Every day health care professionals have to make judgements which can affect patients' lives and for which they are accountable. This crucially important ability is rarely taught formally but is merely 'picked up' throughout a professional's career. This book show how practitioners can draw on their own experience of practice to improve the quality of their judgements. List of contributors: Dr Clive Andrewes Institute of Health and Community Studies Bournemouth House Christchurch Road Bournemouth Dorset BH1 3LG Ms; Judith Chapman Lecturer in Phisiotherapy School of Occupational Therapy and Phisiotherapy University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ; Ms Christine Gallagher Lecture in Occupational Therapy School of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ; Dr Richard Hillier Consultant Physician and Medical Director Countess Mountbatten House West End Southampton SO3 3JB; and, Mrs Sheila Reading Lecturer in nursing School of Nursing and midwifery Southampton University Mrs Rosemary Richardson Lecturer School of Nursing and Midwifery South Academic Block, Level B Southampton University.