I am currently in my first year of a foundation degree in health and social care. I am going to discuss the power point presentation I delivered to my tutor group as part of the degree requirements. I will discuss my feelings and thoughts and reflect on the knowledge I have gained from this experience. I will also discuss the feedback that was given to me by the 3 tutors who were sitting at the back of the room critiquing my work. The presentation was to be about a long term condition of a patient that I had looked after. I needed to choose a subject that I was to present as it is important to choose a condition that is interesting but not to in-depth as the presentation was to talk about the subject for 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. I will use the Gibbs reflective cycle (1998), see appendix 1. I will use this model as it will take me step by step from the beginning of my presentation to the end.
I had only ever done 1 power point presentation when studying for the Diploma level 3 in health and social care last year, I had to talk for 8 minutes and a couple of minutes for questions so I knew I was going to be just as nervous as I was then. I was terrified of making a fool of myself we have a lot of younger students in the group whom I feel have more confidence and seem more up to date with technology than myself. I needed to decide on a long term condition that I had knowledge of and would feel relatively confident talking about. I work in an acute assessment area and see patients in the acute stage of their illness they do not stay in the acute unit they move onto a ward so I do not get to follow them through their complete care pathway. I started to get myself very stressed and knew this was going to be a big challenge for me. Managing and coping with stress had been identified by Rodham (2010), Negative self – evaluations, students tend to be hard on themselves when they fail to reach valued goals. I knew I needed to get myself over this hurdle and made sure I spent enough time following a patient and family through their first stage of their admission and liaising with multi-disciplinary team about their treatment. The long term condition I wanted to use for my presentation was diverticulitis; it is a common condition with patients that are admitted onto the acute ward. I had some knowledge of the signs, symptoms and causes; I was looking forward into researching diverticulitis further.
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The next step for me was to look on the internet and books for pictures and information to apply onto PowerPoint, it took me several attempts of what I wanted before I was happy with the slide presentation. I wanted this presentation to go well the fear of failure and lack of confidence is one of my main problems that I try hard to overcome. On one of our study days we were shown Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs chart, he spoke out about self-esteem and problem solving, confidence and respect, Hogston and Simpson (2002).
See appendix 2.
The morning of the presentation was a complete disaster, I had not slept well due to nerves and I was having personal problems at home I could have well done without that morning. Driving to the venue that morning I kept saying to myself you can do this just stay calm. I had arranged to meet some of the girls in the coffee bar for 7.30am as we had to start presentations from 8.am. Every single one of us felt exactly the same nervous, sick feeling and butterflies in the stomach. When I walked into the room we were to do our presentations it was so small and hot, I noticed there was only a tiny little window in the corner and one standard fan at the front of the room sitting on top of a chair. I like fresh air and tend to get very agitated when I become too warm. The next think I noticed the computer was situated at the front of the room but on the left hand side, for some reason I visualised the computer to be on the right side of the seminar room like it had been on our previous study days. I started to panic as I suffer with Macular degeneration in my left eye, I kept thinking to myself please God don’t let my condition let me down today. I had to leave the room I just completely broke down everything came flooding back to me from the time I woke that morning up to the present time. I started to doubt myself did I have the ability to get through this! (www.advancedlifeskills).
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One of the tutors told me to go home I could do the presentation another time, another one asked me if I would like to go first then go home. At that particular moment I needed a big boost to give me confidence, K Ginman (2007) stated confidence was vital for success; anything is possible when one feels good about themselves. I informed the tutors I wanted to stay and get through this, I didn’t want to let anybody down especially the trust I work for as they had put their trust in me when accepting me on the foundation degree. The presentations started and after each one I felt sick and weak at the knees they were very good presentations, mine was nowhere as good I kept thinking to myself!
I could not eat lunch my nerves were getting the better of me. I had 1 hour to go before it was my turn. Finally it was my turn I introduced myself my voice started to quiver a little, my heart was pounding and my flushes had started. I took a couple of sips of water my mouth had become very dry. I got through it and when I sat down my colleagues said I did really well, at last it was over.
We were all asked to go into the coffee canteen and would be called back to the room within 10 minutes. I was initially disappointed with my D2 mark but later reading through the feedback I could understand why on a few points. I did not use prompt cards, I did practice at home but just couldn’t get on with them so I tried to memorise everything I wanted to talk about. All was going well until my mind went completely blank whilst talking about my case study of a patient. After that I couldn’t engage and look at the audience, I had forgotten to put my references on the bottom of each powerpoint slide. Another comment was no questions were asked, I knew I had answered a question, one of the audience asked me what the difference was between diverticulosis, diverticula and diverticulitis, this confused me little. However I was very pleased when I was told I knew my subject very well and it showed in my delivery. I did print hand outs but stupidly left home without them; this was another point the tutors picked up on. I have taken a positive look at the feedback and will try my hardest to put it right for my next presentation.
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It has been a couple of days since my presentation and I have had time to reflect on my journey and the feeling of relief it was over for now. I felt the whole group were willing everybody on and very supportive of each other which is a good feeling. But no matter how much you know people when you are standing up there in the spotlight the nerves will always tend to kick in. I did not use prompt cards I felt it was the right thing for me, I feel they are more of a distraction for me. The moral being practice well and be confident.
