Today I will be talking about the Importance of Reflective practice in Nursing Scholarship. Reflective practice is an essential skill in health professionalism. Reflective practice refers to the process of thoughtfully considering your experiences. Reflective practise allows you to consider what your strengths and weaknesses are, to identify what you need to work on, in order to perform to the best of your capability. In order to find better ways to function in the workplace properly I need to ‘refresh and update my knowledge and skills’ and come up with ways to solve the problems that I am facing.
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I asked myself “what is scholarship?” I came up with the answer of scholarship is a form of gaining knowledge and doing study in order to become a qualified person within a field of learning. I wasn’t sure on my answer so I used a few dictionaries. (Collins Cobuild 2000; Grove 1961, Look smart 2000; WordNet 1999; Wordsmyth 1999; wwwebster 1996) and concluded that scholarship referred to profound knowledge acquired through long and rigorous academic research and study within a field; it means enlightenment (education resulting from analysis, understanding, and shared knowledge), eruditeness, and learnedness. Thus, scholarship is the character, qualities, achievements, and activities of scholars and is synonymous with learning, knowledge, and study. Scholars learn to be thinkers within a field of learning.
I have analysed the concept of nursing scholarship by breaking it down into different skills that I need to develop during my studies. A nurse scholar, (1) experiences long academic study resulting in the mastery of nursing knowledge, (2) possesses discovering skills by investigating, resulting in original research, (3) has the ability to creatively think through and analyse connections (scholarship of integration and originality), (4) is dedicated toward the dissemination of nursing knowledge through teaching and