regard for your personal welfare is taken seriously. For the most part, the students I’ve worked with had very little practice working with an assistant and using four handed dentistry techniques. Near the end of my time at OHSU, I began to grow tired of enforcing the proper methods of passing. Instead of teaching each new student four handed concepts, I just did my best to retrieve my tools, have my hand ready for them to pass back or trade the instrument, and held them properly on my end. This was
In the academic context, ‘reflection’ is defined as; “a generic term for those intellectual and affective activities in which individuals engage to explore their experiences in order to lead to new understandings and appreciations. It may take place in isolation or in association with others. It can be done well or badly, successfully or unsuccessfully.” (Boud, Keogh and Walker, 1985, p 19) Needless to say, engaging in reflection at an academic level is more than merely passively remembering and
thoughts or ideas but they develop them through sensory experience. John Locke said, “there were two kinds of experiences: sensations of objects in the external world, and the reflections of the mind’s own operations.”(Francher & Rutherford, 64) Through this idea of
For personal growth and development, my strengths include my desire for scholastic advancement in my area of practice and a clear vision for my career goals. On the one hand, in ethical behavior and practice, my strength would be my firm belief of doing the right nursing practice in accordance to the nursing code of ethics. For professional association development, I am involved in several associations that permit my career growth. This includes membership in
Self-Reflection: Personal Leadership Supporting Professional Leadership The leadership of advanced practice nurses plays an important role in the future care delivered to patients within a society so badly in need of healthcare improvements and reform. The challenge is to further develop all nurses and their abilities to be truly transformational in this process. Advanced practice nurses can serve as complexity leaders and role models for the entire nursing profession, which will ensure excellent
open to transforming experiences for increased options for the experience of life, threw open the door to the world of deliberate, inter-religious dialogue. At the time, the excitement of participating in inter-religious dialogue was similar to passing under the Golden Gate Bridge and casting that first glimpse at the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, the curvature of the earth, the horizon, and the infinite spaciousness. Very simply, my inter-religious dialogue reflections were nothing short of
recognition of strengths and weaknesses of my own ability and how recognising strengths and weaknesses allows an individual to develop their own lifelong learning ability. The importance of developing lifelong learning is discussed in this assignment. The final purpose of the essay is to demonstrate an understanding of reflection and how reflective practice can support an individual’s own personal and professional learning development. Nicol (2016) stated that “reflection is a method of using
military experience diversity context in their daily jobs whether in home base or deployed to countries in Middle East, South West Asia or Africa. According to Kolb experiential theory the learning in adult take place with experience through the four stages of learning where the learner moves through the various stages through practical experience rather than a formal setting.David knolb’s experiential theory learning comes from a real life scenario of real world
otherwise, that reveals information about a culture. the cultural text had to be capable of being read and interpreted. When I first approached my culture framework and assignment, I analyze my cultural to see what cultural text I went to write about. as well as to see what abstract concept introduce in Mark Matousek’s book I wanted to apply to
The leader shadow experience turned out to be one of the most valuable experiences I have had as a student at Concordia. Initially it was my plan to shadow a leader within my current organization, but that did not work out for various reasons. Unfortunately there were too many fires being put out our management to able to have dedicated time available for the shadow experience, although I did have two individuals express support. When I decided to go outside my organization, I chose to ask someone