...(Oxbridgewriters, 2011). Definition Cont’d It is a process by which practitioners focus on how they interact with their colleagues and environment in order to obtain a clearer picture of their own behaviour, thus building on existing strengths. Reflective Practitioner is usually engaged in some kind of activity (often professional) which they can use to reflect on their strengths, weaknesses and areas for development (Somerville & Keeling, 2004) Definition Cont’d Critical reflection includes questioning routines, habitual practice, challenging “conventional wisdom”, being able to ask others and ourselves “why-type” questions . Such as: 1What is my nursing care like? 2 Why is it like this? 3 How has it come to be this way? 4 What aspect of it would I like to improve? 5 Whose interest are being served (or denied) by my job? (Scribid, 2010) Benefits of Reflective Practice Increases confidence and allows one to become a more proactive professional; Improves the quality of care given and close the gap between theory and practice; It provides a deeper understanding of our approach to nursing and leads to greater effectiveness as a nurse; (Somerville & Keeling, 2004; Wipp, 2006) Benefits of Reflective Practice Improves communication and interaction with colleagues; Develops autonomy, self-awareness and self-direction; ...
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...Summary Paper Teresa Nabors Southern Nazarene University Nursing Attributes, Leadership and Critical Thinking As many have found over the years, nursing is not a profession cut out for just anyone. The average person cannot juggle twenty things at once, expertly handle emergencies that would send anyone else in a panic frenzy, and all the while remain calm and composed, as an experienced nurse does on a daily basis. What many do not know is that this smooth performance is driven by the nursing attributes, skills, and concepts that are necessary components integrated in the nursing profession of great nurses today. I believe the values of critical thinking, flexibility, strong communication skills, emotional stability, interpersonal communication and advocacy are the hallmark ingredients that distinguish the great nurses from the rest. Nursing is about going beyond the task given and a successful nurse encompasses a degree of these core attributes, as well as understanding the essential knowledge of the necessary concepts of leadership and critical thinking. This paper will discuss the attributes and concepts that I think are necessary in setting nursing apart from just any profession and will reflect on the values and practices that I believe makes me the nurse that I am today . Being a nurse can be tremendously rewarding to the soul, but it also demands much of those who pursue it. Nursing is a highly honored, trusted profession that has been steeped in rich values...
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...assignment is to reflect upon my communication and interpersonal skills used during my clinical placement on a ward for acute medical admissions for older people. I will reflect upon how I used those skills to help build therapeutic relationships with patients and how that helped to assist in their recovery. Therapeutic relationships involve developing trust between a patient and practitioner. It forms the basis of a relationship that is essentially safe and confidential, with clear boundaries and leads to better communication and therefore a better outcome for the patient. (Pullen & Mathias, 2010) Being able to reflect upon situations is vital in the role of the nurse. Being able to examine personal thoughts and perceptions enables the nurse to have greater self awareness and build upon strengths and develop personal and professional competencies. (Somerville, D. et al 2004) Reflection has been described as being able to think about a situation, make sense of it and ultimately learn from it. (Clarke and Graham 1996) Taking a period of time to reflect and review a situation allows a person to move on and through the learning experience, become a better practitioner (Bulman et al 2012) By being able to reflect and ask myself what would I do differently or could my practice have been better will only help to develop my skills and knowledge and influence my future as a practitioner in a positive way. Having looked at several reflective models of learning, such as Gibbs...
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...professional journals, conferences, and continuing education programs (Boud & Walker, 1998). Many other names for profesional journal appear in nursing literature, including log, journaling, narrative pedagogy, dialogue journals, reflective practice, and reflective writing. Whatever people says, reflective profesional journal requires writing, a great deal of it. However, journals are an integral part of the teaching/learning in many nursing programs as well as in allied health programs and education in general. The purpose of this essay is to review the literature related to profesional journal and reflective practice and how it can be beneficial in the teaching/learning process. Reflective practice is a means of self-examination that involves looking back over what has happened in practice in an effort to improve performance or to encourage professional growth (Ruth-Sahd, 2003). Profesional journal is a method that is frequently used in nursing education as an active learning technique to enhance reflective practice. Why is reflective practice so important? The literature cites numerous reasons for utilizing profesional journal/reflective practice in the academic setting. According to Pinkstaff (1985), students find that ideas become clearer when they must write them down. Profesional journal or journaling allows students to examine their own role and activities as they relate to the context of the clinical...
