Reflection

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).

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

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.

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.

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,

In the final days of this semester, one tends to look back at the work done over a difficult and long three months. In the case of this English composition class, reflecting on completed essays has allowed me to analyze the development of my writing over the semester. Although this semester consisted of only five essays, it has become apparent to me that my writing has improved in many aspects throughout the semester. One general example of this improvement is the vocabulary, where simple vocabulary in the first essay had become more complex by the final essays. Additionally, I also believe that my writing has become more reflective of my actual voice and opinions, an improvement considering my first essays were best described as vague.

I will reflect on an incident that occurred during my shift to develop positive attitude towards nursing informatics.

Originally, I thought that I would group the articles by themes to complete my weekly reflections. For instance, the Week 12 reflection would incorporate the theoretical and/or philosophical underpinnings of conceptual understandings as discussed in the works of Simon (1995) and Samara & Clements (2004). Then, Week 13 would explore the affordances and constraints of learning trajectories highlighted in the work of Daro, Mosher, & Corcoran (2011), Empson (2011), and Myers, Sztajn, Wilson, & Edgington (2015). But, as I finished the Simon article, and then the Daro article, I realized that I was really struggling to make sense of the importance of the Simon article. As with all other articles, (and maybe this is a flaw of mine), if I spend

In this lesson there are multiple process skills, knowledge, and skills to be included and emphasized. When doing this lesson, I would be addressing the process skills of communicating, measuring, comparing, contrasting, organizing, and analyzing. Student would partake in communicating during the class discussion about frog calls, when the groups discuss and create their frog calls, and when sharing with the class the frog calls they made. Measuring would take place during the extension game whenever the biologist times and records the time it took the female frog to find a mate. Comparing and contrasting would be done in the “Guess who makes that sound?” game. The students will be comparing and contrasting the frog sounds to their prior knowledge and to each of the frog sounds. They do this to try and figure out what animals is making that sound. Organizing will be addressed through the KLEWS chart. The students will organize their ideas, wonderings, evidence, and the like into the KLEWS chart. Also, the students will organize their data gathered in the extension game. Lastly, students analyze the observations they made during the entire lesson and that information was written in the Learning, Evidence, and Scientific Principle columns of the KLEWS chart. All of these process skills I will emphasize and guide the students through. Skills addressed in this lesson were communicating skills and engineering skills. Students need to know how to communicate in order to

Prior to this course, my interpretation of an effective public speaker is one that could memorize a speech and perfectly deliver it with eloquent and impressive words. While that certainly seems like a good idea, I quickly realized the eloquent speaker may be unethical, unorganized, and ignore the needs of the audience. Verderber, Sellnow, and Verderber (2015) further this by saying the eloquence of words in a speech can be irrelevant if the words are not understood by, or do not affect the audience. Throughout this course the emphasis of a proper and effective speech centered around the importance of the “rhetorical situation” which blends the speaker, occasion, and audience (Verderber et al., 2015, p.10). In this paper, I will discuss what I have learned through peer and instructor critiques of my presentations and how I will apply the theories and basic principles of being an effective speaker in the real world, keeping in mind the biblical principles above all.

Throughout the school year I have tended to repeat the same mistake. In the beginning, I fell into plot summary syndrome. This was displayed in my October Sky literary analysis, and my All Quiet comparative literature paper. However, I was able to pin point the reason for this, I kept over thinking my ideas for analysis. I wouldn’t write down the actual ideas I had because I scared they would be wrong so I tried to play safe and summarize points I already made, or those explicitly stated in the book. I think I have improved, but I hope to continue to be conscious of this in the future. Another mistake that I had in the beginning of the year was my issue with organization. In earlier grades I was taught the hamburger model along with many