Setting Meaningful Priorities Reflective Thinking 1: If you have not written you

Setting Meaningful Priorities
Reflective Thinking 1:
If you have not written your personal values statement, now is a good time to do it. It is important for you to be clear about what is of value to you. Your values statement could be a sentence, a paragraph, or longer. If you spend time pondering it and actually take the time to write it, you will be further ahead in life than many other people. Persons without clear values become confused when major decisions need to be made quickly. They flounder in their lives and do not achieve their most pressing desires.
Write your personal values statement and share it with someone important to you. Such personal statements are often not to be shared with the general public. However, if you feel that you can share yours, come to class prepared to do so. It may be helpful to someone who is struggling to write his or her own.
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Reflective Thinking 2:
All health-care facilities and academic institutions have mission statements. Do you know the mission statement for your school? It would be interesting to see what it is. More important, however, is for you to identify your own personal mission statement. What are you about? What is it you want your life to mean? Now take the time necessary to identify your personal mission statement. What do you really want to achieve in life? What are your foundational concepts for living? Ponder this assignment and record it. Again, this may be too personal to share in class, but you should share it with someone. That makes it more real.
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Reflective Thinking 3:
Make a list in your class notebook of a minimum of five things you could do to manage this priority-setting situation. Come prepared to bring them to class to discuss with your classmates. I think you will be interested in how each person would resolve this problem.
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Reflective Thinking 4:
Describe a good decision you made in your life. What process did you use to make the decision? Do you consider yourself a good decision maker? Why or why not?
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Reflective Thinking 5:
Think of a clinical situation you experienced during a clinical rotation when a decision was made. Compare the process you and others used to make the decision with the process listed here? How did the process compare?