while combining a passion for community service proved that this semester would be phenomenal. Also‚ it is has taught us how to perceive others above the main surface while constructing a reflection of ourselves. As I leave this class‚ I plan to carry the servant leadership characteristic of awareness most of the time. While
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