Professional Issues - Self-Awareness

Question 1

Know own opinions & personal history

Answer 1

• reflect on own practice, personal beliefs & attitudes
• be aware where own bias sits
• be capable of separating own issues from patients issues

Question 2

Reflection

Answer 2

• reflection in action
  
  • done in the here and now, conscious, spontaneous
• reflection on action
  
  • after the fact, for evaluating the experience or event
• reflection for action
  
  • preparation for the future, based on reflection on the similarities and differences of past events
• looking in at oneself, looking out at the situation
  
  • focus on own thoughts and emotions
  • explore situation in relevance to understanding, beliefs, values, assumptions and ethics
  • learn from previous experiences, improve

Question 3

Reflection - C’s

Answer 3

• commitment - self and nursing matter, being responsible for self, being open, curious and willing to change customary ways of responding
• contradiction - exposing the contradictions between real and ideal aspects of practice
• conflict - using power within inconsistencies of practice to take action
• challenge & support - non-threatening confrontation of attitudes, beliefs & behaviour
• catharsis - dealing with and letting go of unhelpful feelings
• creation - seeing new ways of reguarding and responding to practice
• connection - applying new understandings to the real world of practice
• caring - taking advantageous practices into everyday living
• congruence - reflection & acting in context
• constructing personal knowledge in practice - joining personal knowledge with other ways of knowing to create practice knowledge