STAFS Reflection

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

Hello my dear friend! I hope you are doing well. I am just writing to let you know that I finally started my semester at STCC. As you know, I missed the last two semesters due to situations that got out of my hands. I have a new job, but I also switched to Liberal Arts. At the moment, I am enrolled as a full-time student. My husband says I might regret it, because it can get overwhelming for me due to the language barrier, and having too much in my plate. Although, he might be right about having too much; I will do my best to finish this semester with good grades. One of the classes I signed up to is History-110, section E80. My professor’s name is John Diffley. I do not know him yet since it is my first week in school, but he seems to love

Upon entering into Barry University (B.U.), I was an insecure black African- American woman full of passion coupled with a myriad misconceptions of what I thought social work consist of. However, during my two years as a undergrad student I learned that those misconceptions had kept me stagnant in facing and understanding my past traumatic events of life that could have had an negative effected on further clients and how I interact with others. For that reason, I would say my best experience in Barry’s BSW program was an assignment that I had to partake in called the Cultural Journal. This assignment not only hope me to learned about my cohorts’ culture as a Philippine woman, I learned that our culture had a lot in common such as that the

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 interest in forensic science has grown so much that the employment will be strong. In 2006, 12,310 forensic scientists were employed in the United States (Echaore-McDavid and McDavid 29). From 2012 to 2022, experts have projected that there will be 5,800 jobs available (Summary Report). However, a lot of forensic scientists have been employed by private labs, so there is a backload of work. This means that employers are looking for skilled and experienced criminalists (Echaore-McDavid and McDavid 29). Public laboratories are looking for finances to add additional jobs, but because of the lack of funds, they don’t have enough forensic scientists (Echaore-McDavid and McDavid 29). Finding a job as a forensic scientist should be easy, because a lot of laboritories are looking to hire experienced criminalists.

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.

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)

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.

I'm not having a go at you personally Gemma , but I really need some feedback regarding the written assignments I sent on the 4 th February ( nearly 5 weeks ).

During my time at ALC, I’ve learned a lot from my peers. Prior to coming to this course, I thought I had a good understanding of how I projected the attributes and competencies of a good NCO on subordinates, peers, and my leadership. However, after discussions with my classmates about the qualities of a leader, seeing how they react in different situations, and the feedback I received from my peers about my performance has shown me a lot of areas that I can improve in as a leader.

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.

Forensic Science Investigators (FSI) study physical evidence to solve crimes. Forensic science, itself, is the application of science and technology to civil cases and the criminal justice system. FSI’s usually work full time during regular business hours. Most investigators work in police departments and offices, crime laboratories, morgues, and medical examiner/coroner offices. At crime scenes, FSI’s often take pictures, analyze, and sketch the crime scene. They record observations, collect evidence, and catalog evidence for transfer to crime labs. Many forensic science investigators’ have an

Since the BSW program was really strong in viewing diversity, my experiences prepared me in understanding the view of social work and diversity a little more.

The creation of my storify was a positive experience for me. Not only did it allow me to enhance my understanding of my Unit three topic and revisit my original paper, but it sparked my creative sense. Weaving the various multimedia sources together and blending them with text to make a coherent, linear story was a difficult task. To adapt my unit three task to unit four, I had to make some minor adjustments and refocus the scope of my project. To adapt to the new setting, it was awkward to reuse the same exact topic and sources. Not only such, but it was stimulating to create a new avenue to explore. As I continued further into the project, I began to see the advantages and disadvantages to working with storify instead of the standard paragraph-by-paragraph essay. An interesting aspect to this unit is that we were publishing our projects for the rest of

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.