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....Family Case Study: The Friedman Family Assessment Model (Stanhope, Appendix E pg 1035) provides you with one example of the types of data that need to be collected to conduct a family assessment. This assessment tool is useful when the nurse is assessing the family from a public health or community-based perspective. For this written assignment you will apply the Friedman Family Assessment Model to your own family. This paper is designed to expand upon your knowledge of family as client. Upon completion of the assessment you will reflect on how you define ‘family’ and how your definition of this influences your nursing practice. 1. Conduct an interview of your family, using the Friedman Assessment Model 2. Write a 6-8 page scholarly paper supported by a minimum of 5 current (within 5 years) scholarly references 3. Base your results on the interview with your family using the outline below. Make sure that you have covered all areas of the outline below: Family Case Study Paper: A. Identifying Data 1. Include your name 2. Identify family composition (complete family composition form) 3. Discuss cultural/ethnic/religious background 4. Identify social class status 5. Discuss family’s recreational or leisure time activities B. Developmental and Environmental Data 1. Identify family’s present developmental stage 2. Describe the extent of developmental tasks fulfillment 3. Discuss nuclear family’s history 4. Discuss history...
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...Critical Reflection on current clinical knowledge and development Within this assignment I will critically reflect on my clinical knowledge to date and consider my future development needs with a focus on my final management placement and future career as a registered nurse. I have chosen two areas which I feel are relevant to my future development needs namely Quality Assurance and Multidisciplinary/Agency team working and using the Gibbs model (fig. 1)as a framework will reflect upon my own learning experiences and achievements to date and write an annotated reflection highlighting my development needs from which I will formulate a Personal Development Plan. This undertaking demonstrates my commitment to the need for continuing professional development in order to enhance my knowledge, skills values and attitude needed for effective nursing practice (proficiency 4.1) and will address deficits in my knowledge and skills and identify any shortcomings within my own or others practice and help me cope with practice related issues experienced within my previous placements. I have chosen Gibbs reflective model as a basis for reflection as I feel it is easily understood and encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience, conclusion and reflection upon the experience to consider a solution if the situation arose again (Brooker & Nicol 2003). It has been advocated that reflective practices are a method of bridging the gap between...
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...Parker Palmer’s book. Throughout my experience as a nursing instructor, discovered that is teaching students in terms of paradigm shift or perspective transformation is my passion. I have been teaching in my nursing college about thirteen years, through which I encountered both negative and positive experiences. Since I became a nursing instructor, I never considered that I required having a teaching philosophy. However, I figured out that working in the college persuade me to think outside the box. Lateral thinking is my inspiration to create personal philosophy of adult teaching...
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...become a better facilitator in the future. Having experiences from my previous clinical posting, I realized that nursing profession is not only about patient’s bedside care, but also workplace improvement by facilitating others for example students, colleagues and patient health teaching. Gopee (2011) defined facilitating learning is that the learner becomes aware that they should be the originator of their thinking, meaning to say the learner should take more control of their learning instead of passively receive information from the teacher. In addition, facilitating learning is usually form part of healthcare’s professional code, as mentioned in code of practice by Nursing Midwifery Council (2008) that registered nurse must be willing to share their experiences and skills for the good of their colleagues and must facilitate student and others to develop their competent. In order to fulfill this subject, I have two main parts to complete. First, a plan for facilitating a learning session applied all the relevant theories that have been lecturing, and the second part, I am going to write here is a reflective essay using Gibb’s (1988) reflective cycle on what I have learn from this module and my learning from the observed session. In this paper, I used the Gibbs cycle cited in Kilgallon and Thompson (2012). Gibbs (1988) cycle is a widespread model for reflection. It comprises of 6 stages: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan, all which I would...
