Reflective Account - nursing

My area of nursing practice, intraoperative nursing, rarely affords me the ability to interact in-depth with patients and their families. However, in the recent past while working in the Short Procedure Unit, I admitted a male for same-day Urological surgery, he was accompanied by his wife. The patient had a history of obesity and Type 2 diabetes, and was taking Metformin. Using the Glucoscan I obtained a fasting blood sugar, the result was a blood sugar of 235, to which the patient replied “my sugar

Assist with patient by taking them to their rooms, prayer services, and activities within the nursing home facility. Help patients with activities on a regular basis. Assist patient in leisure activities on a regular basis. Assist by taking a humanistic perspective and talk to the clients as individuals with rights, putting an emphasis on empathy, human rights and equality. Qualifications: Degree Program: Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology Cumulative GPA: 3.0 or higher Current Status: Graduate Student

In nursing practice, communication is essential, and good communication skills are paramount in the development of a therapeutic nurse/patient relationship. This aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of communication in nursing, demonstrating how effective communication facilitates a therapeutic

Introduction: In this essay, I will discuss several issues that seem to bind nursing practice with questions of ethics, sociology and management. Reflective practice is an important aspect of nursing management and in this essay we discuss implications of discrimination in nursing care and examine the importance of anti-discriminatory perspectives in nursing. In this paper, the case study I will elaborate is of an elderly woman who was of a non-British ethnic origin and spoke little English. A junior

in the role of a nurse that the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have seen it fit to include it in their professional code of conduct the Code: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives, hereafter referred to as the Code (Nursing & Midwifery Council [NMC], 2015). With reflection being a vital skill for nurses to continue their professional development (Parrish & Crookes, 2013), an analysis of what it means to reflect within nursing is needed by all who intend to enter

The aim of this assignment is to give a reflective account on group presentation and the peer assessment process as well as the development of a personal action plan. It would involve using ‘The What? Model of Structured Reflection’ (Driscoll 2007) to analyse the experience of using a group designed assessment tool to assess my peers and the experience of being peer assessed. Additionally, experience of completing a group presentation would be reflected upon. A personal action plan which identifies

Contents Introduction2 Reflective Practice3 Advantages Learning by mistakes through reflection3 Different approaches4 More confident5 Improving quality of care5 Clearer thinking6 Builds character6 Educates6 Rapport7 Skills improved8 Beneficial to the next patient8 Disadvantages Lower self esteem9 Time consuming9 Over thinking10 Too self-critical10 Hinder the quality of care10 Conclusion11 References12 Introduction In this assignment the discussion on the advantages and disadvantages

CLIENT In this essay, I am going to give a structured reflective account on the development of a therapeutic relationship with a client on one of my clinical placements as part of my training as a student nurse. I will be using a reflective model which explores the processes involved in developing and maintaining such relationships bearing in mind theoretical knowledge and how it applies to this clinical experience. Jasper (2003) describes reflective practice as one of the ways that professionals learn

This essay provides discussion on the importance of reflection in professional and personal development. It glances at the definition of Reflection and how reflective practices could be used by professional bodies to ensures Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Moreover, it explores the roles of reflection in the provision of quality care and likewise focuses on a model of reflection and its application to practice. Individually, we reflect on things we have done in other to improve our ideas

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 model is that it allows you to learn from experiences