Reflective practice

Recognise, reflect, resolve: The benefits of reflecting on your practice

Working in health and care is rewarding but it is also fast paced, and can be challenging and stressful at times. Creating the space to reflect on your practice, by yourself, with a colleague or as part of a group, can help you to deal with high levels of pressure and share lessons learned to strengthen the important bonds within and across teams.

This information outlines the benefits regular reflection can have on your practice and gives examples of some of the ways you can achieve reflective practice.

What is reflection?

Learn what we mean by 'reflection' and how you can use it to gain insight into your professional practice

Types of reflective practice

Learn about the different types of reflective practice available to you. Which you use will depend on the nature and scope of your practice, your activity and your learning style

Reflection and meeting your standards

Information on how reflection and reviewing practice is vital for meeting all of your standards

Reflective practice case studies and template

This section provides a summary of reflective models that can make your reflections effective and a template to guide your own activities

Reflective practice FAQs

This section answers some frequently-asked questions about reflective practice, like how to document your reflection