"My Straight-Jacket's Custom Made, Though"

Weekly Reflection: Observations of teaching

As part of my PGCLT, I am required to have my mentor sit in on one of my teaching sessions and completed a peer observation template for me to learn from.

Initially, I wasn’t overly concerned by this. I like and respect my mentor and I am keen to have her feedback. Whilst I am understandably anxious that the feedback I’m going to receive will be ‘you’re doing it all wrong’, from the same angle…

Weekly Reflections: The reflective practitioner

At the beginning of this week I taught my first session as a University lecturer on the topic of professional accountability and the role of the nurse in evidence based practice. The class was to a very small group of students studying an apprenticeship programme to become nursing associates.

As has quickly become the norm, I was teaching online using my Adobe Connect that I’ve made jolly…

Weekly Reflections: Learning and teaching at University

This week’s lesson focused on the way that lecturers teach, and students learn. Race (2014) outlines seven factors that underpin successful learning: wanting to learn, needing to learn, learning by doing, learning through feedback, making sense, verbalising/dialogue and learning through assessment. When I reflect on my own teaching experiences, I can recognise that many of my classes were filled…

Decompression Sickness: Moving up the bands

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while, but I keep putting it off. Partly because blogging involves sitting down quietly and concentrating (something I’ve never been very good at) but mainly because I’m self conscious as to how it would be received. 

In September I started a new role as Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist. There are so many reasons this is incredible and insane but I…