Reflection Of Nursing As A Career In Nursing

There has never been a better time to consider a career in nursing. Few professions offer the opportunities, challenges and rewards available in these fields. Working as a health care provider is more than just a job, it is a career, however, being able to be a reflective nurse is important. “Reflection is an essential attribute to the development of autonomous, critical and advanced practitioners” (Caldwell & Grobbel, 2013). It allows for nurses to reflect on the day’s practice, whether how they treated the patients was appropriate or needs improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to show the significances of reflection within the nursing profession.

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“Reflection is the process of engaging the self in attentive, critical, exploratory and iterative interactions with one’s thoughts and actions, and their underlying conceptual frame, with a view to changing them and with a view on the change itself” (Nguyen, Fernandez, Karsenti, & Charlin, 2014). This is important, due to the fact it allows nurses to compare situations and changes that would be made to the circumstance if they were encountered again. It could also be used for the comparison between nurses to understand what others may have done in the same situation or help others understand your way of thinking. Reflective practice is to examine your actions and experiences with the outcome of developing practice and enhancing clinical knowledge. Through completing this, benefits of reflective practice may include, the emotional content to be put aside and learn from negative experiences. Completing reflection journaling can also allow you to understand the differences between what you intended to attain and how the outcome occurred. A recent study (Bostock-Cox, 2015) found that reflective practice could improve the quality of care delivered and produce more thoughtful nurses. It could also lead to reducing the thoughts that continue after finishing with a