Reflecting Upon Practice Experiences And Relate From The Six Core Fundamental Values

In this task, I will look at the seven principles of the Care Value Base. The Care Value Base is a Code of Practice which care workers follow and must apply a level of care to service users according to the Care Value Base. I will look at one particular care setting, which will be a hospital, to investigate how they provide a high quality of care according to the Care Value Base. While on work placement at a hospital, I learnt valuable information on how a hospital follows the guidelines of the Care Value Base when caring for service users.

THE IMPORTANCE OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE This essay will discuss the Importance of Reflective Practice within the health & social care. It will look at why using frameworks models such as (Gibbs 1988) can attribute to professional development and how new important recommendations on Reflection and Reflective Practice from Governing Bodies such as the NMC were influenced following the (Francis Report 2012). “Reflection is the personal exploration of your own thoughts and actions; it is about thinking things over, which will often reveal anxieties, errors, and weakness as well as strengths and successes” (Boyd and Fales 1983, p19). Reflective practice is an important act in which people, recall their experience's, absorb

The NHS have 6 core nursing values, launched by England’s chief nursing officer, Jane Cummings, after the Mid-Staffordshire disaster. These 6C’s were put into place to reinforce holistic nursing (Delves-Yates, C. 2015), ensure that everybody within the National Health Service is doing everything possible to ensure the best possible service for the patients, and to ensure that patients were put at the heart of everything healthcare professionals do (Watterson, L. 2013). The 6 C’s include care, compassion, competence, commitment, courage and communication. All six of the 6C’S are all fundamental values when it comes to healthcare, however out of these six, the three that I have chosen to write about are communication, compassion and courage. I have chosen these three as I believe that they are the most imperative when it comes to delivering high-quality care for the patients or service users.

Central to this, these policies provide us with the values and behaviours that should underpin care performed by every nurse when seeing to patients. The Compassion in Care guidelines in force the 6 C’s which should be instilled in every nurses care giving.

The purpose of this essay is to reflect on my personal role in the inter-professional team and the delivery of healthcare that I have encountered during my duty as a health care assistant in one of the hospitals here in England. In accordance with the NMC (2002) Code of professional conduct, confidentiality shall be maintained and all names have been changed to protect identity. The purpose of reflection as stated by John's (1995) is to promote desirable practice through the practitioner's understanding and learning about his/her lived experiences. I have decided to reflect upon an incident with the nurse in charge in one of my shifts and in order to structure my reflection I

During my clinical placement, I have done the nursing standard 2 which is engaging in therapeutic and professional relationships. An example of one event in my placement where I have done this standard is when doing interviews in my two-week community placement at the Community Rehabilitation in Armadale Hospital. For my reflection, I will be using the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1988).

The following assignment will discuss and analyse a prescribing episode, within practice, furthermore will outline safe prescribing from the Nurse Prescribing Formulary (NPF, 2013-2015).To be able to analyse and reflect on my new role as Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber (CPNP) I will use Gibbs (1988) reflective model and a structure that will allow the use of a consultation model (Appendix1,Fig1).

Within this assignment I will utilise the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards of Proficiency (NMC 2004a) for entry to the register to critically reflect upon my portfolio of evidence in order to demonstrate that I am fit to practice. In doing this I will discuss the terms ‘proficiency’ and ‘reflection’. I will identify the model of reflection I am going to use within this assignment and will give a rationale for this choice. For each domain I will provide a critically analysed reflection, using evidence taken from my portfolio. For each domain I will demonstrate what learning has taken place, identifying a learning outcome and action plan from each reflection.

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

This reflective assignment will focus on one of the 6C’s related to nursing practice, personal experiences and how I have improved in confidence and gained further development in the different fields of nursing as my role of a student nurse. Jane Cummings introduced the 6C’s values as care, courage, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment. These are an implementation of the vision and strategy for Nurses, Midwives and Care staff, set out in the national nursing strategy (Department of Health 2012). The 6C’s came into practice in 2012 as part of England’s national nursing strategy, however there have been mixed responses, as to whether the 6C’s have actually focused on nursing care or an individual’s nurses ability to provide good quality patient care (Merrifield, 2015).

INTRODUCTION Reflection brings back past experiences to help an individual develop their knowledge. It is usually linked to having a better understanding of what has occurred and why. Reflection gives an individual the opportunity to reflect on how previous experiences might be improved, and get feedback from an objective and a subjective point of view (Liobe et al 2016:7). With the new system of Revalidation, the NMC (2015) states that reflection and reflective practice are sued to improve personal and professional development by helping nurses to reflect on feedback received from patients, colleagues and others.

Professional nurses are encouraged to engage in reflection because nursing knowledge is embedded in practical experiences (Stein-Parbury, 2000). The reasons why reflection is important in nursing includes; firstly, reflection challenges assumptions. Price and Harrington (2010), pointed this out especially as nurses today have greater autonomy and more responsibility. Intriguingly, Driscoll (2007) added that reflective practice is an opportunity to capture, examine and challenge some set patterns of working and such examination might lead to the realization that there is a need for change. One can consider his suggestion a tool to Argyris and Schön’s (1974) statement that practitioners often practice at less than effective levels because they

As higher standards expected are from the public and higher patient safety demands are expected from health boards, therefore, there is a need for a way of measuring standards of practice which can be achieved through active thinking in a clinical environment brought about by critical reflection (Rolfe, Jasper & Freshwater 2011). Reflection has become such a key component in the role of a nurse that the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have seen it fit to include it in their professional code of conduct the Code: Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nurses and Midwives, hereafter referred to as the Code (Nursing & Midwifery Council [NMC], 2015). With reflection being a vital skill for nurses to continue their professional development (Parrish & Crookes, 2013), an analysis of what it means to reflect within nursing is needed by all who intend to enter the profession to ensure its effective use is applied.

Providing patient-centered care is the first core competency, and it is very important in nursing. The IOM believed that respecting the patients 'personal beliefs, educating the patient about ways to prevent disease, being able to use active listening are some of the main characteristics of a patient-centered care. Nurses have the responsibility to take good care of their patients. Every patient need to be considered as a whole and cared for by focusing on their individual needs. (Finkelman, 2010, p .267)

Through inclusive and compassionate relationships they are to serve patients with Christ-like compassion (Holy Cross Hospital, 2015). Nurses support the quality of life through improving factors and caring for the sick and dying. The primary focus of a nurse is to their patients. With sound ethical, moral standards and core values they serve their patients with a faithful heart. Not only compelling to the institution, but also the public. In the nursing profession, core values and standards of ethics commensurate together to deal with issues within health care. They are to treat patients with respect and commit themselves as advocates for the well-being of their patients. Furthermore, nurses consistency to uplift and build a moral environment contribute to the institution overall growth