[Formalization of a training method to develop reflective practice and emotion skills in nursing students]

among health professional skills, emotion skills and reflective practice are very important. This article proposes a reflection on a training method used in a French nursing school. The method aims to develop reflective practice and emotion skills of nursing students.

the training method was experimented with fifteen students. During an individual interview, the students were invited to describe a situation loaded emotionally that they lived in clinical internship. The trainer boosted the student from a plan drawn on the base of his speech so that the student deepens his reflection. After experimentation, the trainer analysed his own practice using the method. Students' opinion and the trainer's logbook were analysed.

the students declare to have improved their capacity for analysing, their self-knowledge and their emotional skills. They appreciated the technique and the help brought by the plan. All students expressed feelings. The analysis allowed specifying the stages, principles and foundations of the method as well as the conditions of its implementation. The transfer of the technique with the nurse trainers is described.

the analysis of the training method testifies of its relevance to help nursing students to realize a reflective practice from an emotional clinical care. More research is needed to assess its effects and limitations.