nursing (mental health)

Assignment Description:  A reflective journal is a useful tool that allows you to reflect and use critical thinking to learn and gain insight from your clinical experiences.  Your reflective journal should not simply be a list of activities you did that day.  Instead, it is an opportunity for you to think about the events that happened during your clinical day and your decisions and actions in different situations.  It will help your clinical faculty to learn more about your experiences and identify future learning opportunities for you. 

 

Assignment Instructions:  Using the John’s Model of Reflection, reflect on your feelings, concerns and reactions to your clinical experience the mental health hospital.  This can relate to skills associated with communication and/or nurse-patient relationship, patient safety or quality topics, teaching opportunities, critical decision-making, nursing interventions, and/or collaboration with other healthcare professionals.

 

Each reflective journal should align with the components of the John’s Model of Reflection to include:

· Description of the experience

· Reflection

· Influencing Factors

· Could I have dealt with it better

· Learning

 

When writing your journal, remember to maintain confidentiality.  Do not include patient names or initials.  Instead, use the following sequential nomenclature for the semester:  Patient 01, Patient 02, etc.

 

 Remember, the journal is your reflection on the experience - not what you did in clinical!