Helpful questions to ask when reflecting

Helpful questions to ask when reflecting:

· What was your role in the situation ?
· Did you feel comfortable or uncomfortable and why ?
· How did the other people involved in the situation act ?
· How did you interact with them ?
· Did you feel that you and the others involved acted in appropriately in that situation ?
· How could you have improved the situation for yourself, the patient or others involved ?
· Is there anything that you would have done differently next time in a similar situation and why?
· Do you feel, you have learnt anything about yourself from this situation ?
· What can you learn from this situation for the future ?
· Has this situation changed the way you think in any way ?
· Has this situation changed the way you will act in similar situations in the future ?
· What knowledge from theory and research can you apply to this situation ?
· What broader issues e.g ethical ,political or social arise from this situation?
· What do you think about these broader issues ?
(Johns 2000)