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Assignment:

Provide a brief overview of your clinical week. (Final Clinical Reflection. Discuss strengths and weaknesses interacting with patients in a wound care clinic.)

PART II - Approach

From your experiences of the week, chose an event or diagnosis as it pertained to your patient and answer the following:

• What do I know?
• What are the gaps in my knowledge?
• What safety factors were in consideration at the time?

PART III - Reflect

Consider how specific instances of the situation influenced your practice and examine the intentions that motivated your actions; in doing this, think about aspects that influence decision-making. (WOUND CARE PATIENTS)

• At the time, what values, ethics or nursing standards guided my actions (or inactions)?
• How were my intentions consistent with the patient's goals?

PART IV - Critical Phase

In the critical phase, you are ready to gain insight into ways to improve future practice. By examining any gaps in your competencies or knowledge and by identifying any need for changes in your nursing practice or in your attitudes, you begin to see the incident as a learning tool. You can now identify the gaps between ideal and actual nursing practice.

Now ask yourself some further questions:

• Did I use my knowledge appropriately (theory into practice)? (explain)
• Identify critical factors or barriers that affected your clinical practice and explain how they affected your practice.

PART V - Personal Feelings

Ask yourself the tough questions:

• Describe a clinical situation that triggered an emotional response?
• What did I do well?