Technical reflection for improving nursing and midwifery procedures using critical thinking in evidence based practice

Bev Taylor
Foundation Professor of Nursing; Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW

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Abstract

Australian nursing and midwifery education and practice have used key ideas relating to reflective practice since the 1980s. However, missing from that history has been a clear process for reflection when policies and procedures have required change, based on evidence generated from rigorous research and critical thinking processes.

This article describes technical reflection as a systematic process for analysing and amending work procedures in nursing and midwifery practice, by combining key ideas in the nursing process, critical thinking and reflection.

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Keywords

technical reflection; nursing procedures; midwifery procedures; critical thinking; evidence based practice

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