Reflective Practice

Reflective practice is thinking or studying about your own experiences, reflecting on what you do. It is process of critically analysing the situations or events and actions in the workplace. Reflective practice has a great impact on the way and quality of care being provided. There are many models available to use to enhance and support reflective practice in care setting. Gibbs’ reflective cycle has described six steps that are involved in reflective process.

Critical Thinking: Tanner (2006), had introduce the term ‘thinking like a nurse’. When I read this article I was wondering what it means and takes to think like a nurse, I am a nurse by profession and yet I don’t even know what it means. In order to be a professional nurse, nurses are required to learn to think like a nurse. To my surprise, to be able think like a nurse, a nurse got to clearly defined and understands what is critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Both terms are powerful terms and these terms explain the mental processes nurses use to make certain that they are doing their most excellent thinking and decision making for their patient’s better outcomes.

Nursing is a most trusted and gratifying profession. As a nurse educator, I will express my passion for teaching by incorporating features such as clinical assessments, practical application of theory, evaluation, and role modeling into advanced nursing practice, from previous experiences and current experience and clinical practicum to find success and gratification in students chosen profession as well empowering leaners to develop their own strengths, beliefs, and personal attributes to become a good professional. Personally, I do have a positive attitude towards the personal and professional growth, and value ongoing learning and will stive to instill the same into my students learnig journey .. My objective as a Nurse Educator

It gives me an insight on what and how I can contribute to the team of nurses I am working with and what I need to work on. When working in a team setting, it is important to know how and when to contribute and when it is best to seek out help from others. Having a team of nurses that are aware of their strengths can help to strengthen a unit, improve patient outcomes, and work more cohesively. Knowing what strengths I possess and getting confirmation that these are areas I excel in will help me to use these strengths to their full potential. For example, I always liked to think that I was a good communicator, but getting confirmation that this assumption was accurate has helped me to feel more confident putting this strength into practice.

This essay will explore the reflective discussion on the NUR4021 module, demonstrating my understanding of the professional, ethical and legal values that impact on nursing in a diverse society. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2015) reflection enables you to make sense of a situation and understand how it has affected you. The NMC (2015) shows the importance of reflection, by requiring nurses to complete a reflective discussion as part of the revalidation. When Nurses reflect It helps them think, plan and deliver high quality and safe care to patients. (RCN 2018).

Upon reflecting on this experience, I feel like I am more confident in handling the situation should it arise again. Reflecting on it has made me realise that not everything I did was wrong and has helped me to explore what I need to improve on. Reflection is important in the nursing profession as it allows us to think about our actions and talk about how we could have carried them out differently (Johns and Burnie, 2013). Reflection plays a big role in developing the student into a nurse (Barbour,

In this booklet we want to challenge you to think about reflective practice and how you might use reflective practice in your workplace to improve the way you practice, your working relationships and ultimately achieve better outcomes for you and the young children you work with. We all reflect but in different ways and about different things. Often the reflection provides the “story of the day” that we may muse overby ourselves or tell a sympathetic ear, but ultimately the “story of the day” we want others

Reflection is a key area for student and registered nurses throughout their careers which is why the explanation into what reflection is and its importance in the nursing field will be offered in this piece of writing. Reflection is an important human activity in which people recapture their experience, think about it, mull over & evaluate it. It is this working with experience that is important in learning. (Boud, Keogh and Walker 1985, p:43) This definition clarifies that reflection is indeed significant in learning as it is a constant looking back on what you have been experiencing and how you can improve or how you

5.1 Reflective practice One major skill a person must improve to get the most from their studies is continuously reflecting on their work activities, as part of actively analysing, reviewing and improving performance, satisfaction and results. Fused with an individual new academic skill this reflection will inspire a person to alter their practices inside a workplace, hence developing an individual personal performance, as well as the overall performance of the organisation. A person will definitely be using critical reflection even if this has been concealed up until this point (Helyer, 2010, 21-22). David Gray stated reflecting continuously and usefully as a process which cause the growth of a dynamic synergy and dialectic between academic

By taking the time to review my experiences, I can identify what went well and areas where I can improve. Self-reflection helps me recognize patterns, understand the impact of my actions on patients and the healthcare team, and gain insight

In early 1970s nursing started to move away from routines and rituals towards research-based practice (James and Clarke 1994). Reflection is a broad and complex process (Kenzi-Sampson 2005) therefore there is not a set single definition (Jarvis 1992). According to Reid (1993, p.305) reflection can be defined as a “process of reviewing an experience of practice to describe, analyze, evaluate and so inform learning about practice”. The question is why do we need reflective practice. This essay will try to

On reflection, the nursing profession is far more than a practical position. Instead, it entails the mastery of comprehensive knowledge in multiple disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, ethics, mental health, psychology, sociology, and communication, insightful synthesis of various knowledge and information, effective application of critical thinking to specific situations, self-examination and self-development in personal

To examine the experiences of enrolled nurses transitioning to RN functions, Brown, Baker, Jessup and Marshall (2015) conducted in-depth interviews with nurses in South East Queensland, Australia. Analysis showed three primary themes: a new extent of practice, perceptions of competence and working on experience and knowledge (Brown et al., 2015). Changes in roles as an RN emphasised the practice of critical thinking and decision-making tasks that are connected to diverse RN responsibilities particularly in “looking at [the] person and their presentation” (Brown et al., 2015, p. 201). The article reveals the impact of thinking critically on conducting professional clinical

Particularly when undergoing healthcare research, a competent reflective practitioner repeatedly reflects on experience and is capable of spective reflection, continually learning from experience to the benefit of future actions. At times, perspective or retrospective reflection can be conducted in consideration of the context and nature of activities. The purpose of this particular critical reflection demonstrates my personal and professional development through the King’s Research Fellowship. Of the different reflective frameworks, I structure my reflective process on Gibbs’ reflective cycle as it allows me to explore new and different ideas and approaches to doing activities, and hence is an aid to

Each part of the Conceptual Framework is essential and important to being an educator. Being a Reflective Practitioner means that the educator is prepared and knowledgeable in the content that is being taught. Some that is a Transformative Practitioner seeks to motivate students to learn and is creative with study materials. The Culturally Responsible Practitioner looks to all of the national, state, and local materials and standards to educate students. This individual provides order, commitment, and knowledge to students.