Becoming a Reflective Practitioner - 6th Edition by Christopher Johns (Paperback)

About the Book

"Reflective practice matters. It matters because it opens a gateway for practitioners' to learn and grow towards realising their potential and their visions of practice as a lived reality. A reflective practitioner is someone who lives reflection naturally within everyday practice. It is a mindful way to practice whereby the practitioner pays attention within the unfolding experience, mindful of responding most appropriately in tune with their vision. It is a process of self-realization. Rolling Thunder describes this as 'seeking and knowing one's own identity' [Boyd 1974:7]. Reflective practitioners learn through reflection on experience. In this way the practitioner gains insights that inform future experiences within a reflexively spiral of being and becoming. I assume that the practitioner's practice matters to them and that values and vision are important. Hence realising one's vision of practice as a lived reality must be the aim of every practitioner who take themselves seriously. Recipients of service deserve nothing less. The emphasis of this book is on becoming a reflective practitioner. Becoming is a journey. No matter the practitioner's level of experience or status. It commences with a first reflection on experience. In the uncertainty and uniqueness of everyday practice practitioners face situations that often feel chaotic. As Salzberg notes (2002:76) 'No matter how much we want it to otherwise. The truth is that we are not in control of the unfolding of our experience. We can affect and influence and impact what happens, but we can't wake up in the morning and decide what we will encounter and feel and be confronted by during the day'. The book is designed to guide both student and registered practitioners at any level of professional learning, along with their guides, teachers, and managers, to become reflective practitioners, not just clinical practitioners but also educators, managers, and most significantly leaders able to enable others to grow and fulfil their potential. Although the book's background is health care it is a resource for all professions who aspire to offer a service to people"--

Book Synopsis

BECOMING A REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER

In the newly revised sixth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, expert researcher and nurse Christopher Johns delivers a rich and incisive resource on reflective practice in healthcare that offers readers a diverse and expansive range of contributions. It explores the value of using models of reflection, with a focus on John's own model of structured reflection, to inform and enhance the practice of professional nursing.

This book is an essential guide for everyone using reflection in everyday clinical practice or required to demonstrate reflection for professional registration. Students will acquire new insights into how they interact with their colleagues and their environment, and how those things shape their own behaviours, both positively and negatively. Readers will learn to "look in" on their thoughts and emotions and "look out" at the situations they experience to inform how they understand the circumstances they find themselves in.

Readers will also benefit from:

• Thorough introductions to reflective practice, writing the Self and engaging in the reflective spiral
• Comprehensive explorations of how to frame and deepen insights, weave and perform narratives
• Practical discussions of how to move towards more poetic form of expression and reflecting through art and storyboard
• In-depth examinations of the reflective curriculum, touch and the environment and reflective teaching as ethical practice

Perfect for nurses in clinical practice, conducting research or developing their practice, the latest edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is also an indispensable resource for mentors and clinical supervisors, post-registration nursing and healthcare students and other healthcare practitioners.

From the Back Cover

In the newly revised sixth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, expert researcher and nurse Christopher Johns delivers a rich and incisive resource on reflective practice in healthcare that offers readers a diverse and expansive range of contributions. It explores the value of using models of reflection, with a focus on John's own model of structured reflection, to inform and enhance the practice of professional nursing.

This book is an essential guide for everyone using reflection in everyday clinical practice or required to demonstrate reflection for professional registration. Students will acquire new insights into how they interact with their colleagues and their environment, and how those things shape their own behaviours, both positively and negatively. Readers will learn to "look in" on their thoughts and emotions and "look out" at the situations they experience to inform how they understand the circumstances they find themselves in.

Readers will also benefit from:

• Thorough introductions to reflective practice, writing the Self and engaging in the reflective spiral
• Comprehensive explorations of how to frame and deepen insights, weave and perform narratives
• Practical discussions of how to move towards more poetic form of expression and reflecting through art and storyboard
• In-depth examinations of the reflective curriculum, touch and the environment and reflective teaching as ethical practice

Perfect for nurses in clinical practice, conducting research or developing their practice, the latest edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is also an indispensable resource for mentors and clinical supervisors, post-registration nursing and healthcare students and other healthcare practitioners.

About the Author

Christopher Johns, Educational and Organisational Consultant in Reflective Practices; retired Professor of Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire; Honorary Scholar, Global Academy of Holistic Nursing, and awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2010