Reflective Practice for Health Care Professionals A Practical Guide

by Taylor, Beverley

• ISBN13: 9780335238354
• ISBN10: 0335238351
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780335217427
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
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Summary

This popular book provides practical guidance for healthcare professionals wishing to reflect on their work and improve the way they undertake clinical procedures, interact with other people at work and deal with power issues. The new edition has been broadened in focus from nurses and midwives exclusively, to include all healthcare professionals.

Author Biography

Beverley J. Taylor retired after 38 years as a registered nurse, midwife and academic. She has published widely in reflective practice and palliative care but is best known worldwide for her thesis on ordinariness in nursing and her practical approaches for facilitating reflective practice in healthcare.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The nature of reflection and practice	p. 5
Introduction	p. 5
Definitions and perspectives of reflection	p. 6
Criticisms of reflective practice	p. 10
Types of reflection	p. 11
Sources of reflection	p. 12
The nature of caring in health professions	p. 16
What is caring?	p. 16
What is professionalized Caring?	p. 19
Why do professionals care?	p. 20
The nature of work constraints	p. 21
Economic constraints	p. 23
Historical constraints	p. 25
Political constraints	p. 27
Social constraints	p. 28
Personal constraints	p. 29
Ensuring quality practice through reflective processes	p. 30
Recognizing quality care	p. 31
Recognizing work issues	p. 32
Engaging in self-blaming	p. 32
Wanting to be perfect and invincible	p. 32
Examining daily habits and routines	p. 33
Struggling to be assertive	p. 34
Struggling to be an advocate	p. 35
Differentiating between ideal and real practice expectations	p. 35
Negotiating interprofessional boundaries	p. 36
Managing collegial relations	p. 37
Dealing with organizational and healthcare system problems	p. 38
Managing self-esteem and worthiness problems	p. 38
Summary	p. 39
Key points	p. 39
Preparing for reflection and the REFLECT model	p. 42
Introduction	p. 42
Qualities for reflecting	p. 42
Taking and making the time	p. 42
Making the effort	p. 43
Being determined	p. 43
Having courage	p. 43
Using humour	p. 44
A kitbag of strategies	p. 45
Writing	p. 45
Audiotaping	p. 47
Creative music	p. 47
Dancing	p. 48
Drawing	p. 49
Montage	p. 49
Painting	p. 50
Poetry	p. 50
Pottery	p. 51
Quilting	p. 51
Singing	p. 52
Videotaping	p. 52
Hints for reflecting	p. 53
Be spontaneous	p. 53
Express yourself freely	p. 53
Remain open to ideas	p. 54
Choose a time and place to suit you	p. 54
Be prepared personally	p. 55
Choose suitable reflective methods	p. 55
A reflective exercise	p. 55
The role of a critical friend	p. 59
Encouraging reflective questioning	p. 61
The Taylor model of reflection	p. 62
Readiness	p. 65
Exercising thought	p. 67
Following systematic processes	p. 69
Leaving oneself open to answers	p. 72
Enfolding insights	p. 73
Changing awareness	p. 74
Tenacity in maintaining reflection	p. 76
Summary	p. 77
Key points	p. 77
Types of reflection and being human in healthcare	p. 79
Introduction	p. 79
Caution about categories	p. 79
Empirical knowledge	p. 80
Interpretive knowledge	p. 82
Critical knowledge	p. 83
Knowledge and human interests	p. 86
Technical interest and work	p. 86
Practical interest and interaction	p. 87
Emancipatory interest and power	p. 87
Three types of reflection	p. 88
Technical reflection	p. 89
Practical reflection	p. 90
Emancipatory reflection	p. 90
Choosing a type of reflection	p. 91
Being human as a model of healthcare	p. 92
Facilitation and allowingness	p. 94
Fair play and straightforwardness	p. 97
Familiarity and self-likeness	p. 97
Family and homeliness	p. 99
Favouring and favourableness	p. 100
Feelings and in-tuneness	p. 101
Fun and lightheartedness	p. 101
Friendship and connectedness	p. 102
Summary	p. 104
Key points	p. 104
Technical reflection	p. 106
Introduction	p. 106
Review of previous ideas	p. 107
The process of technical reflection	p. 112
Assessing and planning	p. 113
Implementing	p. 114
Evaluating	p. 115
An example of technical reflection	p. 115
Assessing and planning	p. 116
Implementing	p. 117
Evaluating	p. 119
Summary	p. 122
Key points	p. 122
Practical reflection	p. 124
Introduction	p. 124
Review of previous ideas	p. 125
The process of practical reflection	p. 132
Experiencing	p. 133
Interpreting	p. 134
Learning	p. 135
An example of practical reflection	p. 135
Experiencing	p. 135
Interpreting	p. 136
Learning	p. 138
Summary	p. 141
Key points	p. 142
Emancipatory reflection	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Review of previous ideas	p. 144
The process of emancipatory reflection	p. 149
Constructing	p. 150
Deconstructing	p. 151
Confronting	p. 152
Reconstructing	p. 153
An example of emancipatory reflection	p. 153
Constructing	p. 154
Deconstructing	p. 154
Confronting	p. 155
Reconstructing	p. 158
Summary	p. 159
Key points	p. 160
Applying Taylor's REFLECT Model to Practice	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
Applying Taylor's REFLECT model of reflection	p. 161
Readiness	p. 162
Exercising thought	p. 162
Following systematic processes	p. 162
Leaving oneself open to answers	p. 163
Enfolding insights	p. 163
Changing awareness	p. 163
Tenacity in maintaining reflection	p. 163
Writing your own practice stories	p. 164
Summary	p. 169
Key points	p. 169
Reflective practice in research and scholarship	p. 170
Introduction	p. 170
Incorporating reflective practice into research methodologies	p. 170
Types of research	p. 171
Possible applications of reflection in research	p. 173
The reflective research approach	p. 173
Reflective processes in other research approaches	p. 180
Research involving reflection and action research	p. 182
Combining reflection and action research	p. 183
Facilitating an action research and reflection group	p. 183
Research projects using reflection and action research	p. 189
Fostering scholarship	p. 190
Presenting your reflective research at a professional conference	p. 192
Writing a journal article	p. 197
Summary	p. 200
Key points	p. 200
Being human and reflection as a lifelong process	p. 202
Introduction	p. 202
Honouring humanity	p. 202
Maintaining reflective practice	p. 205
Affirming yourself as a reflective practitioner	p. 205
Responding to the critiques	p. 206
Creating a daily habit	p. 207
Seeing things freshly	p. 208
Staying alert to practice	p. 209
Finding support systems	p. 209
Sharing reflection	p. 210
Getting involved in research	p. 211
Embodying reflective practice	p. 211
Summary	p. 212
Final author's reflection	p. 212
References	p. 213
Index	p. 223
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