1. Watch: Leibold, N. (2021). Listening and Centering Meditation. [video, 10 min, 55 sec]. CC BY NC. https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cr1vFUV15CW
2. Read: Nursing and Patient Safety at https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/nursing-and-patient-safety
Submit a less than one-page (title page, citations, references not needed for this assignment) typed reflective response to the following guided questions. Number the responses to the questions.
Self-Care and Lifelong Learning Assignment Guided Questions
1. Did you complete the listening and centering meditation video? [Expand beyond just stating ‘yes’ or ‘no’]
2. Do you have previous experience with centering meditation or was this your first experience?
3. Reflect and describe in four to six sentences your experience with this self-care and lifelong learning activity. This meditation experience is also a lifelong learning activity as nurses are learning throughout their lives about improving health. Consider the following in your answer: what was the environment like when you did the meditation? Were you interrupted? How did the deep breathing impact how you felt? What is one takeaway point you learned from meditation?
4. Learning about yourself and self-care is one aspect of lifelong learning. Describe the impact of nurse’s providing self-care (such as through this meditation) on their safety performance as a nurse.
5. Reflect and describe your thoughts about your own role in self-care to prevent errors in your nursing practice. Explain your ideas about the physical and cognitive limitations of humans and why self-care is important to prevent errors in nursing and healthcare.
6. What is one skill you wish to develop to improve your communication skills as a result of completing this meditation?
7. Identify one possible idea for a similar self-care activity that could be used with communities or populations to promote self-care health promotion activities?
8. How might you evaluate the success of such a self-care activity with communities or populations?
