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Title of Your Clinical Reflection
Your Name
Aurora University
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Brief introduction here regarding what you did in clinical this week and how it affected
you- how what you experienced made you feel.
Influences
Reflect on your clinical experience including how your prior knowledge and beliefs
influenced the experience.
Lessons Learned
What did you learn during your clinical experience? What would you possibly do
differently as you reflect back on the day? Additional questions you would have asked? Identify
plans for future growth and development.
Course Outcomes
Talk here about what course outcomes you have met during this clinical date and how the
outcomes were met. Discuss a minimum of two outcomes. What did you observe or what did you
specifically do that shows that you are meeting the course outcomes?
Program Outcomes
Diverse Populations
Reflecting on your interactions or observations in clinical this week, give examples of
how diversity influenced patient care. Remember diversity can include socio-cultural issues such
as culture, race, language, spirituality, sexual orientation, poverty, age, or disability.
Interprofessional Collaboration
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Describe an Interprofessional collaboration that you observed or participated in during
clinical this week and how it affected patient care. If you don't feel you observed an
interprofessional collaboration, discuss one that could benefit your patient.
Conclusion
Write a brief conclusion regarding your clinical reflection.
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1. Reflection on experience
 Provides a quality response inclusive of indepth examination of the experience.
 Reaction to the patient/community
healthcare needs, cultural focus and/or
issues.
 Student identifies how their feelings,
knowledge, attitudes, & judgements
benefitted the experience
☐Meets expectations
Instructor comments:
☐Needs improvement
2. Reflection on Lessons Learned & needs for
future growth and development
 Provides clear and in-depth discussion
about the lessons learned about
themselves and their needs for growth
and development in nursing practice as a
result of the experience.
 Identifies a plan for addressing the needs
for growth and development
3. Reflection on how experience applies to course
outcomes
 Identifies and explores 2 or more course
outcomes met during the clinical
experience.
4. Reflection on how experience applies to key
program learning outcomes.
 Reflection demonstrates ability to
☐Meets expectations
Instructor comments:
☐Needs improvement
☐Meets expectations
Instructor comments:
☐Needs improvement
☐Meets expectations
Instructor comments:
☐Needs improvement
☐Meets expectations
Instructor comments:
☐Needs improvement
understand the impact of the diverse
populations on nursing practice.
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Reflection on interprofessional
collaboration demonstrates knowledge
of interprofessional collaborative
practice.
5. Writing Mechanics, APA, & References
 Uses professional language and
terminology
 Meets 300-word minimum.
 Appropriate APA formatting
 If using a professional nursing journal
article to support reflection or plan for
growth and development the citations and
reference list meet APA standards.