Reflective Practice: Moving Intention into Action

Reflective Practice in Nursing Care

Introduction: Reflective practice is a generic term for intellectual and affective activities that create new understanding and appreciation of experiences. Various studies have emphasized on the benefits of reflection in nursing. This article reviewed benefits and barriers of reflective practice in nursing. Methods: In this review article, library references, some scientific databases (Elsevi...

Finding Our Way into the Hall of Mirrors: Combining Action Science and Reflective Practice

Moving research knowledge into dental hygiene practice.

Dental hygiene, as an emerging profession, needs to increase the number of intervention studies that identify improvements in oral health outcomes for clients. Historically, dental hygiene studies have typically been atheoretical, but the use of theoretical frameworks to guide these studies will increase their meaningfulness. Rogers' theory of diffusion of innovations has been used to study res...

Moving Research From the Bedside Into Practice.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is firmly entrenched in the lexicon of physical therapist practice,1,2 but beliefs about how best to translate scientific evidence into clinical practice are far from settled. There are major gaps in our scientific knowledge; however, even more disturbing is the fact that an enormous amount of existing scientific knowledge remains unused in practice. As noted in th...

Moving HIV PrEP from research into practice.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV has been studied in fi ve large and rigorous randomised controlled trials, three of which showed effi cacy, but several questions remain. Is PrEP a useful public health intervention? Will those most at-risk use it? Will they adhere to it? What is its real-world safety profi le? And will it reduce or increase high-risk sexual behaviour and HIV incidence? I...