VISUALIZING AND REALIZING CARING IN PRACTICE THROUGH GUIDED REFLECTION

Guided reflection provides a challenging and supportive milieu for pra ctitioners to learn through reflection towards achieving desirable wor k. This work inevitably demands confrontation with self and the condit ions of practice that limit the achievement of desirable work. It also demands an understanding of what is desirable nursing. From an ideolo gical position, desirable work is generally defined in terms of humani stic caring. The paper discusses how caring can be visualized and real ized in practice through the experiences practitioners reflect on and share within guided reflection. This work is illustrated using using g uided reflection dialogue.