Critical Quality Of Adaptability

In cases where an adverse event occurs, it is reviewed resulting in a review in the system processes and practices. It may contribute to constructive changes in practices within the healthcare system and also help to assist in healing second victims. Through this it will allow nurses to cope adaptively with heightened emotions (Sirriyeh, Lawton, Gardner & Armitage, 2010). Support like Debriefing with other colleagues and sharing the lesson from previous experiences can help a long way through a distressful process; rather than no support or suffering silently which will only add to their distress. Many nurses and other health care providers struggle to find support and are unaware of where to turn to for guidance and assistance. It is highly recommended that second victims receive adequate support to prevent further errors and promote patient safety (Treiber & Jones, 2012a).

Change is a hard concept for most, but change in the hospital setting can be beneficial for both staff and patients. According to Mclean (2011), “Every change begins with an ending” (p.79). How people respond to change can make the process easy or hard depending on how the change is presented.

According to Engel (2000), Kamien explains that “the task of general practice should go well beyond simply dealing with a patient’s presenting complaint” (p.4). The same explanation applies to adapting to change as a medical assistant in the sense that I should be able to listen and adapt to each patient’s needs that I come in contact with. Being able to adapt to change is a plus because as a medical assistant I will be dealing with new equipment, new procedures, and different co-workers that might be able to show me better ways to treat the patient’s complaints. As a medical assistant, being able to adapt to change goes hand and hand. I would have to be able to adjust to the problems that each person

There are plenty of safety checks at our finger tips to ensure we don’t encounter such an event. However, the safety checks do not work unless they are utilized correctly. According to the Joint the Commission medication errors in 2016 lead to 33 sentinel events (2017). Technology cannot prevent medication errors, however, if used properly can drastically help reduce errors. It is important as nurses, no matter how busy, remember our patient safety always comes first. Learning to overcome the challenges of finding a balance among individuals who are noncompliant, is arduous to manage. However, using a combination of strategies, you can motivate others to improve their strengths and encourage consistent behaviors during administrative changes. Thus, allowing for the acceptance and adaptations of new technologies, procedures, and skills needed by the staff. It may take time to learn the new procedures and proper use of the equipment. There however, must be a balance between allowing for adequate time for proper education and implementation of the procedure. When we look at the end goal, applying strategies from the various management types you increase the likelihood of the change being successful. "By selecting from each set of strategies, the change agent increases the chance of successful change” (Marquis & Houston, 2015p.

This is a preventative system of which staff are familiar with and sometimes cause delays in providing much needed treatment to an individual. Sullivan and Garland (2010) suggest that change is changing something different from what is was. In support of this, Mullins (2013) suggests that change is an inescapable part of both social and organisational life. However, change could face some resistant due to the fear of unknown, organisational culture, threats to power or influence. Solution to likely resistance would be discussed in the work.

In my undergraduate nursing practice program, I gained a lot of understanding on what to expect in a hospital environment and what I'm expected to do to ensure that the patient is treated well. The primary responsibility is delivering effective and safe care. As a new graduate, there is a need to adapt effectively, efficiently and effectively in any situation in the practice. However, during my undergraduate practical, adaptability process increased pressure that made me less confidence as I was serving the patients. Some experienced graduated nurses reported my problem to the senior doctors, and this made me to be even less confident and felt that I was less adequate in the hospital. Therefore, there were many factors that made me less confidence

Theory serves as a guidance for any profession. There are countless theories which exist regarding patient care including Hildegard Peplau's interpersonal relations theory. Many non-nursing theories are relevant to the healthcare field including Kurt Lewin's change theory which discusses the process of change. This paper will discuss both Peplau's interpersonal theory and Lewin's change theory, their contributions and comparing both theories.

In retrospect, I realised the importance of responding to a nurse call bell in reasonable amount of time in preventing clinical incidents. Evidences indicate that a shorter staff response time to a patient call is related to decrease hospital falls rate. Additionally, knowledge about falls prevention strategies allowed mo to organize my thoughts and react immediately to the situation. On the other hand, I recognize that I failed to become an advocate for patient safety because of knowledge deficit and “aftermath of reporting”. According to Duffy, McCallum, Ness and Price (2012) students are reluctant to challenge experiences in clinical placements due to lack of knowledge, experience and possible impact on assessment. Still, I feel that

Normally , the life of a health care professional is filled with an overwhelming amount of information, countless paper works , physical distractions and patient's query. Tension is present the minute their shift begins and prolong exposure subsequently results in job dissatisfaction , work overload and burn-out . Such is true in the case of Joe Downs , who failed to complete the filling of all the daily request for patient's medication in his desire to meet all the demands of his colleagues . It negatively resulted to delay of performing his duty , dissatisfaction of his supervisor and ultimately, occupational stress.

"Few of our own failures are fatal," economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford writes in his new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure.

Dr. Megan Richie walked participants through an exercise regarding our own resiliency. Perspective leads to balance, professional engagement, and relational issues. Self monitoringSelf-monitoring is key. Acknowledging stress, personal limitations, medical uncertainty and the lack of complete control is necessary. Pausing before a challenging encounter and retrospectively evaluating stressful moments can be helpful. Develop professional boundaries, like availability, your identity, and how you see the doctor/patient relationship. Find fulfillment outside of work.

Adapting is important because we have ot adapt to our environment and surroundings each and everyday. Being able to adapt to the people around you will make life a lot easier. If we do not adapt to other people then life will just be hard everyday because we would not like to be around other people. People religions and culture may be different but that doesn't’t mean we have to disagree with it, it just means we have to adapt to it and accept it in certain situation

Providing health service to the client and managing the situation as per the need are the primary aspects of leadership and management practices. During my clinical placement of mental health nursing, I was allocated to community mental health service. One day at the end of the shift in the afternoon, the duress alarm went on. All the staff ran to check what was wrong. There was a client with the borderline personality disorder in the doctor’s room. And she was treating under the Mental Health Act 2000 as involuntary treatment order. She was agitated and burst into anger. The client was banging on the table and started screaming. She was not ready to come out of the room and neither letting doctor and

One of the common themes in patient care failure in healthcare is organisational development and change (Boaden et al 2008) for an organisation to be more flexible, adaptable and effective there needs to be organisational development (Cummings and Worley 2008). Strategic change is a multi-layered process which is essential in order to adapt to an ever-changing environment with challenging demands (Buchanan 2003). An organisational development

The development of technologies for adaptation to climate change is one of the main objectives of the policies in the R&D agenda around the world being particularly important in Southeast Asian economies. These technologies are key components for reducing the costs of adapting to climate change mainly in economic sectors like agriculture in which climate change will cause severe changes (OECD 2008). There are several types of adaptation technologies in the agricultural sector as shown in table 4. Nevertheless, the development of new crop varieties resistant to extreme weather events, such as floods or droughts, or higher yields varieties are viewed as promising options to cope with the climate change effects.