(PDF) Reflection in Healthcare

Running head: REFLECTION IN HEALTHCARE
REFLECTION IN HEALTHCARE
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Interdisciplinary teamwork is one of the most important models that help in delivering
high quality care to patients and their family members. Teamwork in the domain of healthcare
can be defined as two or more people who interact interdependently with a common purpose and
thereby is seen to work towards betterment of the quality of life of the patient. moreover, teams
are mainly seen to work towards measurable goals which help in benefitting from leadership
that in turn helps to maintain stability while encouraging honest discussion and hence problem
solving (Nacarella et al. 2017). Teamwork is mainly seen to employ the practice of collaboration
as well as enhanced communication. These help to expand the traditional roles of the healthcare
workers and thereby to make decisions that work towards the common goals. Healthcare in turn
is therefore called to be a multidisciplinary profession in which doctors, nurses, healthcare
experts from different backgrounds are seen to communicate and act along with the patients and
the caregivers to ensure quality life of the patients (Coyne et al. 2016). Often in many cases, it is
seen that failure of effective teamwork result patients and their family members to suffer more.
Patients may be seen to be remaining hospitalised for more than the stipulated time, readmission
of the patients, preventable deaths, medication error effects and many others. Again, there are
examples where effective teamwork has helped patient to recover back to a fitter life with proper
activities of daily living (Strong et al. 2016). Patients were even heard to say that they feel fitter
than before they were diagnosed with the disorder. Therefore, effective teamwork is indeed seen
to be of higher importance for error free high quality safe care to patients by the
multidisciplinary teams for curing the patient. the assignment will mainly focus on the important
aspects of teamwork through an effective reflection through Gibbs cycle. It mainly includes
important steps like description of the event, feelings derived from the event as well as

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evaluation of the event. It would also contain analysis of the event, conclusion and thereby action
plan for the event.
Description:
We were given the responsibility of conducting a role-play session that comprised of eight
important persons who needed to work in as a team for the assignment. We were supposed to
conduct a role-play of caring for a patient named Valerie who was affected by Alzheimer’s and
her husband David was the main carer of the person. I was provided the role of David who
usually conducted all the caring activities of the patient named Valerie. The other members were
seen to be district nurses, occupational therapist, physiotherapist as well as registrar. The role-
play assignment had helped to understand a large number of important factors that are very
important in the working of the multidisciplinary team member. At first we were excited about
the assignment. However, we did not have any kind of planning to proceed with the assignment.
One evening, we decided to sit together and plan the ways by which we would be presenting our
assignment. However, on the very day, two of the members did not arrive and even did not
inform us. The rest of the members who arrived in the meeting became demotivated as they
thought that all the members are not responsible enough to attend the very first meeting of the
assignment. However, we had to start the meeting with the present members as time was very
short and we had to complete large number of activities within the very short time. however,
after the meeting began, we saw that none of the members where supporting each other’s views
and they were very adamant in putting their own views. they wanted their own suggestions to be
selected for the presentation and role play and did not like to hear about the others. One of the
members become so frustrated that he left the place as his suggestions were not selected by the
team. The rest of the members tried their based to to come up with different suggestions but at

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the same time they were overriding other suggestions and trying to put forward their own
suggestions. None of the members were active listeners and did not provide time for the other
members to complete the strategy that each was trying to say. The entire meeting was not fruitful
as we could not reach to a particular point and the present members were frustrated. however I
tried my best to make all the members motivated but none of them tried to handle the present
situation effectively. I gave the duty to one of the friend who was to call the different members
and finalize the time of the next meeting. However, many members who did not turn out on the
next meeting. When the reason was asked for the absence, some of the members stated that they
were not even informed. Therefore, blame game started and everyone was blaming each other
and that also resulted in the failure of the next meeting. there arose many situations while
practicing together where one of the members argued with another members and both of them
left the practice session without even making the other persons know about the causes. All these
demoralized us to a great extent and we become quite concerned about how the role play will
finally take place. As days were coming closer, most of the members were seen to be stressed as
they were not sure about how the other persons would be collaborating with them when they
would be presenting their rolls. They were concerned about how improper act by the other
members would affect their own roles as well. However, the work that was represented finally
did not go well as many important lines were missed and none of the members could provide
their best performance. It was after the incident that I went to the mentor and discussed about the
entire scenario that took place in the entire practice sessions. He pointed out a number of issues
which I could not realise at first. It was only after his detailed analysis of the situation which
made me understand the very mistakes that we made while planning and conducting teamwork to
exhibit our performance