Reflection is an important part of development and growth for all medical professionals. It gives us a chance to assess our assumptions and make active change in our behaviour towards both our patients and our team. This essay will specifically reflect on what is important in the doctor patient relationship. In order to provide direction for this reflection I chose to watch and review Patch Adams.
Patch Adams is the story of Hunter Adams; a man who, upon reaching middle age, suffers from depression and considers taking his life. Instead of doing so he checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. He is checked in by a man who seems to be an orderly. And while this man appears to care about the patients, he does not seem to think twice about calling
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Patch disagrees with this, he believes that they should have contact with patients from the beginning so that students are taught to treat people and not just their illness. Through an unrelated series of events, Patch gains a white coat similar to those the third years wear, and decides to sneak onto the wards. What he experiences there is a whole host of issues caused by the behaviour of the doctors. The doctors and nurses have a bad relationship as the doctors are in a "superior" position. The patients are referred to as their age, gender and condition; which is spoken about in detail in front of the patient, without them being acknowledged. And the hospital is a very sombre environment, with little stimulation or distraction for the unwell. I have observed this sombre atmosphere in many hospitals, and though I understand the reason for the quietness and lack of clutter, I feel as though this causes restlessness and apathy in most people. Although I am young and need quite a lot of stimulation throughout my day, there is often little to offer in a hospital for any age of patient. Patch decides to rectify the sombre atmosphere by visiting patients and getting them to laugh. He is able to get through to many patients this way, encouraging them to eat, or keeping their spirits up in palliative
Provider-client conversations are a key element of the progression of medical care. Providers are in an exceptional place of admiration and authority. Successful provider-client conversations know how to be a basis of enthusiasm, encouragement, support, and hope. An excellent provider-client bond can amplify profession fulfillment and strengthen client’s self-assurance, inspiration, and optimistic outlook of one’s medical standing, which might persuade one’s medical
My synopsis of W;t by Margaret Edson focuses on addressing the research-oriented mindset of the medical staff Vivian encounters during her hospital stay. When considering W;t as an honest reflection of medical treatment, Vivian is reduced to the common patient entirely dependent on medical staff, Jason is a knowledgeable doctor until his social skills are considered, and Susie embodies the goals of empathy training.
Overall, I retain three goals for this clinical day: Safely and efficently administer medication, enhance my nursing/CNA skills, and determine how to implement infection control into a health care setting. This week reflects my assigned time to administer medication in a health care setting for the first time, with a resident who retains nearly twenty medications. I except this experience will be a great learning experience, but it will also subsist slightly stressful. With the assistance of my FOR, my goal is to administer all of my resident 's medications without complications. To ensure that medication safety, I will perform the six medication rights and three checks prior to administration. Along with medication administration, a goal
Patch Adams focuses largely on making people’s lives better. When Hunter stayed at the mental hospital, he is given the nickname “Patch” by Arthur Mendelson when he patches a leaky cup. However, this nickname has underlying meaning. Patch was constantly trying to make others happy and more comfortable in the situation they were in, all while accepting their faults and disregarding their social standing. He fulfills their dreams, and gives them hope, unlike any of the other doctors. As Christians, we are called to follow this example. In Romans 12:10-11 it says, “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yo...
The skill of reflecting is a process of making sense out of all life experiences in general and nursing practice in particular (Taylor B, 2004). The process of reflection helps nurses to continually question and improve on the quality of care given. As I am bound by the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct (2008), and in line with the Data Protection Act (1998) of confidentiality a pseudonym, Mrs Masood has been used to protect the patient’s identity. During my first hospital place I came across a situation where communication played a major role. I chose to make sense out of my experience by employing Gibbs’ (1988) reflective cycle. Active listening acts as a link between verbal and non-verbal communication is explored as part of the reflection (Minardi and Riley, 1997). I will try and show the importance of recognising communication methods that improve the effectiveness of nurses in identifying the types of communication that maybe transmitted from patient to patient.
In this essay I will be describing reflection, the methods of reflecting and the benefits of reflection in clinical practise. Everyone from doctors and lawyers to shop assistants and builders reflect upon their work. Reflection can be used to learn and develop as a clinician, professional and also as a person.
In the medical community there appears to be a divide between disease-centered care and patient-centered care. Both Charon and Garden, readily acknowledge this. Charon explains how although doctors can boast in their “impressive technical progress,” and “their ability to eradicate once fatal infections,” doctors often lack the abilities to recognize the pain of their patients and to extend empathy (3). Charon further adds that “medicine practiced without a genuine and obligating awareness of what patients go through [empathy] may fulfill its technical goals, but it is an empty medicine, or, at best, half a medicine” (5). Often, doctors fail to remember that their patients are more than just a person with cancer or a congenital heart defect — they are human, a whole person with dreams, aspirations, and fears. According to Charon, “scientifically competent medicine alone cannot help a patient grapple w...
