Students will formulate a reflective improvement plan on an issue they have identified in their specialty practice that requires improvement.

Task details

Students will formulate a reflective improvement plan on an issue they have identified in their specialty practice that requires improvement.

The students need to state the objectives of this assignment, conduct a critical review of the literature, and synthesize contemporary knowledge about reflective practice to develop strategies that will improve their professional practice.

Identify a clinical issue/situation you have reflected upon that requires improvement.

Identify a reflective model/theory you are going to utilise in this plan.

Synthesise the identified relevant literature into a coherent and logical discussion paper about what is known on the topic and what strategies you have identified to improve the specialty practice.

Conduct a critical literature review utilising at least 12 refereed journal articles using key terms, and appropriate search engines to assist in finding supporting evidence.These references must be 10 years old.

Other Instructions

Select literature/research articles that provide the strongest evidence for your topic.Minimum 12 references are required.Your articles must be 10 years old.

Use APA7 Format for referencing.

Information cited from unreliable websites, pamphlets or magazines is not acceptable for this paper.

3000 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.

Assignment 3 - Exemplar - For reference only

A previous student has been generous to share an exemplar of their work . You can access this exemplar in the Modules section in the canvas on Week 6.

Prescribed text:

Esterhuizen, P. (2019).Reflective practice in nursing: transforming nursing practice(4thed.). Sage Publications.

Recommended Readings

Barksby, J., Butcher, N., & Whysall, A. (2015). A new model of reflection for clinical practice.Nursing Times, 111(34- 35), 21-23.https://www.sherwoodtraining.co.uk/app/download/28416013/The_RELECT_Model_Nursing_Times.pdfLinks to an external site.

Bassot, B. (2015).The reflective guide: an interdisciplinary approach to critical reflection(1st ed.). Routledge.

Gibbs, G. (1988).Learning by doing: a guide to teaching and learning methods. Further education unit. Oxford Polytechnic.

Howatson Jones, L. (2016).Reflective Practice in Nursing(3rd ed.). Sage Publications Ltd.

Knight, S.(2015). Realising the benefits of reflective practice.Nursing Times, 111(23/24), 17-19.HYPERLINK "https://www.nursingtimes.net/roles/nurse-managers/realising-the-benefits-of-reflective-practice-01-06-2015/" t "_blank"Realising the benefits of reflective practice | Nursing TimesLinks to an external site.

Koshy, K., Limb, Christopher., Gundogan, B., Whitehurst, K., Jafree, D. (2017). Reflective practice in health care and how to reflect effectively.International Journal of Surgery: Oncology, 2(6), 1-3.https://doi.org/10.1097/ij9.0000000000000020Links to an external site.Schumann-Scheel, L., Peters, M.D.J., & Meinertz-Mobjerg, A. C. (2017). Reflection in the training of nurses in clinicalpractice settings: a scoping review protocol.JBI Database of Systematic Reviews &Implementation Reports,15(12),2871-2880.https://journals.lww.com/jbisrir/Fulltext/2017/12000/Reflection_in_the_training_of_nurses_in_clinical.9.aspxLinks to an external site.Wain, A. (2017). Learning through reflection.British Journal of Midwifery, 25(10), 662-666.https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2017.25.10.662Links to an external site.Formatting

All written assignments must be formatted in APA style. According to the APA style manual, this means that your assignment must have:

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Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.

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Page margins: One inch (2.54cm) from the top, bottom, left, and right side of each page.

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Body text line spacing: Double-spaced.

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Paragraph indentation: Indent the first line of each paragraph by 0.5 inch from the left margin. (Use your word processors Help feature for instructions on formatting paragraph indentation.)

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All text isleft-justified, with an unjustified (ragged) right margin.

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Do not hyphenate words at the ends of lines.

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Use a running head throughout the paper. (If possible, use your word processors Header function to place it automatically on every page.) The header should appear one-half inch below the top of the page, flush left, in all capital letters; it is a shortened version of the papers title (up to 50 characters, including spaces). The page number appears in the upper right corner.

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Student's name, number and date of submission to be included in the footer. It should be one-half inch below the pages bottom line.

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Reference list: Starts on a separate page at the end of your assignment paper and is titled References in bold; must be ordered alphabetically by surname. The reference list should be double-spaced (within and in between entries) with hanging indents (approximately one inch) used for each entry's second and subsequent lines.

Referencing

A requirement of all assessments in this course is that you cite references in the APA style. As a rule, whenever you write anything in your assessment you should:

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Please refer to this table when you are writing. Note that your own analysis and opinions need to follow logically from the content and evidence you are discussing.