Instruction

(Mental health Nursing)

(In the psychiatric facility with adult schizophrenia patients)

To address in your reflection include:

1. What feelings, prejudices and biases did you experience during your clinical experience? Remember this applies to your observations of patients and patient care, and your feelings about those you cared for.

2. How did you manage them?

3. What assumptions did you make about mental illness and persons with mental illness?

4. What awareness did you develop during your clinical experience?

5. How did you change as a result of your clinical experience?

6. How will this experience impact on you as a nurse?