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Assessment task: 1 Developing as a Reflective Practitioner Discussion Paper
Task Description: Developing confidence and competence in the first 6 months as a graduate nurse requires the translation of knowledge to practice.
New graduate nurses often experience challenges in the following areas:
• Assimilation (fitting in -'being accepted by the team"
• Medication management
• Time management
Write an essay that identifies and analyses strategies to assist your own development as a reflective practitioner in relation to one of these challenges.
Presentation and content of this assessment task:
- You may use headings to guide the reader.
- Write in the first person (refer to yourself as "I").
- Use the content from Module r to help write your essay. - Use examples from your PEP experience to explore the issues that you raise.
- More guidance is in the Assessment Resources folder on MyLO.
Assignment Criteria: • Demonstrates the qualities of a reflective practitioner by clifically discussing own professional development needs and strategies to work with others.
• Integrates ideas obtained from unit content, academic sources, and from PEP to develop strategies to support praclice development as a graduate nurse.
• Explores governance and regulatory frameworks in discussing autonomy, accountability and practice as a graduate nurse.
• Communicates in academic writing.