Professional Practice in Health and Social Care
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Professional practice in healthand social care for adults
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................31.1 a. Growth and development theories underpinning HSC practices .....................................31.1 b. HSC practices related to self esteem and identity ............................................................31.1 c. Loss and change theory underpinning HSC practices ......................................................41.1 d. Impact of sociological and psychological theories on HSC practitioners ........................41.1 e. Discriminatory concepts affecting practices in HSC .......................................................42.1 Role of statutory frameworks, and principles in service provisions ....................................52.2 Principles and values influencing service provision in own settings ...................................52.3 Implementing statutory frameworks ....................................................................................52.4 Supporting others to implement values within service provisions .......................................63.1 Use of evidence based practices (EBP) for informing service provision .............................63.2 Implementing EBP within own setting.................................................................................63.3 Evaluating significance of EBP in own setting ....................................................................74.1 Role of models of reflective practices ..................................................................................74.2 a Using reflection on practice ..............................................................................................74.2 b. Use of reflection in practices ............................................................................................84.3 Culture supporting reflective practices ................................................................................84.4 Encouraging others to develop reflective practices .............................................................8CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTION Health and social care (HSC) practices are defined as the set of specialist skills andknowledge so that effective health services can be improved and social as well as health wellbeing of individuals can be enhanced. The quality of the professional practices in HSC must behighly precise and accurate. These HSC practices can be improved by several approaches. Thereflective learning, underpinning theories and principles in healthcare context plays crucial rolein improving the professional practices (Norwich and Eaton, 2015). The report will analyse the impact of several theories which influences the HSCpractices. It will also discuss the significance of statutory frameworks and various HSCprinciples on health service provision. Further the study will demonstrate the examples and roleof evidence-based and reflective practices in improving the HSC outcomes. 1.1 a. Growth and development theories underpinning HSC practices The development theories provides the strong foundation for determining the rationalefor health concerns. For instance the cognitive theory describe the learning skills and ability ofindividual while the psychodynamic theories affects the behaviour pattern of an individual.During my practice at once I was attending a patient who was addictive to smoking. By applyingthe psychodynamic and cognitive theory along with other development theory I was successfulto analyse that from childhood that person was alone without emotional support. His loneliness and pain made him addictive to drugs and smoke. Thus on the basis of thisevaluation I recommended psychological assistance to him which made great improvement to hiscondition. These theories analyse the factors which are developing the behavioural disturbancesso that health professionals can provide them necessary support (Payne, 2015). 1.1 b. HSC practices related to self esteem and identity The identity of an individual describes how an individual perceives his or her existencewhile the self esteem is associated with the self worth. During my clinical practice there was acase when an adult tried to commit suicide because he was rejected by his girlfriend. It lead tobelieve him that he is not worthy and thus he should end his life. In that situation I discussedwith other team members and decided that mere medications are not sufficient. Instead thespecial therapies are also required so that his self esteem can be enhanced. This incident mademe learnt that the theories of self esteem and identity helps people to strongly withstand the
difficult situation. Thus it is vital for providing treatment of critical diseases in which strong willpower and positive attitude of patients is required (Identity and Self Esteem, 2019). 1.1 c. Loss and change theory underpinning HSC practices While providing care services to the elderly people I have observed that it is very hard forthem to adopt changes. The changes in health condition and losses in life affects the decisionmaking processes in clinical interventions (Blue and et.al., 2016). I witnessed a cancer patient.The adverse effects of therapy were enhancing her grief. Thus it was getting hard for me tocontinue the treatment because she was not ready to listen me or any other health practitioner. Atthat time I decided that palliative care are mandatory for such patients. Without understandingthe cause and relation between changes and grief I cannot analyse that if my service users areproviding positive response towards the treatment strategies or they need additional care. 1.1 d. Impact of sociological and psychological theories on HSC practitioners As a health care professional I believe that the psychology of people plays great role inaddressing social issues. I have observed people who do not consider health care approaches andpractices effective. They have strong belief that they do not require to pay attention to thechanges reflected by body. This lead to failure in diagnosis of chronic diseases on time. Oncertain social issues such as crime psychology or the advent of any rare disease are oftenanalysed from sociological perspective which make it impossible for me to treat (Using theory insocial work practice. 2012). For instance there are communities who evaluate diseases fromspiritual perspective. Such communities does not provide any cooperation during treatmentprocess. It directly influence my efficiency and accuracy in delivering the health services. 1.1 e. Discriminatory concepts affecting practices in HSC In my transition period I always faced difficulties in working with multidisciplinaryteams. Being a novice health professional I was always discriminated from other experiencedprofessionals. They always believed that since I am new to clinical practice I must not beinvolved in decision making or preparing care plan. The discriminatory factors such as culturaldifferences, gender or racial factors also affected by practice. Due to my different culture manypatient does not find it suitable to receive treatment from me. Such discrimination on culturaland gender basis always demotivate me and affect my self esteem (Chandler and et.al., 2016).However I always try that being a responsible HSC professional I never make many
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