“Reflection is a conscious, dynamic process of thinking about, analyzing, and learning from an experience that gives you insights into self and practice” (Asselin & Cullin, 2011, p.44). Therefore a reflective practitioner utilizes reflection through re-evaluation of past experiences in order to continually learn, improve and grow as a competent health professional (Mann, Gordon & MacLeod, 2009, p.597). Reflection is essential in terms of clinical practice as it allows for improvement of oneself, which further promotes the improvement of other clinicians and thus overall produces a higher standard of patient care. Radiographers play a large role in the health care system and it is required by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (2013) that in order to be registered, they must be able to “improve and adapt professional …show more content…
Radiographers are part of an inter-disciplinary team and hence the reflective practices of other health professionals also contribute to the importance of reflection within clinical practice. Collaborative reflection improves interpersonal communication, which in turn positively strengthens inter-disciplinary relationships (Little, 2015, p.177). The ability to share reflections with others is invaluable for the wellbeing of medical staff because, as Little (2015, p.178) suggests, it “helps [practitioners] work through clinical quandaries…manage stress, and cope with medical errors”. Additionally, the MRPBA (2013) supports the notion of engaging with other health professionals through reflection on daily practice as it “enables exploration and problem-solving for both professional and clinical matters”. The use of reflection within inter-disciplinary teams involves comparing the practice of oneself to the practice of colleagues and, according to Clark (2009, p.216), this enables practitioners to extend their own knowledge and learn from