Professional Reasoning in Healthcare

Chapter 1: Synthesising Knowledge for Situated Practice: The Five Finger Framework Historical influences on professional reasoning Helen Jeffery, Susan Ryan Chapter 2: The Five Finger Framework: Development and Rationale Fostering thinking skills Henk Roodt, Linda Robertson Chapter 3: Grasping the whole: the practitioner perspective Practitioner influences on professional decisions Sian Griffiths, Kim Raey, Helen Jeffery Chapter 4: Using the expertise of others: many hands make light work Accessing knowledge from others to inform professional decisions Elizabeth Martin Chapter 5: Walking Hand in Hand: Collaborative practice Eliciting and incorporating client perspectives Helen Jeffery Chapter 6: Knowing the context like the back of your hand Contextual influences on professional reasoning Helen Jeffery Chapter 7: Letting the research lend a hand Evaluating, synthesizing and implementing knowledges Luciana Blaga, Linda Robertson Chapter 8: Synthesising World Views Transdisciplinarity and the Five Finger Framework Henk Roodt Chapter 9: Handy tools for implementing the Five Finger Framework Ideas, activities and tips for practice and education settings

Helen Jeffrey is Principal Lecturer at Otago Polytechnic, Te Pūkenga, New Zealand.

Linda Robertson is Emeritus Associate Professor at Otago Polytechnic, Te Pūkenga, New Zealand.

Jan Hendrik Roodt is Academic Facilitator, Te Pūkenga, New Zealand, and Director of Polar Analytics, Finland.

Susan Ryan is Professor Emerita at University College Cork, Ireland.

An essential tool and a great insight to the decision-making skills that health professionals go through on a daily basis - a must read for all practitioners, new and seasoned!
 
Lara Gallichan BSc Hons, Speech Language Therapist, NZSTA
 

Written in a clear and accessible manner, there is no doubt this book will be an invaluable resource for students, clinicians, and teachers alike. By providing real-world examples, the reader easily appreciates the value of the Five Finger Framework and how it can improve their professional reasoning and practice. This book should be a compulsory reading for all students, and I would highly recommend it to all practising healthcare workers.
 
Dr Ruth Jeffery PhD, MSc, PGDip Med Rad Sci (NM), LLB(Hons), BA, BSc, NZDMI.
 

The ability to critically reflect upon the way that professional reasoning and judgement occurs is pivotal and is profoundly ethical for practice, research, and leadership.
 
Amongst the unique features of this text is the introduction of the Five Finger Framework to assist lifelong learners to comprehensively problem pose and problem solve. This resonates well with situated learning with its focus upon context, interpersonal relationships and shared decision making.
 
The book is culturally aware, transdisciplinary and has the potential to become a core text for learners at all levels of education particularly for those within practice-based education and mentorship relationships.
 
Dr Sheena E.E.Blair Dip OT, M.Ed, ED, FRCOT
 

Thanks for offering real, concrete, and doable approaches for improving professional reasoning.... using real stories of real practitioners to show how this works in practice.... broadening the views on client and culture.... In short, thanks for "handing us" the Five Finger Framework. It will work for students, practitioners, educators, and scholars. I would adopt it in a heartbeat if I were still teaching!
 
Barbara A.