09 Jul Behavior Health Reflection

• What do you think about being on a locked psychiatric unit?  How does this make you feel?
• What is your view of psychiatric care?  Is this influenced by personal and professional experiences, the media, literature?
• What do you want to learn from this course?
• What are worried or anxious about?
• Think about your own mental health, how do you keep yourself healthy?
• Also include anything else you feel is relevant to this course and your learning

The reflection assignment should be a minimum of three pages in length 

What is reflective journaling?

The purpose of your journal is to provide you with an opportunity to think out loud on paper, reflecting your own perceptions and understanding of situations you encounter. The focus is on your experiences as related to the course content, and your personal goals. Describe what you have learner by analyzing and evaluating the clinical experience according to the theories and concepts learned in theory as well as in previous courses.

Journaling serves as an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills through self-evaluation.

Do not include a nursing care plan, interventions and a synopsis of your client/nursing care unless this is relevant to your journal discussion. This is about your thought, feelings and reactions to the clinical experience. Your instructor already knows about your assigned patient and nursing care. Identify the times you have used caring practices in your nursing interactions and interventions.

Journaling provides the opportunity to suspend judgment to be very subjective and to analyze and evaluate thoughts and personal reactions. The journal is a very important part of this course. You are encouraged to be open about your feelings about the course, your clinical experiences and your life situation as it affects your nursing care.