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 jobs as I got to experience many different roles in the nursing home and meet many of the elderly‚ staff and visitors. When starting my service activity‚ my personal aims were to learn from and participate in new and different experiences. To participate in activities that were out of my comfort
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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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ASM 34 Reflective Account There was a time when I went to administer the night medication to customer X and realised that he was heavily under the influence of alcohol. Me and my colleagues had noticed that he had been consuming brandy all day. In addition staff had been seen purchasing 2 bottles of brandy by one of my colleagues. Customer X was taking the following medication which was recorded in the MAR chart: Citalopram 20mg tablets – one tablet daily (morning) Citalopram 10mg tablets
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Administering Medication reflective account The legislation which governs how medication is administered‚ stored and recorded include the following: The Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Medicines Act 1968 The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 COSHH Regulations 1999 Access to Health Records Act 1990 Data Protection Act 1998 Hazardous Waste Regulations 2005 Common types of medication which I deal with and support my clients with are: Paracetamol- usually prescribed as 500mg
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Reflective Account on Being Able To Respond To Emergency Situations I am in the garden with one teacher and two other teaching assistants on 20/09/2012. The garden activity centre is out‚ and there are various activities set at different areas. I am walking around the garden observing the children whilst they are playing. Suddenly‚ child A falls off the activity centre and lands on her bottom. I walk over to her and ask her “are you ok?” She looks at me with tears in her eyes and nods. I bend
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Skills My belief is every child should have the opportunity to achieve their potential so I am passionate about making sure this objective is potentially a reality. Consequential of spending years amongst children as a mum and aunt‚ one of my greatest attributes is the ability to adapt my practice to suit the various stages of human development. This was evident within my placements where I had no problem engaging with‚ and forming and maintaining appropriate relationships with families and children
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organs‚ intelligence‚ genetic hereditary traits‚ and maturity • Environmental factors‚ such as learning opportunities‚ economic status‚ poverty‚ play‚ family and society and various types of stimuli. P3 – Describe how this chosen area of development affects other areas of children and young people’s holistic development P4 – Describe TWO (2) activities which will support children or young people’s learning in this area of development Two activities which I have chosen are “Big Maths” and “Big Writing”
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M Middleditch REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT HSC 2028 J/601/8027 After helping Mr A get washed and dressed and as he is unable to weight bear or walk‚ in accordance with the risk assessment in his care plan he needed to be transferred into a wheelchair using a hoist. On explaining our desire to transfer him using the hoist ‚ he declined ‚ stating that he could do it himself ( he has some degree of short term memory loss ) and he asked
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Introduction As part of my studies in the MA social Work and Law module I attended Hull Crown Court. During the visit I witnessed three sentencing sessions. In this paper I aim to project a reflective account of my own thoughts and feelings regarding the Crown Court environment and my initial perceptions of the power dynamics of the Court room officials. The profile and demographics of the defendants will be briefed‚ with the aim of finding links between them. We will then introduce the nature of
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Erick Erickson’s Life Span Theory is known as the 8 ages of development as he defines 8 major life crisis’s which he says are significant in terms of human growth and development. During each stage Erickson believes that there is a life crisis which we need to work through. There are 2 outcomes one positive and one negative‚ which will have implications for the development of our identity. We will develop a mixture of both outcomes from each stage. If the positive outweighs the negative then ego strength
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