This resource paper describes definitions of reflection and reflective practice, and their historical context, methods, processes, applications, benefits, and limitations. Recommendations are made regarding policy and research agenda items for reflective practice worldwide. In the spirit of inquiry and reflection, questions for exercising thought are included throughout this document. Recommendations are made to promote reflective practice in nursing worldwide. For further information regarding reflective practice, visitors to this item may be interested in the STTI published book, Reflective practice: Transforming education and improving outcomes (2012), authored by Gwen D. Sherwood & Sara Horton-Deutsch, two of the authors listed in this resource paper. Note that by following the link you are leaving the repository website where information is freely provided and entering STTI's sales website, Nursing Knowledge International. Also note that the resource paper and the book are separate works and not dependent on one another. The link to the book is supplied as a courtesy to those repository patrons interested in further STTI resources on reflective practice written by the same authors of this resource paper. ...

Now completed, the Arista series, an initiative of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, was designed to bring the best thinking to bear in confronting health issues of global significance, providing ...

Issue being addressed: International nurse migration as a solution to nursing shortages

The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International has long recognized and supported the importance of leadership and leadership development in the nursing profession. As the honor society works to improve the ...

It is recommended that Sigma Theta Tau International accept the following list of research priorities to guide its decision-making during the next biennium: promotion of healthy communities through health promotion, disease ...

Sigma provides leadership in research to enhance the health of the world’s people. Its vision is to create a global community of nurses who lead in using scholarship to accomplish this mission. Advancing the scientific ...

Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International support for efforts to ensure access to equitable, affordable, quality health care services across the world.

In 1985, the House of Delegates voted to add international to Sigma Theta Tau's name making possible one action strategy, that of the development of an international network of nursing scholars in the Ten-Year Plan adopted ...

Issue being addressed: Global development and global knowledge network building.

Issue being addressed:Defining and/or supporting health, nursing and other positions which influence global health.