Reflective Learning Log Template Skills for Practice 1

2,500 word Reflective Learning Log Template
Skills for Practice 1
This template MUST be used to write your reflective account of how you have prepared for practice. It should
provide a rationale for why you think you are ready to embark on your first placement. Tell us about what you
have learned about the role of a social worker, professional practice and importantly what you have learned
about yourself. Tell us about how you have developed through feedback, reading, research, guidance from
others/are developing and how you will continue to develop your learning through to your placement and
beyond. To do this you should reflect on these 2 activities that you have engaged in since commencing the
course
1. Service user/Carer interview
2. Actors interview
You should challenge yourself by digging deep to explore your own assumptions, prejudices and values.
STUDENT NAME .................................. Date ...............................
Reflective account of a significant event / learning opportunity
This log MUST DEMONSTRATE evidence of how you have met the 9 PCF domains. Use the column on the right to cross
reference the Domains and HCPC student codes of conduct/ standards that you think are well evidenced by the
practical work that you have undertaken.
You are expected to include theoretical perspectives as well as a reference list.
THE CONTEXT:
Put the reader in the picture by describing what you did and how you did it. Also make clear links
throughout the document to which domain you have met and how.
This is your introduction and what is written here should be developed later on in the reflective log.
You should also identify the reflective model that you have chosen to use to illustrate your
reflective practice. You do not need to explain what reflection is but rather show how you have
reflected on your practice.
This section should be no more than 500 words.
In this section you should List
the PCF Domains, SWE
standards, KSS that you have
met. Ensure that your
evidence is clear and
evidenced as to how you
achieved them.
I was very excited and nervous because I was going to take my first interview with
a caregiver named, Heather. Since it was my first interview, I was very afraid and
regularly thinking about my interview that how it will be, can I do this or not and
many more question like this are arose in my mind. I was worried because I did not
know how I used a impropriate word during the carer interview. I was thinking
about how expert and people will assess me and how I assess the situation of carer
during the interview. I was filled with panic, nervousness and anxiety before my
interview. First of all, I took my diary and start to prepare the list of question for
the interview. I was thinking about the condition of heather and write down the
relevant question in my diary. I did not want to any mistake so, i prepared my self
before the interview. In the next morning, I was thinking about these question &
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did not feel when it was 9:30 o'clock which is our scheduled time for interview, all
the guest were sitting on their seat. Now Heather was also ready to give her
interview. I was very confident but as I was making my introduction with heather
suddenly I felt very shaky and nervous in the beginning of interview. But I was
properly involved in my case so it help me to moved out from that situation. After
that moment, I made myself confident and tried to made the situation perfect,
which is professionally more comfortable for both. I was thinking about the carer
and realised that if I shown my nervousness then it will may be make the carer
more worry for his husband and may be creates a doubt in carer mind regarding
this interview with me. Therefore, I was trying to do my best for keeping my
anxiety in my control. So that it does not affect badly to the carer situation. In the
beginning I was propelled out from my case by my anxious feeling and I forgot to
use my hand notes frequently, which I had with me for the questioning during the
interview. Now I was trying to control my feeling and start the questioning from
the carer. First of all I tried to know her situation therefore, I asked him about the
whole incident related to her husband's aircraft accident. I noticed her during the
answering of my question, she became too emotional. The pain, what she was
feeling during that incident can seen clearly on her face. Her eyes became watery
and she was shivering to thinking about that situation. The Carl frame work model
of reflecting and the Gibbs's reflecting cycle model was used during my reflection
of interview.
REFLECTION/CRITICAL ANALYSIS:
This is an important part of your skill as a developing professional. Do not be afraid to critique yourself
or the practice environment, We are not looking for perfection, but we are looking for your ability to
evaluate yourself; your behaviour, your values, your thoughts and your feelings, and learn from them.
This section is about what you were thinking and feeling at the time of the event and how it connects
with professional practice. Draw reference to professional frameworks and expectations.
PCF
Domains/SWE/Student
Codes of conduct
achieved
When she was shivering during the answering of my question then I took a glass of water from
the table in front of us and move towards the carer. She take one to two ship of water and
tried to manage herself. After few minutes, when she felt well I asked her that what are the
problem she had to face in providing care to her husband in France where as her daughter was
at her home that was in UK. Then she replied to my question that she had to face lots of
problem like she left her daughter alone at her home in the guidance of her friends and she
was in France to look after her husband. She was a paid care giver so she knew that how to
manage the thing to providing the care for her husband. But she had to faced number of
financial problem during the treatment procedure of her husband. Her husband's situation was
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