Assessment Task : Written Industry Reflection
Purpose: you are required to attend an interview when applying for a New Graduate Program or a Registered Nurse Position. As part of the interview process you will be required to reflect on a past clinical experience when answering interview questions. For this assessment task students will be required to select one interview question and using 5R’s of reflection and their reflective skills provide a written (750 to 850 word) summary to this question.
For this assessment your are required to select ONE of the following interview questions to provide an 750 to 850 words response to a question.
How has your training prepared you for a nursing career, please provide examples?
What is your greatest strength and weakness and how do you manage this in the workplace, please provide some examples?
How do you assist a patient who has increasing pain, please provide an example?
Evidence of critical thinking and analysis as well as a critique of personal actions should be demonstrated. In addition, consideration of how the outcomes of this reflection will impact on the student’s interview success must be evident.
You are also required to refer to the criterion referenced rubric.
Assessment criteria:
The criterion referenced rubric should be used to guide your reflective writing. This rubric will also form the basis of your feedback for this assessment item
Criterion Referenced Rubric:
High Distinction
Reporting andResponding
10 %
Student has identified an appropriate critical incident or issue related to their chosen interview question.
The student has reported what happened or what the issue of incident involved. Explained why it is relevant.
Responded to the incident or issue by making observations and expressing an informed (referenced) opinion. Posed questions to address as a result of the incident.
Relating20 %
Student has: Related and explained the incident or issue to their own skills,professional experience, or discipline knowledge and commented on aspects that they have or have not experienced before.
Analysed the similarities and differences between the conditions of this environment and the conditions of other environments they have encountered.
Reasoning20%
Student has: Highlighted in detail significant factors underlying the incident or issueExplained and analysed their importance Referred to relevant theory and
literature to support their reasoning
Considered different perspectives – (eg theoretical or ethical) in relation to this issue
Reconstruction30%
Student has: Explained how and why future practice or professional understanding has been reconstructed Described how they would deal with this next time.Explained how theories or relevant literature support their ideas
Explored whether changes could be made to benefit other stakeholders
Integration of Reflective Components5 %
The student has successfully integrated each of the elements (reporting and responding, relating, reasoning, and reconstructing). There is evidence that the reconstruction builds on each of the other elements.The four elements are linked clearly, cohesively, and logically.
Sources and Referencing5%
Credible and relevant references are used. Accurate use of APA referencing style in allinstances.
Sentence and ParagraphStructure/Intelligibility
5 %
The writing is organised into paragraphs, and the information is organised appropriately within the paragraph. Each paragraph relates to a discrete idea. There are clear linking sentences that link each paragraph to the next.
Mechanics Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation5 %
There are no errors with grammar, spelling and punctuation that impact readability, and the meaning is easily discernible. The reflection reads without interruption.
