Reflective Assignment
You are required to reflect upon and critically analyse how a decision was made and what leadership approach utilised in a complex clinical situation to bring about safe and effective nursing care.
The scenario must be from your clinical practice (mine is AMU-acute medical unit) in your final year semester 1 placement (hub). The clinical situation must be relevant to your field of nursing (Adult nursing). This must be a scenario in which you were directly involved, however the decision made may be either your own or that of another member of the MDT. The actions and leadership approaches / strategies used during the complex situation again may be your own or that of another member of the MDT.
In the assignment you must fully address each of the learning outcomes.
This assessment tests your understanding of and ability to critically explore at level 7 the concepts in the following module Learning Outcomes:
LO2 Critically reflect upon the delivery of safe, confident, competent, and compassionate quality care whilst recognising the uniqueness of the individual.
LO3 Critically appraise decision making in response to a complex clinical situation.
LO4 Select and defend the leadership and management strategies that contributed to safe and effective adult nursing care.
You MUST use a reflective model to structure your assignment and you MUST offer a critical rationale to justify your choice of model. Chose any model you wish that will help you achieve critical analysis via reflection, but you must justify your decision. Here is an illustration of how you might use Borton / Driscoll, but you do not have to use this. If you choose to use a different model, then amend the table below accordingly and submit a plan for that model.
Introduction:
100 words
Identify and justify chosen model of reflection.
300 words
What? What is the complex clinical situation that you will focus on from this situation? Concisely describe the complex clinical situation here. How and why is it complex?
No rationale or supporting evidence to be included in What? This all belongs in So What?
Who – who was involved? What individual service user or group of service users is this reflection about? Respect confidentiality.
What – what events happened that are relevant to the decision made in the complex clinical scenario. It should be clear how this scenario is complex. All the events that you refer to in So What should be mentioned here.
Where – where did the scenario happen? What was the context of care?
What was the decision made that led to leadership action to provide safe and effective care?
At the end of the description, you must Identify one or two key issues emerging from the complex clinical situation that you will focus upon in So What? These issues must have the potential for you to address the learning outcomes.
300 words
So what? This section is your focused, critical discussion about the one or two issues emerging from the complex clinical situation. It is where you will need to show how you plan to meet the learning outcomes.
Issue 1. Ensure this is relevant towards achieving the learning outcomes?
1000 words
Issue2. Ensure this is relevant towards achieving the learning outcomes?
1000 words
So What? What has been learned through this reflection that will influence your future practice in relation to the learning outcomes?
It is acceptable here to write in the first person if you are talking about your own professional and personal development arising from this reflection.
300 words
Reference list (not included in word count)
Using CiteThemRight Harvard Referencing provide some of your intended sources of information.
