Namaste Reflection

Sitting in on this meeting was a learning experience. It was important for me to better understand the many dynamics of my coworkers and how it impacts meetings regarding our residents care. It is clear that some of these dynamics

Pocahontas’ story has been changed throughout history. Her story has been subverted because people wanted to make it more interesting so that they could make more money and fame of off it. Townsend explains the choices that Pocahontas and her father made as well as the trajectory of her life by using other people’s accounts of her and how they perceived her. There were no documents recorded from Pocahontas.

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

Reflection should become integral to these sessions. Concrete Experience Concerned with something that has happened to you or that you have done. Concerned with adopting your new ideas into practice.

At the end of Medieval literature a new literature was created. Women wanted stories where they could have a role. The women wanted to be treated like queens. This idea of courtly love-where a knight honored a married woman like he would “his liege lord” (Schwartz 1) can be found in Gardner’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain must honor such a lady. Because Sir Gawain honors a married woman, he struggles with being an honest and loyal knight.

Everyday in this facility is a day filled with learning experiences. I feel like I’m getting confident with my skills and how I communicate with my nurses, clients as well as their family members.

Throughout the two years the importance of good, clear and concise communication has become pivotal in my personal development. The patient handover is an excellent example of this; however in my first year I felt unequipped to give accurate handovers as I had little practice and was reluctant to develop this in clinical practice, as I felt that I had little engagement with my mentors over this area of my development.

Why should athletes be treated differently than any other citizen? Anyone in another occupation is able to return to their job. So what makes an athlete any different? After an athlete has spent jail time or paid fees depending on how major the crime committed was, the right to their job should still be applied. Just because an athlete has taken the wrong turn in life doesn’t mean they should have their lives ruined forever an athlete lives off of the money they make from basketball, soccer, football, ect.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

the cutoff is higher for any of those. So Marist has changed just like its campus says change, its reputation is changing, and it’s known you know throughout the United States and now becoming known in international community.

The show Shameless captures the dysfunctional and chaotic Gallagher family. It centers around the lives of Frank Gallagher and his six children, Fiona, Lip, Ian, Debbie, Carl, and Liam. Due to Frank’s alcoholic and drug addiction, his eldest daughter Fiona has taken the parental role of the family by taking care of her younger siblings and providing financially for the home. Every episode revolves around a crazy situation that Frank or one or more of the children have gotten themselves into. It is hard to maintain a stable lifestyle since they live in the South Side of Chicago, but somehow this family is always able to come back together with the exception of the father. Frank, selfishly will go to any extent to provide for himself and does not care about the destruction that he causes within society or his own home.

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

Through the interactions I have in the healthcare setting, I notice the physicians and other healthcare members are always alert and composed regardless of the situation. I believe paying attention to details is an innate feature, but being observant is a quality I am obtaining throughout my interactions with peers and patients. As I volunteer in The James Cancer Hospital, I realize the importance of being attentive; every patient and visitor I meet, has questions and worries that need to be answered and reassured. Recently, I escorted an elderly visitor to her husband in a post-operating room. On our way, I tried to converse with the visitor about the weather, but she was only giving me short answers. The thing that troubled me was the uneasiness in her voice, so I continued to make small talks about the amenities and resources within the hospital. In one of her responses, she mentioned being in the waiting area for longer than expected. I quick understood her concerns; since most visitors I encountered in this department waited long hours for their love ones, they might feel agitated and anxious when receiving news about the surgery. Although I had no knowledge of the surgery duration, I was able to put her at ease by letting her know that the hospital would have communicated with her about updates from the surgery. I wanted to reassured the visitor; thus before I left the patient room, I described the concern of patient’s wife to the nurse so that the care team can address the issue further.

Living in an awful neighborhood can be intense yet you need to change in accordance with your way of life, Your parents can likewise pummel you some of the time on the off chance that you make mistakes yet despite everything they care and have feelings for/about you. In my way of life/personality I live in a decent neighborhood and my father sometimes gets furious at me in the event that I settle on wrong choices. In the book, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, The main character, Starr, is a mirror and window to my personality since she generally gets chastened by her dad simply like I get admonished and her dad doesn't generally settle on the best choices which is also a factor to why she is living in a terrible neighborhood.

I Take You by Eliza Kennedy isn’t the first novel to challenge the general ideas about the institution of marriage, but it might be the most interesting one I’ve ever read! Full of characters making questionable decisions while exhibiting even more questionable morals, the story of the week before Lily Wilder’s wedding was a deliciously raucous ride that gave me much to think about.