Essays on Reflective Practice

Reflection Paper

Reflection Paper

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In this article, Maura Sellars examines the role of the teacher as a change agent through reflective practice. The author argues that it is the teachers and not education authorities, curriculum developers, or policy makers who are the most effective, durable, and powerful agents of educational change. She also contends that the reliability and proficiency of change in education practice depend largely on the capacity of teachers to develop self-knowledge and reflective practice. According to the Sellars (2012), historically, these aspects of teacher development have not been emphasized in the process of preparing and promoting effective teachers. ...

The healthcare system is currently undergoing a series of transformations that are affecting all the aspects of care. These transformations have fuelled the identification of the important role of nurses in healthcare. In the past, nurses have been sidelined as assistants to physicians, rather than partners in care with other health care professionals (The National Academies Press, 2010). A report by the IOM and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation revealed that if the nurses are allowed to practice to the full extent of their training and expertise, they could offer pertinent expertise needed to sustain the current changes in ...

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Nurses have an important role in the delivery of health care, and the role of nurse managers and leaders is even more important as they have not only to fulfill their day-to-day responsibilities, but they also have to lead the health care team according to the changes in this rapidly advancing world (Rashid Al-Abri, 2007). In order know the ability to cope with the daily responsibilities and to fulfill the required demands of the management and leadership, the Nurse Manager Inventory Tool has been developed (Waters, 2014). This inventory helps in self-evaluation that is combined with ...

The role of the nurse in the contemporary healthcare setting is wide and it transcends beyond the traditional concept of the roles and scope of work for a nurse. Patient needs have diversified in the same way as populations volumes and numbers seeking care have increased. The healthcare system is demanding more from the nurses and it is apparent that nurses have to adapt to these needs if at all they have to assure the patient population of positive outcomes (Fennimore & Wolf, 2011). For nurse managers, the role is even wider. Not only do they have to work closely ...

Personal and Professional Accountability

In this particular area, I portray high strength as evident by the high score that I attained with all subgroups having achieved an expert practice. When it comes to personal growth and development, I try as much as possible to not only advance in my education but also carry out career planning, action plans, and even annual self-assessments. I have always been driven by the notion that higher education enables one to offer appropriate and satisfactory services that are evidence-based particularly in the nursing profession. I also try to encourage my fellow nursing colleagues to embrace professional development through ...

Personal and professional accountability

In regards to my personal and professional responsibility, I consider myself to be competent based on the Nurse Manager Skills Inventory because I have just worked as a registered nurse for few years. However, I have a high aspiration of ensuring that I become an expert in the field of nursing, I plan to achieve this by progressing my education to highest levels attainable within the nursing profession. I subscribe to the school of thought that self-fulfillment comes about when one achieves whatever goals he/she has set for himself/herself. Pursuing higher education will, therefore, help me achieve my career ...

Introduction

Learning is perhaps the most important goal for every student. However, few students can be termed as strategic learners. Most of us do not know how to maximise what we learn so that in the end we find ourselves wallowing in shallowness, never actually learning what we purport to have learned. There is need, therefore to understand what constitutes strategic learning, the kind of learning that is not easily forgotten and the role of reflective practice in strategic learning. This paper, therefore, seeks to explain how a learner can employ reflective practice as an aspect to strategic learning. In ...