Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice / Edition 2

by Christopher Johns

Overview

"...an important text for practitioners...this text is a valuable tool that develops self-inquiry skills."
Journal of Advanced Nursing

Reflection is widely recognised as an invaluable tool in health care, providing fresh insights which enable practitioners to develop their own practice and improve the quality of their care. Guided Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice introduces the practitioner to the concept of guided reflection, in which the practitioner is assisted by a mentor (or 'guide') in a process of self-enquiry, development, and learning through reflection in order to effectively realise one’s vision of practice and self as a lived reality.

Guided reflection is grounded in individual practice, and can provide deeply meaningful insights into self-development and professional care. The process results in a reflexive narrative, which highlights key issues for enhancing healthcare practice and professional care. Reflection: A Narrative Approach to Advancing Professional Practice uses a collection of such narratives from everyday clinical practice to demonstrate the theory and practicalities of guided reflection and narrative construction. In this second edition, Chris Johns has explored many of the existing narratives in more depth.  Many new contributions have been added including several more innovative reflections, such as performance and art.These narratives portray the values inherent in caring, highlight key issues in clinical practice, reveal the factors that constrain the quest to realise practice, and examine the ways practitioners work towards overcoming these constraints.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405185684
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/07/2010
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Chris Johns is Reader in Advanced Nursing Practice at the University of Bedfordshire and is ‘one of the leading proponents of reflective theory’ (Nursing Times, 2000). He has authored and edited several books in reflective practice for Wiley-Blackwell including Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice, and Engaging Reflection in Practice.

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Table of Contents

Preface vii

Contributors xi

Chapter 1 The basic scheme 1
Christopher Johns

Chapter 2 Constructing the reflexive narrative 27
Christopher Johns

Chapter 3 Deepening insights 51
Christopher Johns

Chapter 4 Weaving the narrative 66
Christopher Johns

Chapter 5 A feminist slant 85
Christopher Johns and Colleen Marlin

Chapter 6 Awakenings 113
Aileen Joiner and Christopher Johns

Chapter 7 Finding a new way in health visiting 123
Yvonne Latchford

Chapter 8 Falling through the net and the spider’s web: two metaphoric moments along my journey 145
Maria Fordham

Chapter 9 Climbing walls 164
Christopher Johns

Chapter 10 Reflections on performance 178
April Nunes Tucker, Amanda Price and Antje Diedrich

Chapter 11 More than eggs for breakfast 195
John-Marc Priest and Christopher Johns

Chapter 12 Shifting attitude with deliberate self-harm patients in Accident and Emergency (A&E) 215
Jane Groom and Christopher Johns

Chapter 13 Jane’s rap: guided reflection as a pathway to self as sacred space 236
Christopher Johns and Colleen Marlin

Chapter 14 Audiencing 256
Christopher Johns

Chapter 15 Coherence and ethics 262
Christopher Johns

Chapter 16 An accidental tourist 284
Lei Foster

Chapter 17 Reflections 290
Christopher Johns Appendices 293
Index 299

Editorial Reviews

This approach enables individual practitioners to develop deeper insight and improve the quality of their patient care. Readers also will benefit personally, physically, and mentally from this enhanced self reflection and growth.”  (Doody’s, 11 May 2012)

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