Reflective practice is significant for nurses for a number of reasons. The three main reasons why reflective practice is crucial for nurses are explained below (Caldwell & Grobbel, 2013). Firstly, nurses are accountable for giving care to the best of their capability to patients and their families. Therefore nurses need to concentrate more on their knowledge, skills and behaviour to make sure that they are able to provide best quality care to the patients they are caring. Reflection also helps nurses to recognize their strengths and weaknesses both professionally and personally, thereby assisting in making an assessment of their own working practices. Reflective practice allows nurses to share good practice with colleagues and thus assists each other in developing a supportive team, and thereby …show more content…
Reflective practice is crucial for nurses in continuous development and re- assessment of skills (Bulman & Schutz, 2013). As new innovations are made in healthcare systems more frequently and new tools, technologies and procedures are introduced, ongoing education and training for health care professionals is seen as a crucial strategy. One of the best methods for nurses to improve their knowledge and skills is through Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Reflective practice is an integral component in continuous professional development (Moon, 2013). Reflection when combined into a CPD is seen as an effective way to enhance and maintain reflective practice in clinical settings. CPD is a method of ongoing learning and upgrading of health care professional from preliminary qualifying education. Continuous Professional Development is a significant mechanism, because it ensures that all members of the nursing professions are able to deliver high quality nursing and services and keep pace with health care developments that affect their practice. CPD is very important in nursing because safety of the patients lays on the up to date knowledge and skills of each
Nursing is a discipline in change. As the intricacy and acuity of patients expand, nurses are taking an ever-expanding role in health care management and patient outcomes. As nursing has advanced so has the curricular structure of nursing education. The current focus on nursing education needs to meet the curricular standards developed by the national accrediting agencies such as the American Accreditation Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Learning methods used in nursing education need to support the evolution of nursing skills needed for continuous safety and quality improvement in practice. QSEN reflective journaling has been shown to assist nursing students in developing these important skills. The integration of the QSEN standards in nursing
Critical thinking and knowledge are the foundation of nursing practice, and the most essential elements in providing quality nursing care. Nu...
Nurses are able to reflect upon their past experiences of work and build and improve this ensuring their level of competence and skills is in line with NMC guidelines. Improving the quality of care provided to patients is an ongoing process and requires practitioners to contently reflect and improve their practice. (Howatson-Jones, 2013) One way in which reflection can improve the quality of care is through the use of professional supervision, as stated by (Daly, Speedy and Jackson, 2014) a focus for supervision should be enhancing a nurse’s skills and ability to reflect on practice. It should reflect on the standard of care provided and highlight areas for improvement such as further training. This, in turn, leads to a greater self-awareness of practitioners’ own abilities. The process is not about finding faults, but to improve and learn to ensure the quality of care is high and professional for all patients. Being self-aware is a skill important to reflection and the provision of quality of
On the 1st of November 2013, I performed my first simulation on the module, Foundation Skills for Nursing. This simulation was on checking for vital signs in patients particularly, measuring the blood pressure (BP) which is the force of blood vessels against the walls of the vessels (Marieb and Hoehn, 2010). We also measured the temperature, pulse and respiratory (TPR) rates of a patient. This simulation’s objective was to engage us in practising some basic observation techniques taken on patients in and out of hospitals and to familiarise us on some of the tasks we will be performing when in practise. I will be applying the “What”, “So what”, and “Now what” model of reflection in nursing by Driscoll (2000).
Therapy Analysis The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of my work as a co-therapist during the fifth session with the simulated couple Katy and Michelle. I will discuss our therapy agenda and the goals we hope to attain during the session. It is prudent to begin by giving a brief outline of the couple’s present problem and the patterns of dysfunction that I have identified within their relationship. In my opinion, it is the therapist’s job to recognize patterns and behaviors that disrupt the intimate bond between the partners.
“Emotional Intelligences and Reflective Practice are Integral Components of Building a Therapeutic Relationship in Nursing”
Reflection has its importance in clinical practice; we always seek to be successful and that can be achieved by learning every day of our life through experiences we encounter. In that way we can reconsider and rethink our previous knowledge and add new learning to our knowledge base so as to inform our practice. Learning new skills does not stop upon qualifying; this should become second nature to thinking professionals as they continue their professional development throughout their careers (Jasper, 2006). According to Rolfe et al. (2001), reflection does not merely add to our knowledge, it also challenges the concepts and theories by which we try to make sense of that knowledge. Acquiring knowledge through reflection is modern way of learning from practice that can be traced back at least to the 1930s and the work of John Dewey, an American philosopher and educator who was the instigator of what might be called ''discovery learning'' or learning from experience. He claimed that we learn by doing and that appreciating what results from what we do leads to a process of developing knowledge, the nature and importance of which then we must seek to interpret (Rolfe et al., 2001).
Emotional Intelligence and Reflective Practice are Integral Components of Building a Therapeutic Relationship in Nursing.
According to the Royal College of Nursing, reflection is an important process which helps professionals plan and deliver high quality and safe care to patients. Using reflective practice can be essential to making sense of events and actions, enabling improvement to be achieved and changes to be made as needs can be identified. Reflection can support both personal and professional development, highlighting areas of improvement which can allow individuals to change and adapt to a situation if it were to occur again. Reflection can also contribute towards and support positive evidence based practice, using my knowledge from past experiences to better my judgement and decisions in future circumstances.
When we think about mindfulness, we often associate it with meditation. Meditation has been around for thousands of years and has become increasingly popular in modern life.
When writing a position statement, introduction as a starting point, should presented with a clear structure in the whole essay. The author need have an argument to attract reader’s attention and state his/her opinions that “reflective practice plays an essential role in nursing practice”.
Continuous professional development is very much part of the process of lifelong learning as it is a range of activities related to learning through which health care professionals maintain their ability to practice safely and effectively within legal boundaries. (Health and Care Professions Council, 2014 p.6).The key consideration regarding the concept of lifelong learning is that there are a multitude of definitions of lifelong learning however the concept of lifelong learning has universal connotations of learning and evolving which are essential in nursing because of the constant changes occurring in health care
“Evaluation is an important part of nursing and nursing education. As nurses, we evaluate the interventions we use to determine if they are helping achieve patient outcomes.” (University of Minnesota 2012) The Gibbs Model of Reflection, 1988 will be employed throughout this evaluation, as guidance in the reflection of my intervention as well as an assessment of my overall practice. (Appendix 3) Reviewing how efficiently I carried out this activity is beneficial in helping me to develop a critical mindset and also enhance on existing skills as well as expanding my awareness through assessment of my practice.
Reflection is very important in clinical practice. Each of us has the desire to be successful and that can be achieved by learning every day from our work experiences. In this way, we can reconsider and rethink our previous understanding and add to our knowledge base so as to improve our practice. Learning new skills does not stop with the completion of formal education; it must become second nature to all professionals as they continue their professional development throughout their careers (Jasper, 2006).
Reading several articles and looking at some YouTube videos related to reflective thinking, makes me think back when I first started teaching. Let me explain why: