HLT54115 Diploma Of Nursing

Introduction:

Reflective practice is essential in nursing practice as it helps to evaluate own work and identify mistakes, thus allows to improve skills in order to avoid such mistakes in future practice (Howatson-Jones, 2016). The purpose of the assignment is to reflect on one of my own writing in order to evaluate my skills and identify the areas of improvement. In this regards I will reflect on my assignment based on effectiveness of pelvic muscle floor exercises in combination of medication in stress urinary incontinence.

Discussion:

Before starting to write the research paper I have gathered adequate information regarding the topic in order to build in-depth understanding and include specific information in my paper with adequate support of previous literature. I have stuck to the topic throughout the paper with a clear rationale of selecting the topic and purpose of the research while including critical thinking in order to evaluate the outcomes. I have used the suggestions provided by previous literatures to support my ideas which has indicated that the balance between ideas and evidence. I have searched the work of different authors and included the information in my own language. Additionally there is no unsupported ideas or generalized concept in the paper and I have ordered the paper in a flow that has helped me to lead to the conclusion inevitably. Thus, I would score myself in topic as excellent.

Furthermore, the paper is structured with proper research framework such as introduction, background of the study, clear research questions, aims and objectives, significance of the study, study design, ethical consideration and conclusion. Long paragraphs could impact on the interest of the reader to read the full paragraph consistently, hence I have used different paragraph with limited words for explaining different aspects and attract the mind of the readers to go through the full research paper (Bailey, 2014).  Each paragraph in the paper has been liked with one another in order to make the writing fluent and emotive terms have been ignored to avoid the imaginative content.  The paper was mostly correct with proper grammar, punctuations and spelling and sentence length was maintained effectively. Adequate numbers of literatures have been included to justify the statements provided in the paper and they were referenced in a proper manner. Hence, I would score myself in expression as good.

However, I fell that I need to improve my skill to write study design as I did not mentioned the databases from which I have collected the articles and could include some other inclusion criteria for the selection of articles. In addition I did not mentioned the limitation of my study which indicated lack of future scope of practice. Thus, I would like to learn more about different study methods and understand the proper way of writing study design. In this regards my short-term strategy would be gather information about different methodology, data collection and analysis from various sources to gather knowledge and long-term strategy would be to write more research papers and collect feedback from the experts to evaluate my writing and improvement (Lewis, 2015). It is expected that with such strategies I could improve my writing skill in an effective manner.

Conclusion:

The above discussion has demonstrated that, my overall writing is good, however, I need to concentrate on grammar and punctuation to make my paper with correct grammar and I need to gather knowledge about different research methods to include adequate information in study design and make an excellent research paper.

References:

Bailey, S. (2014). Academic writing: A handbook for international students. Routledge. 4^th edition. pp. 1-282.

Howatson-Jones, L., (2016). Reflective practice in nursing. Learning Matters. 3^rd edition. pp. 1-179.

Lewis, S. (2015). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. Health promotion practice, 16(4), 473-475.