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 GradingFormat: 5 pages (excluding title and reference page) 12 font Arial or Times New Roman Double spaced Minimum of 3-4 references APA format (link) Submit in a Word.doc document LEARN HEADINGS Look Back Present a meaningful event Outline event concisely Elaborate Summarize event in detail (what happened, who was involved, where the event occurred, your involvement) Describe personal feelings and perceptions of self and others Analyze Identify one key issue to analyze Use literature as a guide with at least 3 evidence based journal articles Compare and contrast the event with knowledge acquired in reading Discuss the new perspective (view) you have acquired through the literature Revise Refer back to your acquired knowledge and analysis Explain how you would preserve or change your perspective Discuss rationale for considering the change in your life Suggest alternative strategies you are presently using as a result of this analysis New Perspective Identify recommendations for future revision of your lifestyle Guidelines to assist reflective writing: Occasion for reflection: (an experience – seen, read, heard) Presents experience through use of concrete, sensory language, quotations and narrative accounts Shows depth of thought Indicates creativity Reflection ( exploration and analyzes) 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 meta-cognition Writing Strategies 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 upon nursing and nursing practice Coherence and style: Demonstrates insight through natural flow of ideas P.

1. 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 GradingFormat:
5 pages (excluding title and reference page)
12 font Arial or Times New Roman
Double spaced
Minimum of 3-4 references
APA format (link)
Submit in a Word.doc document

2. LEARN HEADINGS
Look Back
Present a meaningful event
Outline event concisely
Elaborate
Summarize event in detail (what happened, who was involved,
where the event occurred, your involvement)
Describe personal feelings and perceptions of self and others
Analyze
Identify
one key
issue to analyze
Use literature as a guide with at least 3 evidence based journal
articles

3. Compare and contrast the event with knowledge acquired in
reading
Discuss the new perspective (view) you have acquired through
the literature
Revise
Refer back to your acquired knowledge and analysis
Explain how you would preserve or change your perspective
Discuss rationale for considering the change in your life
Suggest alternative strategies you are presently using as a result
of this analysis
New Perspective
Identify recommendations for future revision of your lifestyle
Guidelines to assist reflective writing:

4. Occasion for reflection: (an experience – seen, read, heard)
Presents experience through use of concrete, sensory language,
quotations and narrative accounts
Shows depth of thought
Indicates creativity
Reflection ( exploration and analyzes)
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 meta-cognition
Writing Strategies
Uses convincing language and scenarios to detail reflection

5. Uses comparison and imagery
Enhances reflection through contrasting and explaining
possibilities
Makes inferences
Develops new ways of reflecting upon nursing and nursing
practice
Coherence and style:
Demonstrates insight through natural flow of ideas
Provides an effective conclusion
Presents ideas in natural progression