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Throughout personal professional development reflection is essential, allowing health care professionals to self-develop by revisiting events and analysing areas in which improvements and learning would ensure a positive impact on their future practice. The Nursing and Midwifery Council, (NMC, 2010) notes that all health care practitioners must be self-aware in their own values and principles which could affect their practice. Ensuring they maintain personal and professional development while learning through supervision, feedback and reflection.

This paragraph is about the concept of reflection and how it aids the professional development of a newly graduated nurse. To do this, we first have to understand what is reflection. The Australian health practitioner regulation agency (APHRA), are responsible for regulating the health professions (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 2016). All nurses must practise under the Nursing and midwifery board of Australia’s National competency standards for the registered nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 2016). Included in these standards is the Critical thinking and

People first need to know what ALS is. ALS is very difficult to diagnose. So far there is no

It is suggested that reflection can be used as a tool to facilitate learning through practice, this involves not only taking action in practice but also learning from practice through reflection (Palmer, Burns and Bulman, 1994). I felt that I was not taking action because I did not pass the information through to the nurse in charge.

Schon (1987) identified two types of reflection that could be applied in the nursing practice. He described “refection-on-action” that involves assessing and analyzing an action while performing the action and “reflection-in-action” which involves going back to previous actions and situations and analyzing them to gain new insights and to improve the nursing practice (Schon 1987). Schon further argued that for reflection to take place there should be a commitment to action as there is to results. Coined in 1970, Borton’s theory on the other hand, proposes the use of three stem questions in the reflective practice (Borton, 1970). These questions were originally proposed by John Driscoll who described the experiential learning cycle (Driscoll, 1994) where practitioners are able to learn from their experiences to improve their practice. According to Driscoll (1970) these trigger questions could be used to complete the experiential learning cycle leading to a practitioner gaining new information and insights on how to improve their practice (Driscoll, 1994). The importance of Driscoll’s three stem questions in improving practice reflection among nurses cannot be underestimated. By answering these stem questions, nurses develop a better insight into the situation regarding how and why it occurred and identifies the next courses of action in case the situation recurs.

Professional nurses are encouraged to engage in reflection because nursing knowledge is embedded in practical experiences (Stein-Parbury, 2000). The reasons why reflection is important in nursing includes; firstly, reflection challenges assumptions. Price and Harrington (2010), pointed this out especially as nurses today have greater autonomy and more responsibility. Intriguingly, Driscoll (2007) added that reflective practice is an opportunity to capture, examine and challenge some set patterns of working and such examination might lead to the realization that there is a need for change. One can consider his suggestion a tool to Argyris and Schön’s (1974) statement that practitioners often practice at less than effective levels because they

The first source is an article from kidshealth.org. It mainly explains what ALS is, using the method of persuasion logos. It gives you the

As we can see the integration of these three subjects greatly increases our understanding the ALS

This paragraph is about the concept of reflection and how it aids professional development in nursing. To do this, we first have to understand what reflection and reflective practise is. The Nursing and midwifery board of Australia’s National competency standards for the registered nurse under the Critical thinking and analysis domain requires the nurse to reflects on own practice to identify professional development needs. This comes under the heading of: Participates in professional development to enhance nursing practice (Nursing and Midwifery Board of

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has been heard of at some point whether it was studied in school, talked about through word of mouth, or one decided to partake in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that swept the internet recently in support of the disease. This paper is going to delve into explaining the manifestations of this disease, its treatment and talk about the man this disease was named after.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) is a group of neurological diseases that mainly involve the nerve cells responsible for coordinating voluntary movements in body muscles (Salameh, Brown Jr, and Berry 26). Voluntary muscles are responsible for movements like talking, walking, and chewing. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is progressive in nature, and with no known cure, a victim can expect to live between 2 and 5 years after diagnosis (Salameh et al. 27).

Lou Gehrig’s disease, otherwise known as ALS, is a disease within the nervous system that weakens muscles and creates negative effects on the physical form. The memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie, an old man named Morrie was a professor who was diagnosed with ALS. A student of his, Mitch, knew about this and began to visit him every Tuesday. The reason for this is when Mitch was a student, he would always go to Morrie when he needed to. Morrie began to suffer a bit more. The symptoms had worsened. Most of his physical abilities were restrained; Morrie was dying. However, this doesn’t stop him from what he does best. Teaching. Morrie teaches people to live life through the support of family, learning on what to give to others, and moving on from regret.

Reflection is the examination of personal thoughts and actions. For practitioners especially nurses, it means focusing on how they interact with their peers and with the environment to obtain a clearer picture of their own behavior. Kanuka (2002) writes that reflection is an essential component of understanding complex problems, issues, and concepts. Albeit meanings, patterns, and purpose become clear. Elder, Evans and Nizette (2009) say that allowing self-reflection to guide our nursing practice can improve outcomes because a strong sense of self-enables us to deal with problems better and even with other individuals. Looking back at my group before and after the debate process, I realized that the group had members coming from diverse backgrounds, had different opinions, personalities, and belief systems. It was, therefore, imperative to create an environment between the team members that would allow for trust, collaboration, harmony, teamwork, respect, non-judgmental and open to every group members opinions. This would limit confrontation and allow the team to work cohesively and together so as to avoid any disagreements that would arise. Tuckman’s theory of group development was used in our discussion of group development. According to Tuckman (1965), group process development goes through various stages namely forming, norming, performing and adjournment. The group consisted of five members, two opposing the motion while two were for the motion and one person was to be

My way of forming may not fit in the conventional sense, as I remember the very first day I entered the classroom to join my fellow students, I said, very happily - knowing what types of reactions I would receive, "Goodmorning" (big smile on my face) and everyone responded in quick succession, "Goodmorning", I also felt they thought I was a new tutor. You should have seen their faces, it was hysterical, total obliteration, when they found out I was a fellow student, well wasn 't that, a 'kodak moment '. I will say that it was an exciting day to come on board and sit amongst my very young peers, to see where I might fit, to find my ability to soak up information

Morrie 's former student Mitch, returns to Morrie years later, after coming across a TV interview of his old professor on “Nightline”. After graduating college, Mitch became a sports reporter journalist, caught up in mainstream values and had lost touch with what was truly important in life. Mitch and Morrie begin to meet every Tuesday and with each lesson Morrie passes down to him, Mitch is able to grow and return his meaningful, individual values. This book is incredibly relevant to our class and the field of health psychology because it highlights the physical difficulties of the disease ALS, that Morrie has no choice but to surrender to. Along side that though, is the psychological side of the story of how Morrie handles his disease emotionally and the way he