I participated in this service activity at Villa Dalmacia on 12 Gorham Way‚ Spear-wood WA. This organisation assists and cares for the aged care and those who cannot assist themselves. I started on the to the 14th of April and did four more days in the weeks that followed. When visiting Villa Dalmacia I mainly helped in the dementia ward‚ helping with the therapy games. I also; helped with bingo‚ bocci‚ clean cupboards‚ transport patients and serve morning tea. I really enjoyed doing a variety of
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I will start by carrying out a full and detailed medical history so as to establish safe practice. As long as this is clear I will then move on to checking the hand to make sure there is no swelling‚ discolouration‚ abrasions or thickening of the skin. I will also check the health of the nails and whether any areas of the hand itself are painful to touch. I shall make sure the recipient is comfortable and if all is well I shall proceed‚ starting with the right hand I will work each area for 30 seconds
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Introduction Critical numeracy is the ability to make decisions about everyday issues that involve mathematical concepts (Watson‚ 2008). The approach to prove the importance of critical numeracy was based on selected articles which were used to critically analyse percentage. Watson (2004) suggests a three-tiered hierarchy of goals for developing the quantitative literacy skills. These tiers suggest increasing movement away from pure mathematical skills into context and then into critical thinking
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therefore it is a subject that is mandatory at every levels learning. The curriculum gives learners a solid grounding in all aspects of numeracy.In early years‚numeracy skills are developed in shape‚pattern‚counting‚sorting and measuring.At reception classes‚the foundation stage curriculum which includes problem solving‚reasoning and numeracy is followed.This is developed through playing games‚exploring and other learning activities that involves calculations‚number labels‚counting‚shapes‚measure‚space
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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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Journal 1 - Perception Description Context: This is a conversation is a conversation between myself and a soldier of mine. I have been her NCO for about 5 months now. Interaction: There was an occurrence at PT (Physical Training) in which one soldier was feeling sick during our PT session and stopped exercising and sat down because he wasn’t feeling well. At this point‚ our 1SG (the person in charge of the company) stopped what he was doing‚ walked to the soldier and asked him what was going
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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 have been working at Birthcare in Parnel for this clinical project. I wanted to immerse myself into a primary setting where I could focus on primary care and breastfeeding. My first impressions of birthcare were that it is more of a hospital than I had anticipated with women arriving with babies on blood sugars‚ AC T&R’s and other ‘cares’ that I had thought would not occur in a primary setting. I had this preconception because I am use to working at Waitakere hospital where we often transfer women
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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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