title: Critical incident: a nurse's personal reflection.
abstract: This thought-provoking article describes how a perioperative nurse of twenty years' experience reflected on a critical incident that happened in the hospital where she works, and what she gained from the experience. She also provides us with a survey of the literature pertaining to the processes underlying critical analysis.
authors.forename: Hayden
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kenzi-Sampson
mesh_terms: D001242:Assertiveness; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001364:Awareness; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics* / Q000523:psychology*; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000941:ethics*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000941:ethics*; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D028662:Principle-Based Ethics; D012649:Self Concept; D013850:Thinking