The terms 'critical reflection' and 'reflective practice' are at the heart of modern healthcare. But what do they really mean?  Building on its ground-breaking predecessor, entitled Critical Reflection for Nursing and the Helping Professions, this heavily revised second edition analyses and explores reflection. It presents a structured method that will enable you to both challenge and develop your own practice.  This book is the essential guide to critical reflection for all students, academics and practitioners. 

Critical Reflection In Practice: Generating Knowledge for Care

Medical Books

Rolfe, Gary

Freshwater,Dawn

Nursing

Red Globe Press

The reflective process of critical self-evaluation is continuing to develop and to be recognised as a successful method, particularly with the introduction of clinical governance. With exceptional clarity, this timely text provides nurses and other health care professionals with a guide to all aspects of reflective practice. Through the course of eight chapters a range of structural approaches to reflective practice are introduced including individual and group supervision, reflective writing and reflective research. Readers are encouraged to be systematic and rigorous in their examination of practice, to learn from their actions and to challenge practical and theoretical knowledge. To facilitate understanding, each chapter is packed with interactive reflective writing exercises, suggestions for discussion and further reading. Critical Reflection for Nursing and the Helping Professions aims to offer clear frameworks and structures from which practitioners can learn to make a real difference to their practice. It is a uniquely practical user's guide to reflective practice for nurses and healthcare professionals at all levels.

Critical Reflection for Nursing and the Helping Professions : A User's Guide

Palgrave

Research, Truth and Authority: Postmodern Perspectives on Nursing

Postmodernism has been one of the most influential social and philosophical movements of the past decade, but it has also been one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. In the first part of this book, Gary Rolfe offers a clear and concise introduction to modernist and postmodernist thought, drawing on the work of key thinkers such as Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault and Barthes. In part two, he applies this understanding of postmodernism to a number of published works on postmodernist nursing and midwifery research, exploring themes of power, truth and authority in the discourse of nursing.

This innovative book strips the concept of evidence-based practice back to basics using deconstructive analysis, so that readers can move towards a clearer understanding of it. The practitioner is guided through a number of case studies in which the authors examine how the concept of evidence-based practice has been used in a variety of clinical settings. Divided into three parts, the book provides a deconstruction of key texts related to evidence based practice, weaving together contemporary themes in healthcare research. Deconstructing Evidence Based Practice is essential reading for nurses and other health practitioners who need to understand more about evidence-based practice and who want to learn methods of critical thinking that will be invaluable in judiciously informing their practice.

Deconstructing Evidence-Based Practice

Administration & Medicine Economics

Routledge

The University in Dissent (Research into Higher Education)

The rise of corporatism in the North American University was charted by Bill Readings in the mid nineteen-nineties in his book The University in Ruins. The intervening years have seen the corporate university grow and extend to the point where its evolution into a large business corporation is seemingly complete. Rolfe’s book examines the factors contributing to the transformation of the university from a site of culture and knowledge to what might be termed an ‘information factory’, and explores strategies for how, in Readings’ words, members of the academic community might continue to ‘dwell in the ruins of the university’ in a productive and authentic way. Drawing on the work of critics and philosophers such as Barthes, Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze, The University in Dissent suggests that this can only be achieved subversively through the development of a ‘community of philosophers’ who are prepared to challenge, critique and subvert the mission statement of the ‘university of excellence’ from within, focusing on how scholarly and academic thought and writing might develop in this new post-Enlightenment era. Summarising, contextualising and extending previous understandings of the rise of corporatism and the subsequent demise of the traditional aims and values of the university, Rolfe assesses the situation in contemporary UK and international settings. He recognises that changes to the traditional idea of the university are inevitable and explores some of the challenges and consequences of this shift in the academic world, suggesting how academics can work with change, whilst at the same time seeking to undermine its worst excesses. This timely and thought provoking book is a must-read for all academics at University level, as well as education policy makers.

The University in Dissent: Scholarship in the corporate university (Research into Higher Education)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

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