More thoughts for practice

In an article I found that postulated that about how much experience really mattered in reflective practice actually cited an interesting study that had a conclusion about experienced RN's decision making vs a "novice" RN's decision making. They found in this small study that experience did not make one more reflective in their thinking about solutions but actually the experienced RN made as many mistakes in the solution as the novice RN. We in nursing talk a lot about the unspoken knowledge we have from years of experience and how difficult it is to convey to our students; this finding makes me wonder if indeed we fall back on a "cookbook" approach to conclusions more often that we think we do. Teri G