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The growth of management connoisseurship through reflective practice
Author(s) -
JOHNS C.,
GRAHAM J.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2834.1994.tb00166.x
Subject(s) - situational ethics , reflective practice , psychology , clinical practice , process (computing) , nursing practice , situation awareness , nurse manager , knowledge management , nursing , engineering ethics , medical education , medicine , pedagogy , social psychology , computer science , engineering , aerospace engineering , operating system
Reflective practice offers a way to structure learning within supervision by paying attention to aspects of practice within reflected experiences, in such ways that the issues can be identified, understood, and worked through to resolve contradictions between desired outcomes and actual practice. In this process, emerging personal knowledge of practice is juxtaposed with relevant theory in such a way that the manager is able to meaningfully assimilate theory into his or her practice as appropriate. This paper illustrates how an H‐grade unit nurse manager identified a number of situational management issues through reflecting and sharing experiences in a group clinical supervision milieu (over a period of 15 weeks). Clinical supervision is being advocated as a means to ensure practitioner development of effective practice (Vision for the Future, Department of Health 1993).