Reflective Report on 6 Practice Themes in Health and Social Care

This reflective report discusses the importance and application of 6 practice themes in health and social care, including laws and regulations, professional values, health and safety, diversity, physical and mental health, and knowledge of health informatics.

Running head: REFLECTIVE REPORT
REFLECTIVE REPORT (TASK TWO)
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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Introduction
Reflection is an important and effective aspect of health and social care professionals
as with the help of reflection they could review their practice and identify the loopholes so
that they could improve their professional skills (Lestander, Lehto and Engström 2016).
Similarly there are 6 themes that helps nursing professionals in different aspect so that they
could develop ethical practice, professional values, health and safety decisions, promotes
diversity and physical and mental health and are aware of the information technology to be
aware of the modern resources to make the care process effective.
Therefore, in this reflective paper, I would be discussing about the 6 practice themes
that has helped me to improve my care practice and helped me to achieve my PDP that I
prepared on the basis of the weaknesses and threats of my personal SWOT analysis. Hence,
thorugh this I would be able to discuss the importance of the targets that I set with my PDP
and SWOT reflections and the way I was able to overcome the barriers and achieve my goals.
Application of 6 practice themes
1. Laws, regulations and ethical practices
This is the first and of primary importance as it helps the nursing professionals to
understand their working responsibilities, their duty, and importance of teamwork and risk
management (Bloomfield and Pegram 2014). Further, it also requires the nursing
professionals to develop personal development plan so that they could develop skills,
professional values and ability to work independently in the care process. I was aware of
these aspects and its importance for making my professional practice ethically and lawfully
correct. As per de Guzman et al. (2014), application of this lawful and ethical aspect in care
process helps the nursing professionals to maintain equity and diversity in the process and a
holistic care is ensured for the patients. My strengths such as ability to listen, organised and

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effective communication skills and ability to conduct the process patiently helped me to
understand the processes of healthcare sector immediately and hence, I was able to be aware
of this practice theme by communicating to my senior nursing professionals. Hence, my set
targets in PDP helped me to develop effective communication within the facility and
understand the ethical considerations which are required for the healthcare professionals in
care scenario.
2. Professional values, attitude and behaviour
This practice theme requires the nursing professionals to understand their own values,
beliefs and attitudes that impact their work and then explore others beliefs and ideas so that
positive working environment could be developed (Jones et al. 2014). Besides this, it also
focuses on the application of person centred and family centred care so that health safety and
wellbeing of each community could be achieved. Therefore, it was important for me to
develop personal traits and attitude so that I could apply these aspects in my care process. I
also developed PDP and mentioned about my short term goals and medium term goals so that
I could understand the nuances of the process and could increase my ability to manage
difficult situations with less stressful ways. Hence, my strengths of patients and effective
communication skills helped me to achieve this skill. Further it was also important for my
future goals in working with children with disabilities (Matziou et al. 2014). Hence, for my
future opportunities, overcoming this barrier was an important aspect.
3. Health, safety and safeguarding
This aspect of practice skills mentions about the responsibility of the nursing
professionals to understand the importance of health and wellbeing of nursing professionals,
patients and other visitors within the hospital premise and their responsibility of recording
and reporting so that principles of the healthcare process could be complied with (Msimanga

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2016). My PDP goals were developed efficiently so that I could acquire these aspects within
medium term development plan and hence, I was able to understand the complete process
however, the weaknesses such as lack of confidence, nervousness while communicating to a
stranger or in a group presentation. This was an important practice skill so that while
conducting my future goals of working for children with disability, I required confident,
fearless and effective personality and hence, this skill helped me to gain this.
4. Valuing and promoting diversity
As per this practice theme, nursing professionals should adjust their behaviour and
beliefs so that while conducting care interventions the patients and their values and beliefs
could be preferred (Jones et al. 2014). Hence, it was effective in making the care process
diverse, inclusive and progressive. Therefore with the application of these in my future career
was important due to which I developed PDP of learning dealing with different people and
learn the sign language so that I could value the disabled children. Hence, the strength and
opportunities of my personality helped me to develop myself competent for the care process.
5. Promoting physical and mental health
This practice skill requires the nursing professionals to be supportive for people so
that with the idea of their needs and responsibilities so that quality support and care could be
provided to the patients (Hara et al. 2016). In this condition, I was able to understand the
important of its application and compliance because while working with disabled children, I
require effective communication skill and understand their perception so that their effective
and quality care could be determined. Hence, this was one of the crucial aspect due to which I
included communication and confidence as my strengths in the SWOT analysis and focused
these in my medium and long term PDP. However, my future goal would be developing
experience so that I could be aware of the evidence based practice in the care process.

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6. Knowledge of health informatics
This is the final practice theme that requires the nursing professionals to be aware of
the nursing IT technologies, medication administration and calculation abilities, and ability to
identify the statistical trends so that with these, efficient care could be provided to the patients
(Hara et al. 2016). Therefore, I included this aspect in my PDP and SWOT analysis so that I
could successfully work for the benefit of the disabled children and utilize the modem
technologies for the benefit of the patients. My ability to communicate and listening skills,
my confidence and ability to learn patiently would help me to understand the requirement of
this aspect and I would be able to acquire the skills effectively.
Conclusion
While concluding this reflective paper I mentioned all the aspects of the 6 practice
skills and their implementation, application and compliance in the care process. Further,
through the discussion about these skills, I discussed the personal development plan and the
SWOT analysis I was able to discuss my achievement of my long term and short term goals.
Further, I was also able to mention the future goals so that I could develop the skills for
working with disabled children as nursing professionals.

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