NURS 316N Nursing Care for the Aging Population Self-Reflection on Course 8
NURS 316N Nursing Care for the Aging Population
Self-Reflection on Course 8 Outcomes
Purpose: The purpose of this reflection is to provide learners the opportunity to clearly articulate learning outcomes that are personally meaningful. Students will reflect and evaluate personal and lifelong growth in relationship to the course content and curricular concepts. Furthermore, this paper promotes writing skills.
Description: This assignment requires learners to synthesize what they have learned in each of the course modules/content to create a reflective response demonstrating an understanding and personal application of these topics in relationship to the Morningside curricular concepts. See criteria below.
In the column next to each course outcome, compare knowledge of the course topics, content, and learning activities. Organizes responses around each of the 8 curricular concepts: Holistic Care; Communication; Critical Thinking; Nursing Process; Nursing Roles; Ethics; Research and Evidence-based Practice; Life-long Learning and Personal and Professional Growth. Summarizes learning with depth and reflection. Includes examples. Demonstrates analysis/synthesis of ideas.
State the implications of your new knowledge for the patient population(s), facility or community you serve.
Provide examples or scenarios where you have or will apply new knowledge or skills to your daily routine to improve patient outcomes.
State any surprises you encountered in your educational journey, what you enjoyed most, and what aspects of the course remain a challenge for you.
Type Student Name Here:
**Type Response in Self-Reflection column
Course Student Learning Outcome
Self-Reflection Response on each Student Learning Outcome
Holistic Care:
Assess clients holistically recognizing them as members of a family, community, and global society with unique physical, psychosocial and spiritual issues
Promote health and quality of life in the older adult.
Recognize and manage geriatric problems.
Communication:
Communicate effectively, respectfully, and compassionately using verbal, non-verbal, and technology with older adults and their families.
Facilitate interdisciplinary communication as older adults transition across and between home, hospital, and nursing home, with a particular focus on the use of technology.
Critical Thinking:
Analyze the impact of the aging society on the health care system.
Evaluate the relationship of the identified maladaptive signs, symptoms and behaviors and/or pathophysiology to the actual stressor and related interventions.
Recognize that sensation and perception in older adults are mediated by functional, physical, cognitive, psychological, and social changes.
Nursing Process:
Develop a nursing plan of care in collaboration with other members of the health care team taking into consideration the needs, desires, strengths, weaknesses and safety concerns of the older adult and family.
Evaluate and modify the plan of care based on assessment data and evidence-based practice.
Nursing Roles:
Incorporate into practice valid and reliable tools to assess the functional, physical, cognitive, psychological, social, and spiritual status of older adults.
Facilitate older adult’s active participation in all aspects of their health care.
Provide education, prevent or reduce common risk factors that contribute to functional decline, impaired quality of life, and excess disability in older adults.
Identify community resources in assisting older adults with their health care needs.
Ethics:
Uphold standards of practice set forth by the ANA Code of Ethics, Standards of Nursing Practice, and the state Nurse Practice Act.
Apply ethical and legal principles to the complex issues that arise in care of older adults.
Identify the values and principles governing the practice of professional nursing including the ANA Code of Ethics, Standards of Nursing Practice and the state Nurse Practice Act.
Establish and follow standards of care to recognize and report elder mistreatment.
Research and Evidence-based Practice:
Demonstrate ability to use evidence and collaborate with other disciplines to provide comprehensive care with older adults.
Apply evidence-based standards to promote healthy activities in older adults.
Life-long Learning and Personal and Professional Growth:
Demonstrate continued growth in the attributes of a professional nurse through refinement of a knowledge base and client care skills.
Integrate personal philosophy of nursing in patient care.
Recognize individual and societal attitudes, values, and expectations about aging and the impact on care of older adults and their families.
End of Course Reflection
On 8 Course Learning Outcomes
Grading Rubric
Purpose: The purpose of this reflection paper is to provide learners the opportunity to clearly articulate learning outcomes that are personally meaningful. Students will reflect and evaluate personal and lifelong growth in relationship to the course content and curricular concepts. Furthermore, this paper promotes writing skills.
Description: This assignment requires learners to synthesize what they have learned in each of the course modules to create a reflective response demonstrating an understanding and personal application of these topics in relationship to the Morningside curricular concepts. See criteria below.
CRITERIA
POINTS
POINTS EARNED
1. Compares knowledge of the course topics from the beginning of the course to course end. Organizes responses around each of the 8 curricular concepts: Holistic Care; Communication; Critical Thinking; Nursing Process; Nursing Roles; Ethics; Research and Evidence-based Practice; Life-long Learning and Personal and Professional Growth (use the table provided to submit reflection). Summarizes learning with depth and reflection. Includes examples. Demonstrates analysis/synthesis of ideas.
80
2. States the implications of your new knowledge for the patient population(s), facility or community you serve.
5
3. Provides examples or scenarios where you have or will apply new knowledge or skills to your daily routine to improve patient outcomes.
10
4. States any surprises you encountered in your educational journey, what you enjoyed most, and what aspects of the course remain a challenge for you.
5
4. Writing style – grammar, structure, organization and communication of ideas. Synthesizes what was learned, and does NOT merely paste together past submissions. Points will be deducted if exceeds or does not achieve page limit (6-10 pages including the title and reference pages). Up to 5 points deducted
(-5)
Total Points Possible
100
100% POINTS
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