Becoming a Reflective Practitioner
3rd Edition
Published on 17. July 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-4051-8567-7 (ISBN)
Description
From Reviews of the second edition: 'Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care. The first edition of this book was an excellent resource and this updated version is equally impressive. This is a superb resource for nurses and all those eager to enhance their knowledge and skills in reflective practice. It is well presented, user-friendly and stimulating.' Nursing Standard Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is a practical guide to using reflection in every day clinical practice. It explores the value of using models of reflection, with particular reference to Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection. Becoming a Reflective Practitioner includes accounts of everyday practice to guide the reader through the stages of reflective practice within the context of care, 'desirable practice', and the caring relationship. This third edition reflects significant developments in reflective theory and gives greater attention to different approaches to reflection including the use of narrative dialogue. New chapters are included on ensuring quality and managing conflict.
Exemplars are included throughout and further references and reflected reading are included at the end of each chapter. Reflective practice is acknowledged as an effective approach to developing nursing care which evolves as the practitioner develops his or her own practice. This book will therefore be of interest to all nurses involved in developing their clinical practice. A practical guide to developing reflective practice Reflects significant developments in reflective theory Examines Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection Centred on care and the caring relationship Challenges practitioners to question their practice
Exemplars are included throughout and further references and reflected reading are included at the end of each chapter. Reflective practice is acknowledged as an effective approach to developing nursing care which evolves as the practitioner develops his or her own practice. This book will therefore be of interest to all nurses involved in developing their clinical practice. A practical guide to developing reflective practice Reflects significant developments in reflective theory Examines Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection Centred on care and the caring relationship Challenges practitioners to question their practice
Reviews / Votes
"This edition takes into account developments in reflective theory and has more coverage of different approaches, including the use of narrative dialogue and performance, and greater emphasis on the process of writing over the realization of desirable practice. It also has new chapters on ensuring quality and managing conflict." ( Book News , December 2009)More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
784 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-8567-7 (9781405185677)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Christopher Johns
Becoming a Reflective Practitioner
Book
05/2013
4th Edition
Wiley
€41.90
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Previous edition
Chris Johns
Becoming a Reflective Practitioner
Book
10/2004
2nd Edition
Wiley-Blackwell
€33.41
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Person
Chris Johns is Professor of Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire
Content
Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1 Basic structures. 1 Exploring reflection. The significance of reflective practices for professional life. Knowing reflection. Whole-brain stuff. A typology of reflective practices. Setting out my stall. Bimadisiwin. Prerequisites of reflection. Energy work. Being in place. Developing voice. Evaluating reflection. Conclusion. 2 A reflective framework for clinical practice. Peter and Sam. The Burford NDU model: caring in practice. Vision. From vision to reality. A structural view of a reflective framework for clinical practice. Organisational culture. The Burford model's explicit assumptions. Conclusion. 3 Becoming reflective. Tom and Joan. Narrative. Dialogue. The first dialogical movement: doodles in my journal. The second dialogical movement: surfing the reflective spiral. Dwelling with the text and gaining insight. Framing perspectives. Conclusion. 4 The third and fourth dialogical movements. The third dialogical movement: the dance with Sophia. The fourth dialogical movement: dialogue with peers and guides. The nature of guidance. Conclusion. 5 The fifth and sixth dialogical movements. Reflection as art. Being playful, being disciplined. Autoethnography. Conclusion. 6 Being available. Tony. Being available. Holding and intending to realise a vision. The extent to which the practitioner knows the other. The extent to which the practitioner is concerned for the other. The extent to which the practitioner can grasp and interpret the clinical moment and respond with appropriate skilful action (the aesthetic response). Poise - the extent to which the practitioner knows and manages self within relationship. Conclusion. 7 Creating an environment where being available is possible. Cathy and the GPs. Realising our power. Hank's complaint. Horizontal violence. Support. Debriefing. Therapeutic benefits of disclosure. Conclusion. 8 Therapeutic journalling for patients. Moira Vass - living with motor neurone disease. Reflection. Listening to the patient's story. Conclusion. Part 2 Narratives of being available. 9 Jill Jarvis: reflection on touch and the environment. Introduction. Touch (Jill Jarvis). Environment (Jill Jarvis). Conclusions. 10 Simon Lee: reflection on caring. Introduction. Simon writes. Involvement. 11 Clare Coward: life begins at 40. Clare writes. 12 Jim Jones: balancing the wind or a lot of hot air. Jim writes. Part 3 Creating the reflective environment. 13 Reflective communication. Talk. Confidentiality. Patient notes. Narrative. Reflection. Conclusion. 14 Ensuring quality. A narrative of a quality initiative to improve midwifery care to postnatal women in the community. Reflection. Conclusion. 15 Transformational leadership. Sally writes: a little voice in a big arena. Susan writes: liberating to care. Reflection. Conclusion. 16 Clinical supervision and nurturing the learning organisation. Bumping heads. Revealing woozles. Clinical supervision. The learning organisation. Contracting. Four variables of clinical supervision. Emancipatory or technical supervision. Peer-led supervision. Qualities of the ideal supervisor. Heron's six-category intervention analysis. Modes of supervision. The nine step model. Trudy's story. Conclusion.Practitioner 17 Reflection as chaos theory. Lazell writes. Reflection. Conclusion. 18 The reflective curriculum. Running in place. Teacher identity. Tripods. Frozen stories. Teaching through reflective practice. Camp-fire teaching. Trust. Judging reflective writing. Disadvantages. Conclusion. 19 The performance turn. Introduction. The performance turn. Performance texts. Musical chairs. RAW. Notes. How might performance be judged as valid? First a warning! Authenticity/speaking your truth. Conclusion. Appendix Clinical supervision evaluation tool. References. Index.