Guided Reflection

"...an important text for practitioners...this text is a valuable tool that develops self-inquiry skills." Journal of Advanced Nursing Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice introduces the practitioner to the concept of guided reflection, in which the practitioner is assisted by a mentor (or 'guide') in a process of self-enquiry, development, and learning through reflection in order to effectively realise one’s vision of practice and self as a lived reality. Guided reflection is grounded in individual practice, and can provide deeply meaningful insights into self-development and professional care. The process results in a reflexive narrative, which highlights key issues for enhancing healthcare practice and professional care. Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice uses a collection of such narratives from everyday clinical practice to demonstrate the theory and practicalities of guided reflection and narrative construction. In this second edition, Chris Johns has explored many of the existing narratives in more depth. Many new contributions have been added including several more innovative reflections, such as performance and art.These narratives portray the values inherent in caring, highlight key issues in clinical practice, reveal the factors that constrain the quest to realise practice, and examine the ways practitioners work towards overcoming these constraints.

Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. This book introduces the practitioner to the concept of 'Guided reflection', an innovative research process in which the practitioner is assisted by a mentor (or 'guide') in a process of self-enquiry, development, and learning through reflection, in order to become fully effective. Guided reflection is grounded in individual practice, and can provide deeply meaningful insights into self-development and professional care. The process results in a relexive narrative, which highlights key issues for enhancing health care practice and professional care. This book uses a collection of such narratives from everyday clinical practice in nursing, health visiting and midwifery to demonstrate the theory and practicalities of guided reflection and narrative construction. These narratives portray the values inherent in caring, highlight key issues in clinical practice, reveal the factors that constrain the quest to realise practice, and examine the ways practitioners work towards overcoming these constraints.

“This book is an engaging and enlightening read. I highly recommend it to all personal tutors, academic advisors and anyone in higher education who guides students to learn more about themselves.” Dr David Grey, UK Advising and Tutoring Association CEO “This book provides a unique, engaging, perspective on successful reflection, which is a welcome addition to the arduous academic textbooks on offer.” Shelley O’Connor, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, Liverpool John Moores University, UK “The second edition of this essential book continues to provide practitioners with an accessible and thorough account of reflection’s essential ingredients.” Dr Marc Roberts, Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Education, and Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK This book is an easy to read, practical guide that will show you what reflection is and how you can do it successfully. Assuming no prior knowledge, this fully revised and updated text utilises the established ten essential ingredients of reflection from the first edition. It builds on this foundation to develop much needed reflective skills with new and updated chapters, enabling you to apply complex reflective theory and become an effective reflective practitioner. In clear and supportive language, Nicola Clarke will equip you with evidence informed understanding and ideas for application to your own situation, and support you to become an emotionally resilient, self-aware individual who can reflect and empower yourself to become the best version of you. This book includes: • Expansion beyond nursing to include those who study any subject in allied health and the related fields where reflection is a requirement. • New chapters exploring what reflection is, reflective writing for academic purpose, guided reflection, and new frameworks to support reflection. • A ‘how to approach’ using exercises for and examples from Health, Education and Life Sciences (HELS) and the everyday – reflection and reflective practice made real. • Authentic, jargon free writing that speaks to and is inclusive of the reader. • Information that will empower you to reflect correctly and inform how you receive, and who you allow to support guided reflection in you. This book is a must-have text for all students of nursing, allied health, social work and all fields where an understanding of self and reflection is required. Dr Nicola Clarke is a senior lecturer and doctoral supervisor for the faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences (HELS) at Birmingham City University, UK.

'Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care.’ – Nursing Standard Becoming a Reflective Practitioner provides a unique insight into reflective practice, exploring the value of using models of reflection, with particular reference to Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection. Now in its fifth edition, this book has been completely revised and updated to include up-to-date literature and reflective extracts. Contemporary in approach, this definitive text contains a variety of rich and insightful reflective extracts that support the main issues being raised in each chapter, and challenges practitioners and students to question their own practice. Now with further scenarios and case studies included throughout, these extracts provide the reader with access to the experience of reflective representation helping to explicate the way in which reflective practice can inform the wider notion of professional practice. With an increase in professional registration requiring reflective evidence, this new edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is an essential guide to all those using reflection in everyday clinical practice.

Featuring engaging narratives, this how-to book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances. Written by public school teachers who offer lessons learned and strategies that work, this volume: provides insights to help teachers build reflective practice with their students, including protocols for classroom problem solving; presents scenarios for individual students, their parents, and teachers to talk together about a student's performance, including protocols for conducting family meetings; shows what can happen when teachers come together to share stories of their daily lives, including protocols for conducting a focus group; and offers advice for reflecting alone and with a group, including protocols for both types of reflection.

Reflection is key to making sense of your practice experiences. This book will build the reflective skills you need to succeed in your studies and to become a reflective practitioner. Learn the principles of reflective practice and how to apply them, enhancing your personal and professional development and ultimately the care you provide. Key features o Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC standards o Covers models and frameworks of reflective practice in clear, straightforward language o Activities and case studies show reflective practice in action and help you begin to reflect on your own experiences

Reflective practice has been widely adopted as a successful method for developing nursing. The second edition of Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice provides a wealth of new insights from practitioners actively involved in reflective practice in nursing research, education, clinical practice and practice development. This invaluable book enables nurses to continually evaluate their own practice in order to inform their approaches to reflection; critique, develop and monitor their professional practice; and thereby improve the quality of their patient care. There is a greater emphasis in the new edition on transforming practice, the research base for reflective practice and grounding the reflective process in clinical practice. * Examines the contribution of reflective practice to nursing * Enables nurses to continually develop their practice and improve patient care * Includes insights from many areas of clinical practice * Explores the role of reflection in clinical supervision and research studies * Examines the role of narrative and reflective dialogue in reflective practice

Would you like to develop some strategies to manage knowledge deficits, near misses and mistakes in practice? Are you looking to improve your reflective writing for your portfolio, essays or assignments? Reflective practice enables us to make sense of, and learn from, the experiences we have each day and if nurtured properly can provide skills that will you come to rely on throughout your nursing career. Using clear language and insightful examples, scenarios and case studies the third edition of this popular and bestselling book shows you what reflection is, why it is so important and how you can use it to improve your nursing practice. Key features: · Clear and straightforward introduction to reflection directly written for nursing students and new nurses · Full of activities designed to build confidence when using reflective practice · Each chapter is linked to relevant NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters