successful part of my practice over these past few weeks is my increased confidence and ability to recognize assessment results that stray from the norm‚ such as a blood pressure of 90/60. This was particularly made apparent a few times within these past few weeks‚ but more particularly when working with a patient whose temperature averaged around 34.5 degrees Celsius. As that is well below what one’s average temperature could be and could be a warning sign to a more serious issue‚ I spoke to my co-caring
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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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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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I have witnessed a communication breakdown between two individuals‚ that ended up in a conflict‚ during the disaster of Katrina. All the “A” team was called in at 0730 and met in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) to relieve all the “B” team nurses for nights and days‚ so they could go home and be available to relieve the “A” team‚ after the alert had been lifted. All the extra unscheduled “A” team nurses pitched in to help their team members. However‚ one “A” team member‚ Janet‚ decided to go
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MSc. Nursing Module: Advance Research Methods Module co-coordinator: Gillian Paul/ Catherine Clune Mulvaney Assignment title: A Qualitative research on nurses perceptions on delivery of quality nursing care in nursing homes in Ireland. Student no. :13120999 Submission Due Date: 14/11/2013 Date submitted:13/11/2013 Word Count: 4000 Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery
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One of the situations I experienced in clinical this week was my conversation with 38 years old man‚ a man married to a nurse‚ a father of three girls and a writer‚ who was in for a dual diagnoses of depression also drug and alcohol use disorder. He was talking to me on how he got into drug and extreme alcohol abuse. He was telling me on how he got injured at his former work place back in 2001 and the whole time he was talking to me I couldn’t help but feel bad for him but at the same time question
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Throughout this year‚ I have worked to further my spanish vocabulary so I am able to communicate better with those of Spanish heritage. It is obvious that through the year I have improved in all aspects of my Spanish vocabulary and usage. Even with the questions moving from English to Spanish‚ I was able to make this transition smoothly with the help of my Spanish teachers. These projects progressively got more difficult‚ and with them‚ my skills progressed. My Spanish speaking is not the best‚ but it
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I cared for my patient on 11/06 on P5 room 10. I was given report from the leaving nurse about my patient shortly after I got on the floor. The nurse that I was assigned to was from the ICU and she was a floating nurse for that day. My patient was an 8 week old baby boy who came into the hospital on 11/03 for failure to thrive. During the report‚ the nurse showed us where the position of NG tube on the patient. After the report‚ the nurse and I did a whole physical assessment‚ and vital on the patient
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The Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC) standards of proficiency for pre-registration nursing education (2010) sets out exactly what student nurses must achieve to enable registration onto the first part of the register. Another NMC publication; Standards to support learning and assessment in practice (2006) lays out what a post registration nurse requires to fulfil in order to formally assess student nurses. These two sets of standards make it clear what is expected of both students and mentors
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step out of my comfort zone and think out of the box when using therapeutic skills. It has been two weeks since I commenced services with clients and it has not been easy to apply therapeutic skills in the sessions. I have been challenge to think outside the box and have become more conscious of my own response to clients I am working with. I have realized that my furthering response‚ eye contact‚ reflective listening and being in tune is essential to be present with the clients. My knowledge at
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