Reflective Practice in Health and Social Care

Reflective Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Identification of two models of reflection that are commonly used in health and social care
practice.........................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Explaining benefits to health and social care practitioners of reflective practice..................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
2.1 Discussion on the ways personal development plans are used in health and social care
practice.........................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Developing personal development plan.................................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Discussion on the ways to facilitate use of research and practice.........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reflective practice refers to ability of reflection about one's actions in order to engage
within process of ongoing learning. In other words, it is said to learning and development by
analysing what happened on specific occasion as well as the ways we think other people perceive
the event, opening our practice for scrutiny by some others (Knott and Scragg, 2016). It is a
procedure which is consciously undertaken for stocking practice through interpreting, analysing
together with questioning the aspects people work. The report is based on reflective practice of
professionals in NHS which is health and social care organisation.
The report includes two models of reflection which are used for practice in health and
social care. It also includes advantages to practitioners of reflective practice. Further, it discusses
on the aspects about use of personal development plan in the field. At last, the report includes
benefits and potential barriers related to implementation of research into practice.
TASK 1
1.1 Identification of two models of reflection that are commonly used in health and social care
practice
Reflection is said to the concept which focuses towards awareness of past experience,
beliefs as well as knowledge of an individual. Health and social care is the field that provides
services to treat illness and other medical conditions. The two reflection models that are
commonly used in health and social care are as identified:
John's model of reflection: The reflection model have emerged from doctoral studies as
technique to reflect. The model was developed for nursing practitioners and it applicable in
health and social care. According to John, the model is a technique that is used in initial phases
of learning the ways to reflect. The model includes two stages, one is looking in and the other is
looking out. In stage of looking in, nurse practitioners finds suitable space to emphasis on
themselves, pays close attention towards thoughts and emotions and write all in piece of paper.
In stage of looking out, nurse practitioners describes the circumstances, consider problems which
seems significant, focus towards aesthetics, personal, ethics and reflectivity. The model helps
nurse practitioners to identify specific area and initiate reflective practice (Johns, 2017). For
example, nurse in NHS or other health and social care identify personal issues that are arising
from experience, recognise own values addition to beliefs, empathises with other professionals in
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