NURSE REFLECTION

Nurse Reflection

Nurse Reflection

Reflective practice is associated with learning from experience? and is viewed as an important strategy for health professionals who embrace life long learning. The act of reflection is seen as a way of promoting the development of autonomous? qualified and self-directed professionals. Engaging in reflective practice is associated with the improvement of the quality of care? stimulating personal and professional growth and closing the gap between theory and practice.

Reflective practice is an active deliberate process of critically examining practice where an individual is challenged and enabled to undertake the process of self-enquiry to empower the practitioner to realize desirable and effective practice within a reflexive spiral of personal transformation.

Learning is derived from experience but it doesn't just happen. For it to take place you not only need to engage in reflection you must also record it. By thinking about what you are doing and why you are doing it is what turns your experiences into meaningful learning. If you are to become a reflective practitioner you have to use that learning to increase your professional knowledge and skills to the benefit of not only yourself but also to your patients / clients.

Nurse Reflection

Nurses provide care to their patients 24 hours a day and are an integral part of the health care team. A nurse collaborates with other members of the health care team in developing and implementing a care plan that is derived from the best evidence based practice. Nurses provide many of the therapies that are prescribed and continuous nursing assessment provides the nurse with a clear picture of the patient's response. This knowledge is communicated to the rest of the health care team so that doctors, pharmacists and physiotherapists are kept up to date regarding a patient's condition. Nurses strive to ensure that patients are safe and as comfortable as possible during their stay in hospital. They consider the physical, spiritual and psychological needs of the patient and the family, anticipating and addressing such needs before they occur. Often nurses are called upon to work in less than ideal conditions, with limited resources. Nurses continually share their knowledge and experiences with colleagues, patients and the public in an effort to improve health through education. A nurse is also someone's parent, child, sibling, and friend. They care for those who are sick, in pain, dying, in need of care. They are skilled professionals that have chosen a career that asks them to set aside their own desires and do whatever needs to be done for any member of society whenever care is required. 

Gibss Reflective Cycle

Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle is fairly straightforward and encourages a clear description of the situation? analysis of feelings? evaluation of the experience? analysis to make sense of the experience? conclusion where other options are considered and reflection upon experience to examine what you would do if the situation arose again. This cycle can be used for your reflective writing? but if you are using it at level 3 or 4 you need to adjust the cycle so that analysis permeates through each stage.

Stage one: Description of the event Describe in detail the ...