Meeting the Needs of Service Users: A Case Study Using Gibbs Reflection Model

Meeting the Needs of Service Users

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Gibbs model of reflection.......................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
In this case study the reflection model being used is Gibbs reflection model which is
useful to plan a better health care management to meet the need of service care user. It makes a
analyst think or analyse clearly and systematically about their experience what he has
experienced by the given task. It helps to make learning strategies and make a person understand
their own thinking.
MAIN BODY
Gibbs model of reflection
From the given case study, I analysed that there are four family members in Mrs. E's
family suffering from various kinds of diseases such as glaucoma, dementia, arthritis and hearing
disorder. Mrs. E's husband is a victim is dementia, arthritis as well hearing disorder where as
Mrs. E is also a dementia patient. For meeting the needs of service users I have selected Gibbs
reflection model which helped me out to make health care plan for all the family members. Gibbs
reflection model is one of the famous model used for the patient health care management (Wu
and et. al., 2020). It includes six stages- description of the experience of the given case study,
feelings and thoughts about the experience, evaluation of the experience, analysis to make the
sense of the situation, conclusion what have learnt and action plan how to deal with the similar
situation in the future.
Description
In the given case study Mrs. e and her husband lost their daughter suffering from breast
cancer. Mrs E’s husband was suffering with arthritis and was walking with the help of walking
stick. He was also suffering from hearing disorder and so wore a hearing aid. He has been a
victim of dementia. With the time he deteriorated and began to forget to putting his hearing aid
and sometimes he also forgot to go with his walking stick and thus met with an accident. Her son
advised her many times that his father needs a care centre so he would get all the facilities and
care but Mrs. E wanted to take care of her husband by herself only. She always looked
after him by taking care of all of his medicines and health care facilities.
very soon, Mrs E also diagnosed with vascular dementia. Her son noticed that she was getting
confused that where she kept the things. Mrs E was also a glaucoma suffering patient and thus
need to place eye drops in her eyes every night and a heart
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