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Defnitions

 

Reflection is considered essential to professional practice. Reflection promotes a deep approach to learning by encouraging each of us to reframe problems, question our assumptions, and look at situations from multiple perspectives. It helps us recognize gaps in our knowledge and identify our own learning needs. Reflection requires us to use the analytic process to make meaning of our every day experiences.

 

Reflection is particularly important in health care where evidence based practice and client centered care require us to analyze best evidence while considering our own values, assumptions, beliefs, and goals as well as those of our patients/clients. It enables us to recognize our assumptions and how they may be impacting our clinical decisions. Reflection enables us to critically think through and effectively solve clinical problems. Thinking critically  assumptions, beliefs, and values that underlie our thought processes as we solve problems, anticipate outcomes, and justify our actions. Critical thinking is achieved by recognizing and analyzing multiple perspectives, and is essential to problem solving. Finally, reflection helps us develop a questioning attitude and the skills needed to continually update our knowledge and skills.

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.