Reflection is a process which helps you gain insight into your professional practise by thinking analytically about any element of it. The insights developed, and lessons learned, can be applied to maintain good practice and can also lead to developments and improvements for both the professional and their service users. Different people learn in different ways and while one person may learn by reflecting on a positive outcome, another may find it most useful to focus on a situation they found challenging. It is important that reflection is done in the way that suits you best to provide the greatest benefit. A central objective of higher education is the development of critical-thinking skills and propensities. Within the health professions, the importance of critical thinking is clear: practitioners must make numerous complex decisions affecting patient care, frequently based upon incomplete or imperfect information. Thus, practitioners must be able to extrapolate, interpolate, and make reasoned, defensible judgments based upon the best available information.

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