Reflection for Healthcare Professionals

Running head: REFLECTION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
REFLECTION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
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Introduction
Health care professionals need to understand their professional aspects and this process
needs to be done on the basis of critical reflective anlaysis. The reflective analysis is the process
in which individuals understand, justify and explain their own experience and perceptions. The
reflection process depends on the basically depends on the objective, reflective, interpretative
and the decisional stages (Villalba et al. 2018). All these stages could be justified by the Gibb’s
reflective cycle which has five aspects such as the description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion
and action. Thus it can clearly be seen that the description is the objective, feelings is the
reflective and the evaluation is the interpretative aspect. Whereas, the decisional stage justified
by the conclusion and the action step of the Gibb’s reflective cycle. However, other than the
Gibb’s reflective cycles that can be useful in justifying the reflective analysis such as Flanagan
critical incident model (Tyreman 2018). In the following sections the Gibb’s reflective cycle and
an alternative reflective model would be discussed on the basis of health care presentation flaws
of our group and the legislative act would also be discussed that states the importance of the
reflection for the health care professionals. The whole critical incident would also be discussed
in the following sections as well.
TASK 1
Reflection is an aspect which helps the individuals to determine the objectives of one
particular incident and the positive outcomes and also the flaws from their own end. Thus
reflection could be stated as the critical aspect of evaluation of the experience and the importance
of this factor can also be justified by the Care Act 2014 as this legislative act states the

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importance of the reflection on the basis of the health care for the social or community basis
(Legislation.gov.uk, 2019). The act also depicts that the reflection is a factor that helps in the
assessment and the justification of the experience in any health care project. On the basis of
reflection a person can possibly depict the positive outcomes of any experience along with the
flaws of the incident and that helps in the knowledge and the proper counter action assessment
for any individual. In case of the health care professionals reflection is a very important factor
help in their experience gathering and also helps in their knowledge development for further
health care programs. Reflection depends on the four stages that are the objective, reflective,
interpretative and decisional (Cottrell 2017). All these aspects have different importance as
objective is the assessment of the incidence and the reflective factor is the feelings of the
individual that depicts their own point of view about the incidence and it also depicts the
experience of the individual. Whereas the interpretative factor is fully dependent on the
interpretation or evaluation of the incidents and the feelings of the individual and on the basis of
this evaluation an individual makes decision for further actions and recommendations as well.
On the basis of these factors the importance of reflection in the field of health care profession
can be understood. Other than these factors the reflection also helps in the understanding of the
critical incidents as well and also highlight the factors that affected the situation and the needed
counter measures which can be used in the future similar cases. However, there are several
disadvantages of the reflective analysis as there are motivational factors for the individuals for
work on a reflection procedure. Other than the motivational factors there are organizational
barriers that affect the reflection process as well and the time frame also an affecter of the
reflection analysis (Buhaug 2015). In order to do a reflection process an individual needs to
overcome all these negative affecters and the process in which they can effectively assess the

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incident and reflect on the factors that have taken place in the process. However, the decision
making process would be the factor that complements the reflection analysis and if there is no
further recommendation from the knowledge gathered by the reflection analysis then the
reflection analysis is incomplete and ineffective as well. Despite of these negative factors the
reflective analysis is an important aspect and needed to be considered by every health care
professional in order to address all the factors that can be included in the future health care
programs. The Care Act 2014 also needed to be considered as this legislative act refers to the
needs of the reflective analysis in every health care program (Lutfiyya, Brandt and Cerra 2016).
TASK 2
Here we were a team of four health care professionals working on a presentation about
the multidisciplinary team in the health care profession. We have made the presentation and at
the time of the presentation my colleagues were not focused enough to the video recording and
also to the presentation thus we used two extra minutes than the provided time for our
presentation. Other than my colleagues the operator of the presentation slides were also not
focused and moving from the post he was allocated thus the slide control also affected by means
of time. All these factors that happened at the time of the presentation impacted in various ways
and from the incident we can learn that the time management and focus on the work is needed as
the utmost importance is the effectiveness of the task and the given time frame in which the task
must be completed. On the basis of this incident it can be stated that here the need of the analysis
of the flaws from our end is a very important aspect in order to avoid this type of incidents in
future projects and devise other ways that will help us in better collaboration and help us to do
the programs in a flawless way. This presentation incident helped us to reflect on the most