Deconstructing Nursing Practice: A Reflective Process

The literature tells us that reflection offers a means to evaluate practice and to identify learning from our practice experiences. The following description of a practice incident will be discussed loosely in the light of Rolfe's ‘Model of Nursing Praxis’ as a means of exploring the theoretical exercise of ‘reflection’ within a proposed theoretical framework. It is hoped that the exercise will help to achieve some of the suggested positive endpoints of reflection, and provide insight and learning on an incident that was particularly powerful on both a personal and a professional level.