Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values in HSC

Demonstrating Professional
Principles and Values in HSC

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1. The purposes of reflection in health and social care practice................................................3
P2. Models and tools used for reflection in health and social care practice................................5
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................6
P3: Practice themes which can be used to underpin reflection in learning and practice.............6
P4. Link between practice themes and other performance indicators.........................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care refers to the services provided to the needy person who has been
suffering from diseases so that patients can live their life smoothly (Hardy and et. al., 2018) . For
this report, Royal London hospital is taken for consideration which is working in the field of
providing high quality of health and social care services to the users with the aim of enhancing
the society. Different purposes of reflection in health and social care practice would be
explained. Besides this, different types of models and techniques which is used for proper
reflection will also be demonstrate. Apart from this, various practice themes would be
scrutinized and at last, link between practice theme and other form of performance indicator will
be elaborated.
TASK 1
P1. The purposes of reflection in health and social care practice
Reflective practice is the way of learning about the own practice in the health and social care so
that it would be improve in the future (Hinsliff‐Smith and et. al., 2017). Main idea behind using
reflection is to enhance the performance at the time of performing clinical practices so that better
result would be obtained in the future. Main focus of opting reflective learning is to learn from
the experience which they have gained in the mean time so that it would assist individual to
modify it with the aim of getting higher result outcomes in the future. For instance, if any doctor
has faced a incident which is new to them then they could learned from the experience they
gained from it in the first phase so that if same types of problem would get arise in the future
then it won’t be hard for them to perform the actions. Thus, better productivity and efficiency
would be achieved in the future. There are different types of value which is generated from the
reflective practices which is mentioned below with functional example of it,
Value of reflective practices
It is essential for every business in the health and social care to implement reflective
practices in the work as it assist them to identifying the strengths and weakness of the employees
working in it. Moreover it also helps in finding the problem which employees is facing so that it

would be removed by using capabilities of the individual. Different benefits which Royal
London hospital will get from reflective is given below,
Enhance innovation: With the help of reflective practices at the workplace, employees
would be able to learn from the experience they have faced in the past. By using it, it can
motivate the employees to attain innovation as next time, it would assist them to bring new ways
of solving the problem which persuades to attaining of innovation in the health and social care
sector (James, Dickinson and Struthers, 2015). For instance, by performing the same action in
the future, staff would be able to find out the ways through which less time is consumed by attain
highest potential while working. As mentioned above, by using the reflective practices,
employee would be able to identify actions which does not create any value in the final work and
eliminate it.
Increase participation: If an individual is able to implement reflective practices on their
working practices then it will also motivates them to participate in different kind of work with
the aim of attaining high performance in the future. It assist them to enhance their decision
making process by communicating with other employees so that more knowledge would be
gained from it. By increasing participation, more knowledge regarding the work would increase
which is a positive sign of future growth. For instance, if any doctor in the royal hospital is
communicating with the other doctor regarding some specific disease then it would enhance the
knowledge of doctor as more thoughts and opinions would be gathered by it.
Working environment: By implementing reflective practices at work, working environment
becomes motivating as it only focuses on increasing the knowledge of the learner so that they
can perform their roles and responsibilities with full capabilities (Lloyd-Jones, 2014) . It forces
them to become innovators, fast decision maker etc which directly impact the performance in a
positive way. Apart from this, it also motivates employees to perform harder in their work with
the aim of attaining highest potential of work in the workplace.
Apart from the point of view of hospital, there are many other advantages which
employees can get from the reflective practices which is mentioned below,
Motivation: By doing reflective practices it enhances knowledge of the worker which
assists them in doing their work more effectively and efficiently. It leads to higher motivation
and productivity of the employees which is a positive sign for professional development. For
instance, if doctor of the hospital has learned new way of treating the patients which has some