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improve my own practice; each staff nurse I observed had a different method of practice for medication rounds, providing tips in order to improve my practice and the promoting of patient welfare for the medication rounds. Whilst I was dispensing medication, I ensured to ask the nurse accompanying me to check that I had calculated and measured the medication properly, providing positive encouragement and criticism where necessary. Registered nurses observing my practice is not the only assistance which improved my medication practice. A BNF (British National Formulary) is situated both with the medication trolley and in the staff office to improve knowledge of medication, ensuring medical professionals are prescribing and dispensing the correct medication for the patient and no reactions which other medication is possible. “… provides essential information on the selection of safe and effective medicines for individual patients.” (Joint Formulary Committee (2015)) Now What? In order to improve my skills regarding medication I need to ensure I am focused and concentrating on medication in order to ensure I am measuring the correct dosage and giving the correct medication to the correct patient. In future placements, I hope to continue this focus and improve it as a few times I have been distracted whilst dispensing medication. I would also like to improve my knowledge of individual medications as a patient may be prescribed a medication which counteracts medications they are…

Olaudah Equiano was a famous African in London who had supported the British movement to end slave trading. Olaudah is known for his famous 1789 autobiography, which described his experience as a slave. The autobiography, The interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, goes into detail of his experience of when he was kidnapped and sold to slave traders. Olaudah was one of millions of Africans who were taken from his homeland and sold into slavery.…

authority against the colonies. This may have worked for some time, but British had a war to pay for and started to tax the colonies to pay their debt off. They started passing acts to increase tax on the colonies. This caused a change of opinion the leaders of the colonies to change their opinion. The British had forced them to completely change their direction for government in twenty years. To help…

were to travel back in time and live during the British Empire, you would see a world that is very different from the world that we live in today. You would see a world where discrimination runs rampant and gender and racial inequalities are prevalent. As seen in Philippa Levine’s The British Empire Sunrise to Sunset, particularly in the 8th and 9th chapters, the discrimination was mainly done by white males. Taking a closer look at the primary sources “The Ballad of East and West” by Rudyard…

Those that desired to separate were known as patriots. Those that hoped to maintain relations with Britain were known as loyalists. Loyalists believed that a strong and unified Britain was beneficial for everyone and that without Britain the colonies would be too weak to survive on their own. Additionally loyalists concluded that because they were British subjects that were obligated to obey British laws and pay British taxes. Loyalists were of the opinion that because the colonies were so far…

Maya Dandashi Mr. Householder APUSH Period 5 12 May 2015 The Prelude to the Revolution Blood had been shed for the first time. The damage done by their own kind. Soon to become nations of their own. The amplified event, trial, and article of the Boston Massacre have unquestionably been some of the most influential causes of American Revolution due to it being the first bloody contact between the British and the Colonists along with explicitness of the trials and the propaganda based articles.…

life. This was seen through language, religion, respectability, family life, etc. However, as the British cause penetrated the lives of the indigenous African peoples, and as the missionaries interacted more with their African natives, the individual perspectives of the missionaries began to contradict how the British went about in colonizing the Africans. Many foreign…

As a significant political figure, wartime hero and novelist, Winston Churchill serves as one of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. Winston Churchill 's wartime leadership empowered the British people and further demonstrated the intellectual capabilities and extremes of Churchill. He has been regarded as "...An inspirational leader, who seemed to typify Britain 's courage and perseverance in adversity and its conservatism in success." (Chen, “Winston Churchill.” World War Two…

official corruption and government actions that were politically incorrect. The apprentice, John Peter Zenger, started printing hundreds of papers with the misleading information. Several colonists began to question weather the information in the papers were true or false. As colonists questioned the papers, they started to question their daily lives and different ideas while they lived in British North America. The following events created changes in the ideas and daily lives of the people in…

Truth & Bright Water Culture Essay Webster 's dictionary defines culture as "the beliefs, customs and arts of a particular society, group, place, or time"(Culture Definition). Although to the majority of people they would describe culture as the norms of society or as something that everyone does. Quite often people are confused when a culture is different from theirs. In the novel Truth & Bright Water there is a confusion of cultures due to the fact that British colonial ways have been…