Building Professional Resilience in Nursing: Reflective Assessment Guide

NURS13139

Building professional resilience in nursing

Assessment 2 Written Reflective Piece

Type: Written assessment

Due date: 5pm (AEST) Friday 31st May 2024 (Week 12)

Weighting: 60%

Length: 1800 words

Unit Coordinator: Dr Shannon Dhollande, Carmen Barnard, Tracey Bell

Aim

The aim of this assessment is for the student to examine one of their experiences in the clinical environment. The student should explore and analyse how they have changed, developed or grown from the experience.

Instructions

Please follow the steps below to complete your assessment task:

Using the 5 Rs reflective framework, reflect on ONE specific clinical placement experience from your perspective as a student nurse.

1. Reporting: Describe ONE challenging situation you encountered on clinical placement. Explain how it did or could have negatively impacted your nursing practice and challenged your resilience. You could reference in here how this situation challenges student RNs. References are required in each section (150 words).

For example, a patient yelled at you- this is verbal abuse.

2. Responding: Explain your thoughts and feelings during and after the challenging situation and why you felt this way. Here you could reference how the experience impacts students emotionally and psychologically. Again, references are required in each section (150 words).

3. Relating: Detail how this experience relates to the wider community of student nurses and/or graduate nurses (400 words).

For example, what is the impact of verbal abuse on nursing staff? What is the impact of abuse on nurses mental and physical health? How does abuse affect nurses level of resilience? Statistics either international or domestic should be included in this section and supported well with valid and relevant references.

4. Reasoning: Consider the issue on a wider basis and discuss the impact of your experience within healthcare overall (400 words).

For example, what is the impact of abuse on healthcare staff overall? What is the impact on healthcare professionals mental and physical health? Statistics either international or domestic should be included in this section. This section should be supported well with valid and relevant references.

5. Reconstructing: Using the information from the four previous sections draw conclusions, to reframe or reconstruct your future practice (150 words).

6. Learning Goals: Detail two SMART goals to help you refocus your practice based upon the lessons learned and outlined in the previous sections. SMART goals need to include the following elements: They need to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound. You need to include these specific words within this section for each goal (150 words).

7. Action Plan: Outline two evidence-based strategies you could use if you encountered this challenging situation again. Explain how these strategies will improve your resilience. This section should be supported well with valid and relevant references (400 words).

Literature and references

In this assessment use at least 15 contemporary references (<10>

Requirements

• All work submitted must be your own work.
• Use a conventional and legible size 12 font, such as Times New Roman, with 2.0 line spacing and 2.54cm page margins (standard pre-set margin in Microsoft Word).
• Include page numbers on the top right side of each page in a header.
• You may write in the first-person perspective (I, my) for reflective writing tasks, or as directed by your lecturer.
• Write in the third-person perspective.
• Use formal academic language.
• Use the seventh edition American Psychological Association (APA) referencing style. The CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre has an online CQU APA Referencing Style Guide.
• The word count excludes the reference list but includes in-text references and direct quotations.
• Please do not identify specific persons or locations or patients within your writing.

Resources

• You can use unit provided materials and other credible sources (e.g. journal articles, books) to reference your argument. The quality and credibility of your sources are important.
• We recommend that you access your discipline specific library guide: the Nursing and Midwifery Guide; Social Work and Community Services Guide.
• We recommend you use EndNote to manage your citations and reference list. More information on how to use EndNote is available at the CQUniversity Library website.
• For information on academic communication please go to the Academic Learning Centre Moodle site. The Academic Communication section has many helpful resources including information for students with English as a second language.
• Submit a draft before the due date to review your Turnitin Similarity Score before making a final submission. Instructions are available here.

Submission

Submit your completed Assessment in Word format only to the Moodle page for this Unit under the Assessment drop-down menu in the correctly titled assessment heading submission option. For any technical issues please contact TASAC at tasac@cqu.edu.au or phone toll-free at 1300 666620.

Marking Criteria

Refer to marking criteria/rubric for guidance.

Return Date to Students

Assignments submitted by due date/time: 3 weeks after submission. Assessments submitted (with approved extensions): 3 weeks after submission.

Extension Request

If you require an extension, please apply through the Assessment Extension Request option on the Moodle site. Please be aware you are required to supply the necessary documentation to support your extension request in alignment with the assessment policy and procedure.

Learning Outcomes Assessed

• Explore the concept of resilience for nurses
• Reflect on strategies that promote resilience
• Explore strategies to manage adverse events within the workplace
• Identify and describe factors that contribute to workplace stress

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