David Shareef 1

March 3rd, 2019

The Science of Learning

Learning Strategies for David General Hospital’s Primary Employees

For many individuals, one may believe that learning just involves someone who teaches

and the person that is being taught. However, many may not have effective results without

specific learning strategies that’ll help the trainee not only retain the information but master

the skills by implementing motivation, academic self-regulation, setting goals, and self-

regulation of emotions. As CEO, I strive to make our work environment as productive and

efficient as possible. I guarantee that the implementation of these four strategies will create a

superb experience for each and everyone one of our guest, patients, and employees.

First, I would like to explore the strategies of academic self-regulation. To define it, it is

the controlling factors that influence one’s learning. There are 6 components of academic self-

regulation that helps you stay on track with controlling those factors: Motivation, Methods of

learning. Use of time, physical environment, social environment, and monitoring performance.

These six components will definitely provide you with effective ways to become an outstanding

employee. One’s physical environment will dramatically affect a learner’s ability to understand

a subject. For example, if you’re learning a new method on entering patient information and

new procedures and you need to study for the test on the information you acquired, there

needs to environment that has no type of disruptions such as phones, TV, conversation (unless

its peer studying), loud areas, etc. That means you should take time to find a place such as a

library or a quiet room within the hospital, or your own home to put all of your focus on

studying the information.

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The other component, Monitoring performance should also be implemented to

help you keep track with your performance of your daily tasks. For example, you could compare

results of your patient-ready assessment test from the prior year to see if you’ve made any

improvements. Next is the use of time, individuals should use time management to the best of

their ability. At David’s General, we strongly believe that time is a crucial part of the learning

experience. For upcoming annual tests for nurses and physicians, studying for these test should

include a well though-out time management system that’ll more than likely guarantee you a

passing score. Methods of learning is the also known as simply learning strategies. These are

methods of techniques that individuals learn to acquire information. Residents here at the

hospital can take full advantage of this component by writing down questions for physicians

and nurses, asking questions during sit-ins and more. Furthermore, there is the component of

motivation. Motivating yourself to be a better and caring employee everyday should be a goal

within itself. Write down a list of goals that you strive to attain for the week such as how many

positive patients surveys you would like to have or if you’re feeling down about an incident that

happen that has you feeling like you’re not giving your best. Take the negative energy and turn

it into a positive by saying to yourself a motivating pep talk. And finally the last component,

social environment. This is the ability to determine if they should work alone or with others

Seeking help from someone with knowledgeable assistance for a test or leaning a new task can

be very beneficial to the individuals.

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Setting Goals is the next learning strategy that we will be implementing at David’s

General. According to Michael Howe, there are different types of goals and one in particular is

performance goals. This is a goal that has a specific level of tasks that need to be achieved

(Howe, 2019). Setting goals is very beneficial to all employees whether it’s being promoted to

property manager, lead physician, employee of the month, etc. To help with setting goals. I

would like you all to use the method known as “S.M.A.R.T. Goals”. This acronym identifies the

standard for individuals who set goals. It stands for specific, measurable, action-oriented,

realistic, and time-bound. By using specific, it means to describe that you actually want to

accomplish. Measurable describes your goal in terms that can actually be clearly evaluated.

Next, is action-oriented which identifies a goal that focuses on actions rather than an

individual’s personal qualities. There is also realistic in which identifies a goal you know are

actually capable of achieving. And finally, there is timely. This identifies a goal that breaks a

longer-term goal into a short-term goal or goals and clearly specifies a date when the goal is

complete.

Furthermore, we will be implementing the strategy of motivation. Your motivation

within yourself is a vital step in achieving your goals. Self-worth is a main component of

motivation because it’s the need for an individual to maintain a positive image of themselves

and their ability. Everyone at David General should have a great sense of self-worth and tell

yourself that you have the ability to be the best. Individuals who learn this know that society
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values people because of their contributions and accomplishments to society and the world.

There is also the component of self-efficacy. This refers to the ability to successfully complete a

specific task. Individuals know that completing a task successfully is a great feeling and helps

you become a more successful learner. As you work on this component, think about how you

strive to be better at a task than you did before to evaluate your goals and how you can keep

motivating yourself to keep striving on increasing your effectiveness on the job.

Finally, there is self-regulation of emotion. As an employee it is also important to control

your emotions in a professional manner. Everyday David General Hospital sees patients that

deal with a number of things such as cancer, HIV, death, pregnancies, etc., and it is important to

make sure that the patient knows that there is someone who isn’t scared with them but is

there for them as a strong hold and someone they can depend on. There are eight components

of self0regualtion of emotions and they are: filtering, polarized thinking, overgeneralization,

mind reading, catastrophizing, magnifying, personalization, and should. I will send a detailed

brochure out to every employee so you all can get in-depth look at these eight components. In

close I would like to say thank you for all that you do here and I hope that these new

implementations will help you become the best person and employee that you can be here and

in every other aspect of your lives.

References

Howe, M. (2019, January 10). General Mental Ability and Goal Type as Antecedents of
Recurrent Adaptive Task Performance. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online
publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0000379
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