This reflective essay will look in to aspects of communication on two separate interactions with patients in a clinic area. Key areas that can be improved on will be identified and established; using appraisal forms allowing for critical reflection‚ and a shortlist of the main points will be evaluated and discussed. Relevant literature will be used to examine the areas identified‚ and how these communication skills can be improved on in the future‚ and how they can be put in to working practice.
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What is reflective practice? In short‚ it’s a practice that helps you become an active learner. Many of us‚ including myself‚ may be considered or interpreted as passive learners. Passive learning goes a bit like this: we read textbooks‚ we follow everything our instructor or teacher tells us (sometimes we tune out)‚ we write exams and then…we forget what we learned. It’s common and though not everybody goes through this‚ historically‚ it happens more often than not. However‚ with active learning
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concept of reflective practice centres around the idea of life long learning in which a practitioner analyses experiences in order to learn from them.Reflective essay helps to promote critical thinking and analytical skills of the student.Reflective practice concept was introduced by Donald Schon (1983) and later many other researchers also been described reflective practice [Kurt Lewin‚Jean Piaget(1993)‚Benner and Wrubel (1989) Gibbs (1988) and Johnson (2000). Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle is
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Reflective commentary Placement one The aim of this essay is to reflect and evaluate my experience whilst on my third year first placement in a nursing home for people with profound and severe learning disabilities. This reflective commentary will describe briefly about my placement setting and also about the nature of the service they provide to the service users and how I have participated in handover during placement. Finally it will underline the feedback from my mentor and the staff‚ actions
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Daily Journals Tuesday March 5th 2013 9am - 5pm First day of placement at Churchill Meadows Dental with Dr. Pedvis. It was a really exciting and nerve raking experience. When I first walked in and met Jena the dental receptionist I couldn’t help but notice how much space there was in the front office and how it had 2 computers. I was a little surprised when I found out the office was paperless‚ thinking that I would have to scan every piece of paper into each patients chart. One thing I was
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Reflective Journal 1: My Experiences with Persuasive Writing Sharkeya Hicks Stayer University English 215 Professor Amanda McClure May 6‚ 2012 In persuasive or argumentative writing‚ we try to convince others to agree with our facts‚ share our values‚ accept our argument and conclusions‚ and adopt our way of thinking. I have used persuasive writing in several areas of my life. In my personal life‚ I have used persuasive writing to convince members of my non-profit organization to donate
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I am a health care assistant (HCA) on an elderly care surgical ward and we nurse many different patients who have had elective surgery and corrective surgery after a trauma. I have a lot of contact with patients who suffer with dementia‚ ongoing confusion due to urinary tract infections and can often display challenging and aggressive behavior. I have found on a daily basis that patients become can frustrated when they cannot communicate what they want‚ and I was sure that with my strong accent
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think about our actions and discuss how we could perform them differently. We can then decide what we would do differently should the situation arise again (Johns and Burnie‚ 2013). Reflection plays a big role in developing the student into a nurse. Reflective practice involves exploration of oneself and it can lead to more competent practitioners (Barbour‚ 2013). Reflection has been proven to improve students’ self-confidence and self-awareness in clinical
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Reflective commentary I honestly didn’t know what my story was going to be about at first; all I knew is that I wanted a relationship to be involved. At first‚ I thought of writing about a woman who falls in love with her best friend‚ but I didn’t think I could go into great depths with this. I then decided on writing about an abusive relationship as there is so much raw emotion that can be portrayed through writing about this sort of situation. Whenever I start writing a piece‚ I feel that it may
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