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Reflective Practice to Develop Personally and Professionally

   

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Running head: REFLECTIVE PRACTICEReflective Practice to Develop Personally and ProfessionallyName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:

1REFLECTIVE PRACTICEDeveloping the personal skills and professional efficiency is one of the major tasksthat should be performed by every healthcare practitioner. The self improvement plan will notonly improve my personal ability and professional efficiency, it will also influence the workculture and practice around me while keeping the proficiency of my co-workers uplifted(Timminset al. 2013). Therefore, introducing witha useful and effective self reflection or selfimprovement tool is chiefly essential in this section. In this paper, the self reflection andimprovement plan have been discussed while analysing its efficiency with a real-life event.With the help of Gibbs' Reflection Cycle, the self assessment and improvement process havebeen done. The understanding of the self reflection cycle and its appropriate implementationin personal and professional skill development have also been described from self andalternative aspect.To analyse and understand the use of Gibbs framework as a self reflectiontool the individual stages of the cycle have been considered. Required action and appropriateoperation to enhance the professional practices of myself and others have also been analysed.The proper understandings of personal and professional practices that conserve the healthpolicy, protocol and regulation have been examined.In this section, a detailed and concise description of the situation is required todescribe. This case study is about a middle aged patient who was admitted to the hospitalwith respiratory problems. The patient was a 42yearold male, and his wife had brought him tothe hospital. At that time the environmental temperature was quite lower than the normalscale. As per the description of his family members, the cold weather has led to the asthmaattacks occurring repeatedly. Along with this the patient also complained of chest pain,tightness and restlessness during the asthma attack as well as the pre and post occurrenceperiod. The respiratory problem was causing the patient to experience shortness of breath(Chung et al. 2013). When the emergency team reached to the patient, he was wheezing,coughing continually and waving his body very frantically. As a result, the patient also had

2REFLECTIVE PRACTICEthe problems in speaking. Hiswifetold us that he had tried to use theprescribed inhalermedication. However, the consistent asthma attack had continued for almost an hour. The patient had been diagnosed with asthma at his age of 20. As per his previouspathophysiological report, he has a Chronic Pulmonary Infection problem that is usuallytriggered by cold season and even in seasonal change.He was prescribed with combinationalinhaler contain an inhaled corticosteroid plus a long-acting beta-agonist.When the patient hadbeen admitted he was on his 3rdAsthma Attack of that day while having a rapidly increasingheartbeat patient’s heartbeat had increased rapidly. The patient had been given beta agoniststhrough the nebulizer that helped to speak about his existing experience properly and alsoallows him to take some oral medication as well (Wenzel 2012). He had been providedfurther care and observation until heconfirmed me that the condition had beennormalizedenough.Gibbs' reflective cycle (1988) is a tool that is used for self assessment and evaluationprocess. Gibbs’ model was developed from an earlier theoretical model named David Kolb’s4 stages experiential learning cycle (1984). Gibbs reflective model is widely used the tool bynumerous health professionals, education workers and business leaders (Bulmanet al. 2014).The purpose of Gibbs; the reflective cycle is to assist practitioners in reflection by involvingthe person in a continuous personal development plan.This reflection and self assessmentprocess help to ensure that a person is in the continuous learning process while improving theability to perform some tasks or activities. The main idea of this model is to systematicallyreflect on a particular situation in a cyclic or repetitive formation to ensure that all parts andpotentials of the requirements have been evaluated (Fakude 2013). Along with thatitalsoassists the reflector to understand and determine what to do next time while experiencinga similar situation.

3REFLECTIVE PRACTICEFigure 1: Gibbs’ Reflective CycleSource: (Quinton and Smallbone 2012 ) To analyse and understand the use of Gibbs framework as a self-reflection tool theindividual stages of the cycle have to be considered. In Description part, I have to give a concise description of experience using specificand relevant details. In the Description stage, the internal and external environment of thepatient has to be identified. The patient was a male of age 42 and had a Chronic PulmonaryInfection or Asthma causing temperature change. At the very initial stage, I and my co-workers help to lay him down on a bed with a slightly inclined angle. The patient wasexperiencing the extreme level of breathlessness and high heart rate as well as blood pressure.We have been initially provided with a puffer and given 4 separate puffs. After that, weprovided a quick relief and a controller medication to reduce the clamping tendency of theGibbs’ReflectiveCycle

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