Bortons model of reflection
You are required to write three ?diary? entries for three different healthcare experiences
that you have had. These can be experiences from clinical practicum, employment in a
healthcare setting, experience as a patient or client of a health service or a healthcare
experience of a family member or friend in which you were involved. The experience
should have an element that bothered that you would like to think or learn more about
through reflection and research; perhaps to help you to arrive at a new understanding.
The quality of these diary entries will be assessed. You can write diary entries using the
first person ?I?. You are required to de-identify people and places (using pseudonyms
where necessary) to maintain confidentiality of participants and facilities. All journal
entries will be treated as private and confidential documents.
For each journal entry, you are required to complete a Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3
analysis (see Borton?s analysis framework available on NMIH303 Moodle site (Rolfe,
Freshwater & Jasper 2002)). Please do not use any other reflection model.
Please note that within Level 2, you are asked the question of what other knowledge you
can bring to the situation. Within this step, and under scientific knowledge, you are
required to conduct a literature search to identify and analyse literature that will help you
develop a new understanding of the situation you are reflecting upon. This section
requires you to demonstrate effective literature searching skills and the ability to
consolidate, analyse and critique evidence. Therefore, as many references as you need
to comprehensively reflect on the diary situation are required within this section.
The style of essay should like this :
The first paragraph Introduction
Second paragraph diary Entry one
Third paragraph Level 1.2.3
Fourth paragraph Diary Two
Fifth paragraph Level 1.2.3
Sixth paragraph Diary Three
Seventh paragraph level 1.2.3
Eighth paragraph Conclusion
The last pages References ( you should use
Harvard style for references)