analyze, synthesize and evaluate the nursing theory using guided questions.

Dayer-Berenson, Ch. 3

1. As we conclude this course, can you define the primary and secondary characteristics of your own culture? Can you describe the characteristics of you race and your ethnicity?

Summary: The purpose of the weekly reflective journal exercises is to allow for analysis, synthesis and evaluation of nursing theory using guided questions. Reflection has been referred to as a process that happens internally, privately or in isolation (Hill & Watson, 2011).  Also a useful definition of reflection has been referred to as the examination of an issue of concern, as a consequence of experience, creating clarity and meaning in terms of self, and which results in a change of perspective ( Boyd & Fales, 1983).