Reflective Practice in Health and Social Care

Practice for England RQF
HNC & HND
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Describe the purpose of reflective practice including an explanation of why health and social
care practitioners need to be reflective practitioners...................................................................3
Describe the role of the practice themes in providing a framework for reflection.....................4
Provide a description of 2 models of reflection and the tools that can support reflection in a
table.............................................................................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Explain and reflect upon the methods you have used (reflective logs, observations
assessments) to gain feedback on your practice..........................................................................5
Assess your own performance and learning against the practice themes and other performance
indicators ....................................................................................................................................6
Evaluate your own holistic professional learning and development through practice
identifying its contribution to own journey towards a future career pathway............................7
Produce targets for the development of your own professional career pathway using your PDP
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Reflective practice is determine the study their own experiences to improve the way they
work. It is very helpful for health occupational group who want to carry on acquisition end-to-
end their lives. Attractive in meditative pattern must be help to improve the quality care give and
close the crack between activity and theory (Tom, Ewan and Mitchell, 2017). It is important in
healthcare which permit an subjective or objective to aspect at our activity with respect to alter
the choice of their performance at work. The white Gables Care Homes is a welcoming and
friendly care home offering residential memory and nursing care for those living with dementia.
This report will focused on purpose and explanation of reflective practice. It will also centred the
model of reflection and the role of practice themes. Along with this will discussed about active
and ongoing learning experiences including future career pathway.
TASK 1
Describe the purpose of reflective practice including an explanation of why health and social
care practitioners need to be reflective practitioners
Reflective practice is an formulation which modify professionals to realize how they use
their knowledge in practical determine and how they trust activity and learning in a more
effectual manner.
According to Gables Care Homes there are several purposes of reflective practice, this
theory by which traditional and modern self- transformation thoughts can be clearly determined,
expanded, refined, taught, adapted, adopted and practical for the purposes of individual
development, coaching and teaching or deep modification of company.
This a mode of reading their experiences to improve in manner they do work. It is very
beneficial for care workers who want to conveyance on learning throughout their lives. The
interaction of rumination in a huge style to raise self-assurance (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood,
2017). The purpose has immense profit in enhancing self awareness, it is a key constituent of
emotional intelligence, and in developing a better understanding of others. It also assists to gain
originative thinking skills and improve active conflict in work processes.
Reflective practice worker in Gables Care Homes, they assist to care worker in any
manner to aware them and developing their own personal ideas and guide social workers. If they
do any mistake and errors in work so the reflective practitioner help to the social workers in any
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