title: Reflective thinking: turning a critical incident into a topic for research.
abstract: Clinical nurses encounter critical incidents every day. While these may be a source of frustration they also have the potential to be turned into research projects so that problems can be examined and others can learn from them. This paper describes the reflective process used to generate a research project from a critical incident encountered in the clinical area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elliott
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D010359:Patient Readmission; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing