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Reflective practice.

C Nash
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Christine Nash exemplifies reflective practice as a frequently used but infrequently defined concept in nursing (Jarvis 1992), with intuition seldom granted legitimacy as a sound approach to clinical judgement (Benner and Tanner 1987). She follows with a personal account of how she used reflective practice and intuitive skills in reassessing an A&E attender.

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C Nash. 1999. Reflective practice.. https://doi.org/10.7748/en1999.03.6.10.14.c1230

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