Reflection Of Nursing: A Life Review For Nursing

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A life review is critical for a nurse to complete for an elderly person or patient. The life review allows the individual to reflect on the happier times and the challenging moments that occurred during their life. This permits the patient to reflect on their life experiences and to appraise the impact they shared with the world and others. Generally, people do not realize the considerable impact they have had on the world or on other people. In this life review paper I would like to discover additional information about my Grandma and the impact she has had on the world. During the review I aspire for her to take notice of the incredibly positive impact she has had on the people in her life.
My Grandma S.H. is 76 years old and lives at home alone in Indianapolis, Indiana. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved multiple times as a child. She had two sisters, Constance and Patricia. Connie was the
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Wilson, her Girl Scout leader. She was very nice, fun, and wanted the best for them. She also had a daughter in the troop named Sandra. She did attend a youth group in high school and attended church on a regularly basis. School was important to S.H., and she always wanted to receive good grades and wanted to be successful in her studies. She reminisced that one of her favorite memories occurred during recess, that they would use the wax paper that their sandwiches were wrapped in and slide down the slide to go lickety-split. She worked during high school at a tile company doing office work. She made $1.25 per hour and that was a very decent wage to earn at that time. There were many pleasant times in her life, the ones that come to her mind were when her father would rub her hair dry at night, and her mother would braid it every day before school. She never had a haircut until she was eleven. When she had her hair cut, they braided it, and cut it off. She still has the hair in a hope chest in her home

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