Focusing Reflection

My smart goals for this semester were focus charting, PAF and confidence. I feel that I have touched on my goal of focus charting by understanding how charting is meant to be, finding a good template to use for many of the assessments that I have done and making sure that is approved and having the confidence from my instructor. However, as the semester continues I feel that I can continue focusing on this as a goal, which will allow me to continue building my charting ability. Furthermore, I feel that I have brushed on my confidence goal by practicing outside of the clinical setting, making sure I understand what I am doing and why, and asking questions when I need some feedback. This goal is one that I feel that I need to continue because

I am writing in concern of the Focus 2 assessment. This assessment is made up of 5 short questionnaires. Each one of the surveys, consist of roughly eighteen multiple choice questions. These questions all come from personal knowledge as well as personal preferences. Once each assessment is completed, the software gathers the information to compute majors that are most likely in one’s career interest. On personal experience, upon personal completion of the assessment, I was amazed by the outcome of the results. In my work interest assessment I scored high in artistic and low in conventional, these results surprised because I never thought of myself being artistic in ways of poetry, singing, acting, or painting. My personal values were income,

I am a mental health counselor working towards licensure in the state of Washington. I have a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University Seattle. In my current counseling practice, I work with individual adults (over 18). I take a humanistic approach to therapy; in our sessions together, we will focus on the here-and-now of your experience, while also exploring your past and social context to the extent they are relevant to your present concerns. Our first meeting will be a time for you to tell your story; then, together, we will assess your concerns and issues, and decide on the goals toward which you would like to move (Hilton, 2016). As we continue through the therapy process, we

This reflective essay will be adopted from Rolfe, Freshwater and Jasper’s (2001) reflection model. This reflection is based on a case study that I have read and will be based on the intervention I have chosen to treat the patient. Mr. Castello was admitted to the ward for observation after a fight and sustaining a laceration to his right forehead from a beer bottle and extensive bruising and scratches to his left arm. Mr. Castello had a pre-existing chest infection, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM), and asthma. Assessing, cleaning and dressing his wounds is an integral part of his treatment, as his DM can lead to delayed wound healing and increased chance of infection (Salazar, Ennis, & Koh, 2016). This could be successfully achieved through

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

For the last six weeks in both mental and acute setting, I have reflected on events that I had met in each week. Now, I am going to identify essential personal learning outcomes from those events and will include personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses. Among the different models of reflection, I will use the Gibbs model of reflection which entails six stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan.

Your summary was easy to follow and provided the overview I needed to understand the subject and main events. The positive economic incentive used to stimulate improvement failed, as it did not compensate for the gap left when America removed God from education. While most teachers would probably follow the guidelines of their administration and would understand the rational provided, the need to be compensated must have been stronger. I would recommend the school system consider an external review process and instituting feedback directly from the teachers and parents together to an impartial board.

Often it is said that you fight till the finish line. It certainly was true for a character from the movie Unbroken. Now let’s compare fighting till you reach the finish line of the 2014 movie Unbroken to the poem “The Wound- Dresser” by Walt Whitman. As I look over the course of the movie Unbroken, Louis Zampaeni transforms from a weak boy to a man full of perseverance.

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

Advanced practice nursing (APN) can be loosely defined as an area of nursing in which nurses are required to practice at an advanced level in a specific area of interest. APN extends the boundaries of nursing’s scope of practice and contributes to nursing knowledge, and the development of the profession (Canadian Nurses Association, 2008). In order to become an APN, the nurse must obtain a master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited university in an area of concentration designated for advanced practice nursing. According to Joel (2009), there are currently four major groups of APNs: certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners. APN focus on

What is the influence one classroom and one teacher can have on a person's writing? The answer being “a lot” because being a part of one English class my sophomore year made it possible for me to understand more about writing and the skills needed to achieve at the process. The teacher that I had such great communication with that year not only made it possible for me to understand what I was doing wrong, but how I could fix my problems. Without changing my writing from the past, I would still be stuck with essays and papers that lack flow and structure. Writing is such a great skill that is strongly needed in the field I wish to study and eventually one day work for in the future. While to some English and writing may not be important,

During these last 10 weeks, I have participated in the Pro Focused Development Experience which it has given me the ability to sharpen my storytelling and presentation skills. During our first three weeks of this experience, we explored the Pro job description, and we learned the different training behaviors at Apple. In addition, I had the opportunity to present my favorite app to the group, and I received positive feedback and negative specific feedback after presenting. My positive feedback was about my presentation structure and my storytelling. On the other hand, my negative specific feedback was during my transitions, and I needed to show more confidence.

I begin each skill lesson with an assessment of some kind. I prefer that these assessment NOT be a multiple choice format but rather an open ended assessment that allows for student choice in presentation of their understanding. Once I understand where my students are performing on the skill, I design research based lessons that address the individual needs of both my struggling students as well as those that may be approaching or met mastery of the concepts. Of course not all lessons can address all learners and student needs vary greatly. I will also work one-on-one with students outside of the normal classroom structure to ensure that each student who needs my time receives it. I formatively assess students along the way and modify instruction

We were pacing the never ending halls of the hospital, the smell pungent of antiseptic and antibiotics in the air. Stage IV lung cancer was slowly killing my aunt and finally she withered away, leaving us to live without her. The loss of Marissa destroyed my grandma, my aunt Lucy and me. She was a light in a world full of darkness and now we had to live without her shining smile. Death, sickness, and weakness in real life and in the short story “The Looking Glass,” causes those around them to emote their loss. Nellie is a “pretty young thing and the daughter of a landowner and general” (Chekhov 1). She faces dejection when she loses “the destined one” she is meant to spend all of eternity with due to Typhoid fever. In “The Looking Glass,” Chekhov uses character development, symbolism, and diction to show that love slaughters rationality.