Reflective Thinking and Writing

REFLECTIVE
THINKING AND
WRITING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Reflective practice is refers to as thinking or reflecting about what personnel does and is
closely linked with experience. This practise identifies different aspects of learning experience as
what one did, what happened and what they decided to change such situations in future. In this
report, use of Driscoll's Model of Structured Reflection will be used so that learners practice
skills are reflected based on past clinical experiences (Horton-Deutsch & Sherwood, 2017). This
model will help personnel of health care sector to learn from past experience and improve course
of actions in future. This will identify moments that were full of surprise and puzzled at
workplace as being care assistance for mentally challenged children.
MAIN BODY
Reflective practice is putting conscious efforts to think and develop insights about past
events. This is one of useful skill for health professional who study their own experience so that
they can improve quality of services provided by them. This diminishes the gap between theory
and practice for nurses and other health professionals. Reflective practice is process of
professional learning which comprises of effective reflection, development of self awareness
which leads to learning, decisions, achieving goals and change in behaviour for future practice
(Husebø, O'Regan, & Nestel, 2015).
While working as nurse with mentally challenges children I faced many challenges and
situations which enhanced by experience of working in complex environment. Mental disorders
in children are mostly life long which requires attention, support and assistance from care
providers. Thus it is one of my responsibility to take care of children who are not more than 12
years of age so that their growth and development can be stimulated. While assisting those
children I had pleasure time and different learning experience which will help me in future. This
reflective practice will challenges that I faced while caring for such children and identify ways
by which I can improve quality of services.
Driscoll Model of reflection (1994): This was developed by John Driscoll in 1994 and
matched three questions to the stage of learning and identifies different questions that are used to
complete the learning cycle. There are three stages of what, so what and now what which helps
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