Assignment
This assignment has been designed to have you reflect and critically appraise a relational experience during your clinical rotation.
Relational experiences can be many things including, interpersonal interactions (nurse-client, nurse-nurse, nurse-other), approaches, and communication events. For the purposes of this assignment, you will focus on an interpersonal experience.
The completed assignment should fall between 750 and 1250 words. APA 7th edition must be followed. A introduction page and the reference page are required. Please use the steps below and the RUBRIC as a guide.
Step I:
Reflect on an interpersonal relational experience during clinical and answer the following reflection questions.
Remember to use only initials or pseudonyms to maintain confidentiality.
i. What happened?
ii. What was your role?
iii. How did your experience impact you?
iv. What was your reaction?
v. Feelings, emotions?
vi. What made the experience stand out to you?
Step II:
Apply your knowledge of at least 3 concepts from this course to analyze what factors were involved in this situation and how the experience may have been handled differently. Use correctly cited evidence from three or more scholarly, peer-reviewed sources (beyond the textbook) total. Some questions that might help your analysis:
i. Why you think it might have happened?
ii. How might the situation have been handled differently?
iii. What did you learn?
iv. What were your strengths and your areas for improvement?
v. What learning opportunities did you identify through your experience?
vi. What you need to learn to improve your practice?
vii. What did you learn that you will continue to use throughout your practice?
viii. Did you experience any challenges? If so, what were they? How did you manage them?
Step III:
Describe how you intend to move forward in your nursing practice in the future. Some questions that might help your thinking:
i. What you think will change, if anything, in terms of how you do your work in the future?
ii. Why are these changes important?
iii. How will you adapt to these changes?
iv. Based on your reflection, what areas of your nursing knowledge, skill and judgment can you identify needing professional development?
v. How will addressing these areas help you maintain or improve your nursing knowledge, skills, or judgment?
Adapted from the College of Nurses of Ontario Practice Reflection Guidelines (2022).