title: Reflective practice: a critical incident.
abstract: Reflection identifies one's professional capabilities, increases knowledge of self and improves understanding and management of patients. Conducting reflective practice is conducive to professional development and growth. A complex medical and nursing management of a psychiatric emergency is illustrated through this critical incident. Psychiatric nurses play a key role in deescalating the aggressive behaviour of psychotic patients. Through reflection, the basic tools of psychiatric nurses are reviewed and the prime components of psychiatric therapy are discussed.
authors.affiliation: New Graduate Program, Concord Repatriation Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales.
authors.forename: J X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Lian
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D009736:Nursing Process; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012647:Self-Assessment