patient. I’ll spare you all the triggering details‚ just know that I wasn’t too happy about this. During my first month‚ I attended group therapy as well as individual sessions. Despite my social anxiety‚ I managed to attend 2 sessions. Fast forward to January; had been accessing regular leave and even stayed at home for 2 weeks at Christmas. 2 days after I arrived back‚ I was ‘assaulted’ (in proper terms) by another patient. It’s now March‚ and I’m officially done with tier 4 care and moving onto
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Unit 5- The principles underpinning the role of the practitioner working with children Introduction During my third placement‚ I worked at a nursery and children’s centre. I was based in a baby room with children aged 0-2 years old. Although I was based in the baby room I often helped out in the 2-3 room if it was busy and I was needed. In the baby room there were always three level 3 qualified early years’ practitioners. This was the same in the 2-3 room plus a support practitioner. All the
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Description I was asked by a nursing assistant to assist a resident to eat. Her food consisted of pureed fruit and thickened cordial. The elderly resident was unable to communicate and appeared to be unaware of her surroundings and she also fell asleep several times. I was unsure of how much food to offer in each spoonful and may have given her too much as she occasionally coughed. When assisting her to eat I was instructed to sit her up but did not sit her far enough forward as I found out later
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I work in a mix residential home for the elderly‚ some of the clients ‚Dementia range from mild to severe. The clients are raised in a very different way to how I was raised and it is important that I must remember this and respect their this as we all have personal beliefs and preferences based on our background and upbringing. I have been brought as a Muslim where religious education was compulsory‚ however we still studied various other religions and were taught to respect all people and there
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As a childminder I work towards EYFS and meet Every Child Matters in everything I do. I would like children in my care achieve as much as they can so I start the learning and development process from torough talk to parents before child starts attending to my setting to find out child’s likes‚ dislikes‚ abilities‚ achievements. Then I do observe‚ asses particular child and plan activities following his interest‚ abilities‚ individual achievements‚ background. The important part of my observation
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For this activity our group was Sarah‚ Eliza‚ Nikki and myself and we had to create a literacy pack for the Disability unit. Our pack consisted of four compulsory items and eleven activities of our choice. We all assigned everyone with roughly 4 to 5 tasks but some of them were shared to get them done quicker. We were roughly finishing two to three pieces a week and there was on week that we finished about five items. I feel that our group worked really hard and really well together. Throughout this
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Introduction My placement with the Nursing home and Residential care home was to help me understand the concept of growing old in this country and what different family values have when it came to caring for their elderly‚ in comparing with what happens in southern Africa. My home fulfils my needs and holds some of our family memories and reflects my priorities and taste. The placement gave an insight into the necessities of the existence of care homes‚ as to balance a full life cycle of some
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Throughout my nursing career‚ I have experienced several effective educational activities as a learner. My most recent learning experience as a learner was how to operate and administer insulin via External Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Pump (ECSIP). Several patients are hospitalized with Self Administered ECSIPs. The primary nurse for that patient is expected to understand how to operate and care for this particular pump. I was very unfamiliar with this device because I was not exposed to it during
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L- In clinical I practiced how to safely assist a patient that is laying down in bed into a wheelchair then back into bed. E- Following the skill being demonstrated as a large group‚ we separated into pairs to complete the task as a whole. I began the process by rotating Chelsea onto her side then sitting her up. Furthermore‚ I used the belt to assist Chelsea to stand. I found this to be the most difficult portion of the procedure because I was unsure where my feet should be placed. Chelsea gave
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patient with COPD: a reflective account Barnett M (2005) Caring for a patient with COPD: a reflective account. Nursing Standard. 19‚ 36‚ 41-46. Date of acceptance: October 15 2004. Summary Reflective practice has been a familiar topic in nursing journals and the term is regularly used in professional nursing practice. However‚ it was not until I used Johns’ (1994) model to analyse and explore my feelings and actions in daily practice that I fully understood the concept of reflective practice and discovered
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