Some helpful comments about reflective clinical practice
Rick Ladyshewsky has made some really helpful comments to hos group about the process of reflection on clinical practice. You may want to read and consider them when putting up reflections about your own experiences. A quick reminder that there are minumum requirements as indicated in your unit outline as to how many contributions you must make to your group's BLOG per placement.
Cheers
Peter
Dear Students. One of the things I have noticed about your contributions which could be enriched is more commentary from your own perspective on what your personal thoughts and actions might be with respect to your professional practice decisions. Whilst it is good to state the issue and your concerns and possibly even the action you have taken, rather than leave it wide open for input, offer some of your own clinical decisions, thoughts, ideas in the Blog. This will give everyone a bit more insight into how you are structuring your thinking, and enable others to look at what is missing, what are great ideas, what could be developed further.
There is also a requirement to contribute at least two reflective statements about your professional practice. The ideas I have brought forward above will increase the reflective nature of your contributions as opposed to what I have been reading which are issues that you have identified.
When we talk about reflective contributions we are talking about....1. Looking at the experiences you have encountered.....2. Reflecting on that experience and trying to identify what you felt, what you learned, what you didn't know, what you didn't understand, what went wrong, what happened.....all these review components......3. Making conclusions about all of this...having gone through the experience and reviewed it comprehensively.....what decisions or outcomes are evident and 4........ How are you going to change your practice or do things differently (or not) the next time you encounter this experience. This kind of disclosure will help your peers to look at your thinking and make even more informed comments. I look forward to your next reflection on your professional practice. Rick.
Cheers
Peter
Dear Students. One of the things I have noticed about your contributions which could be enriched is more commentary from your own perspective on what your personal thoughts and actions might be with respect to your professional practice decisions. Whilst it is good to state the issue and your concerns and possibly even the action you have taken, rather than leave it wide open for input, offer some of your own clinical decisions, thoughts, ideas in the Blog. This will give everyone a bit more insight into how you are structuring your thinking, and enable others to look at what is missing, what are great ideas, what could be developed further.
There is also a requirement to contribute at least two reflective statements about your professional practice. The ideas I have brought forward above will increase the reflective nature of your contributions as opposed to what I have been reading which are issues that you have identified.
When we talk about reflective contributions we are talking about....1. Looking at the experiences you have encountered.....2. Reflecting on that experience and trying to identify what you felt, what you learned, what you didn't know, what you didn't understand, what went wrong, what happened.....all these review components......3. Making conclusions about all of this...having gone through the experience and reviewed it comprehensively.....what decisions or outcomes are evident and 4........ How are you going to change your practice or do things differently (or not) the next time you encounter this experience. This kind of disclosure will help your peers to look at your thinking and make even more informed comments. I look forward to your next reflection on your professional practice. Rick.
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