Critical Reflective Analysis In developing your genogram and learning plan you were required to collect significant personal data that has influenced your lifestyle and consequently your personal...

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Critical Reflective Analysis In developing your genogram and learning plan you were required to collect significant personal data that has influenced your lifestyle and consequently your personal health and wellness. Looking at this information and your personal learning plan a meaningful event must have come to mind. This event would have been an incident that probably impacted your lifestyle in a negative fashion; as an example a divorce, an accident or a sudden death of a family member from familial links. How did this affect your overall health using the six dimensions of wellness?  How does the research support the findings?  What does this mean for you?  With the knowledge you have gained how has this changed your perspective? Why? What changes will you make? Using the LEARN headings write a critical analyses highlighting the abstract ideas underlying your reflection.  Use specific details and at least three references to defend your conclusions.   Criteria for Evaluation and Grading Format: 1. 5 pages (excluding title and reference page) 2. 12 font Arial or Times New Roman 3. Double spaced 4. Minimum of 3-4 references 5. APA format (link) 6. Submit in a Word.doc document LEARN HEADINGS 1. Look Back a. Present a meaningful event b. Outline event concisely 2. Elaborate a. Summarize event in detail (what happened, who was involved, where the event occurred, your involvement) b. Describe personal feelings and perceptions of self and others 3. Analyze a. Identify one key issue to analyze b. Use literature as a guide with at least 3 evidence based journal articles c. Compare and contrast the event with knowledge acquired in reading d. Discuss the new perspective (view) you have acquired through the literature 4. Revise a. Refer back to your acquired knowledge and analysis b. Explain how you would preserve or change your perspective c. Discuss rationale for considering the change in your life d. Suggest alternative strategies you are presently using as a result of this analysis 5. New Perspective a. Identify recommendations for future revision of your lifestyle Guidelines to assist reflective writing: 1. Occasion for reflection: (an experience – seen, read, heard) i. Presents experience through use of concrete, sensory language, quotations and narrative accounts ii. Shows depth of thought iii. Indicates creativity 2. Reflection ( exploration and analyzes) i. Reveals feelings and thoughts through presentation of the experience ii. Conveys evidence of a personal response to the experience iii. Enables reader to understand the abstract ideas underlying the reflection through use of specific detail iv. Demonstrates good meta-cognition 3. Writing Strategies i. Uses convincing language and scenarios to detail reflection ii. Uses comparison and imagery iii. Enhances reflection through contrasting and explaining possibilities iv. Makes inferences v. Develops new ways of reflecting upon nursing and nursing practice 4. Coherence and style: i. Demonstrates insight through natural flow of ideas ii. Provides an effective conclusion iii. Presents ideas in natural progression George Brown College George Brown College Health and Wellness- Critical Reflective Analysis Essay Rubric Indicator Grade Possible Score Score Exceeds Standards Meets Standards Below Standards Occasion for reflection: Describe Writer: Presents experience through use of concrete sensory language, quotations, and narrative accounts Shows great depth of thought Is creative and original (Score = 3) Writer: Presents experience through use of concrete sensory language, quotations, and narrative accounts (Score = 2) Writer: Does not go deeply enough into the reflection Talks too much about self instead of experience (Score = 1) 3 Reflection: · Exploring · Analyzing Writer: Reveals feelings and thoughts through presentation of the experience Conveys evidence of a personal response to the experience Enables reader to understand the abstract ideas underlying the reflection through use of specific detail Demonstrates good metacognition (Score = 10) Writer: Is thoughtful and insightful Analyzes the experience by looking at more than one angle Provides little evidence of a personal experience (Score = 6) Writer: Reveals a limited connection with the experience Generalizes (Score = 3) 10 Writing strategies Writer: Uses convincing language and scenarios to detail reflection Uses comparison and imagery Enhances reflection through contrasting and explaining possibilities, makes inferences Develops new ways of reflecting on their world (Score =5) Writer: Uses specific language to detail reflection Uses some comparison and contrasting (Score = 3) Writer: Uses some details to detail reflection Does not elaborate ideas Does not express opinions (Score = 1) 5 Coherence and style Writer: Demonstrates insight through natural flow of ideas Provides an effective conclusion Presents ideas in natural progression (Score = 5) Writer: Expresses arguments, opinions, and responses Presents ideas in natural progression (Score = 3) Writer: Uses simple, generic language Has lapses in natural progression Digresses Does not demonstrate coherence (Score = 1) 5 References Includes 3 – 4 scholarly references (Score = 2) Includes 1 - 2 scholarly references (Score = 1) Includes no scholarly references (Score = 0) 2 Total Score 25