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Nurses are constantly asked to reflect on their practice and so are student nurse; its a requirement on the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Reflection is associated with learning from experience, and is seen as a way to promote autonomy in the student and the qualified nurse and build self-directed professionals. Engaging in reflective practice is associated with the improvement of the quality of care, stimulating personal and professional growth and closing the gap between theory and practice.
Academic Nurses recommends Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle as a useful model of reflection as it is fairly straightforward and encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience, analysis to make sense of the experience, conclusion where other options are considered and reflection upon experience to examine what you would do if the situation arose again.
Description - Describe the reflective event in full and include the, where, who, why, what.
Feelings - This stage deals with discussing you thoughts and feelings surronding the event.
Evaluation - Evaluate the event; ask yourself what was good about the event and what wasn't so good.
Analysis - Break the event into its components so you can explore them more indepth using the same framework as the evaluation stage.
Conclusion - What could be have been done differently in this situation to improve the outcome.
Action Plan - In this stage you would describe, if presented with the same event how would you perform differently.
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