There was always a desire in me to opt for a profession in which I could contribute to the society and help the people in need. What better way to do this than to be a paramedic who tirelessly works to aid people in distress. On joining this profession‚ one must learn to apply theoretical knowledge that to clinical and field situations. One must also learn many procedures and constantly update those skills. No day is a routine day. Every day‚ the shifts are different‚ the locations changed and clinical
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What it Takes To Be a Paramedic Pre-hospital emergency medical treatment could be the difference between life and death‚ but it takes a special individual with a great deal of training. A paramedic is an individual who is at the highest level of emergency medical technicians‚ or EMTs. They are qualified to do medical work‚ typically in emergency first aid‚ and have a higher education in anatomy and physiology‚ cardiology‚ medications‚ and medical procedures. They may also administer intravenous lines
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relation to reflective practice (Dewey‚ 1938; Kolb‚ 1984; Schön‚ 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically analyse that event in terms of what went well‚ what can be improved and the overall outcome of that situation. Teachers have become comfortable with the idea of reflective practice through Donald Schon’s (1983) compositions about reflective practitioners
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could have been different. Reflective practice requires a conscious effort to think about events and develop insight into them. (Mirco‚ C & Hodgins‚ L.‚ Personal Communications‚ October 16th‚ 2015) This reflective practice process is important in the working world to fix mistakes and prevent them from happening again. Firstly‚ reflective practice plays an important role in one’s professional and personal life. It helps us develop different methods
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“Reflection is not just a thoughtful practice‚ but a learning experience”. (Jarvis 1992) This is a reflection on an incident that occurred during a shift on the labour ward. I have chosen Gibbs model of reflection (1988) to guide my reflective process. (Gibbs 1998) (Appendix I). Gibbs model (1998) goes through six important points to aid the reflective process‚ including description of incident‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and finally action plan. The advantage of Gibbs’s six-stage
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Module Title: Practice Learning Experience 1 Module Code: NURS08034 Cohort: September 2011 Assignment Title: Reflective Account Assignment Date: 12/07/2013 Word Count: 1‚656 Introduction This essay will demonstrate the aim of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP‚ 2008) in relation to early intervention in a deteriorating patient‚ through reflective practice. Using Gibb’s (1988) reflective model the writer will analyse and
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Reflective Practice in the context of teaching ESOL Reflective practice engages practitioners in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation in order to understand their own actions and the reactions they prompt in themselves and in learners (Brookfield‚ 1995; Thiel‚ 1999). Reflective practice is considered as an evolving concept which views learning as “an active process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse‚ evaluate and so inform learning about
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Reflective practice – A tool for learning Introduction/Rationale When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens during a lesson or activity‚ we ask ourselves questions such as‚ could I have done something to avoid it? These experiences usually make us grow and we learn from experience‚ and we will be better prepared to face the situation if it happened again. This introspection is generally called “reflection”‚ and all professionals have adopted it in order to improve their practice
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A load of research has been done on learning and reflective practice and its effectiveness on the practitioners and one of the first people to research reflective Practice was Donald Schon in his book “The Reflective Practitioner” in 1983. Schon was an influential writer on reflection and had two main ways of identifying reflection and they were reflection in action and reflection on action. “The practitioner allows himself to experience surprise‚ puzzlement‚ or confusion in a situation which he
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The importance of reflective practice. Reflective practice is the ability to constantly monitor one ’s own performance in a given role and make adjustments where necessary. For me reflective practice is particularly important because no two clients will ever be the same and it is vitally important to remain reactive and reflective at all times. Reflective practice has been demonstrated to have significant benefits when it comes to the delivery of client-centred care‚ and can help me to ensure
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