Transforming Nursing Through 2

Reflective practice has been widely adopted as a successful method for developing nursing. The second edition of Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice provides a wealth of new insights from practitioners actively involved in reflective practice in nursing research, education, clinical practice and practice development.

This invaluable book enables nurses to continually evaluate their own practice in order to inform their approaches to reflection; critique, develop and monitor their professional practice; and thereby improve the quality of their patient care. There is a greater emphasis in the new edition on transforming practice, the research base for reflective practice and grounding the reflective process in clinical practice.

* Examines the contribution of reflective practice to nursing
* Enables nurses to continually develop their practice and improve patient care
* Includes insights from many areas of clinical practice
* Explores the role of reflection in clinical supervision and research studies
* Examines the role of narrative and reflective dialogue in reflective practice

Examines the practice of reflecting on yourself, your patients, colleagues to achieve new insights.

Reflective practice has been widely adopted as a successful method for developing nursing. The second edition of Transforming Nursing through Reflective Practice provides a wealth of new insights from practitioners actively involved in reflective practice in nursing research, education, clinical practice and practice development.

This invaluable book enables nurses to continually evaluate their own practice in order to inform their approaches to reflection; critique, develop and monitor their professional practice; and thereby improve the quality of their patient care. There is a greater emphasis in the new edition on transforming practice, the research base for reflective practice and grounding the reflective process in clinical practice.

* Examines the contribution of reflective practice to nursing
* Enables nurses to continually develop their practice and improve patient care
* Includes insights from many areas of clinical practice
* Explores the role of reflection in clinical supervision and research studies
* Examines the role of narrative and reflective dialogue in reflective practice

Booknews

The product of the Third Reflective Practice conference held at Robinson College, Cambridge, Great Britain (July 1996), these 18 contributions examine reflection as a tool that can be used to transform the practice of nursing as it changes the way nurses react to problems and challenges. Contrasting the expert's strategy of holistically looking at a problem to an amateur's step-by-step method, the authors hope that nurses will make use of reflective practice to help themselves towards greater understanding of the needs of their profession. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Professor Dawn Freshwater is Reader in Primary Care in the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University. Chris Johns is Reader in Advanced Practice at the University of Luton.