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• Reflection can be seen as a useful tool to enable the practitioner to explore the everyday world of clinical practice. This paper reviews the background to reflection and its relevance to nursing in reducing the theory — practice gap and its role in generating theory from practice. • Exemplars from clinical practice are reflected upon and Carper's (1978) 'Patterns of Knowing' are used as a framework to identify nursing knowledge embedded in practice. • The process of reflection in critically discussed in the author's experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The Relevance of Scholarship for Nursing Research and Practice," by A. Kitson in a 2006 issue.

Editorial. Focuses on studies of medical professionals and hospital management in managing severe pain in patients. Estimates on patients suffering from pain problems; Factors responsible for pain of poor; Role of organizational and hospital management policies in delivering effective pain management; Steps suggested to optimize the delivery of pain management.