They also become more able to communicate with patients and colleagues. Reflection enhances self-directed learning and professional maturity. What is the purpose of reflection? The purpose of reflective writing is to help you learn from a particular practical experience. It will help you to make connections between what you are taught in theory and what you need to do in practice. You reflect so that you can learn. How do you reflect effectively? Think about what you did, thought, and felt at the time.
Analyze your experience and compare to the models or principles that you want to follow. Apply your learning to your practice. What is reflection and why is it important? It helps us gain insight and see how to move forward.
Reflection is often done as writing, possibly because this allows us to probe our reflections and develop them more thoughtfully. How do you write a reflection? Think of the main themes. Ask questions to get more details.
Create a reflective essay outline. Write briefly. Write the text. Good academic tone and proper sharing of the information. What is reflective practice and why is it important? Reflective practice has huge benefits in increasing self-awareness, which is a key component of emotional intelligence, and in developing a better understanding of others.
Reflective practice can also help you to develop creative thinking skills, and encourages active engagement in work processes. What are the benefits of reflective practice? Benefits to reflective practice include: Increased learning from an experience or situation. Promotion of deep learning. Identification of personal and professional strengths and areas for improvement. Multi-disciplinary and professional team reflection is viewed as an excellent way to develop ideas and improve practice, it added.
Meanwhile, the regulators also restated a continued commitment to reflect across their own organisations. Sign in or Register a new account to join the discussion. You are here: Professional regulation. Andrea Sutcliffe Andrea Sutcliffe. Related files. Nursing Times News Desk.
Think about the situation in detail: What happened exactly and in what order, where were you at the time and who else was involved? What part did you have to play? What was the final outcome?
What was running through your head and how did you feel about it? Be honest with yourself: were you afraid, confused, angry or scared? If you can understand how you were feeling at the time it will help you put together why things happened as they did, and help you to recognize similar situations in the future. Now you have thought about the situation in greater detail, and probably recognized things that would have otherwise gone unnoticed, think about why things happened as they did.
How did the situation, yourself, and others interact at the time. Did the situation go well or was there room for improvement? With the help of hindsight how would you have managed the situation differently?
Think about what factors you could have influenced: is there anything you could have tried that may have improved the situation, or is there anything you did that was particularly important in the situation? It is easy to remember the things that you did not do and it is often the things that you did well that are forgotten. This is arguably the most important stage in reflecting. You need to pull together everything you have thought of before to learn, change your own practice, and improve 3.
Do not only think about what you would do differently in that specific situation, but think whether you have thought of any transferable knowledge or skills you can utilize elsewhere. For example: if you reflect on a postprocedural complication do not only think of how you would manage this again but also how you would prevent it happening if you performed the procedure yourself!
If you are a part of a well-led cardiac arrest do not think only of what you would do next to help, but also how you would lead an arrest in the future, or even how you would lead a team in any other situation! Test your reflections: When comparable situations happen again, do things change as you would expect them to?
This is a chance to repeat the reflective cycle to refine and develop your understanding. As mentioned previously most people see reflective practice as a tick box exercise, but it does not have to be. Over the next day take note of any interesting situations that arise.
Later in the day try mentally reflecting, following this framework, and if you think any will be particularly useful to you write them down.
If you try this for a week you will begin to see similar situations arising and how your reflective practice is positively affecting you. Reflect on situations that you have witnessed to work out why things happened as they did, and how this can influence you.
It can be useful to take these reflections for peer or senior review: others may be able to draw light on things you have not noticed. This can allow you to recognize points for improvement and work on them. This can also be a useful learning opportunity for the other involved! I was involved in a patient confrontation; the patient was unhappy with her hospital stay and wanted to be discharged home. Unfortunately she required a package of care and so could not be discharged.
I explained this and she returned to her bed. I was happy I had explained everything to her and continued with my other jobs.
I was involved in a patient confrontation; an elderly patient was unhappy with hospital stay and wanted to be discharged home. She was under our general surgical team for a head injury and observation after a normal CT head. She had been seen on our ward round and told that she was medically fit for discharge but still awaiting social services: her house had been reviewed and deemed unsafe so she was waiting for banisters to be installed.
The issue was raised with me by chance as I was doing other things on the ward. I explained this to her and although she remained annoyed I was able to make her understand what the delay was and she returned to her bedside. She did not seek further clarification that day. At the time I felt rushed and frustrated.
I had a lot of other work to be done and this was distracting from that. She had already been told she was waiting for social services in the morning. I understood why this was difficult for her but did not think I would be able to do anything to help.
The morning ward round was quite rushed and so our explanation was limited to telling her we were waiting for social services.
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