title: [An analysis of professional practice as a means to enhance one's skills: theoretical basis, actual process and associated limitations].
abstract: With the advent of skill-based approaches in the training of health professionals, trainers have been encouraged to make use of a methodology which analyses actual practice. This paper's main objective is to take a deeper look, from a theoretical perspective, at the process of analysing professional practice. This particular training method, which has been in use for a considerable amount of time in certain professional circles, has two "historical" sources: Balint Groups and Schön's Reflective Practice. I intend to concentrate on the latter, Reflective Practice approaches. These involve a group of peers working with a facilitator, whose objective is to consider the various work contexts associated with the participants. As a result, they are involved with a "hindsight approach", so that real work situations, the way in which practitioners have carried out a contextual analysis, how this has been interpreted and the strategies which have been put in place can be understood. So, what process do these approaches enable as regards developing professional skills? How does this evaluation of practice challenge knowledge, experience and representations? Finally, if this approach indeed facilitates a change in practice, what are the constraints?
authors: Cadre supérieur de santé, Master Stratégie et Ingénierie en Formation d'Adultes, formatrice A l'Institut de formation des cadres de santé du CHU de Brest.
authors: Anne Marie
authors: AM
authors: Lagadec
mesh_terms: D003162:Competency-Based Education; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011361:Professional Competence; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013850:Thinking