Reflective Practice And Professional Development

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

In this essay I intend to reflect upon a clinical skill, which I have learned and become competent in practicing. I will apply the Gibbs model to the chosen skill throughout the essay to allow for critical thought. Gibbs model includes the areas of description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. (Gibbs, 1988)

I am writing this reflective journal in accordance with the CNO`s reflective practice standards and the LEARN model. Though my time on 600A has only just begun I have learned so much. Like many second year students, this is my first experience in the hospital. It has proven to be much different than my previous clinical experiences. My time with my first client stands out in my mind as a key learning experience.

Reflective practice is constantly changing as it adds in the learning gained from experiences. Reflective practice links events together and compares what is already known and make a decisions on the basis of this comparison. Reflective practice helps nurses to become expert practitioners due to the fact it operates from a deep understanding of the total events. Reflective practice could also be beneficial for patients and service users as it gives better standards of patient safety and is focused on individual and also evidence based care derived from their needs.

To properly plan and develop personal and professional development for the future, it is necessary to reflect on personal preferences, goals, past experiences, future goals, and motivation. The purpose of this paper is to provide a self-assessment through self-reflection and professional development planning in my health care career. I isolate my top three interests in organizational settings, discuss the importance of leadership, reflect on my motivations, cognition and organizational behavior, strategic planning and marketing, explore unfamiliar healthcare professions, review the importance of quality improvement and teamwork, uncover health disparities, and finally, reflect on health ethics. This will help me thoroughly

Throughout this essay I will discuss the definition of reflection and explain why reflective practice is used by a professional body to ensure the continuation of professional development. In this essay I will also discuss the role of reflection in the provision of quality of care, and finally I will describe 1 model of reflection and how I can apply this model in my own practice. Reflection can be described as reviewing experiences from your practice. In order to reflect you describe the experience or event, analyse what you feel worked well, as not all experiences will be bad and also what didn’t work well, then evaluate. This process allows you to make sense of the experience, be accountable for your own actions, what where your strengths

I find reflective practice useful both personally and professionally. When I step back, observe and reflect helps me become more self-aware and understand my own and others’ emotions. I would be able to see things from different angles. When working with families, it will help to learn how to empathize and develop a better understanding of other people. I learn to better communicate through a better understanding of behavior which will help me build better relationships with families. To support children's continuous learning, I begin to ponder and question about children’s engagement in learning and what/how we can do to improve our teaching methods to meet the needs of all the children. In the see/think/wonder thinking has changed the way

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

Reflective Practice, according to Howatson – Jones (2013), is “defined as a process that develops understanding of what it means to be a practitioner and makes the link between theory and practice through the practitioner consciously thinking through the experience (Howatson – Jones, 2013, p8). Reflective Practice is useful tool for health professionals to help them continue learning career and enable them to learn and improve from their own professional experiences (Bright Knowledge, 2014 p1). This essay will give an overview of the benefits of implementing Reflective Practice and how it improves patient care and outcomes and how it promotes nurses to keep up to date with current professional skills. The essay will look at some possible limitations

Introduction Reflection assessment or reflective practice a central skill for nursing practitioners. It can help nurses to handle situations and improve care. Engaging in systematic reflection assessment qualifies nurses to cope with personal and professional effects of addressing vital wellbeing and health requirements on a quotidian basis. It is extensively debated that clinical apprentices should learn to become reflective practitioners and reflective assessment plays a key part in this. There are also many challenges of assessing reflection.

Reflective practice is when you think about the work you have done and how well it went,

The purpose of this “Purpose, Reflective Practice, and Career Goals” paper is to reflect on how the Education Specialist program in Leadership in Educational Administration will help me to build upon my leadership skills and provide me with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively lead a school district dedicated to improving student achievement. In this paper, I explain how the program aligns with my career goals of becoming a school district superintendent and the importance of lifelong learning for educators. According to Rüprich & Urhahne (2015), teachers should set goals. I consider myself a lifelong learner with the ability to build leadership capacity and support instruction. Additionally, the Paper highlights the benefits of the program at Capella University as well as the usefulness of the available resources and the impact they will have on my learning during this journey.

A load of research has been done on learning and reflective practice and its effectiveness on the practitioners and one of the first people to research reflective Practice was Donald Schon in his book “The Reflective Practitioner” in 1983. Schon was an influential writer on reflection and had two main ways of identifying reflection and they were reflection in action and reflection on action.

Professional knowledge is no longer viewed as just consisting of a standardised, explicit and fixed knowledge base. It is now seen as knowledge which exists in use, is ethical in its use and is changed by experience.

In this text, I will retrospect to the period doing the assignment and reflect how I developed professionally and personally. The first chapter gives a review of the group assignment and presentation. We took DHL call centre as the development subject, and analyzed the importance of