Reflective Practice In Health Care

The position statement in paper 2 has an introduction and conclusion, as well as have used a large amount of evidence in the context to demonstrate the contribution of reflective practice in the health care setting. This essay has used credible and relevant references on most occasions. Nevertheless, it is not well structured. The author does not provide a clear plan for this position statement in the introduction, the context is lack of argument, and there are new information presented in the conclusion. The author does utilise several evidences from journal articles and NMBA, and yet have insufficient consideration of alternative views. Furthermore, some sentences in the context are not coherent and logical.

When writing a position statement, introduction as a starting point, should presented with a clear structure in the whole essay. The author need have an argument to attract reader’s attention and state his/her opinions that “reflective practice plays an essential role in nursing practice”.

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or instance, in the introduction, he/she can provide a brief overview, explains some benefits of having an efficient reflective nursing practice, makes an argument about the weakness of reflective nursing practice, and describes how nurses can overcome this negative effect

that will beneficial to nursing practice. In the body of this position statement, the author adopts some efficient evidences from literature in supporting the advantage of having an efficient reflective practice in nursing. The NMBA competency standard is one of the authoritative nursing practice guideline that regulate and educate registered nurses to improve nursing knowledge and skills, while provide patients with the best quality of care. The author reviewed NMBA competency standards 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, and 4.4, he/she believes that registered nurses aware of hazardous practice, undertake regular self-evaluation, and use some strategies to manage self-shortcoming and acquire new knowledge and skills through practice.
I strongly agree with the author’s opinion, because the reflective practice can assist registered nurses recognise unprofessional practices, avoid the recurrence of dangerous practices, correct self-shortcoming by self-evaluation, and improve nursing practice through seeking help from others. Nevertheless, to make this essay more fascinating and convincing, we can dissect the weakness of reflective practice to restate this position statement. Individuals’ learning environment, motivation and time should be considered internal and external factors that cause poor reflective practice. Motivation is considered to be a significant stimulant of learning and achievement in nursing knowledge and skills, lack of motivation can result in absence of enthusiasm to pursuit goals at work (Bennett, Casebeer, Zheng & Kristofco, 2006). In a study, Hannigan (2006) examined 17 nursing students and asked them to provide reflective practice based on a case scenario. Among it, 14 participators revealed deepening understanding of practice through literature review and re-appreciating the value of nursing, nevertheless, 3 participators reported with negative outcomes. Concerns were expressed about the time required and the limiting influence of a structured approach. Hannigan (2006) thought this potentially negative outcome might include unwillingness at being required to participate in activities that seem uncorrelated from the learner’s true learning needs or usual method of learning and practice. Increasing nurses’ motivation in practice assisting registered nurses to have efficient reflective practice. Consequently, we find that internal and external factors are influence reflective practice. To make an efficient reflective practice, the registered nurses must stay motivated during the practice.