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...

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
. Outline event concisely
2. Elaborate
a. Summarize event in detail (what happened, who was involved, where the event occu
ed, your involvement)
. Describe personal feelings and perceptions of self and others
3. Analyze
a. Identify one key issue to analyze
. 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
. 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 na
ative 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

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Health and Wellness- Critical Reflective Analysis Essay Ru
ic
    Indicato
    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 na
ative accounts
Shows great depth of thought
Is creative and original
(Score = 3)
    Writer:
Presents experience through use of concrete sensory language, quotations, and na
ative 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