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Anxiety, accuracy and reflection: the limits of professional development
Author(s) -
Newell Robert
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01855.x
Subject(s) - reflection (computer programming) , anxiety , context (archaeology) , psychology , task (project management) , nursing practice , cognitive psychology , medicine , computer science , nursing , psychiatry , paleontology , management , economics , biology , programming language
Reflection is a key concept in the development and maintenance of nursing expertise in theory and practice, yet commentators have rarely examined difficulties associated with it This paper describes the role of reflection in nursing and relates it to information‐processing accounts of human memory The issues raised by the role of memory in mediating reflection are discussed, in the context of an examination of the importance of accuracy in reflection‐on‐practice It is argued that anxiety is of particular importance in mediating accurate reflection Whilst it is concluded that reflection is inherently flawed, a range of tactics to enhance it are explored, with particular emphasis on anxiety reduction and reduction of the burden of the memory task