1. Reflecting for Revalidation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Melaine Coward
Director of Health Sciences Education
University of Surrey
  19th June 2015

2. Aims To consider what is meant by reflection for revalidation
To support you to see the purpose of reflection
To reiterate that reflection is not always an academic exercise but it is a professional way of being
To review reflections for revalidation through discussion

3. What is reflection? Learning from experience (John Dewey)
Models / frameworks
Way of being (Gillie Bolton)
Using knowledge and experience (by noticing) for thinking

4. How to reflect? On-Going Notice (significant) Think Learn / Develop
“Reflective Practice is a state of mind, an ongoing attitude to life and work, the pearl grit in the oyster of practice and education.”
(Bolton, 2014)

5. Winnie the Pooh – a master reflector
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”
(Milne, 1926)

6. Writing your reflections

7. Writing your reflections

8. Deanna Hodge – she’s very helpful!
2 reflections to share:
NMC revalidation and The Code
Cultivating compassion project – celebration conference

10. Outcomes and Actions 1

11. Reading Deanna’s pieces (1), I think…

12. Outcomes and Actions 2

14. Reading Deanna’s pieces (2), I think…

15. To summarise 5 reflections
Show an element of your CPD or feedback from your practice
Demonstrate your learning
Consider the change this (may) make to your practice (or affirm good practice approaches)