The Student Nurse's Guide to Successful Reflection:Ten Essential Ingredients

this book is an easy to read, practical guide that will show you what reflection is and how you can do it successfully.
Assuming no prior knowledge, it introduces you to ten essential ingredients to becoming an effective reflective practitioner. Chapters will equip you with evidence-based understanding and ideas for application to your own situation, and support you to become an emotionally resilient, self-aware individual who can reflect and improve on your practice.

in clear and supportive language, nicola clarke will guide you on your journey to developing the crucial reflection skills you need for your career as a nurse. the book includes:

 A step by step exploration of what reflection involves
 Ways to develop the skills you will need to do your own reflection
 A how-to approach to using reflective models
 Practical and jargon-free guidance on how to reflect
 A chapter on reflective writing
 Chapters about qualities you will need in your reflection, such as being person-centred and empathetic

The Student Nurses Guide to Successful Reflection is a must-have text for all nursing students as well as useful reading for those involved in supporting them.

With a Foreword by Theo Stickley, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK.

'Reflection is a "way of being" encompassing many ingredients. Clarke, with great thoroughness and care, introduces these, constructively supporting students towards developing self-insight and understanding of others. Her advice, explanations, illustrations and exercises are lucid and paced, helping nurses towards sufficient strength to undertake the developmental change which effective reflective practice brings. And to become practitioners who are far more than competent: nurses who are calmly self-aware, receptive and perceptive'.
Gillie Bolton, PhD, former Senior Research Fellow, Medicine and the Arts, Kings College London, UK

'Reflection is a much discussed topic in nursing, but some students find it difficult to reflect on their own practice. Nicola Clarkes ten essential ingredients provide a clear and explicit guide to effective reflective practice and as such this should be a key text for all student nurses. The chapters of this new text offer clear learning outcomes, practical advice and models to follow in order to develop a genuine, honest and balanced reflective writing style. It is an engaging and informative read which promotes understanding of this important process'.
Anita Savage Grainge, RMN, RGN, RNT, Senior Lecturer, University of York, UK

'An engaging book, which deals with the complexity of reflection in a clear, logical and in-depth manner. Developed around her extended definition of reflective practice, Clarke clearly and logically enables the reader to build their understanding of reflective practice...