Assignment task:
It's time to reflect! According to Reflective practice in healthcare and how to reflect effectively, an article posted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "reflection allows you to recognize your own strengths and weaknesses and use it to guide on-going learning" (2017, para. 3). We will use the reflection stages outlined in this article to guide our self-reflection activities each week. Every week you will discuss the achievement of one of the End of Program Student Learning Outcomes (EPSLOs).
Overview:
You will use the stages of reflection with associated prompts to record a video for this week's topic:
EPSLO 5: Apply principles of leadership and interprofessional collaboration to improve patient outcomes.
Reflection Prompts:
- Begin your reflection by telling us what is going well in class and/or clinical?
- Now, think back to a clinical practice experience where you demonstrated leadership while working with the interprofessional team while providing patient care.
1. What, where, and who- the situation: Describe a situation where things went well or wrong
- What happened?
- What was the outcome?
2. How did it make you feel- your emotional state
- How did you feel about the situation?
- Did the situation make you feel good or worse about being a nurse? Why?
3. Why did it happen- making sense of the situation
- Did the situation go well or was there room for improvement?
- Could you have done anything differently- critical review and development of insight
4. Why did it happen-making sense of the situation
- Is there anything you could have done to improve the situation?
- Is there anything you did that was important in the situation?
5. What will you do differently in the future- how will this change your practice
- What knowledge, skills, and/or attitude would you need to better manage a situation like this?
6. Re-enforcement- what happens when you put this into practice
- How has this situation made you a better nurse?
- Is there a person who helped in this situation, that may have gone unnoticed or unacknowledged? Want Professional Help?
Video Submission Criteria:
Commentary length must be 4-5 minutes long (no longer than 5 minutes)