...Reflection: My Learning Experience Reflection: My Learning Experience Description: John’s model is a structured reflection that helps people learn through reflecting on events (Johns, 1996). This model has guided me to reflect on my experience which has enabled me to be more competent in my practice. During my first day of clinical placement at Extendicare York I experienced a unique event. My teacher, fellow students, and I got the chance to observe a health care aid change a colostomy pouch. I was extremely curious and excited for this new learning opportunity. Before entering the resident’s room I knew a little bit about colostomies. My clinical teacher, Jon Brunetti, attempted to prepare me by providing me with more information about colostomies. This made me feel confident walking into the resident’s room. A study shows that having a good clinical teacher enables students to have positive attitudes and good learning outcomes towards their clinical placement (Campbell, Larrivee, Field, Day, & Reutter, 1994). My clinical teacher further guided us by introducing himself and our class when we entered the resident’s room. He tried to make the resident feel comfortable by talking to her and asking her questions. This approach did not seem to work because of her lack of positive responses. Being the only student prepared with latex gloves I assisted the health care aid with the procedure. I helped by holding the residents legs down thus...
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...The clinical skills lab I have chosen to reflection on was the lab where we leant how to administer eye drops to a patient. I choose this lab, as it was the skill I found most challenging to master. I will also be using Driscoll’s Reflection Cycle (Driscoll, 2007) to explain the What, So What and Now What of the clinical skills lab. Firstly looking at the ‘What’ which is about returning to the situation in this case it is the lab where we administered eye drops. Reflecting on the lab I found that I was quiet unsure on how to administer eye drops, in my personal life I have never had to administer eye drops only been the recipient of them. In the lab we were instructed to administer eye drops according to the medication chart provided. Once we found the correct medication we needed to go through the correct steps of administering two drops to each eye. I was confident with most things except when it came to actually administering them. The reason why I believe I had difficultly giving the eye drops as I had trouble steadying my hand and finding what comfortable for me and also keeping in made what is most comfortable for the patient. Now looking at the ‘So What,’ which is all about the analysis of the situation and looking at what learning arises from the process of reflection (Driscoll, 2007). Now looking back on the lab I am glad I hit those barriers there in class, as I was able to overcome them then and there with the help of my fellow classmates and also our lecturer...
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...This paper will explore the importance of personal reflection in nursing practice and how it is a fundamental skill in the field. It also looks into how personal reflection moulds a nurse though reflection on experience and development in the preforming of tasks and skills that provide the best possible patient care. The next section analyses and explains the skill of taking a blood glucose level reading; known as a BGL that was preformed during an intensive workshop. It further looks into a personal reflection of how I felt I preformed the skill. The following paragraph identifies how I know that I preformed the skill well during the intensive workshop with rationales to support my performance. The paper then goes to conclude how I know that...
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...Gibbs Reflective Assignment On Non-Verbal Communication With A Patient With Demenita Introduction This assignment is a reflective account of my first experience when assisting a patient to eat lunch. For the purpose of this assignment I will refer to this patient as Mrs C to maintain confidentiality and comply with the NMC code (2008). It will discuss the importance of non-verbal communication when providing effective nursing care to the elderly. Description Thoughts and Feelings Evaluation I felt this first experience was very rewarding and a big learning curve for me in caring for others. I was delighted that I had been able to support Mrs C to eat nearly all of her meal which she clearly enjoyed. The ‘protected mealtime’ policy ensured that I had time to dedicate to assist her and as she did not have the ability to feed herself, without my help she would have eaten very little or nothing at all. In order to communicate with Mrs C, I modified the usual rules of communication. I did not speak to Mrs C in an inappropriate way or use elder talk which may have damaged her self esteem and confidence (Argle 1994). I talked to her as I would address any adult but put more emphasis on non-verbal communication which according to Caris Verhallen (1999) is the main way in which humans communicate, in order for her to receive my message, extract the meaning and give me feedback. By holding Mrs C’ gaze I was maintaining communication and encouraging engagement and interaction...
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...Reflection can be described as the process of thinking whereby one tries to analyze situations and experiences and make judgments about them. It can be briefly termed as turning ones experience into a learning process. Reflection is helpful at a personal because the modern society is changing rapidly than ever and therefore creating a need to constantly make decisions and re-evaluate our choices. It provides individuals with tools that enable them make proper decisions in life. Reflective insight enables the learners to have better thinking and problem solving skills that help them apply the acquired knowledge in solving new tasks. Body The daily hustle and bustle has exerted too much pressure on our daily lives that quite often develop a distorted view of our surrounding. We tend to forget how well we are doing, our failures and the effect of our action on the people around us. By developing reflective skills we gain an accurate picture of who we are, become aware of our hidden motivations and thinking styles, how we appear to other people. We also develop a better understanding of what motivates our performance and develop our insight and judgment(Bulman,2004).It also helps us have control of our thought process ,our emotions and responses to our sorroundings.Reflection therefore furnishes us with tools that enable us to achieve what we want in life. Learning in the health field is usually a challenge as there is usually a big gap between the ‘Know how and the do how’. Students...
