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Inter-professional education allows students studying to be health professionals to work as part of team on a piece of work and to learn about different health professionals that there is (Barr et all 2005). In this assignment I will use Gibbs (1998) model of reflection (see appendix 1) to reflect on some of the work…

A major personal factor which has been a key motive to improve the quality of the report is my belief about the importance of this project. I have not taken this as an “academic obligation” which has to be done to get a degree or good grades but I treat this as a “very special…

Reflective Analysis has gained a high level of recognition in higher education, it is now used to structure students learning ability, Reflective Analysis as helped me to be able to analyse and assess current and past events, situation and experience. Ann Mathews (2007) state that “it is a way whereby an individual turn out to…

An event that was meaningful to me as a nurse happened during my clinical time at St. Michael’s Hospital when I did not wash my patient before 8:00 am in order to prepare her to go to a plastic surgery appointment later on that day. My patient’s 10:00 am Heparin administration was delayed by 45…

Reflective practice has been defined as “Involving self, a process that is undertaken in response to a positive or negative event that may be initiate consciously or subconsciously, that requires to provide an answer” (Chapman, Dempsey et al. 2009). It has also been defined as “Paying critical attention to the practical values and theories which…

This account is taken from my diary after working at the Day Care Unit. This unit, as the name denotes, is doing day surgeries and endoscopic day procedures. It has also a number of medical patients. In the first day of meeting with the Nursing Officer, we were given an explanation of the ward and…

I’m writing a reflective essay based on Gibb’s model of refection, this is a six stage evaluation process and promotes good practice through evaluation of experiences, aids learning and better understanding on how to deal with similar situations in future practice, the six stages comprise of description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and finally an action…

This essay will be a reflective essay focussing on a critical incident that took place whilst being at practice placement earlier in the year. A critical incident is defined as a ‘learning technique that breaks an event down into its main components for the purpose of reflective analysis’ (Hoystonard, and Simpson, 2004) The essay will…

The purpose of this assignment is to critically reflect upon on aspect of my professional practice and development that arose whilst out in clinical practice. The paper will show emphasise based on communication. This reflection has been chosen to highlight the need for nurses to have therapeutic communication skills in order to provide holistic care…

Therapeutic Recreation seeks to promote the capacity and ability of groups and individuals to make self determined and responsible choices, in light of their needs to grow, to explore new perspectives and possibilities, and to realise their full potential. Within this assignment I am going to critically compare and evaluate the use of the following…