Title: Critical Reflection Nursing and Midwifery Board Australia (NMBA), Registered Nurse Standards for Practice
This assessment is designed to develop your critical reflection skills in conjunction with your development as a healthcare practitioner who is aware of their responsibilities related to the NMBA Registered Nurse Standards for Practice.

Purpose:

Nurses and midwives must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and meet the NMBA’s professional standards in order to practise in Australia. As a Registered Nurse you will be required to participate in critical thinking and professional development while demonstrating these standards in your practice.

Assessment Details:

Using the Gibbs reflective framework, critically reflect on a clinical nursing experience that relates to a specific standard/s (and criteria within the standard/s).

Instruction:

Standard 1:

1. Description Describe the standard choses and its relevant specific element. Describe the clinical experience. What happened?; Do not make judgments or draw conclusions.
   
2. Feelings: What were YOUR feelings? What were YOUR thoughts? Do not analyse at this stage. How does the standard relate to the clinical experience? You must support your experiences with high quality research evidence.
   
3. Evaluation : What was positive or negative about the experience related to standards and your priorities in your forthcoming role as a new graduate RN. You must support all assertions from high quality research evidence.
   
4. Analysis : What sense can you make of the clinical experience? Bring in ideas from outside the experience; What does the literature say about student (or registered) nurses with similar experiences. You must support all assertions from high quality research evidence.