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...establishes the foundation for your future nursing career. COURSE STRUCTURE: Classes are delivered using lecture, discussion, group work, and lab and clinical experiences. There is also an online component to the course. Please visit the Nursing 101 Moodle shell regularly for readings and submission of assignments. There are required readings assigned for each week and material from these readings will be applied during class activities. It is expected that students will have completed the required readings, as this will help facilitate each students’ active participation in the course and the achievement of learning outcomes. All required and supplemental readings are testable material. STUDENT REQUIREMENTS: PARTICIPATION IN ALL LAB AND CLINICAL SESSIONS IS MANDATORY. FAILURE TO ATTEND YOUR SCHEDULED SESSION WILL RESULT IN FAILURE OF NURSING 101. (See policy regarding illness in student handbook & CRNBC Fitness to Practice Requirements). You must notify your instructor prior to missing lab or clinical. TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN NURSING 101, YOU MUST PASS THE LAB, THE CLINICAL, AND THE CLASSROOM COMPONENTS. Students are required to undergo two criminal record searches: one through the RCMP and one through the Ministry of Public Safety. STUDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE THEIR CRIMINAL RECORD SEARCHES COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF CLINICAL...
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...Nursing Expertise Self-Report Scale and Reflection HCS/350 November 21, 2012 Nursing Expertise Self-Report Scale and Reflection This paper is to provide my reflection of the results of The Nursing Expertise Self-Report Scale. I will explain how my results can improve my communication skills in the health care field. “The nurse-expertise self report scale has 20 items scored using a Likert Scale from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree” (Hansten & Jackson, 2009, p. 178). Based on the scoring of the 20 questions, I scored 56 out of 100, reflective of a novice nurse. I am not surprised with the results. I do not currently work as a Registered Nurse (RN). I graduated from nursing school in May 2012. In my current position as a pharmacy assistant, I spend my day communicating with patients, pharmacists, and co-workers. I can take the results to better improve my communication skills, when interacting with patients, physicians, and other members of the team and apply it to practice. I have little experience when it comes to communicating with team members in the hospital. As a student, in the beginning, I was very intimidated to speak to physicians and other members of the health care team. As time went on, I became comfortable communicating with other nurses, patients, and their families. The Self-Report Scale is a reminder of how novice of a nurse I am. I have a lot to learn once I get a nursing job. In the interim, I can take the knowledge I acquire from...
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...teaching section I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective cycle. This model is a recognised framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988) consists of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my teaching section continuously and learning from the experience for better practice in the future. The cycle starts with a description of the situation, next is to analysis of the feelings, third is an evaluation of the experience, fourth stage is an analysis to make sense of the experience, fifth stage is a conclusion of what else could I have done and final stage is an action plan to prepare if the situation arose again. (Source :Gibbs 1988) Gustaffsson and Fagerberg (2004) emphasizes on the advantages that could be gained from reflection mainly among registered nurses or RNs. They examine the questions on the implications of nurses’ reflections, the subject matter of their reflection and how they are able to deal with their reflection and how they improve their professional approach through reflection. The authors describe the experiences of the nurses and their reflection in relation to the nursing situations to understand how the nurses use reflection in their daily work. I am going to use the same approach to analyse my teaching section and improve where I have lacked to achieve required standards. Baird and Winter (2005) gave some rationale why reflection is required in the practice. They state that a reflect is to generate the practice knowledge, assist an ability...
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...Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Consider the following situation: You have recently taken on administrative responsibilities at a new hospital where you are responsible for improving patient care programs and organizational efficiency in the general medicine outpatient clinics. You are familiar with your department's general objectives for change and with theoretical strategies for improving operations, but you want to optimize the transitions for all involved parties. In early meetings, department and hospital staff express skepticism that any of the anticipated changes would serve them or the hospital's patients better. In this situation, immediate action—such as announcing a new clinical or quality review program—would directly address the challenges you face. But more information might help you more effectively meet your professional responsibilities. You might want to learn what systems already work well in the clinics, or better understand what services would be valued in the local community. You might also want to learn about employees' perceptions of their mission and service to identify strategies that could motivate them for change. The information to help you meet these objectives will come primarily from the people involved in your questions and plans—your patients and coworkers, for example. One can gather this information by talking to people informally. Alternatively, one can use qualitative research techniques...
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...Reflective Practice – Part A Originally reflective practice was commonly used to deal with well documented problems in professional practice. However the use of reflective practice has made a shift to also be used in main stream educational practice. (Bradury et al. 2009) This then makes it credible to use reflective practice to assess my progress so far at university. I will do this by sing Driscoll model of reflection (by Barton) model of reflection that I undertook in class. Using Driscoll ‘What?’ ‘So what?’ Now what? Reflection model, along with headstart I identified potential weaknesses that could hinder my university study. After completing headstart it was apparent what my ‘what?’ was ‘writing in higher education’ came up as something...
