Advancing the quality of care and nursing practice through emancipatory reflection
Advancing the quality of care and nursing practice through emancipatory reflection作者机构:Department of Nursing Administration The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Department of Urologic Surgery The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University Department of Nurse Anesthesia Virginia Commonwealth University
出 版 物:《Frontiers of Nursing》 (护理前沿(英文))
年 卷 期:2019年第6卷第1期
页 面:1-4页
学科分类:10[医学]
主 题:Smyth’s framework critical emancipatory reflection quality of care nursing practice
摘 要:Reflection is a fundamental skill of health-care professionals and plays an important role in ensuring the quality of care in health-care practice. It is believed that undertaking reflection in practice can help nurses develop an awareness of a sense of personal power and agency, cultivate their critical thinking ability and help them promote their professional development. However, reflection has not been introduced widely as a nursing curriculum in China, and literature shows that some clinical nurses lack critical thinking skills and critical reflective practice skills by reason of not receiving systematic education on reflection when they were at nursing ***, we present a series of seven articles focused on prevalent and interesting practice-based events to reflect on in this special issue. The main aim is to disseminate reflective methodology and techniques and present examples of reflective writing for *** is expected that these articles will help to lead Chinese nurses to adopt critical emancipatory reflective processes to bring about transformative actions.