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- Title
Reflecting on clinical practice: hectoring talk or reality?
- Authors
Carr, Eloise C. J.
- Abstract
• Reflection can be seen as a useful tool to enable the practitioner to explore the everyday world of clinical practice. This paper reviews the background to reflection and its relevance to nursing in reducing the theory — practice gap and its role in generating theory from practice. • Exemplars from clinical practice are reflected upon and Carper's (1978) 'Patterns of Knowing' are used as a framework to identify nursing knowledge embedded in practice. • The process of reflection in critically discussed in the author's experience.
- Subjects
PHYSICIAN practice patterns; PHYSICIANS; NARRATIVE medicine; NURSING; CLINICAL pharmacology
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Nursing (Wiley-Blackwell), 1996, Vol 5, Issue 5, p289
- ISSN
0962-1067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jocn.1996.5.5.289