Reflective Reflection

Within this essay I will be concentrating on explaining how an individual can implement reflection in their learning experiences. Applying skills of reflection to a particular learning experience such as induction week will be the main focus of this essay as it will convey the importance of reflecting upon the experience of working with other students.

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

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.

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

Rehabilitation is the process of helping an individual achieve the highest level of function, independence, and quality of life possible. (Lakeland Health, 2016).

Having arrived in Cambridge with a list of particular goals which I wanted to attain during my staying, I understood that it would be challenging to fulfill all my learning needs in such a short time, though now looking back at my initial plan, I see that in fact I have learnt and discovered much more than I expected. Therefore, my reflection essay is multifaceted and demonstrates all the aspects which I have developed and discovered for myself during the studying, such as knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes.

To be good at something, you must fail and learn from your mistakes. I know that writing essays is my weakest point when it comes to scholar work. I tend to want to finish my work as fast as possible with little to no revision. Additionally, because of the want to finish fast, my sentence structure is weak and most of the time it doesn’t make any sense. My writing is often vague since I just want to finish, so I get straight to the point and ignore adding any details to the main points I am covering. But because I have revised every essay I wrote I have seen an improvement in my own writing skills. Despite rushing all the essay, I wrote in WRC 1013 my writing skills have improved because I have revised every essay I have written and fixed

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the process and results of this action research, as well as the growth that was made personally.

Who is the boy I see in the mirror? He is over-weighted, unsuccessful, paranoid, and insecure. It was a grotesque reflection of myself and a visualization of a loser. So I was frequently scared to confront my true-self in the mirror and ignored my fundamental problem.

Thinking back on my essays for this term, the revision process was extremely helpful. In my essays, I would occasionally have issues with phrasing or punctuation usage as well as developing my concepts and being able to express them clearly. Having others revise me essays helped me understand where I wasn’t being clear and helped me catch some bad sentence structures. Often, when peer reviewing, I would spend a lot of time and effort revising other’s essays, but get very little feedback in return. I would often have to review my own essay, which was actually beneficial because it gave me more time to focus on my concepts and think critically about my writing. For example, my argument essay was hard to understand because I had too wide of a subject. I didn’t realize this until I re-read my essay and thought about how everything was hard to connect. I ended up deleting about half of my paper and focusing in on a more specific aspect of my original topic, which helped the essay flow smoothly between my concepts and arguments. Professor Michell was a crucial part of my revision process. Because I didn’t get enough feedback from my peers, I still needed someone else to look over my essay and help me work through my issues. I found it extremely helpful that Professor Michell was open to looking over students essays with them. The feedback provided by her helped me express myself clearly, catch tricky punctuation issues, and connect and develop my concepts more fully.

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.

How your body looks plays an important role in your life. It only takes one tenth of a second for people to process and form an opinion on another individual. In this incredibly short amount of time your appearance, body language, mannerism, and clothing are all evaluated. This snap judgement shapes your social groups, the way you are treated, whether or not you are considered good enough, et cetera. Through my experience, I’ve become more aware of the judgements regarding my ethnicity and it’s come to my understanding that in order to be accepted, you must meet the standards built by those around you. These standards obviously include how you body itself looks, however on further examination the root of such judgements on the body is