Role of Theories of Reflection in Developing Reflective Practices

The Health Care Professional

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Role of theories of reflection in developing reflective practices.................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Critical reflective analysis through application of a reflective model.........................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Critical incident reflective analysis and application of reflective model to produce a SMART
Action Plan..................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Reflective practices play an important part in an individual life, where critically describing an
incident, aid in reflecting what goes right and which thing needs to be improve. In health care
sector, it is essential for every professional to use such practices (Schriver, Buus and Rossen,
2019). This would help in analysing the way, a challenging task is performed, to evaluate
possible alternatives that could be used for handling the same situation in future. Under this
report, a study is conducted on importance and role of reflective practices in enhancing
professional skills. As I am associated within health and social care field, so, such practices are
going to use for critically reflecting the past experience. Reflective model is also utilised under
present report for producing a SMART plan for development of professionalism.
TASK 1
Role of theories of reflection in developing reflective practices
In health and social care, where same situation can be occurred various times, related to
critical condition of patients, group work and more. Therefore, reflection is considered as one the
good practices for continuous development of professionalism (Bennett-Levy, 2019). It helps in
underpinning the past experience to gain an insight what have done to handle a critical situation.
Through this process, where mistakes have been done can be evaluated, so that in future, if same
condition will repeat then, better actions could be taken. For this purpose, a number of reflective
models or theories can be applied to closely linking with past experience, to make decision for
future improvement in medical services. Some reflective theories are described as below –
Kolb's Reflective Model:
This reflection model was proposed by David Kolb, that helps in analysing past
experience with step-by-step description (Roberts, Lindsey and Limon, 2019). For this purpose,
four main stages have been given under Kolb’s model, that highlight the actions as well as
conclude efficiency of results in following way –
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