Class 4: Scholory Writing and Personal Development

Professional Development Plan

one way that nurses indicate to the public that they are maintaining their competence to practise and take their professional development obligation seriously.

Curriculum Vitae AKA…

Professional Resume

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

A comprehensive overview of a person's education, experiences, and achievements that requires annual updating.

Why do we do create a professional development plan?

It is professional requirement for BCCNM

Specific

What will you do?

Measurable

How do you know you succeeded?

Attainable

Can I achieve this? How?

Relevant

Is this appropriate as a first year nursing student?

Time Bound

When will I achieve this by? Can I achieve this by the end of first year?

Philosophy Statement

A self-reflection that should convey concrete examples/evidence that support your beliefs and values

Narrative Writing

Tells a story, often personal experiences

Scholarly Writing

Academic, evidence-based, uses APA, formal tone

Reflective Writing

Analyzes your own thoughts, actions, and feelings to gain insight

Why reflecting matters?

Builds self-awareness, identifies learning needs, strengthens practice and is a BCCNM requirement.

Reflection on practice

often triggered by a breakdown in clinical judgment and is critical for the development of clinical knowledge and improvement in clinical reasoning

Reflection in action

is understood or implied without being stated, occurs in the situation

Reflection-on-action:

occurs after the situation, encourages professional growth through the examination of our: beliefs, feelings, thoughts, values, behaviours, actions etc.

Step 1: Description

What happened?

Step 2: Feelings

What were you feeling?

Step 3: Evaluation

What was good or bad about the experience?

Step 4: Analysis

What sense can you make of the situation?

Step 5: Conclusion

What else could you have done?

Step 6: Action Plan

If it happened again, what would you do?

I believe in you!

I believe in me too!

AND or OR

I need both X AND Y/I need X OR Y

Brackets

I need X and (Y OR Z)

Quotation marks

“X Y” likes them

What makes a good study?

Reputable, abstract is addressing topic, recent

3 Points for APA

Format, i text citations, and reference list