This paper will show how assessment is a core part of the client’s treatment. It will show how assessment is done at the beginning of the treatment process but, will allow you to see that assessment is a continuing process. It results from a combination of focused interviews, testing, and record reviews. Assessments give the social worker a framework of reference to understand the strengths, weaknesses, problems, and needs of the client for the development of the treatment plan. It provides the social worker with a theory-based framework for generating hypotheses about the client’s experience and behaviors, which in turn helps prepare the basis for a specific treatment intervention. This paper will discuss the assessment tools
Patch Adams is a movie about a person named Henry “Patch” Adams that self-committed himself to a mental hospital because he was struggling with depression. After seeing how people are treated he is inspired to go to medical school so he can treat patients better. While in the mental institution he notices abnormal behaviors in his roommate. While at medical school he experiments with conditioned social responses in people. He defines the norms in medical school by being one of the oldest people there and breaking the rules to go and see patients before his third year, and did not conform to the student body. After much mischief and struggle he finally graduates medical school and opens his own hospital called the Guesdentite Institute. A
During my experiences working in the medical field, I quickly learned that medicine is not just about the intricacies of the body or prescribing medications to fix the body’s shortcomings. There are many more challenges and difficulties that are involved in healthcare that involve many interpersonal skills. This summer I have volunteered with the medical director at Glenaire Retirement Community in Cary, North Carolina. After a few weeks of shadowing, the medical director asked me to see a patient to discuss her primary complaints before he joined me. I went into the patient’s room, introduced myself, and waited for a response. After multiple attempts and no recognition from the patient, the physician came in to join us.
Reflection has its importance in clinical practice; we always seek to be successful and that can be achieved by learning every day of our life through experiences we encounter. In that way we can reconsider and rethink our previous knowledge and add new learning to our knowledge base so as to inform our practice. Learning new skills does not stop upon qualifying; this should become second nature to thinking professionals as they continue their professional development throughout their careers (Jasper, 2006). According to Rolfe et al. (2001), reflection does not merely add to our knowledge, it also challenges the concepts and theories by which we try to make sense of that knowledge. Acquiring knowledge through reflection is modern way of learning from practice that can be traced back at least to the 1930s and the work of John Dewey, an American philosopher and educator who was the instigator of what might be called ''discovery learning'' or learning from experience. He claimed that we learn by doing and that appreciating what results from what we do leads to a process of developing knowledge, the nature and importance of which then we must seek to interpret (Rolfe et al., 2001).
The purpose of this essay is to reflect and critically study an incident from a clinical setting whilst using a model of reflection. This will allow me to analyse and make sense of the incident and draw conclusions relating to personal learning outcomes. The significance of critical analysis and critical incidents will briefly be discussed followed by the process of reflection using the chosen model. The incident will then be described and analysed and the people involved introduced. (The names of the people involved have been changed to protect their privacy) and then I will examine issues raised in light of the recent literature relating to the incident. My essay will include a discussion of communication, interpersonal skills used in the incident, and finally evidence based practice. I will conclude with explaining what I have learned from the experience and how it will change my future actions.
Reflection encourages the student to acknowledge and act upon their strengths and weaknesses in their ability to make clinical decisions (3). As the student reflects it allows them to focus their attention on areas where they have both succeeded and struggled in the clinical setting and apply direct relation to how much knowledge they have gained from the experience (3). Furthermore, whilst it also also allows the student the ability to pose questions, seek clarification of specific events, find meaning and discuss matters of concern and interest with their preceptors in their reflective writing (3). Nonetheless, it is not until the student has achieved the additional knowledge that they will fully understand the limitation of their own practice (3).
on the wellbeing of the patient. A reflection can be personal in the form of a journal,
I went to the operating room on March 23, 2016 for the Wilkes Community College Nursing Class of 2017 for observation. Another student and I were assigned to this unit from 7:30am-2:00pm. When we got their we changed into the operating room scrubs, placed a bonnet on our heads and placed booties over our shoes. I got to observe three different surgeries, two laparoscopic shoulder surgeries and one ankle surgery. While cleaning the surgical room for the next surgery, I got to communicate with the nurses and surgical team they explained the flow and equipment that was used in the operating room.