Reflective Statement On Practice

Reflection for practice in health care is predetermined skilled activity where individual evaluates and explains own ideas, feelings, behavior and intervention and provides clinical reason of its effectiveness. Reflection is a process of looking at own behavior and changing self rather than expecting others to change. While changing self, values and moral should be considered. However cultural background, workplace culture highly influences the values. For example: medical restrain: Medical restrain is restricting the movement of a patient with slight pain in order to prevent harming themselves and others. At the time when I used to work in an institution I have seen many cases of restrain. I

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

Stress can be caused by many different things within an organisation but the main causes of stress can be broken down into “six management standards” Anon (2009) how to tackle work related stress http://www.hse.gov.uk/ I used these areas to construct the chart below and discussed stress at a team meeting and asked my team to complete a Circle of influence around areas over which they felt they had no control Appendix 1 we also discussed what we / I could do to manage the six main causes of stress

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.

How each individual chooses to relieve their level of stress is a purely personal matter. Stress is reported to cost employers production and money. Certain levels of stress are beneficial to society and individuals, this allows for positive growth; although long term exposure to stress can cause ill-effects to one’s well-being. Work place stress, otherwise known as occupational stress is said by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization to be a global occurrence. It is estimated that occupational stress causes US employers a loss of up to $200 billion a year. This includes low productivity, workers’

There are a number of approaches to reflective practice. This is to ensure that learning practices are fully evaluated and not just based on thinking alone. These practices include:

Reflection has been defined as an active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge (Dewey, 1933. Dawn, 2007). Reflective practice is a process to improve quality of performance in the workplace, skills up to date throughout workplace and leads to understanding the field of care. Reflection requires self-awareness and analysis (Schutz et al, 2004). To reflect the incident, I have used Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle because it easy to follow, well structured and it allows reflection on feelings as well as actions (Pat, L., 2008). Besides that, it helps to recognize what we do well and how to interpret in the other situations.

that people who were multi- tasking during stressful condition were able to significantly reduced stress.

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.

Many believe that stress is a simple problem, however it is often misunderstood and more complex than they believe (p. 181, Griffin & Moorhead, 2014). Stress is the physiological and psychological response to excessive and usually unpleasant stimulation as well as threatening events in the environment (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). Stress appears in silent and subtle ways but this negative response affects millions of employees in all levels of all types of jobs (p. 284, Schultz and Schultz, 2010). If identified

On this subject ENGG942-Professional Practice which is an annual subject. In the first semester(Autumn) the subject deals with personality development by creating resumes, job application, mock interviews and CDR (Competency Demonstration Report) for engineers. From this I learnt to make some of my personal resumes and got an idea to create CDR. While, in second semester (spring) which related to an understanding of some of the Australian rules and regulations, developing cultural relationships with other students in group presentation and writing report.

Studies from different parts of the world made by different health organizations have showed that long working hours and pressured work lead to stress which affects the employees mentally and physically and leads indirectly to low productivity levels. Not only stress, but it can cause a lot more of health issues like extreme fatigue including sleepiness, poor concentration, and increased susceptibility to illness. These symptoms can a have a noticed effect on the general productivity of an organization.

This proposal examines the problems, effects, and solutions to workplace stress. In addition, I will explain risk assessment, management, and prevention. Finally, I will review coping strategies for workplace stress.

According to (Donaldson et al., 2008) “Work-related stress is now a major concern for employers. In the UK, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) conducted a survey with Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD, 2007), shows that work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 12.8 million lost working days per year. Around one in seven working individuals think their job