Check Your Understanding of Academic Papers

Complete this activity to test your knowledge of scholarly and reflective writing.

Choose the type of writing that matches the following definition: “writing that involves some combination of analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the scholarly literature.”

Scholarly writing
Reflective writing

Choose the type of writing that matches the following definition: “Writing that involves thinking critically about your own experience and feelings.”

Reflective writing
Scholarly writing

Choose which type of writing you would use if you wanted to engage in reflective practice in your career.

Scholarly writing
Reflective writing

Choose which type of writing you would use if you wanted to write a scholarly article.

Scholarly writing
Reflective writing

Which example best shows reflective writing?

Compassion is defined as wanting to relieve a patient’s suffering by attending to their experience, recognizing their emotions, and delivering meaningful care (Bramley & Matiti, 2014). Nurses demonstrate compassion by going above and beyond what their job entails. It is comprised of making time for individual patients, providing appropriate and gentle touch, and holistic care as human beings, not as objects (Bramley & Matiti, 2014).
According to Bramley and Matiti (2014), patients want nurses to understand how to be treated with compassionate care and gain an understanding of the importance of demonstrating compassion. Based on my personal understanding of how painful needles are, I demonstrated compassion by putting myself in my patient’s shoes. Compassion was demonstrated by recognizing my patient’s emotions and working collaboratively with my patient to limit the pain.