Reflective Nursing Journal

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REFLECTIVE NURSING JOURNAL
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Introduction:
Reflective practice is a process of analysing and evaluation of the individual’s own
experience. In the teaching practice, reflection is extremely necessary as it helps in evaluating the
effectiveness of the teaching practice (Redmond, 2017). With the help of reflection teachers can
increase or modify their quality of teaching practice that helps in the professional as well as
personal development (Solum et al., 2016). It helps in increasing in learning of the students as
well as their performance. Reflective practice in teaching helps in the fixing the teaching
strategies or ideas that do not went well in the in the previous learning experience (Pretorius &
Ford, 2016).
In order to gauge success within the nursing society it is essential that the teachers focus
on the nursing program that is conducted to enhance the outcome of nursing program. Concept-
established learning is defined as the method that will focus on improving the nursing program
outcome, as this will enable the nursing students to effectively engage in their education process
energetically and develop an active learning surrounding, which will assist the nursing students
to retain their information and knowledge regarding the subjects included in the teaching lesson
(Flott & Linden, 2016). Apart from these, the Didactic teaching method has also been used
which aims to provide teacher centered approach.
This essay mainly focus on the reflection of the teaching practice who had been taking
practical classes of a nursing subjects. In order to reflect, the teaching experience of the educator
Gibbs reflective model can be used. Gibbs reflective model is one of the most common model
that can be used to reflect the experiences of the individual (Al-Jubouri & Al-Jubouri, 2019). The
model consist of six different parts. First is description where the whole scenario is to be

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discussed, second is feelings where the feeling during the events of an individual has been
discussed, third is evaluation where good and bad points of the incidents is discussed, fourth is
analysis where the whole situation is analysed, fifth is conclusion which concludes the reflective
assignment and last is action plan where the action that can be depicted in future to avoid the
previous mistakes is discussed in detail (Johns, 2017).
Description:
Teaching practice helps the teachers in providing better training to the students by the
help of providing enhance training to the students that assist the nursing students in providing
better care to the patient (Muijs & Reynolds, 2017). It is the responsibility of the teacher to
provide effective training to the nursing students. Being an educator it is my responsibility to
provide efficient education and training to the nurse which will help them in providing efficient
patient care in future. Efficient training helps in avoiding medical errors in patient care. Practical
classes enhances the clinical practical knowledge of the students (Valiee et al., 2016). During
my first teaching class, I was assigned to take practical nursing classes of the nursing students. In
the practical nursing classes, different activities were conducted by me which enhances the
practical knowledge of the students, as it is extremely important for a nurse to have practical
knowledge about how to take care of the patient. To enhance the practical knowledge of the
students, I applied different knowledge such as visual representation, clinical exposure to the
patient, lesson plan preparation. One of the oldest method of teaching in the nursing students is
the didactic teaching method. Didactic teaching method involves a teacher centered approach
where the nursing faculty teaches the students and the students learn by active listening. Active
listening is defined as one of the finest method of learning. It helps the students to enhance their
understanding of the nursing. Students who participate in the active listening procedure, easily

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understand the knowledge of the students as well as also assist in long term remembering
(Ahmadi, 2016). To enhance active listening of the students, I applied different procedure such
as, slide preparation. Power point presentation. I prepared the slide which contains the strategy
that can help an individual in patient handling. I divided the lesson plan into different parts such
as, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5. Part 1 includes the strategy of handing the patient of
different age such as, children, adult and older adult. In part 1 of the lesson, I started with
strategies that can be implemented by the nurse in order to deal with the pediatric nurse. The
most important strategies in handling patient of any age is the communication. Communication is
one of the most important tool that can be used in the providing effective treatment to the patient.
It aids to build a goof rapport between the patient and the nurse or any healthcare staff which
helps in increasing the recovery speed of the patient (Arnold & Boggs, 2019). Hence, in order to
do that, it is important for the nurse to aware about the importance of the effective
communication in the nursing field. In case of pediatric patient, communication among the
healthcare staff and the care taker of the children as well as along with the children is extremely
necessary. In such case nurse have to communicate at their level to make them understand
(Stewart, 2016).
Power-point presentation is considered as the latest and most widely used slide
presentation software that has gained an enormous part within the instructional setting. The
major benefit of using power-point slide presentation is that it effectively engage the students
with the enhanced skill development facility that assist in better learning procedure (Abrami et
al., 2015). This is considered as the most helpful way of providing the students with the best
teacher-centred method that will enhance the learning approach of the student. I being a nurse
educator aim at providing best teaching ways to their students encompass the critical thinking