Course work one requires student to produce two, one thousand word reflective assignments. Each assignment must address at least one of the areas identified by the NMC e.g. communication, compassion etc. The word limit suggests one area per essay would be best. It may be reasonable to address the same topic in both essays as a comparative study but this must be approved by a lecturer before commencing the work and must demonstrate extensive development of the theme.
Each of these assignments should investigate an area of nursing outside of the domain for which the student is training. Adult nurses may select from mental health nursing, childrens nursing, maternity care, care of the elderly or learning disabilities. Mental health nurses clearly must choose anything other than mental health. Learning disabilities is an option available for mental health students.
A reflective model should be demonstrated and be used to structure the work. Accordingly, these assignments should emphasise the first person singular (‘I’ statements) rather than the detached third person analytical expressions usually associated with academic work in Nursing. Since both assignments will be submitted as one unit of work it is unnecessary to replicate the chosen reflective model in both essays,- indeed marks may be lost for unnecessary repetition. A tip is to offer the reflective model as a precursor to both reflective accounts. Each reflective analysis account thus becomes a derivative of the common descriptive stem (the reflective model).
The reflections, regardless of the model used, should account for the Affective, Cognitive and Behavioural elements of the experience being analysed. Emphasis is on analysis rather than description of the event and the marks will be awarded accordingly. This assignment though is a ‘Pass or Fail’ exercise.
Examples of previous assignments include;-
• Communicating with a learning disabled client relating to their diet,
• Expressing compassion to relatives of a dying child
• Explaining a pre-operative checklist to a non-English speaking patient.
• Administering an injection for the first time
• Undertaking a wound dressing for the first time
• Bathing a member of the opposite gender.
• Communicating with distressed and angry relatives
• Delivering a patient summary at staff shift handover.
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