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...A). There are three different models of health and healing for the the human body. All three are useful in the nursing practice to assist patients in the healing process. There is physical-body, body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. Of all the three there two I favor, body-mind and body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social. They hope for the same outcome, a better patient, but have different style of approaches. Body-mind is one of the oldest health and healing models and originated from ancient healing practice such as Traditional chinese medicine. Nursing that promotes body-mind healing relies on strategies that soothe and relax the mind and body such as yoga, visual imagery, biofeedback and meditation to alleviate pain and stress while preventing infections by boosting immunity (Mind-Body Medicine, 2016). Being an avid yoga participant I know personally the benefits of mind-body health and healing. This model started becoming widely popular in the 1950’s and focuses on a person’s own ability to heal through becoming aware of their own feelings and beliefs (Koerner, J. 2016). This gives the patient the ability to participate in their own healing process. It empowers the patient by putting the ability to control stress, pain, etc through processes without relying on medicine or other health technology and professionals. Body-mind-spirit/bio-psycho-social health and healing model treats the entire patient. Its focus encompassess gentics, behavior and culture when approaching assisting...
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...Agency QAA (2001), Section 9 pg 4, Code of Practice for the assurance of academic quality standards in Higher Education Institutions) Accessed on 24.6.05 www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/codeOfPractice/section9/PlacementLearning.pdf Facilitation roles Those who facilitate placement learning undertake a variety of roles which may include support, assessment and facilitation of learning. There is a wide range of role titles that describe these roles including: Assessor, Mentor, Practice Educator, Preceptor, Clinical Teacher, Associate Mentor, Clinical Educator or Practice Teacher. 2 Version 1 September 2005 © School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Contents 'Mentoring' 2005 - a resource Definitions How to use this resource What's in it for me? Preparing for the student Links to theory Top tips: identifying learning opportunities Example learning opportunities Learning objectives or goals Example learning objectives Links to theory Ideas for orientation to the placement Top tips: successful placement relationships...
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...VARK Analysis Paper Rachael Sprague Grand Canyon University: NRS – 429V Family Centered Health Promotion July 5th, 2015 Analysis of Learning Styles Learning styles of individual students vary and as a consequence, learning needs also change from each student to the next (Liew, Sidhu, & Barua, 2015). The “styles” for learning that are widely adopted include the Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic (VARK) model, developed by Fleming and Mills (1992) include Visual (V), Auditory (A), Read/Write (R) and Kinaesthetic (K) types of learning approaches. The Visual (V) learner learns best by the use of information by visual means (using of charts, mindmaps, and other visual aids). The Auditory (A) learner understands best by hearing the information. The Read/Write (R) learner learns best when the information is shown in written word or displayed. The Kinaesthetic (K) learner learns best with practice or simulation (Liew, Sidhu, & Barua, 2015). In the past, institutional study methods were confined to lectures and self-study. A major part of education depended upon lectures. Information technology had widely changed the modes available related to knowledge acquirements for 21st century students. With a variety of educational aids available these days, it is important to identify the most efficient way to complement and deliver knowledge in order to help the students to become exceptional learners. In this way they can become the best students possible. Types of Learning ...
