Assessment 2 Reflective Journal
Assessment 2 Reflective Journal
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Weighting 30%
Word count/length 1500 words(+/-10%)
SILOs 3
4
Purpose
Write a paper based on critical reflection on specialty clinical issues
Task details
Students are required to keep an account of their clinical learning experience in a journal entry.
Students are required to reflect on three clinical situations they experienced related to their specific area of practice.
Examples of clinical situations that students can reflect upon will include at least 3 themes from the following list (but not limited to):
Meeting the educational needs of the patients, families and significant others.
Functioning as a nurse in a multidisciplinary health care team
Communication problems with colleagues/clients/clients families
Clinical issues
Ethical dilemmas.
Students need to identify their personal and professional parameters in a way they have handled the situation that evolved from their clinical practice, reflect on those aspects and identify the learning points.
Students will use the Gibbs reflective cycle as a framework for their reflection.
Students must add some suggestions/recommendations at the end, resulting from analysing their reflections.
Students will need to allocate time to reflect on their experiences in practice, explore their personal thoughts, feelings and emotions, focusing on positive and negative aspects of the experience.
Guidelines for using Gibbs reflective cycle as a framework for their reflective journaling
In this unit, students are required to reflect on their learning experiences by adapting Gibbs model of reflection to describe an event/issue/problem they have encountered in their specialty clinical practice.
Description:Explore the context of the event in a specialty area of an acute care setting and describes the event, where it happened and what actually occurred.
Feelings/emotions:Explore and describe your thoughts and feelings at the time of the event/issue/problem encountered.
Evaluation:Make your own judgement as a nurse, about the outcome of the event; to identify what went well and areas for improvement. Was the event resolved satisfactorily?. Self- examination and self-evaluation of the event/issue/problem encountered.
Analysis:Draw on your critical thinking/analysis as a nurse to explore the situation at a deeper level and consider, why the event occurred, and if anything could have been implemented to prevent this event from happening.
Conclusion:Explore alternative actions that may be used to deal with similar situations to affect a more positive outcome.
Action Plan:Consider the event and to put in place a plan which, on implementation, would deal more effectively with similar future events. This could include further educational training/skills development.
Other Instructions
Select literature/research articles that provide the strongest evidence for your topic. Your articles must be 10 years old.
Minimum ten references are required. These references must be 10 years old.
Use APA7 Format for referencing.
Information cited from unreliable websites, pamphlets or magazines is not acceptable for this paper.
1500 words equivalent (+/-10%) (excluding embedded references such as the bracketed author/date information andthe reference list).
This is a written academic text so it should be well structured overall and contain few vocabulary or grammatical errors.
Use of quotations should be kept to a minimum - no more than two short quotes.
The assessment should be structured under the same headings as the marking rubric, please consider the
Assessment 2
Criteria Ratings Pts
Reflective journal entry reflects on students learnings and understan ding of and integratio n of reflection into future practice 15 to >11.85 pts
High Distinction- HD
A comprehensive critical analysis of three clinical situations Journal entries demonstrate an indepth interpretation, insight and personalisation (thoughts and feelings) of concepts and strategies
11.85 to >10.35 pts
Distinction- D
A comprehensive critical analysis of three clinical situations Journal entries demonstrate an indepth interpretation, insight and personalisation (thoughts and feelings) of concepts and strategies
10.35 to >8.85 pts
Credit- C
An adequate critical analysis of three clinical situations that have been identified. Journal entries demonstrate good interpretation, insight and personalisation (thoughts and feelings) of concepts and strategies
8.85 to >7.35 pts
Pass- P
A brief critical analysis of three clinical situations Journal entries demonstrate a basic interpretation, insight and personalisation (thoughts and feelings) of concepts and strategies
7.35 to >0 pts
Fail- F
An extremely limited analysis of the clinical situations not addressing the required number of clinical practice issues Journal entries demonstrate limited interpretation, insight and personalisation (thoughts and feelings) of concepts and strategies / 15 pts
Critical analysis and synthesis supported by the relevant literature 5 to >3.95 pts
High Distinction- HD
Incorporates an excellent approach to critical analysis including arguments supported by relevant literature
3.95 to >3.45 pts
Distinction- D
Incorporates a very good approach to critical analysis including arguments supported by relevant literature
3.45 to >2.95 pts
Credit- C
Incorporates a very good approach to critical analysis including arguments supported by some relevant literature
2.95 to >2.45 pts
Pass- P
Incorporates a limited approach to critical analysis including arguments supported by some literature
2.45 to >0 pts
Fail- F
Incorporates a poor approach to critical analysis including inadequate or illogical arguments and literature / 5 pts
Structure and language use 5 to >3.95 pts
High Distinction- HD
Presents an excellent, well-integrated, logical and coherent structure including an introduction, body and conclusion Demonstrates very high language competence (no grammar, spelling or punctuation errors)
3.95 to >3.45 pts
Distinction- D
Presents a good, wellintegrated, logical and coherent structure including an introduction, body and conclusion Demonstrates high language competence (very few grammar, spelling or punctuation errors)
3.45 to >2.95 pts
Credit- C
Presents a reasonably, well-integrated, logical and coherent structure including an introduction, body and conclusion Demonstrates moderate language competence (with few grammar, spelling or punctuation errors)
2.95 to >2.45 pts
Pass- P
Presents an integrated, logical and coherent structure including an introduction, body and conclusion Demonstrates moderate to low language competence (with some grammar, spelling or punctuation errors)
2.45 to >0 pts
N2
Presents a poorly integrated and incoherent structure that may not include an introduction, body and/or conclusion Demonstrates poor language competence (with substantial grammar, spelling or punctuation errors that impedes meaning) / 5 pts
References and referencing 5 to >3.95 pts
High Distinction- HD
Excellent, credible and relevant references cited Meticulous use of APA referencing style including many apt intext citations
3.95 to >3.45 pts
Distinction- D
Very good, credible and relevant references cited Appropriate use of APA referencing style including a range of in-text citations
3.45 to >2.95 pts
Credit- C
Good, credible and relevant references cited Appropriate use of APA referencing style including in-text citations
2.95 to >2.45 pts
Pass- P
References cited that are mostly good, credible and relevant Sometimes poor use of APA referencing style including in-text citations
2.45 to >0 pts
Fail- F
References cited that are mostly not credible or relevant Many inaccuracies and poor use of APA referencing style including limited intext citations / 5 pts