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...(Rowles, 2009). There are three phases to developing and using CAT’s. The first phase involves the planning phase: determining what setting it will be used in, what information will be obtained and what CAT will be used. The second phase is the actual implementation of the CAT. The final stage involves the results and responding to the CAT. The instructor should review the results and report the finding to the class and reflect on the CAT to identify if it accomplished the goal of the first phase (Rowles, 2009). I chose to evaluate the One-Minute Paper CAT. The One-Minute-Paper has been used the most and is a quick and easy way to assess classroom teaching and learning (Angelo & Cross, 1993). To use the One-Minute Paper, the instructor ask the students to write a response to the following two questions: What was the most important thing you learned during this class? and what important questions remain unanswered? The time involved in implementing this assessment is 5-10 minutes. It takes only thirty to forty minutes to evaluate, depending on class size and depending on the responses, the time varies on...
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...The transition from level four to level five requires application of theory and practical’s in physiotherapy on a wider scale. Level five requires clinical reasoning, which can be implemented to increase the overall effectiveness of physiotherapy intervention, using different approaches to solve the issue at hand. The two introductory pages of this essay require a reflection upon my feedback, which can be a guide to transit from level four to level five. One of my strengths of the assignment is that my context relevant to the question with regards to the clinical features and physiotherapy interventions. Some answers were specific and detailed to the question However, at times I had some loss of focus to the question which meant that the answer was not relevant, therefore losing the opportunity to gain marks. For my next assignment I aim to answer the question ensuring that the context is relevant to the question by referring back to the question throughout and build up on this skill by using various texts and resources to ensure that the reasoning behind physiotherapy interventions are appropriate and specific with the use of evidence based research. In the previous assignments, I lacked detail of normal structure and function with reference to anatomy. As part of this transition to level five, I am required to gain a wider understanding of both structure and function of normal respiratory system and to be able to explain this with reference to pathology. In order to...
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...Introduction In line with the preparation of mentors, this assignment will aim to look at mentorship in depth. A variety of aspects around mentorship will be discussed, the first being the emergence of mentorship. This will explore what emphasis was placed on learning prior to Project 2000, and then moving to present day and the different documents that were implemented and the benefit these had on the mentoring process. Several definitions of mentorship will be addressed due to the lack of consensus regarding this. As a result, a clear distinction will be made between the differences of clinical supervision, perceptorship and the mentoring process. This will lead onto the role of the mentor, focusing upon relationships and the different theoretical perspectives around the formation of these. Also being explored in this section will be characteristics needed by the mentor as well as their responsibilities. The following topic to be explored will be learning styles and the environment. A definition of learning will be offered leading onto the learning environment and audits that are in place to ensure placements are up to scratch. This is followed by a description of learning models, looking at research that displays deficits with these. Also being looked at are the individual learning styles and characteristics. The final topic will be assessment; the author will offer a definition of assessment. This will lead onto formative and summative assessment, looking at the...
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...school is fifty percent Hispanic, twenty percent white, and thirty percent black. My Clinical Educator’s name is Christine Leffel and she is the 4th grade team leader and she has worked in the school for eleven years. The school FCAT grade is amazing; they are an A school. All teachers must arrive at school at 7:30 am and leave at 3:00 pm. As far as I am told the teachers must abide by these rules with no exceptions. Stephen Foster seems like a great school with good morals, exceptional teachers and well rounded students. The school is in the processes of expanding and building new buildings to replace the old ones. The classroom I have been placed in is located in one of the newest buildings; the class had the opportunity to move into the new building less than two weeks ago. I am working with a lovely fourth grade classroom whose race and ethnicity vary. The classroom consists of twenty students; twelve Hispanic, four black, and four white. The class consists of seven girls and thirteen boys. Amazingly, the class has most of their specials on a weekly basis. Math, Art, and Physical education are given weekly; while Spanish and Music are given to the students on a bi-weekly basis. The students love having their specials and feel special that they are one of the few schools that have the opportunity to have them all year round. There are many ADHD students in the class. This makes the class a little difficult to deal with; however, when Mrs. Leffel called on them they would...
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...provide the best possible care for my community, while continuing to learn about self and others. In order to provide appropriate Medicare and involved in medical support team, nice temper and flexibility in emergency situation are the mandatory characteristics to have to succeed in nursing profession. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." said Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa shared the characteristics that all nurses possess. The meaning of the quote for me in my career goal is to eliminate my prejudice in various races, terminate the stereotype of accent from different countries and learn how to create a comfortable atmosphere for a harmony world. Science class such as biology and chemistry are mandatory classes that you should take with English class. Biology class, a discovery class about outside world of naked-eyes, allowed you to...
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