Reflections should be approximately 500 words and scholarly, using APA 7 formatting for citations.* Please reflect upon your simulation experience addressing all of the following:
· What overall thoughts do you have about your simulation experience?
-great opportunity to practice patient interactions.
New experience working with pediatric patients
Patient was easy to talk to and provided enough information to arrive to a diagnosis
· What did you do well?
Empathic, thorough review of system.
I Discussed the diagnosis and explained why I thought that was the right diagnosis.
I did not judge patient and used therapeutic communication
· What areas for improvement did you identify?
I missed offering the depression diagnostic tool
I should have made more emphasis on the severity of the condition
· What is your plan for addressing the areas you need to improve upon moving forward?
I will the resource more openly in order to provide more accurate advise
Provide closer follow up
Be aware of the resources available in my community
(can make up anything you want)
· Which clinical guideline(s) did you select for your patient plan?
· How did you select the guideline? What is the source and level of evidence (see below for a refresher on levels of evidence)?
Remember- UpToDate and Dynamed should not be used here. Go to primary sources such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, National Institutes of Health, or the American Academy of Family Physicians, etc.
*For this assignment, it is acceptable to use first-person (I, me, we, us). You do not need a cover page or numbered pages, but you do need a title, an introduction, a conclusion, in-text citations, and a reference list. Your document should be double-spaced.
