The Practitioner: An Empowerment Process

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The understanding I gathered from the term scholar-practitioner is an individual that is knowledgeable, experienced, and self-motivation. One who is self-sufficient and completely committed to their practice. Their professional activities and the knowledge they develop are based on collaborative and relational learning through active exchange within communities of practice and scholarship. McClintock (2003) To me that means a scholar practitioner is one who gain knowledge in social situations. Doctoral programs encourage its members to develop in “passionate scholarship” often times by fostering a community of scholar-practitioners immersed in a caring culture. Herbert (2006) I think it’s a person who work with other scholars on their journey to achieve goals.

This essay aims to explore the importance of utilising evidence based care while working with clients and other health care providers to form a professional and reliable nursing team. This essay also aims to focus and evaluate a qualitative article entitled “Patient experiences of bladder problems following stroke” selected from the Nursing Standard. The assignment will adopt a systematic approach to expose the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen qualitative research article. I found this topic quite intriguing after undertaking a clinical placement in a stroke unit and learnt that many people suffered in silence as they found urinary incontinence embarrassing to live with as

The study conducted in 2013 by Dogherty, Harrison, Graham, Vandyk, & Keeping-Burke aims were to describe the Canadian health system's knowledge of the facilitation process in implementing evidence based practice (EBP) among experience nurses. They identified factors that positively and negatively impacted the facilitation process by bringing together 20 nurses across Canada that possessed various backgrounds and years of experience. Their mission was to explore what was successful and not successful in implementing evidence into practice. The selected nurses underwent reflective exercise under the direction of two international researchers with notable experience in facilitation and knowledge translation. Based upon the analysis of the data

Giving quality care and support to patients, relatives and service users is very important as the treatment they receive (NHS, 2013). It is important for patients and service users to have positive experience in the healthcare settings, making sure they are cared for compassionately, respecting and maintain their dignity at all times (Ellis, 2010; Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2006). This essay focuses on validity of a qualitative research studies. The aim is to use CASP Tool to critique a research article “Exploring patients’ self-reported experiences of out-of-hours primary care and their suggestions for improvement: a qualitative study” by Poole et al (2011) chosen from the National Health Service (NHS) frame work (2013) domain 4 (Ensuring people have a positive experience of care). Furthermore, CASP will be use to critic this article to know if users have had a negative or positive experience during out-of-hours and to develop on suggested program on improving on services by the service users including the practitioners.

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear,” was once said by the Buddhist scholar, Joanna Macy. Not only is Joanna Macy a unique asset to Buddhism because she is a woman, but she is also American-born. Macy is not alone in possessing these two qualities, she is joined by another woman, Ayyā Gotami (Prem Suskawat) who goes by Dr. Gotami. Both of these women have different backgrounds, and different lifestyles, but they are both important to Buddhism.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative study of two faith philosophies towards providing health care, the Christian and the Buddhist perceptive. To prepare this study, the author will use several methods such as addressing in detail the worldview questions of both faiths and the implications of these beliefs for health care. Then, the study will provide the components of healing such as prayer, meditations, and other rituals they follow, as well as the spiritual perspectives on healing. In addition, it will address the importance and perception of how to care for a patient with a different cultural and spiritual belief. Lastly, the author will conclude the study by describing her own spiritual perspective on healing, what she

You will eventually have a client who has some involvement in an intervention. Always ensure you are adhering to legislative and registering body regulations. Ensure you are clear about confidentiality policies. If you find that you have a tendency to receive such cases, review whether you wish to take them, and if necessary review advertising and reject cases, referring them elsewhere. If you feel that you are getting a tendency for such cases, be aware of possible consequences and look at this in your practice

The Nursing profession of today has evolved into an evidenced-based practice, where evidenced-based research is used to validate nursing interventions and goals, improving patient care and promoting health. “The long-term lived experience of patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators” and “A prospective descriptive study exploring hope, spiritual well-being, and quality of life in hospitalized patients”, are two evidenced-based articles that use qualitative and quantitative research methods. This paper will discuss the research methods used in the two articles as well as the different parts that make up a research article and how those findings can be applied into a clinical setting.

In the profession of social work, a worker comes to realization that there are many areas of human rights and legal concerns that are troubling and painful for the people in our care. Yet, as workers provide these services it requires them to advocate, protect, and provide the highest level of service as the worker explore the concept of the person and the environment. Also, it is imperative for all social workers to understand the theory behind how people change from conception to death in order to provide the necessary services intended for the clients in which we served such as loss, success, betrayal, and death. When a worker fully understand the theory then this will governed the type of services that will be offer and be professional.

Recovery literature and some insightful clinical examples were included in the discussion. The essay highlighted the use of both verbal and non-verbal therapeutic communication skills while interacting with SUs to build good therapeutic relationships with SUs. The clinical examples show nurse’s attitudes of being empathetic and caring; listening; being genuine; non-judgmental; open-minded; professional; understanding; and supportive while working with SUs to identify and address a SU’s needs and assist them in their recovery process. The clinical examples also highlight some of the MHN’s interventions such as creating safe environment to SU; following a narrative approach to understand SU’s lived experiences; focusing on SU’s strengths and helping them to rediscover hope for their future; Providing education to SUs and families regarding medications, side effects, coping strategies, triggers early warning signs; assisting SU to reconnect with their family member; collaborating with the team regarding SU’s needs; providing support by referring SUs appropriately to various services; addressing spiritual values of SU; and encouraging positive risk taking to promote a SU’s

Compassion is commonly defined as the desire to alleviate an individual’s distress. A few authors extend this definition to include exploring one’s experiences and promoting one’s autonomy. This concept is demonstrated

VRE provides one possible mechanism for person-centred practice development. At one level, healthcare workers conveyed that they were not surprised by what they saw. They expressed feelings of powerless to respond to what they considered safety and quality concerns beyond their control and/or articulated these concerns as the responsibility of the ‘health system’; a system discrete from them. Indeed health care workers often conveyed their frustrations with what they regarded as organisational values more focused on financial, regulatory and political objectives than on person-centred values (Titchen et al. 2011). Their capacity to deliver person-centred care often occurred despite organisational characteristics rather than because of them.

This model helps people identify their own concerns; it works with people to help them developing the knowledge and skills to take action. Self-empowerment is central to this model.

According to Miller (2010), the first phase of MI involves eliciting change talk to encourage inherent motivation and the second phase is about strengthening commitment once motivation is there. Miller and Rollnick (2002) emphasize on the centrality of the worker spirit to the success of MI as a therapeutic tool. This overarching spirit is a way of being with the person which communicates compassion, acceptance, partnership, and respect. It conveys a realization that one cannot make change happen, cannot have all the answers or wrestle with people to bring about change.