Background The assessment of nursing students' nursing competence is a matter of concern
worldwide and the complexity of assessing students' clinical competence has challenged …

Pharmacy students require critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to integrate theory
learned in the classroom with the complexities of practice, yet many pharmacy students fall …

There is an increasing focus on the student as the nexus of integrating classroom and
workplace learning. In the university context students are learners and in the workplace …

Background: Safe patient care relies on the ability of nurses to make timely, sound clinical
judgments, yet new nurse graduates are underprepared. Nurse educators must take action …

Objective To determine the effectiveness of integrating reflective practice activities into a
second-year undergraduate pharmacy curriculum and their impact on reflective thinking …

The relationship between supervisors and students in work-based clinical settings is
complex, but critical to the appropriate development of the learner. This study investigated …

Aim This paper reports on an analysis of the concept of reflective practice. Background
Reflective practice, a concept borrowed from the field of education, is widely used in nursing …

This chapter outlines the origins of the concept of deliberate professional and frames it
within a discussion of notions of 'professional','deliberate'and 'practice'. We suggest reasons …

The goal of the article is to find out the challenges of grading in student self and peer-
assessment from teachers' and students' perspectives and to suggest ways to cope with …

Critical thinking can be used for many different purposes. For example, it can be used to
develop technico-instrumental, specialized expert knowledge, and it can also be used to …