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Reflective practice is frequently utilised throughout nursing care. It allows the healthcare professional to explore their past and present experiences, their concepts of current practice and enables the ability of identifying means to enhance ongoing development (Levett-Jones & Bourgeois 2007, p. 117). Mann, Gordon & Macleod (2007, p. 595) highlights that current healthcare professionals must function in complex clinical systems. In order to do so must activate their own awareness to cert...