Gibbs Reflective Model for Professionalism in Health and Social Care

Health and social care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Action plan:....................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The concept of professionalism is about how a healthcare professional look as well as
behave of the care professionals when they face some major challenges like insufficient time
with their patients. Its concept also includes confidentiality, trust, honesty as well as the
compassion. It is a set of the values, behaviours as well as the relationships which underpins the
trust the public has in healthcare professionals. In this, it will cover the speech and language
therapists professionalism as it can generally optimizes the capability of the people to
communicate and swallow as well. It thereby enhancing the quality of life through the
development as well as implementation of the treatment to address the presenting symptoms or
the concerns of a communication. The Gibbs model offers a framework for examining
experiences and given its cyclic nature lends itself particularly well to repeated experiences and
enables an individual to learn as well as plan from the things which either went well or did not
go well. In this report it will cover a critical incident which is quite related to professionalism.
The purpose of doing this report is to analyse how the Gibbs model illustrates the critical
incident by its various types in a health and social care. This report will also cover the
effectiveness of the Gibbs reflective cyclic model as it involves the six stages which can
effectively aid to deal with a stressful situation or conditions. In this report, by applying the
Gibbs reflective model an individual can effectively examining the experiences which they are
going through so that they can positively deal or overcome the situation (Baldwin and et. al.,
2018).
MAIN BODY
The Gibbs model is generally a reflective cycle that is a self-reflection as well as a
management tool which can aid the people to think clearly and systematically as well about the
various different experiences which people have gone through during their particular activities.
In this, the reflective cycle model by Graham Gibbs which is a cyclical model containing a frame
work which generally puts concentrate on the most frequently experiences. In the Gibbs
reflective model, it generally includes the very six stages that usually aid an individual to engage
as well as mirror on a particular learning experience. It is quite easy the use of the Gibbs
reflective cyclic model and involves the stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis,
conclusion as well as an action plan. In addition to this, the reflection is generally a key factor of
the personal as well as professional improvement which the care providers are needed to

undertake to keep the pace with the modifying nature of the practices. It usually aids to ensure
the safe as well as effective evidence-based care by enabling the care providers to constantly
enhance their skills. The Gibbs reflective model generally supports a clear description of the
condition, analysis of the feelings, an evaluation of the experiences as well as an analysis to
make sense of the experiences. The stages which a reflective model would include are as detailed
below:
Description: In the description, an individual contains a chance to describe the situation
in detail. In this, the main points which would be included here can generally concerns that what
happened, person’s feelings and conclusion as well will come later on. In addition to this, the
helpful questions in the description will includes what happened, when and where did it happen,
what was the result of the situation and so on. In contrast with the critical incidence, a group of
students prepares a group presentation and in between the presentation there was some technical
glitch was there due to this the group is not able to present their presentation to their lecturer.
The group of students thought that this might deduct their marks from the presentation but the
lecture was quite good and handle the situation in a very professional manner. In this, the
educators having the profession such as Speech and Language therapists must provide the life
changing treatments as well as can encourage the students who generally have difficulties in
having effective communication. They will effectively aid the people issues in speaking as well
as properly communicating with others. Another thought process here includes that the students
might think is about their impression in front of the lecturer which was all ruin due to the
technical issue. The lecturer calls another person who is genius in handling the computer systems
glitches. The lecturer also taught the group of students to take a long breath as it might help them
to get relax. In this the outcome of the whole situation is that the lecturer taught the group of
students that in every situation, there are many challenges which a person has to face and it is
very important for the person not to work about the situations but has to handle it very calmly
(Beauchemin and et. al., 2019).
Feelings: In this, people can able to explore the feelings as well as the thoughts which an
individual generally had during the experience. The feelings can also involves how it may have
impacted the experience. In addition to this, it generally includes questions such as the feeling
during the whole situation, types of feelings before and after the situations, thoughts while
having the situation and many more. The feeling stage is all about the feelings which generally