{"id":44365,"date":"2025-07-07T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reflective-journal-students-will-use-the-gibbs-reflective-cycle-as-a-framework-for-their-reflection\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:26:29","slug":"reflective-journal-students-will-use-the-gibbs-reflective-cycle-as-a-framework-for-their-reflection","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/reflective-journal-students-will-use-the-gibbs-reflective-cycle-as-a-framework-for-their-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflective Journal (Students will use the Gibb\u2019s reflective cycle as a framework for their reflection)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Reflective Journal<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Purpose <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Write a paper based on critical reflection on specialty clinical issues<\/p>\n<p><strong>Task details<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students are required to keep an account of their clinical learning experience in a journal entry.<\/li>\n<li>Students are required to reflect on three clinical situations they experienced related to their specific area of practice.<\/li>\n<li>Examples of clinical situations that students can reflect upon will include at least 3 themes from the following list (but not limited to):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Meeting the educational needs of the patients, families and significant others.<\/li>\n<li>Functioning as a nurse in a multidisciplinary health care team<\/li>\n<li>Communication problems with colleagues\/clients\/clients\u2019 families<\/li>\n<li>Clinical issues<\/li>\n<li>Ethical dilemmas.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Students need to identify their personal and professional parameters in a way they have handled the situation that evolved from their clinical practice, reflect on those aspects and identify the learning points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Students will use the Gibb\u2019s reflective cycle as a framework for their reflection.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Students must add some suggestions\/recommendations at the end, resulting from analysing their reflections.<\/li>\n<li>Students will need to allocate time to reflect on their experiences in practice, explore their personal thoughts, feelings and emotions, focusing on positive and negative aspects of the experience. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guidelines for using Gibb\u2019s reflective cycle as a framework for their reflective journaling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this unit, students are required to reflect on their learning experiences by adapting Gibb\u2019s model of reflection to describe an event\/issue\/problem they have encountered in their specialty clinical practice.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em>Description<\/em>:<\/strong> Explore the context of the event in a specialty area of an acute care setting and describes the event, where it happened and what actually occurred.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Feelings\/emotions<\/em>:<\/strong> Explore and describe your thoughts and feelings at the time of the event\/issue\/problem encountered.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Evaluation<\/em>:<\/strong> Make your own judgement as a nurse, about the outcome of the event; to identify what went well and areas for improvement. Was the event resolved satisfactorily?. Self- examination and self-evaluation of the event\/issue\/problem encountered.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Analysis<\/em>:<\/strong> Draw on your critical thinking\/analysis as a nurse to explore the situation at a deeper level and consider, why the event occurred, and if anything could have been implemented to prevent this event from happening.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Conclusion<\/em>:<\/strong> Explore alternative actions that may be used to deal with similar situations to affect a more positive outcome.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Action Plan<\/em>:<\/strong> Consider the event and to put in place a plan which, on implementation, would deal more effectively with similar future events. This could include further educational training\/skills development.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Other Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select literature\/research articles that provide the strongest evidence for your topic. Your articles must be \u226410 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum ten references are required. These references must be \u2264 10 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Use APA7 Format for referencing. <\/li>\n<li>Information cited from unreliable websites, pamphlets or magazines is not acceptable for this paper.<\/li>\n<li>1500 words equivalent (+\/-10%) (excluding embedded references such as the bracketed author\/date information and the reference list).<\/li>\n<li>This is a written academic text so it should be well structured overall and contain few vocabulary or grammatical errors.<\/li>\n<li>Use of quotations should be kept to a minimum &#8211; no more than two short quotes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflective Journal Purpose Write a paper based on critical reflection on specialty clinical issues Task details Students are required to keep an account of their clinical learning experience in a journal entry. 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