We use reflection because it helps increases your awareness, it helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses when working in practice it helps you gain new knowledge about healthcare so you can get a better understanding of a situation or subject. If there’s something you didn’t know enough about or weren’t very good at you could go and research that topic so you had a better understanding of it next time, or even by asking someone else to explain why they do things a certain way. Reflective practice has been defined as a process that develops understanding of what it means to be a practitioner (Rolfe, 2011). The purpose of reflection is to enhance an individual’s knowledge, through the improving skills of the individual, the organisation
