This is a pass/Fail assessment

For this assessment, you will need to reflect on your practice with consideration to your specialty area. The assessment forms part of your portfolio development and focuses on your ability to keep a journal and to reflect on how your practice is advancing as you progress in your career.

1. Identify a recent clinical experience in which you have either done very well in, or you have struggled with.
2. Using a reflective approach that you are familiar with, describe the incident, how you managed it, and what your learned from the experience.
3. Your word limit is 1500 words. Consideration will be given on word count that is 10% above or below the 1500-word limit.

Before you commence this assessment, please read the following;

• Refer to the information on PORTFOLIOS on Moodle that outline the importance of portfolios and how to develop and maintain one.
• Check the CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDES for your specialty, which can be found on Moodle. You need to have worked through this checklist at the beginning of the course, as part of your reflection on what you know well, and what you need to learn and develop further in. Then, based on the learning and skills development that you focus on over this unit of study, you will be able to choose some reflections for this assessment.
• Refer to the MARKING RUBRIC for this assessment, which can be found in ASSESSMENTS on Moodle. This marking rubric provides you with a guide on how you should approach writing your reflection.
• Information on the GIBBS CYCLE FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING can be found in PORTFOLIOS on Moodle.
• Please also familiarise yourself with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s STANDARDS OF PRACTICE (2018) and the GUIDELINE FOR CONTINUING PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT (2016).

How to submit your assessment:

Please upload your reflections via the assessment tab in Moodle under ASSESSMENTS.

Documents must be in word format.

This is a pass/fail assignment.

For this unit of study, you are going to develop your clinical portfolio, in which you will seek out and develop those practices that are specific to your own specialty area. This will form part of your overall professional portfolio that you will need to get into the habit of keeping up to date as you progress with your nursing career.

1. Using the CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDE, review your clinical practice at the beginning of the term and plan your learning.
2. Identify the areas you need to focus on in your skills development from this guide.
3. Commencing early in the term, to begin working on your CLINICAL PORTFOLIO (template provided in Moodle).
4. Towards the end of the term, go back to the CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDE and repeat the self-assessment to see how you have progressed during the term.
5. Use this self-assessment to reflect on your practice and to complete your CLINICAL PORTFOLIO.
6. With your clinical educator or a mentor in your workplace, complete the CLINICAL APPRAISAL RUBRIC.

Guide to this activity:

• There are PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES provided on Moodle, as well as a CLINICAL PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE for you to use for your assessment.
• You will also need to identify your area of specialty practice (in week 1), and then you will choose the CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDE that is provided for each specialty domain on Moodle. You need go through the list provided at the beginning of the term (in week 2), in order to identify what clinical and skills development, you need to undertake during the term. This forms your learning plan for the term, and also forms part of your reflective practice. You then need to repeat this process towards the end of the term (in week 9) to see how you have progressed in your development. You will need to upload both of these reflective assessments onto MOODLE in the tab provided under ASSESSMENTS.
• Each CLINICAL ASSESSMENT GUIDE follows the Bondy Assessment Tool that identifies the standard of procedure, the quality of performance and level of assistance required. There are 5 levels of competency for this, graded as 1 = Dependent; 2 = Marginal; 3 = Assisted; 4 = Supervised; 5 = Independent. Even if you are dependent or marginal in a skill, it does not mean you have failed, it just means you need more work on refining the skill.
• Please do be realistic in your reflections and your planning. You cannot complete all the skills in one term, but you can monitor and plan your learning constructively. Part of your reflection is to identify what clinical processes and skills you will focus on during the term. 

As evidence of your completion, you will need to submit:

• The CLINICAL APPRAISAL RUBRIC
• Both CLINICAL SELF-ASSESSMENTS (from weeks 2 and 9)

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Clinical Appraisal Rubric

Guidelines provided on Moodle in regard to the self assessment checklists