However, some are critical of reflective practice in its current form. All of these mechanisms are thought to improve a nurse’s practice. Additionally, it can be used to recognise new skills and articulate planned new approaches. It can be used to reflect on situations as they occur – reflection in action – and on events from the past – reflection on action (Schön, 1983). It can be used on many levels to reflect on a specific incident, a moment in time even, and the actions, thoughts and feelings associated with that moment, or can be used to help create an understanding of a more general time period, by breaking down, considering, analysing and critiquing the who, what, why, when and how of the events of that time ( Gibbs (1988), Johns (1995) Driscoll (2007) ). The importance of reflection in nursing cannot be understated. It is this working with experience that is important in learning’. ‘Reflection is an important human activity in which people recapture their experience, think about it, mull over & evaluate it. (1985, p.19) offer a simple definition of reflection, Sadly, only when we have another bereavement of some sort can I get to test out my new learning, that all-important step of doing things better next time.īoud et al. I can acknowledge how I would now do things differently. However, having now spent some time reflecting and reading related material online, I realised how much it taught me about how different my children’s needs are from my own, and from one another’s. I had no experience to draw on here and found myself feeling pretty self –critical of my actions. Unfortunately, my experience of supporting three young children through the demise of their much loved pet was not quite so successful. You can follow the discussion by searching links to #ebnjc, or contribute by creating and sending a tweet (tweets are text messages limited to 140 characters) to adding #ebnjc (the EBN Twitter chat hash tag) to your tweet, this allows everyone taking part to view your tweetsĪs is so often the case, professional and personal lives are intricately related, and the recent experience of losing our family cat Reggie, following a road traffic accident at Christmas, really got me to reconsider the power of reflection on a personal level, and this got me thinking deeply about how important reflection is in my professional capacity, as a nurse.Ĭaring for Reg as I did in his last days of life was a positive experience and looking back I feel confident that I did a good job in caring for our lovely old cat. Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account if you do not have one you can create an account at Once you have an account, contributing is straightforward. The chat will be led by Lizzie Ette ( ), Lecturer in Pre-registration Nursing, The University of Hull. This week’s EBN Twitter Chat is on Wednesday 1st February between 8-9 pm (UK time). Lecturer in Nursing, The University of Hull
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