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Hi, can you think about what reflection is and what it means to you ?

What is your role in the setting and what responsibilities do you have - play, helping with coats, greeting parents, storytime, snack preparation, attending staff meetings ..

If you use these as examples for reflection how do they currently work, how happy are you with the way they are and how could they be different ..

To help get to grips with writing it down use the Knowledge reference title to start off your explanation eg: 'we need to reflect on practice and evaluate personal effectiveness because ...

Once you're comfortable with your words you'll find they rejumble to make more sense ..

The links above will also help understanding and this doc is also a great read - Reflective practice from NBT.nhs.uk

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Reflective Practice

Reflective practice is a process which enables you to achieve a better understanding of yourself, your skills, competencies, knowledge and professional practice. Although most of us engage in thinking about experiences either before, during or after an event, we need to document our understanding in order to clearly identify and demonstrate the components of our learning. Identifying what we have learnt requires us to think about our experiences, and consider the outcomes, in order to evaluate the experience, and identify our thoughts, feelings and understanding of the relevant issues. The objective is to identify what we have learnt in order to construct new or different approaches to our future practice, or to recognise and validate effective practice to utilise in the future.

Learning comes from many different incidents and experiences that we have in life. We can learn much about ourselves, others, our job, our organisation, and professional practice, as well as our abilities and skills, if we consciously take the time to reflect on our learning.

As a starting point, a pro-forma sheet for reflective practice, incorporating some ideas around the type of experiences we can utilise for learning, is provided.

N.B. When reflecting on clinical incidents or professional practice involving patient care, patient confidentiality must never be breached

Further guidance on different theories and methodologies for reflective practice is available on the Trust’s website: www.northbristol.nhs.uk - Nursing Zone - Reflective Practice Guidelines.


Gibbs 1988 – The Reflective Cycle


Description
What happened?

Feelings
What were you thinking and feeling?

Evaluation
What was good and bad about the experience?

Analysis
What sense can you make of the situation

Conclusion
What else could you have done?

Action Plan
If it arose again what would you do?


Describe a recent event/ incident/ study day/ case study/ discussion/ meeting/ experience in your professional life / personal life / professional role


What happened? What did you think/ feel? What did you do and Why?

What went well?

What could have been better?

Describe what you have learnt from this experience

What (if anything) will you do / would you do differently in the future?


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Researching Graham Gibbs and David Kolb refelctive cycles will also help.

Best wishes

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