Clinical Project Nursing Assignment

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
CLINICAL PROJECT NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Clinical Area of Interest
As per the World Health Organization (2017), dementia is a syndrome which
progressively decreases the ability of a person to process his/her thoughts by deteriorating the
cognitive functionality. The reports of WHO, determined that more than 50 million people are
affected with dementia within which 60 to 70% of the cases are identified as Alzheimer’s disease
(World Health Organization, 2017). As per Hessler et al. (2018), dementia is a health concern
which not only affects the social, cognitive, psychological and physical aspects of the patient but
also disrupts the carer’s values, their family and society. This is because the social stigmas and
barriers prevent the proper identification and treatment of the condition. Hence, it has been
chosen as the clinical area of interest for this project.
Conceptual Reflective Framework
Reflection is the tool using which professionals could assess their abilities their strengths
and weaknesses so that by processing any critical situation, they can improve their skills. While
working with dementia patient, to improve my care process I will utilize the Gibb’s reflective
cycle as a reflective frame work as it will help me to process my feelings and analysis of the
situation, and then will help me to find out the conceptual solutions to improve my abilities as a
dementia care nurse (Husebø, O'Regan & Nestel, 2015). This framework has six stages such as
description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan that outlines the complete
framework of the reflective process (Karlsson et al., 2015).
Learning objectives
Learning objectives, which will be obtained through this project, are as follows: