title: Technical reflection for improving nursing and midwifery procedures using critical thinking in evidence based practice.
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, critical thinking and reflection.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Health Care Practices, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales.
authors.forename: Bev
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D016294:Models, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009736:Nursing Process; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013850:Thinking; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*