Assignment: Clinical Journal
Purpose: This activity aims to enhance reflection, facilitate critical thought, and express feelings in writing about challenges and successes encountered during role transition clinical experiences. Journal writing provides students with the opportunity to return to experiences in an attempt to develop new perspectives that can guide future nursing practice.
Cognitive Learning
• Identify at least two skills or concepts that were learned or reinforced in clinical. This could be actual tactile skills (like suctioning or Foley insertion, for example) or other skills - like giving reports, communicating with patients or families, dealing with conflict, managing your time, etc.
Affective & Transitioning Experiences
• How did you feel about the experiences you encountered in clinical?
• What were your strengths of performance and areas needing growth?
• How do you feel you are transitioning to the role of a professional nurse?
• What is helping or hindering your transition?
Critical Thinking Synthesis
Choose one clinical situation that you encountered in clinical. In your own words, briefly describe the situation.
• What was your top priority in this situation? Why?
• What was the takeaway learning lesson you gained from the situation? (This could be anything related to physical or psychosocial skills.)
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.