Self-Reflection in Nursing

SELF-REFLECTIONS IN nursing” are complex matters that each professional nurse considers throughout his or her career. They are encounters with the deepest, truest part of them that often are initiated by a significant event that triggers this self-dialogue. This event might be a patient’s difficult diagnosis, the death of a patient, or even a personal challenge in one’s own life. As mortal creatures, we each experience the normal changes and challenges in each decade of life. At the very beginning of their education, nurses are taught to ask patients and families many open-ended questions and engage in a meaningful dialogue that invites reflection.