Purpose and Overview

In this assignment, you will document a clinical experience that demonstrates your use of reflective thinking/learning skills.

Directions

In a 2 to 3-page paper, using APA format and college-level grammar skills, complete the following:

Describe a professional experience that you found challenging and discuss your response to the situation. Provide anonymity to all participants you include in the experience.

Why did you respond as described?

What are your thoughts and feelings associated with the experience?

How did others in the situation feel?

Describe the consequences of your response:

What was the impact on the patient, others, and/or yourself?

What might have happened if you had responded differently?

Explain how your response did or did not support your beliefs.

Identify the knowledge you had or should have had in this situation, and if your response was or was not related to previous experiences.

Discuss what you learned from the experience and explain how this experience was transformed into learning.

Discuss if this experience affected or changed your:

Responses in your practice environment; and

Level of competence in nursing practice.