PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MAYNILA

NRS 3218-6 - PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

Due: March 1, 2024

Sections: NRS 3218- 6, 7, & 8

Activity # 1 Case Scenario: Exploring Self-awareness in Nursing Practice

Background:
You are a nursing student about to begin your clinical rotation in a psychiatric care facility. Over
the past few weeks, you have been reflecting on your strengths, weaknesses, values, and
personal biases in preparation for this experience.

Scenario:
During your first day of clinical rotation, you are assigned to work with a patient diagnosed with
major depressive disorder. As you engage with the patient, you find yourself feeling
uncomfortable and unsure of how to connect with them. You recognize that you may have
personal biases or misconceptions about mental illness that are influencing your interactions.

Considerations:

Self-awareness: Reflect on your feelings, thoughts, and reactions as you interact with the patient.
What specific aspects of the situation are challenging for you? How do your personal beliefs,
experiences, and cultural background influence your perceptions of mental illness and your
ability to provide empathetic care?

Professional Boundaries: Consider the importance of maintaining professional boundaries while

also fostering a therapeutic relationship with the patient. How can you balance empathy and
compassion with maintaining appropriate professional distance?

Seeking Support and Feedback: Acknowledge that it is okay to feel uncertain or uncomfortable
in certain situations. How can you proactively seek support from your clinical instructor, peers,
or other members of the healthcare team? What strategies can you use to receive constructive
feedback and guidance to improve your practice?

Cultural Competence: Reflect on the cultural diversity within the patient population and the
impact of cultural beliefs and practices on mental health care. How can you demonstrate cultural
competence and respect for the patient's cultural background and preferences?

Continuing Self-reflection: Recognize that self-awareness is an ongoing process that requires

continuous reflection and introspection. How can you incorporate self-reflection into your daily
practice as a nursing student and future healthcare professional?
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Self-Awareness and Reflection Rubric

Criteria Excellent (4) Proficient (3) Basic (2) Unsatisfactory (1)

Depth of Student Student engages Student Student offers

Reflection demonstrates a in a thoughtful provides a basic minimal reflection
profound and reflection on reflection on on personal biases,
insightful personal biases, personal biases, values, and
reflection on values, and values, and experiences, with
personal biases, experiences, experiences, limited
values, and demonstrating acknowledging acknowledgment of
experiences, an their relevance their implications
for nursing practice.
showing a deep understanding to nursing
Reflection lacks
understanding of of their practice.
depth and relevance
their impact on influence on Reflection lacks
to the case scenario.
nursing practice. nursing practice. depth or insight
Reflection is Reflection is into the impact
comprehensive insightful and on patient care.
and relevant to the
demonstrates case scenario.
critical self-
awareness.

Application Student effectively Student applies Student attempts Student struggles to

of Concepts applies concepts concepts of self- to apply apply concepts of
of self-awareness, awareness, concepts of self- self-awareness,
cultural cultural awareness, cultural
competence, and competence, and cultural competence, and
professional professional competence, and professional
boundaries to the boundaries to professional boundaries to the
case scenario. the case boundaries to case scenario,
Application scenario, the case scenario showing limited
demonstrates a demonstrating but may understanding of
clear an demonstrate their relevance to
understanding of understanding of gaps in nursing practice.
how these their relevance to understanding or
concepts influence nursing practice. inconsistent
nursing practice Application is application.
and patient care. generally
accurate and
relevant.

Seeking Student Student Student shows Student fails to seek

Support and demonstrates demonstrates limited effort in support and
Feedback proactive efforts to willingness to seeking support feedback from
seek support and seek support and and feedback clinical instructors,
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feedback from feedback from from clinical peers, and
clinical instructors, clinical instructors, healthcare team
peers, and instructors, peers, and members. Student
healthcare team peers, and healthcare team shows little interest
members. Student healthcare team members. in opportunities for
actively engages in members. Student's learning and
opportunities for Student engagement in improvement.
learning and participates in opportunities for
improvement. opportunities for learning and
learning and improvement is
improvement but minimal.
may be less
proactive.

Cultural Student displays a Student Student shows Student

Competence high level of demonstrates an limited demonstrates poor
cultural adequate level of awareness of cultural
competence, cultural cultural competence,
recognizing and competence, competence, displaying
respecting the recognizing and with occasional insensitivity to the
cultural diversity of respecting the recognition of cultural diversity of
patients and cultural diversity the cultural patients and failing
incorporating of patients and diversity of to consider cultural
cultural considering patients. factors in nursing
considerations into cultural factors in Student's practice.
nursing practice. nursing practice. consideration of
Student Student shows cultural factors in
demonstrates some sensitivity nursing practice
sensitivity to to cultural beliefs may be
cultural beliefs and and practices. superficial.
practices.

Continuing Student articulates Student outlines Student provides Student offers a

Self- a clear plan for a plan for a basic outline of vague or incomplete
reflection integrating self- incorporating a plan for self- plan for self-
reflection into self-reflection reflection but reflection, showing
daily practice as a into daily lacks specificity limited
nursing student practice as a or depth. Plan understanding of its
and future nursing student may lack importance in
healthcare and future consideration of nursing practice.
professional. Plan healthcare long-term Plan lacks
demonstrates a professional. Plan personal and coherence and
commitment to is reasonable and professional relevance to
ongoing personal demonstrates an development. personal and
and professional understanding of professional growth.
growth. the importance
of continuous
self-awareness.
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