Write about an aspect of your placement or an event that occured during clinical practice and develop your thoughts using both theoratical understanding and personal reflections ,you may chose to...

Write about an aspect of your placement or an event that occured during clinical practice and develop your thoughts using both theoratical understanding and personal reflections ,you may chose to write as first person. You will need to intergrate current literature to explore your understandings and to clarify how this experience has further informed your understanding of your role as a mental health nurse. Reflective Practice skills are required of mental health proffessionals to improve and develop their therapeautic use of self assessment and ongoing learning are intergral requirements of proffessional accountability,This responsibility extends to our peers,collegues to assist in review and evaluation of their practice.It is important that this is achieved in an open and constructive process that achieves personal growth,provides support not criticism,encourages enquiry and new learning. Using the 5 sections that focus on clinical interventions that you have been personally involved in.You may chose to reflect on an interaction intervention with a person in your care,a staff member,or some other person connected to the person in your care.The priority is that you reflect on your skills ,thoughts and knowledge. 1)Describe -briefly the interaction,observation or event -focus on the interaction of the people -decribe only what happened 2)Inform -inform the reader the meaning that you have made of the events,it is worthwhile to examine your thoughts and questions that lead you to derive meaning. 3)Deconstruct -this steps also asks 'How did i come to be like this?' -what influences in the environment you are responding to,where your comfort level is and what priorities you brought to this experience?question your assumptions,beliefs,knowledge base and experience that help you deconstruct the event. 4)Reconstruct -How might you do things differently?consider what knowledge and skills you would like to develop.what other personal and or material resources would assist in achieving a different outcome?What of other people in the interaction,What are their needs?What of the location,timing and other considerations.How does current literature and research inform these changes? 5)Evaluate -State the outcome of the process of reflection for this exercise.What has been gained and what can be improved?What would be essentially different if you had the opportunity again?