Assessment 2: Completion of Reflection on Clinical Practice
Weighting: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Word count: 750 words
Due Date: Week 14 Wednesday 24th May @ 2359 hours
Submission Details:Refer to Submission Requirements (p.21)
Marking Criteria and Standards: See page 13-14. To receive a satisfactory grade for this assessment you need to be awarded satisfactory in 80% of the assessment criteria.
Aim of this assessment
Learning takes place through critical reflection by experience and exploration of theoretical knowledge. The assessment aims to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of the benefits of reflecting on clinical practices and experiences to assist with the learning process.
The insights gained through reflective practices promote student self-awareness and enable them to become critically thoughtful about their own readiness for the intensely personal nature of providing care
Details
Students will select ONE case scenario only to reflect on. The three case scenarios are found in the assessment tab on vUWS. The case scenarios include:
- MEDICAL EMERGENCY CALL (MET)
- STAFF CONFLICT
- MEDICATION ERROR
Students will participate in the simulated scenarios in your CPU session (weeks 3, 5 & 7) to gain practical experience on all three scenarios.
Use the GIBBS Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988) to complete the components below. It is a good idea to set the reflection paper out with the bold headings as your paragraph heading.
1. Description:Describethe case scenariothat you have selected to reflect on, concentrating on main details of who was involved, what incident occurred, and why the incident occurred.
2. Feelings: Describe what you were thinking and feeling initially when you were confronted with this incident. Explain why you might have felt this way.
3. Evaluate: Make a judgement based onthe positive and negative aspects of the scenario.
4. Analysis:Draw on academic sources to show why the incident occurred.
5. Conclusion:Describe the lessons you have learnt from this experience.
6. Action Plan: Describe what you have learnt from this experience and how it will help you improve practices in future scenarios.
Note:
• You must include a minimum of four references to support your reflective practices.
• The reflection paper must be loaded through TURNITIN by the due date and time.
Resources
i. There are a number of textbooks and resources available through the Western Sydney University Library that may assist you. Please refer to the unit’s vUWS site for specific unit resources.
Marking criteria and standards: Assessment 2 – Completion of Reflection on Clinical Practice
To receive a satisfactory for this assessment you need to be awarded satisfactory in 80% of the assessment criteria
Criteria Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
1. Description
Describes chosen case scenario using the main details. The case scenario is described correctly using all three main details of who was involved, what incident occurred, and why the incident occurred. Description of the clinical scenario being reflected on does not include the three main details, or describes them incorrectly.
2. Feelings
Description of thinking and feelings about the scenario, with an explanation. Describes thinking and feelings about the scenario using precise language, and detailed explanationfor this reaction. Uses overly general language to describe feelings and thinking.Explanation for this reaction is simplistic or not given.
3. Evaluation
Overall judgement or impression, and explanation using positive and negative aspects. Describes an overall judgement or impression of the experience. Explains this evaluation through discussing both positive and negative aspects of yourexperience with the case scenario. Does not describe any overall judgement or impression from the experience.
Does not explain the evaluation using both positive and negative aspects and the explanation does not link to the evaluation.
4. Analysis
Detailed analysis and identification of why the incident has occurred.
Analyses why the experience occurred. Explains aspects of the incident drawing on academic sources. Does not analyse why the incident occurred. Explanation is not supported by academic sources.
5. Conclusion
Suggestions for improving the outcome from this case scenario experience.
Suggests possible actions that would be likely to improve the outcome from this case scenario experience. Does not clearly suggest any actions, or the suggested actions are notappropriate to the chosen scenario.
6. Action Plan
Planfor future practice, identifying knowledge and skills to support this action plan. Clearly articulates what you do to prepare yourself for other scenarios in your future practice.
Identifies new knowledge, skills or attitudes that will support the provided action plan. Little or no attempt has been made to create an action plan to inform future practice
Little or no attempt has been made to identify new knowledge required to support the action plan.