Christopher Johns 
Becoming a Reflective Practitioner [EPUB ebook] 

BECOMING A REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER

In the newly revised sixth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, expert researcher and nurse Christopher Johns delivers a rich and incisive resource on reflective practice in healthcare that offers readers a diverse and expansive range of contributions. It explores the value of using models of reflection, with a focus on John’s own model of structured reflection, to inform and enhance the practice of professional nursing.

This book is an essential guide for everyone using reflection in everyday clinical practice or required to demonstrate reflection for professional registration. Students will acquire new insights into how they interact with their colleagues and their environment, and how those things shape their own behaviours, both positively and negatively. Readers will learn to ‘look in’ on their thoughts and emotions and ‘look out’ at the situations they experience to inform how they understand the circumstances they find themselves in.

Readers will also benefit from:

* Thorough introductions to reflective practice, writing the Self and engaging in the reflective spiral

* Comprehensive explorations of how to frame and deepen insights, weave and perform narratives

* Practical discussions of how to move towards more poetic form of expression and reflecting through art and storyboard

* In-depth examinations of the reflective curriculum, touch and the environment and reflective teaching as ethical practice

Perfect for nurses in clinical practice, conducting research or developing their practice, the latest edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is also an indispensable resource for mentors and clinical supervisors, post-registration nursing and healthcare students and other healthcare practitioners.

Table of Content

Preface vii

1 Envisaging Reflective Practice 1

2 The Six Dialogical Movements 20

3 Writing Self; the First Dialogical Movement 26

4 Engaging the Reflective Spiral: The Second Dialogical Movement 36

5 Framing Insights 52

6 Deepening Insights: The third and fourth Dialogical Movements 59

7 Weaving and Performing Narrative: The Fifth Dialogical Movement 77

8 Applying the MSR 90

9 ‘Reflections on Not Giving a Therapy’: Weaving Narrative Through Prose Poetry 98

10 The Sixth Dialogical Movement: Dialogue with ‘Passing people by’ Performance Narrative 110

11 Performance Narrative as Play Musical Chairs 122

12 ‘People are Not Numbers to Crunch’: A Performance Narrative and Story Board 133

13 Narrative Art and Storyboard 143

14 The Reflective Curriculum 151

15 Grading Reflective Assignments 167

16 Guiding First Year Nursing Students 177

17 Guiding Third Year Nursing Students 188

18 Guiding Trudy 199

19 Becoming a Leader: A Little Voice in a Big Arena 207

20 The Learning Organization Exemplified by the Burford NDU Model 215

21 A System to Enable Practitioners to Live and Ensure Quality 233

22 A System to Enable Practitioners to Develop Personal Mastery Towards Realising Their Vision of Practice 245

23 Awakenings: Guided Reflection as ‘Reality Shock’ 259

24 Holding Creative Tension 267

25 The Complexity of Teaching 277

26 Guiding Nursing Students’ Reflection on a Simulated Patient Experience 288

Appendix 01 294

Appendix 02 298

Index 299

About the author

Christopher Johns, Educational and Organisational Consultant in Reflective Practices; retired Professor of Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire; Honorary Scholar, Global Academy of Holistic Nursing, and awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2010