Reflective practice is a teaching strategy for improving teaching and learning which emphasizes learning as a personal, internal process of making meaning. Through reflective practice learners adopt the acquired knowledge, then use that knowledge to modify their thinking, revise, integrate, and accommodate new knowledge. Another learning situation where students can be guided using RP is […]
Engaging Learners in Reflective Practice: Part 2 of 4
Reflective practice is a teaching strategy for improving teaching and learning which emphasizes learning as a personal, internal process of making meaning. Through reflective practice, learners acquire knowledge, then use that knowledge to modify their thinking as well as to revise, integrate, and accommodate new knowledge. Reflective practice can be likened to the concept of […]
Engaging Learners in Reflective Practice: Part 1 of 4
The challenge for nurse educators is to implement teaching methodologies which help learners to view learning as a continuous process grounded in experience. Reflective practice is an instructional strategy that helps learners connect life experiences to what they are learning, as well as provide a different outlook to challenge existing thoughts, feelings, and actions; thus, […]
Raising Competency And Confidence In Nursing Units
Competency and safety in practice are among the major areas of concern for nurse preceptors when precepting nursing students, new nurses and new nurse hires. One reason is that determining which competencies are most critical to teach, as well as how to teach and evaluate those competencies, remains unclear. In order to teach unit specific […]