Reflective practice is a paper requirement of your career progression in health care. However, if done properly, it can greatly improve your skills as a health care provider. This article provides some structure to reflective practice to allow a health care provider to engage more with reflective practice and get more out of the experience.

Reflection has attracted considerable attention in recent years. However there are very little systems that fully support reflective programming and are in real use. In this paper we try to understand the reasons for this lacking acceptance of fully reflective systems and explain how our own reflective Java system, metaXa, tries to tackle some of these problems.

Reflective thinking based on experiential learning is a key skill for the professional engineer. The use of a reflective learning journal is thought to be a valuable tool in developing ‘reflexivity’. An evaluation was undertaken of student perceptions of an on-line reflective journal introduced into an engineering management study unit.

Reflective journals have been used widely in teacher education programs to promote reflective thinking (Freidus, 1998; Carter & Francis, 2000; Yost, Senter & ForlenzoBailey, 2000). Smyth (1992) advocated that posing a series of questions to be answered in written journals could enhance reflective thinking. It was for this reason that reflective responses to directed questions were introduced in...

In this paper, we are concerned with knowledge workers that want or need to improve their work performance, and choose to do so by reflective learning. These knowledge workers think back to own work experiences, critically re-evaluate them, and distil lessons learned relevant to their own work practice. We highlight in this work the functions of sharing own work experiences, observations and in...

Recent attention has focused on the development of reflective teachers. Teacher educators have developed and used several reflective strategies, programs, and models to enhance preservice and in-service teachers' reflective abilities. The purpose of this article is to describe and comment on the different perspectives regarding theory and research on reflective teaching. This paper focused on t...

W e report a series of studies of historical reasoning among professional observers of world politics. The correlational studies demonstrate that experts with strong theoretical commitments to a covering law and cognitive-stylistic preferences for explanatory closure are more likely to reject close-call counterfactuals that imply that “already explained” historical outcomes could easily have ta...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists oppose this assignment for several reasons, concentrating on the harm the intrusion of societal arguments would inflict on doctor-patient relations. It is argued that these arguments rest on a distinc...

Much of philosophical logic and all of philosophy of language make empirical claims about the vernacular natural language. They presume semantics under which ‘and’ and ‘or’ are related by the dually paired distributive and absorption laws. However, at least one of each pair of laws fails in the vernacular. ‘Implicature’-based auxiliary theories associated with the programme of H.P. Grice do not...

The Free Electron Laser (FEL) can be considered a laser, even though the underlying emission process does not occur in an atomic or a molecular system, with population inversion, but in a relativistic electron beam, passing through the magnetic field of an undulator. Several parameters (such as gain, saturation intensity, etc.) are common to both devices and this allows a unified description. T...