Not Anymore Reflection

Schools and colleges have addressed the issue of sexual assault in many ways to try their best to prevent them from occurring. “Most schools have focused on implementing training and awareness programs on campus for students and employees, often with tens of thousands of dollars in funding from federal grant programs.” Many elementary and middle schools have been giving presentations to help prevent and stop this started at an early age to make the students realize how horrible a situation like this can be, it also helps the students become aware of their surroundings. Guest speakers will come onto campuses, whether its school or colleges and will be taught the dangers of the world and the horrible people out there. Colleges have the biggest

The film Sicko was indeed a very powerful and educational documentary about the United States Health Care System. There were numerous stories that resonated with me, but if I were to just choose one, it would have to be the story about the 9/11 rescuers who couldn’t afford to receive treatment for their illnesses, which were caused by their heroism on 9/11. When I heard this story, it just made me so upset that our healthcare system could not make an exception to treat the many heroes of 9/11. On the contrary, they were treated better and on top of that for free by another country. Every single day we are losing thousand and thousand of our people simply because they do not have the means to pay for their treatments. In fact, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website states, that there are still over 28 million people in the United States who are uninsured (Cdc.gov, 2017). The American Journal of Public Health published a new study about the number of deaths found annually for those who are uninsured. The study found that nearly 45,000 annual deaths were associated with the lack of health insurance (Cecere, 2009). These numbers are upsurge and something needs to be done to change this.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

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)

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

Every two minutes someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. Moving closer to home, on our college campuses, one-third of women will be victims of sexual violence before they graduate from a college or university in the United States. Within our seven person student group at Boston University, three of our members are at a high risk of being victims of sexual violence before earning our degrees. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention defines sexual violence as, “Any sexual activity that is not obtained or given freely.” The National Sexual Violence Association explains the different types of sexual violence as rape and sexual assault, child sexual assault and incest, intimate partner sexual assault,

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

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.

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

There is the physical injury that may lead to medical attention; there is always the possibility of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV, and emotional problems. Further, sexual assault can affect a students’ academic achievement as well. Here students rarely perform at their prior academic levels. They are also prone social withdrawal, long-term outcomes such as increased risk of depression, substance abuse, self-harm, post-traumatic stress, personality disorder, and sometimes suicide. Therefore, it is vital that organizations pushed for better training and prevention efforts on college/university campuses, along with more reliable follow-up reports of problems. Also, cultural change is needed, encouraging people to speak openly about what’s happening and to report

The excitement and nervousness of starting a new journey by attending a community college or university is always overwhelming, but it is always overlooked the various dangers of relocating to a new environment and one that is always neglected is the awareness of sexual assault. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center one in five women and one and 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. Within that statistic 90% of the victims do not report the attacks. Colleges across the globe today are required to address the warning signals and procedures to follow in the event of a sexual encounters. Upon new academic school years activist and administrators work to benefit schools on approaching sexual violence encounters.

When presented with this project, we chose to focus on sexual assault because it is a harsh realistic nightmare that poses reoccurring issues in our society. The goal of our campaign is to not only spread awareness about sexual assault, but also to educate about the topic. Although sexual assault is a very common occurrence, it is a sensitive topic; which leads to people and victims feeling hesitant to talk about it, causing so many cases to remain untouched and victims silenced. For our project, we decided to focus on reaching out to our peers since most of them are in college or ages 18-24, where sexual assault is at an all time high. However, sexual assault is not limited strictly to college campuses or other professional academic settings so everything that we are posting relates to anyone – because of the sad truth that sexual assault can happen anytime, to anyone at anywhere.

In the United States, every 98 seconds a person experiences sexual assault and a majority of the victims are between the ages of 12-17 . My interests in attending this program come from the deepest desire to

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.

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