How Essential Is Using Reflective Practice In Nursing Care

Reflective Practice is a guide for nurses to develop and learn from their own practice. It is considered a valuable tool especially in nursing profession wherein professionals are encouraged to learn from their own professional experiences and develop the capacity to reflect in and on practice resulting in the advancement of expertise.

What exactly is reflective Practice?

Reflective Practice is a dynamic process wherein an individual consciously make an attempt to analyze and learn from their day to day professional experiences giving them an insight into self and their practice. These new insights enable them to respond to similar clinical situations with an improved perspective. This process of reflective practice develops critical thinking, improves approach to patient care, promotes self-awareness and develops communication skills.

Reflective practice is not about complaining and whining rather this a process of working towards a goal to thoughtfully study the situation and identify problems that needs to be addressed, take note of skills that need to be strengthened and work on perspectives that need to be changed. It is recommended that most effective way for reflective practice is having a written narrative that will enable you to analyze the situation clearly and in an in-depth way. Professional nurses who want to learn the concept of reflective practice can join workshops or training courses offered by leading health care organizations and can relate significance of reflective practice in the contemporary healthcare setting.

INSCOL through its Centre of Continuing Education CCE offers a one day simulation-based workshop on Reflective Practice catering to professional nurses and other healthcare professionals. The main aim of this workshop is to provide learning that results from past experiences and results in the development of new perspectives & professional growth. After successfully completing this workshop participants will be able to apply the concept of reflective practice confidently and will be able to plan their own learning by applying various strategies of reflection.

Further, it offers a wide range of courses and simulation-based training tailored for Indian Nurses such as Birth emergencies & maternal advanced life support, airway management, advanced neurological assessment, advanced cardiovascular assessment and more.

For more info on simulation based training & learning http://www.inscol.com/india/cce