Self Awareness

Self-awareness about their responses and contextual
factors.
- Is the process of understanding one’s - Putting down your “bags”
own beliefs, thoughts, motivation,
 Reflective Phase:
biases and limitations and recognizing
- This involves comparison of the
how they affect others.
narrative with the nurse beliefs biases
- The process of understanding others
and knowledge. This deepens the
begins with understanding the self. We
discussion beyond, “what happened”
use the concept of self when we want
description. This involves the
to convey our uniqueness as a human
identification of the nurse’s knowledge
being. Self-awareness is about knowing
base, values and belief system allows
how you are going to respond to
the identification of gaps in knowledge
specific situations, your value,
as well as previously unexamined
attitudes towards people and
beliefs about the situation.
situations and knowing how your
 Emancipatory Phase:
human needs might manifest in your
- This allows the nurse to identify
work.
differences between intentions and
- (Evanz, nizette and O’Brien, 2017)
actions, thoughts or feelings, values and
Tchiki Davis, Ph.D. 2019 practice. This allows for self-critiques
learning and change. It allows for the
- Increasing self-awareness of false greater development of greater
attitudes or inappropriate behaviors understanding of the influence of the
requires peace of mind, time, attention context on the nurse’s action
and focus. Knowing ahead of time that - You are now looking forward to become
we can indeed change in positive ways a better person.
through deeper self-awareness makes it - Go for greater development, and
worth working on those personal understanding of the self.
qualities we most value. But first we Johari Window
must look within ourselves through self- - A useful technique for discovering blind
examination to see what’s there, which spots. This was created in 1955 by
is often less obvious than we think. Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. The
model is used to help individuals better
Developing reflective practices for self-
understand themselves and how they
awareness
are perceived by others. The window
 Descriptive Phase: consists of four segments (or panes) of
- The nurse creates descriptive narratives human interaction: open, hidden, blind
of specific situations. The narratives and unknown
description of actions, thoughts and  Open self (Quadrant 1)-
feelings as well as the description of the information about you that both you
situation, the limitation however is and others know
when the nurses tend to be selective
 Blind self (Quadrant 2)- information, which the individual
information about you that you don’t choose to keep hidden. Feelings,
know but others do know ambitions, dreams and opinions may be
 Hidden self (Quadrant 3)- withheld from the group by the
information about you that you know individual out of fear of negative
but others don’t know reaction. Once the individual trusts
 Unknown self (Quadrant 4)- others they may choose to reveal some
information about you that neither you of their hidden information.
nor others know. Unknown self
Open - The last window of information is
- The first pane in the window is referred referred to as simply unknown. This
as “open-arena”. This quadrant includes information, skills, behavior,
represents the actions, behaviors and etc that are unknown to the individual
information that are known to the and to others. This includes
individual and those around them. This subconscious information that no one is
information is public and made aware of such as early childhood
available through communication and memories, undiscovered talents, etc.
exchanges between the individual and
others. This includes information, facts,
skills and attitude- anything that is
public knowledge
Blind
- The second quadrant is referred to as
blind or blind spot. Information in this
area is particularly useful in 360 reviews
for personal and professional
development. Actions and behaviors in
the blind area are known to others, but
the individual is not aware of them. The
information in the blind spot can be
positive or negative and include hidden
strengths or areas for development.
The blind spots that are discovered in a
360 evaluation give great insight into
how others perceive the individual,
which forms the starting point for
development.
Hidden
- The third quadrant is referred to as
hidden or façade. This information is
known to the individual, but not known
to anyone else. It may consist of private

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