In the newly revised sixth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner, expert researcher and nurse Christopher Johns delivers a rich and incisive resource on reflective practice in healthcare that offers readers a diverse and expansive range of contributions. It explores the value of using models of reflection, with a focus on John’s own model of structured reflection, to inform and enhance the practice of professional nursing. 

This book is an essential guide for everyone using reflection in everyday clinical practice or required to demonstrate reflection for professional registration. Students will acquire new insights into how they interact with their colleagues and their environment, and how those things shape their own behaviours, both positively and negatively. Readers will learn to “look in” on their thoughts and emotions and “look out” at the situations they experience to inform how they understand the circumstances they find themselves in. 

Readers will also benefit from: 

• Thorough introductions to reflective practice, writing the Self and engaging in the reflective spiral 
• Comprehensive explorations of how to frame and deepen insights, weave and perform narratives 
• Practical discussions of how to move towards more poetic form of expression and reflecting through art and storyboard 
• In-depth examinations of the reflective curriculum, touch and the environment and reflective teaching as ethical practice  

Perfect for nurses in clinical practice, conducting research or developing their practice, the latest edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is also an indispensable resource for mentors and clinical supervisors, post-registration nursing and healthcare students and other healthcare practitioners.  

Christopher Johns, Educational and Organisational Consultant in Reflective Practices; retired Professor of Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire; Honorary Scholar, Global Academy of Holistic Nursing, and awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2010

Preface 
All C Johns unless stated otherwise

1 Envisaging reflective practice

2 The Six dialogical movements and preparing for reflection

3 Writing self: the first dialogical movement

4 Engaging the reflective spiral: the second dialogical movement

5 Framing insights

6 Deepening insights: the third and fourth dialogical movements

7 Weaving and presenting narrative: the fifth and sixth dialogical movement. 

8 Applying the MSR

9 ‘Reflections on not giving a therapy’: creative expression through prose poetry

10 Engaging narrative audience: The 6th dialogical movement: 

11 Performing narrative

12 People are not numbers to crunch: a performance narrative 
Christopher Johns & Otter Rose

13 Narrative art and storyboard
Christopher Johns & Otter Rose

14 The reflective curriculum

15 Grading reflective learning/ reflection on touch and the environment

16 Guiding first year nursing students

17 Guiding third year nursing students

18 Guiding Trudy

19 Realising leadership: a small voice…

20 The Learning Organization exemplified by the Burford NDU model

21 A system to enable staff to live and ensure quality 

22 A system to enable practitioners to develop personal mastery towards realizing their vision of practice.

Part 2

23 Awakenings: guided reflection as reality shock 
Aileen Joiner and Christopher Johns

24 Holding creative tension
Gerald Remy

25 The Complexity of teaching
Adenike Akinbode

26 Guiding nursing students’ reflection on a simulated patient experience 
Arlene De La Rocha

Appendices