Overview & Instructions
One of the requirements of this course is completion of weekly reflective journal entries. This journal is a reflection of your personal journey as a future nursing student. Please respond with thoughtful answers in complete sentences, using correct grammar and spelling. Submit your answers on this document to Blackboard.
Rubric
Make sure to use the rubric found in Blackboard to guide your work.
- Think about the various strategies you have read about regarding pre-reading, note-taking, and reviewing/self-testing. Which of these are you willing to put into practice for your success as a nursing student? What are the benefits and challenges to doing so?
- Describe some distractions in your study environment that you discovered. Which of the seven concentration factors most affects your own ability to focus and how will this information help you?
- When writing your own personal nursing philosophy, what core belief(s) or value(s) did you notice as a common theme about yourself? If you had to summarize your philosophy, what would you say?
- What is the biggest change in your understanding of the nursing profession since the beginning of the course? What questions about nursing do you still have?
- How do you feel about entering the profession now that you have learned more about it?
Sample Solution