reflective essay based on my attendance at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting whilst on my two-week placement at a local mental health day hospital. The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team within the mental health environment and discuss factors that can influence the success or failure of multidisciplinary teams. Mental health teams generally comprise of psychiatrists‚ clinical psychologists‚ nurses‚ occupational therapists and social workers‚ but other
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Health Promotion Reflection In this reflection I will be using Gibbs Model of Reflection (Jasper M‚ 2003). I will be talking about a patient who was advised to give up smoking‚ as part of promoting health to the patient but not directly linked to their illness and treatment. What Happened. I had a patient come into the ward who had had surgery‚ but this patient was overweight and a smoker which always effects the procedure and recovery. During the nights they had to sleep with a machine to
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Some say that nursing is a straightforward profession‚ that a nurse only needs to look after poorly patients‚ administer medication‚ and write documentation. That caring is innate to human beings and doing it as a job is not so much difficult. But in my personal opinion‚ nursing is anything other than straightforward. Nursing as a profession requires critical thinking and sometimes spur-of-the-moment decision-making as the lives of people depend on such decisions. (Reflective Model Used) This paper
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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." In order to help me with my reflection I have chosen Gibbs (1988)‚ as the model to help with my reflective process. This model comprises of a process that helps
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The clinical skill I have chosen to reflect on is the administration of Intramuscular (IM) injections. I will use a reflective model to guide me in my reflection. The Gibbs reflection cycle features‚ description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ description‚ conclusion and an action plan (Gibbs 1988). The first stage of Gibbs (1988) is description of events. On my clinical placement I had the opportunity to administer a drug to a patient via IM injection under the supervision of my mentor. I had already
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management of the third stage in this reflective essay as I wanted to gain a better sense and understanding of the experience (MacDonald‚ 2014). Therefore I have decided to follow the Gibbs model of reflection in which I broke the case down systematically and reviewed it in phases (Lia‚ 2016). By using this model of reflection‚ I was able to recap what happened and how I felt throughout it all and I was able to evaluate and analyse my practice to try and justify the reasons for things happening as they
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practice and the barriers to communication that can occur. Nurses are required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to demonstrate “responsibility for their own learning” (NMC‚ 2012‚ p.16). Nurses have to understand the importance of reflective practice and the process of reflection‚ and reflection is also a
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Gibbs model touches all aspects of the past incidents and which contains description‚ feeling‚ evaluation‚ analysis and conclusion. I would need to descript by understanding what had happened in the past and review the causes and actual outcomes as it is related to an incident that is being reflected upon. Next‚ based on my description I can determine if the incident was a good or a bad one and at the same time I would be able to understand the actual factors that contributed to my feelings. Basically
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Reflective practice enables us to develop our reflective skills which can be used during the learning process‚ enabling health and social care professionals to improve the quality of care they deliver to patients (Baillie‚ L.‚ Black‚ S. and Dr‚ 2014). According to Dewey (1929)‚ the Educational theorist‚ he argued that “we do not learn by doing but by doing and realising what came out of what we did“(Baillie et al‚ 2014. P.264). In addition‚ (Howartson‚ J.‚ 2010) emphasises that when one reflects
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This assignment should be a reflection on your experience within the introductory period of practice when caring for a patient. This reflection will help you to understand how this experience has addressed one of your identified learning needs. In this assignment I shall identify and address one of my learning outcomes which has been met on my placement. I shall identify a reflective cycle and explain my reason behind choosing that specific reflective model. One of the learning objectives I set
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