Making Courageous Conversation in Healthcare (Part I): Designing and Evaluating Values Based Reflective Practice® Training for Healthcare Professionals in Scotland

Abstract

Values Based Reflective Practice (VBRP®) was first developed by National  Health Service (NHS) Education for Scotland in 2011 to help health and social care staff  have courageous conversations about the relationship between who they are and what  they do at work. The stated hope of VBRP® is to help staff reclaim a sense of meaning  and purpose in their professional lives, and reawaken the memory of why they chose to  work in a caring vocation. This article describes the history and development of VBRP®,  the elements of this reflective practice model, and presents the first quantitative evaluation  of VBRP® training with evidence gathered from 138 healthcare, social care, and  third sector workers. This study is the first of a two-part series; the second article (Part  II) locates VBRP® within healthcare literature concerned with “soul and role,” and it  presents further qualitative evidence for and wider discussion of the model.