CUNY Hostos Community College Nursing Essay

Learning Goal: I’m working on a nursing question and need guidance to help me learn.

I am currently doing my preceptorship, and my professor want me to write about what i am learning and how am i going to use in my the future purposes in my nursing career. so just to give you an idea. I am on a med surg flow where we receive post op surgiry patient.

Purpose: This assignment provides the student with the opportunity to engage in reflective practice. Reflective practice requires that practitioners examine tacit knowledge and questions that arise within the practitioner during practice. Practitioners who engage in disciplined reflection develop critical thinking skill and refine tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. Development of leadership behaviors is a process that occurs over time through the use of observation, trial and error, experience and the application of leadership theory to circumstances requiring leadership.

Procedure:

1. Students are required to keep a Journal that reflects your thoughts and observations about

the leadership, management and followership that you observe in your clinical rotations,

read about in your weekly readings or reflect upon in the observations that you make about

leaders in the public eye. All students are required to make a minimum of 4 journal entries

throughout the semester

? What do you know about the _____________________ (add the name of specialty unit here, i.e. medical surgical,

? How would you handle conflicts that arise on the unit? Tell a short story (2-3 paragraphs) describing a situation, problem and solution, either made up or from your personal/clinical experience that demonstrates the process you would follow during a conflict.

? What are your professional/educational goals?

? Where do you see yourself in five years? How do you see yourself progressing here?

? One (1) scholarly reference required in APA format.