What course objective are you addressing? . Communicate effectively with families, children, and health care providers. . Incorporate knowledge of physiology applied to the care of indi

Childbearing Families Clinical Reflection

1a) What course objective are you addressing?
. Communicate effectively with families, children, and health care providers.
. Incorporate knowledge of physiology applied to the care of individuals and families related to physical and emotional health during reproduction, pregnancy, birth, post-birth adjustment, and newborn health status; culture; family theories; and family and individual lifespan development in nursing care.

1b) Describe what happened; Who was there? What did you do or say? What did others do or say?
What was the context surrounding the situation?

2) Describe what you were thinking or feeling; How did you feel? What were you thinking? How do
you think others felt?

3) Analyze the situation so that you can make sense of what happened; What were you trying to
achieve? How did you come to the decision to act as you did? Identify at least one gap in knowledge
for you or another person.

4) Evaluate what was good and bad about the situation; What went well? What went poorly?
Describe the results of your analysis.

5) Make a conclusion about what else you could have done. Discuss other possible ways you could
have acted. Describe at least one other action you could have taken.
6) Describe how you plan to improve your practice from experiencing this situation; What would you
do differently or the same? What was your overall “take away” message?

7) (IBIAS Questions) Take a minute to reflect on the care you provided today. It is important to
acknowledge that we all make assumptions about people that are sometimes wrong, and these
assumptions are influenced by our implicit biases. Please reply to both prompts below.

 Did you notice any assumptions that you made today?consciously or unconsciously?about a
patient and/or family that you didn’t have evidence for?

 Did you observe another instance of bias today?