Developing Professional Judgement in Health Care : Learning Through the Critical Appreciation of Practice

Every day health care professionals have to make judgements which can affect patients' lives and for which they are accountable. This crucially important ability is rarely taught formally but is merely 'picked up' throughout a professional's career. This book show how practitioners can draw on their own experience of practice to improve the quality of their judgements.

List of contributors:
Dr Clive Andrewes
Institute of Health and Community Studies
Bournemouth House
Christchurch Road
BOURNEMOUTH
Dorset BH1 3LG

Ms Judith Chapman
Lecturer in Phisiotherapy
School of Occupational Therapy and Phisiotherapy
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ

Ms Christine Gallagher
Lecture in Occupational Therapy
School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ

Dr Richard Hillier
Consultant Physician and Medical Director
Countess Mountbatten House
West End
Southampton SO3 3JB

Mrs Sheila Reading
Lecturer in nursing
School of Nursing and midwifery
Southampton University

Mrs Rosemary Richardson
Lecturer
School of Nursing and Midwifery
South Academic Block, Level B
Southampton University

* Explains what professional judgement in clinical practice entails
* Contains fascinating case studies drawn from a wide range of health care professions
* Draws together the common principles and processes revealed in the cases provided