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...current position as a band 5 registered nurse for 6 years since I completed a returned to nursing course in September 2005 facilitated by the trust where I am now employed on a full time basis. I have enclosed a current job description at Appendix 1 (attached). For the purpose of this study I have chosen to reflect on 3 learning events that have impacted on me to provide positive outcomes and enrich my working practice. Within the main body of the study I will expand on each individual learning experience based on Gibbs’ cycle of reflection (1988) combined with influence from Johns’ cycle of reflection (1994). See Appendix 2 - 2a (attached). I have chosen to incorporate Gibbs model of reflection as I feel it is quite straight forward and clearly outlines a framework to help me logically describe the event, discuss feelings, evaluate the experience and how it impacted on me and my practice. It leads to a final conclusion with considerations for improvement that I will refer to as my action plan. I have incorporated aspects of Johns’ model of reflection as it quite usefully prompts more detailed consideration of the processes of analysing a situation e.g. influencing factors within an experience. I will explore the implications of the learning events in relation to my professional development and identify any learning needs so that in conclusion I am able to show an action plan to propose how these needs will be met. Jarvis (1992) describes the reflective practitioner as...
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...How to Guide for REFLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Guide for REFLECTION The National Service-Learning Cooperative ServeAmerica K-12 Clearinghouse Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center Compiled by Lorraine Parrillo Cooperative/Clearinghouse Coordinator Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center December 5, 1994 Used with their permission INTRODUCTION This module includes a summary of materials currently used to support reflection in the service learning movement. Crucial information presented includes: 1. Introductory materials on Reflection by Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad 2. Reflective teaching techniques using eleven different forms of reflection rather than just using journals and asking how participants feel about service 3. Basic critical thinking skills that may be used in reflection sessions 4. Bibliography Reflection Reflective learning techniques are not the lone providence of service activities. All thinking and dialogue requires some form of reflection if learning is to take place. Individuals need time and reconsideration of events to put facts and ideas into sequence and eventually into a better understanding as to what happened during a specific event. Everyone in their life-time will be required to repeat this process endlessly. Nevertheless, schools do little...
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...belonging, and a passion for being involved in one another’s lives (Wright, Watson & Bell, 1996). The family visited was a nuclear family. The term nuclear family was developed in the western world to distinguish the family group consisting of a father and mother, and their children, from what is known as an extended family (Wright & Leahey, 2005). Nuclear families can be any size, as long as the family can support itself and there are only the parents and children. The purpose of the interview presented in this paper was to discover and describe the experience of pregnancy by a married woman who is in her late twenties. The paper presents the findings observed in the interview and ends with a series of conclusions and personal reflections on the interview method. The confidentiality of the pregnant lady’s name and that of any member of her family will be respected throughout the paper. This essay is an example of a student's work Disclaimer This essay has been submitted to us by a student in order to help you with your studies. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. Essay Writing ServiceEssay Marking ServiceExample Essays Who wrote this essayBecome a Freelance WriterPlace an Order The interview with Mrs. B was conducted in her home which was where she said she felt most comfortable answering...
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...National League for Nursing Evaluation and Learning Advisory Committee (ELAC) ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION ELAC Members: Marilyn H. Oermann (Chair) Karen Saewert (Chair-elect) Pamela Rutar Suzanne Yarbrough Sub-committee Members: Reba Childress Dawne-Marie Dunbar Sally Erdel Barbara Haas Evelyn Hayes Debra Hurd Sheila Kyle Gayle Preheim, Chair Linda Siktberg Gale R. Woolley, Chair A comprehensive literature review was completed, reflecting best practices in assessment, evaluation, and grading in nursing. This annotated bibliography of the literature is organized into four areas: assessment and evaluation in (a) the classroom, (b) the online environment, (c) clinical practice, and (d) learning and simulation laboratories. There is a fifth section that provides references on the assessment of psychomotor learning and performance; that section is not annotated. This work was completed by members of ELAC and its subcommittees as noted above. 1 CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT Ahmad, N. (2002). Evaluation of teaching: Through eyes of students. Plano: Institutional Research Office, Collin County Community College District. This article reviews the student evaluations instruments used to evaluate learning and faculty in the classroom. The purpose of this article was to search for come standardized instruments of student evaluations. Instruments used are: Individual Developmental and Educational Assessment (IDEA), Student Assessment of...
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