Reflective Essay

Resiliency Reflective Tracy Collins West Chester University Abstract This paper explores the Resiliency Reflective of a social worker Name Tracy Collins, who working at the Chester County Food Bank as an intern. The writer had to take a quiz before addressing the self-reflection paper. The main focused for the writer to learn about her own resiliency and protective factors in her life. This paper discusses the protective factors and resiliency that the writer portray at this point…

models are used. This study, however, uses a model to facilitate reflective thinking in clinical nursing education as a conceptual framework (Chabeli & Muller, 2004). According to Chabeli and Muller (2004), this model comprises with three main parts are a learner as a recipient of the reflective learning process, a facilitator who creates the environment conducive for learning, and the reflective thinking process. To utilize reflective thinking in nursing instruction, educators should realize…

Reflective practice The use of reflective practice will be the first to be discussed and how reflective practice relates to my own coaching. (Cropley et al., 2010; Anderson, Knowles & Gilbourne, 2004 cited in Believeperform.com, 2017) suggests there an increase in self-awareness is an advantage of reflective exercises. Through documenting my activity as a coach, I can get a better understanding of the techniques and strategies I apply when coaching. (Lyle, 2002) suggests that in order to learn…

This reflective process will focus on the care delivered to a 35 weeks neonate on a 12-hour shift. Aspects of this essay will critically discuss the management of a baby that I admitted into the High Dependency Unit (HDU) for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy as a result of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). In order to gain an understanding of this essay, the pathophysiology of RDS will be briefly discussed in addition to the effectiveness of CPAP on the outcome of the…

In this professional development portfolio, I have included three reflective accounts which use different models to reflect on a personal, professional and academic event. I have also included an action plan, which will outline targets identified from my SWOT analysis and from the reflective accounts. Professional development is essential as it allows you to identify an area to improve, or where you require further knowledge. This may lead to practitioners completing a qualification, attending…

Reflecting with Students I consider myself a reflective learner. But what does that really mean? I don’t know exactly when I started reflecting on my classroom practice, but it was very early on. Maybe even that first year as the year ended. And I moved from my first Kindergarten job to the second kindergarten job in a different district. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and more importantly, what I didn’t want to do. In other words, I learned a lot that first year! Soon, I started…

I do agree with the outcomes of this assessment. My assessment shows that I am able to learn in any of these ways. This to me means that I am capable of adjusting to the way I am being taught no matter how I am being taught. However, while I am able to utilize all four styles of teaching I had the highest score in “Doing” and “Thinking”. This means that I tend to ask more “how” and “what” questions rather than anything else. I am more of a logical person and tend to like things to be clearly…

Last semester, I was offered the opportunity to fulfill my foundation practicum hours at Montevista Hospital as well as increase my professional knowledgebase. Throughout my journey at Montevista Hospital, I had the privilege of learning an immense amount of information about clinical social work from several senior licensed clinical social workers. I have been extremely hands-on in my efforts to add to my professional knowledgebase daily, by facilitating psychoeducational groups with adults,…

In this assignment I am going to critically asses my learning needs and personal development throughout this module, to do this I am going to use (Gibbs, 1998) reflective model, as this is a recognised model of reflection. (Gibbs,1998) consists of six stages to complete a cycle. This will help me reflect on a situation and then creating an action plan if it was to arise again. (Somerville and Kelling) state that reflection “Is therefore a process by which practitioners can better understand…

TASK 1- Atkins & Murphy article What is reflection/reflective practice? i) Reflection or reflective practices is a process where you study your own experiences to improve the way you work. This involves consciously analyzing your practices, refocuses your thoughts to produce better ideas to modify your actions and learning needs. This is supported by Donald Schon (1983) where the capacity to reflect on an action is important so as to engage in a process of continuous learning in order to define…