Reflective Practice in Nursing Care

Using reflective practice in frontline nursing.

Reflection on practice is a key skill for nurses. Engaging in regular reflection enables practitioners to manage the personal and professional impact of addressing their patients' fundamental health and wellbeing needs on a daily basis. This article briefly reviews the theoretical background underpinning the idea of reflective practice. A simple, three-step model for practical reflection is pre...

Reflective Practice in Palliative Care

Nursing reflective practice: An empirical literature review

Reflective practice is a widespread concept in nursing; however, few empirical studies have demonstrated the possible effects of such a practice. The goal of this article is to present a review of the empirical literature on nursing reflective practice. Thirty-seven studies published between 1995 and 2012 were selected and analyzed to identify their common characteristics and structure. Most of...

Take on Issues and uses of Reflection and Reflective Practice in Nursing Education

Introduction: In the recent decades, reflection have been introduced as a valuable element in nursing education and a learning tool in improving nursing professional practice. The study of reflection and reflective practice topics and applications in nursing education facsilitates closing the gap between theory and practice and promoting critical thinking. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

Nursing students’ information-seeking behavior in ESP courses: Do quality of education and reflective practice matter?

Background: Quality of education plays a key role in the development of education. Having this perspective in mind the researchers explored the quality of ESP courses from ESP instructors point of views and investigated the role of quality of education of ESP courses in information-seeking behavior of the students. They also probed the possible relationship between EFL instructors reflective pr...

Ethical practice in nursing care.

Ethical practice is acknowledged as an essential feature of good nursing, yet defining what comprises such practice is complex. This article examines aspects of ethical practice from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, service users and carers. The relationship between ethical practice and decision making is discussed, recognising the importance of context and the responsibilities of ...