Psychosocial Aspects of Midwifery Care MW2222 Practicing midwives in our healthcare system today need to have an understanding of political and social factors of their practice in order to provide optimum service for the women and families in their care. The psychosocial needs of the individual should be considered‚ and midwives should contemplate external factors that may affect the woman’s health‚ pregnancy‚ outcome and their home lives. This is why the whole picture of a woman’s life should
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a reflective model. Reflection is defined as being ‘an active process of witnessing one’s own experience in order to take a closer look and explore it in depth’ (Johns‚ C. 2005). The Nursing and Midwifery Council believe that all students should undertake the art of reflection as part of their training‚ in order to become a competent nurse‚ (NMC‚ 2010). Reflective practice is used so that the student can make the connection between the theory and the practical. Reflections are used to make a starting
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Reflection is the act of looking back over personal feelings and actions after a particular situation or event. It involves considering how we can improve on our actions to better ourselves both professionally and personally. Reflection is important in the nursing profession as it allows us to think about our actions and discuss how we could perform them differently. We can then decide what we would do differently should the situation arise again (Johns and Burnie‚ 2013). Reflection plays a big role
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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‚ conclusion where other options are considered and reflection upon experience to examine what you would
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standards enforced by The ANMC Australian Nursing & Midwifery Council (2006) in order to obtain and practice as a registered midwife in Australia. Competency 4 states Midwives should “promote safe and effective practice” (ANMC‚ 2006)‚ this is achievable by providing Midwifery continuity of care to women and there babies. Continuity of care has numerous health and satisfaction benefits to the woman‚ family and newborn (Lavender et al. 2002). Midwifery led care emerged in the UK in the early 1990s in
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Reflection is the knowledge achieved by nurse from the incidence which can contribute to their clinical knowledge. Each situation provides a nurse an opportunity for clinical learning (Tanner 2006). The practice of reflection and analysis of critical incidents is well observed as a valuable tools for learning in nursing. It bridges the gap between theory and practice as it involves exploring our actions and approaches and examine evidence based literature. It is the process of continuous monitoring
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integral part of nursing. It will also demonstrate how reflection enabled me to make sense of and learn from this experience‚ as well as identify any further learning developments needed to improve my practice and achieve the level of competency needed for when I qualify as an assistant practitioner. While discussing the knowledge underpinning practice‚ evidence based literature will be reviewed to support my discussion and for the purpose of reflection the essay will be written in the first person. Spouse
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For this reflection I will be using the Gibbs reflective cycle (1988) to demonstrate how members of the multi-disciplinary team worked together to achieve a positive client outcome. I will use the Gibbs model which incorporates the following: description‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and action plan (Gibbs 1988). This model facilitates critical thoughts‚ linking theory to practice and allows my personal feelings and opinions to be reflected upon. This reflection will discuss the importance
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College of Nursing‚ [RCN] (2018) states that reflection is important as it helps nurses to think and plan ways to deliver a high quality of care which is safe to patients or clients. Reflection can be defined as a conscious effort to think about an activity or incident that allows us to consider what was positive or challenging and if appropriate plan how it might be enhanced‚ improved or done differently in the future RCN (2018). In this assignment reflection will be discussed throughout on the module
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educating them on looking after themselves‚ not just before the baby is born‚ but also postnatal. The role of a midwife is diverse and unique which is what draws me to the midwifery course even more. I realise the responsibility that this career involves and just how challenging it can be. After being passionate about midwifery for so long‚ my experience through childbirth has unquestionably
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