Chemotherapy's Side Effects on Cancer Patients

CHEMOTHERAPY’S SIDE
EFFECTS ON CANCER
PATIENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Reflective account.......................................................................................................................3
Personal Development Plan.........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
The reflection is an extremely comprehensive part in the academic learning of a student and
evaluates the entre experience identifying what were the major learning (Li and et.al., 2020).
This report will involve the preparation of a reflective account on the research that was
undertaken on the side effects presented by chemotherapy on the cancer patients. Further, the
report will also involve development of a personal development plan on the basis of skills that
require development.
MAIN BODY
Reflective account
The reflective activity is critical in ascertaining and evaluating the entire experience that
the learner incurred in the completion of any specific activity. The reflective activity helps in
regularly evaluating the positive and negative experiences that the individual is having and
collectively this helps in taking decision about the entire experience collectively where it is
identified that what was good and bad about the experience and most importantly the learning
that an individual develops is identified. In order to complete the reflective activity in a
comprehensive manner, the Gibbs reflective model can be used effectively (Sekarwinahyu and
et.al., 2019). This model consists of six different stages where every stage helps in identification
of the different aspects that helps in developing a clearer perspective regarding the overall
experience that an individual has had.
I intend to use this model for completing my reflection on the research activity that I
undertook on the side effects of chemotherapy on cancer patients. I will evaluate every stage
separately in order to clearly formulate and enumerate my entire experience through this
reflective activity:
Description: The first stage in the Gibbs reflective cycle is description and under this the main
purpose is to explain the key facts that are related to the experience that needs to be evaluated. I
am expected to give all the background information related to the reflection but no analysis will
be undertaken. I have to state only the relevant facts that will help in understanding the
background of the reflective activity. I basically undertook a research on the chemotherapy and
its side effects on the cancer patients (Markkanen and et.al., 2020). I conducted the entire
research in a time period of 5 months and the research was mainly qualitative in nature. First of
all I developed the objective of research side effects of chemotherapy on cancer patients only
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because mostly chemotherapy is used for cancer patients only and only in some rare cases is it
used for any other treatment. After this I researched some background information about this
topic so that I could identify the current perception or trends today amongst the people. Then
after getting the objective approved, next step was to conduct a literature review on the past data
that has already been published on the side effects of chemotherapy. Then I designed by research
methodology which I used to identify that what would be my sample size and how would I
collect my primary data in order to conduct a comprehensive research. This will help in
completing my dissertation successfully as right now I have only completed the research
protocol or broad guidelines that can b used in order to complete the research effectively. I have
tried to address all the pros and cons that can arise in the future while completing the dissertation
and there was a lot of learning that I accumulated while I studied evaluated and identified the
different aspects that are required to be complied with and addressed before actually beginning
the research activity.
Feelings: The next stage is termed as feelings where I am expected to evaluate my feelings and
thoughts that I incurred during the entire experience. This mainly utilises the feelings that I had
at the moment while I was conducting the activities and what did I though after the activity is
over. While conducting the research I was apprehensive throughout the activity as I was
conducting this type of research for the first time and therefore had no experience in it. Initially,
while developing aims and objectives I was not at all confident that whether my topic is correct
or not and whether it would be insightful or not. There were many things that were going on in
my mind because I was not confident about the approach that I had developed for the research
(Waltz, 2019). However, later when the teacher immediately approved by topic and even praised
because of the maturity of the proposed research that it depicted and the further insights that it
will provide was considered as a very advanced and considerate thinking. I then gained
confidence in the work that I was doing and therefore was able to complete the research step by
step. Later, when the literature review activity had to be done, again I was becoming frustrated
again and again because I was facing extreme difficult in collecting the research paper that were
relevant and in accordance with the research objectives that had been developed. However, when
I consulted about this problem with my teacher, I was able to identify a solution where by just
reading the abstract which is very breif, I could ascertain the nature of the literature review and
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