Title: Positive Professional Values.
Using Driscoll reflective model. a Nurse care of a patient with a leg ulcer or palliative (end of life) patient
Learning outcomes:
- Incorporate core values from the NMC Code, NHS Constitution and 6 C’s (care, communication, commitment, courage, competence, compassion).
- Consider both legal and ethical issues.
Examples of positive value in practice.
- Medication delivery involving effective communication, care, commitment and courage.
- Competent and compassion end of life care.
- Competent wound dressing changes with effective communication, care and compassion.
- Gain consent from a patient.
- Handwashing.
- Briefly discuss Frances report or Keogh report. (Just one example of bad practice).
- Discuss confidentiality in healthcare (GDPR, and NMC)
- Being implemented to provide safe and effective care.
A definition of professionalism
Introduction
This should signpost your reader to the key issues that you will address in the essay. A brief description of the experience, the type of setting and your rationale for the chosen experience. All names of people and places must be anonymised.
A definition of professionalism in nursing must be discussed (Learning Outcome 1).
Discuss and rationalize the importance of reflection in practice and introduce Driscoll’s reflective model.
Main body
- Identify Driscoll’s reflective model, & the use of reflection in nursing practice. Subheadings may be useful to demonstrate each stage of the framework.
- Use the reflective model to discuss:
– Implications of the experience in relation to the NMC Code, NHS constitution, & the 6C’s (Learning Outcomes 1 & 3).
– Key concepts of professionalism, advocacy, legal aspects & ethical issues associated with the care provided.
– The evidence which underpins care in this situation (including policies. Procedure, guidelines & research)
– The role of the multidisciplinary team.
- Identify your own learning and actions to take forward for your future practice.
Conclusion
- Sum up the themes of discussion
- Links discussion to learning outcomes 1 & 3 of the module.
- No new material should be included.
References
- Present references using the Harvard Referencing system
- Use a wide range of current information from relevant professional sources to support your work (e.g. journals, books, policies & guidelines).
You Have to incorporate:
- Aspects of the NMC Code (2018)
- NHS Constitution (2015)
- NHS Values (DoH, 2015)
- The 6Cs (DoH, 2012)
- Ethics (beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and autonomy (Beauchamp and Childress, 2013) to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the professional nature of nursing
- Legal aspects of your chosen scenario e.g. consent, mental capacity
- Policy, standards and guidelines that inform practice e.g. NICE, DoH, NMC, RCN, WHO, local policies.
Examples of the situations where professionalism, 6Cs, NHS values and ethical considerations may be witnessed could include (but are not restricted to):
- Medication delivery involving effective communication, care, commitment and courage.
- Effective moving and handling during a bed bath.
- Competent and compassionate end of life care.
- Competent wound dressing changes with effective communication, care and compassion.
Presentation:
- A contents page MUST be included.
- Can be written in the First Person or Passive.
- Set header & footer to display your SID number & the page number on every page. Use only your SID & not your name to identify your essay.
- An appropriate font should be used i.e. Times New Roman, Ariel or Comic Sans.
- Font size should be no less than size 11, utilizes 1.5 or 2 line spacing & align the text consistently.
- The reference list should appear before any appendices.
- Upload all work as a single electronic file.
