Reflective Question Answers for Healthcare Professionals: Duties, Communication, Learning Goals and Theories

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Q1. What duties have you been doing on supervised professional practice?
In supervised professional practice my primary duty is to gather the background
information of the healthcare users and analysing their diagnosis reports to identify their
needs of assessment and to provide the same with accuracy, compassion, empathy and
efficiency. One of my major duties is to be able to execute health and social care practice
safely and effectively within the legal, ethical and practice boundaries. I also have the duties
of respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every service users or patients. I
also have the responsibility or duty to produce clear, concise, accurate and objective
documentation or patients and healthcare management usage.
Q2. Have you been involved in staff meeting? Meetings with the clients/family?
To improve the quality of care trough collaborative execution with the help of my peers
sometimes, I required to be involved in staff meeting, where I clearly presents the supports or
changes are required for a particular patients or for the improvement of overall healthcare
practices. On the other hand, I required to be involved in multiple meetings with the patient’s
family as well that were allowed me to assessing the psychological perspective, social values
and viewpoints of the client or patients.
Q3. Describe how the agency communicates with clients-methods used?
The inspection staffs of the health and social care agency communicate with the clines
by directly communicating with the patients while taking feedback about their perspective,
needs and opinion. At the same time, the healthcare practitioners, nurses and caregivers have
been interviewed repeatedly to assess any exceptional issues during the treatment planning
and care giving. Both meeting and individual feedback collection is executed as
communication procedure. On the other hand, to prioritise the family cantered care in some

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cases the family members of the patients are also interviewed repeatedly to maximise the
scope of improving assessment and treatment procedures.
Q4. Discuss your learning goals and how you achieved them?
While working with IWA my primary learning goal to increase the knowledge,
experience and efficiency by involving in a practical health and social care giving
environment. Along with that, I have thee goal to improve my decision making ability,
problems solving ability and collaborative execution ability throughout this experience. I
have been executing self reflection practices to reflect on my experiences, feelings and
gathered knowledge to enhance my care giving skills and legislative knowledge. I have also
been using the activity plan based on smart objectives that enabling me to involve new and
challenging experience, through which I could increase my knowledge and skills even
further.
Q5. What theory or knolled based is supporting the work here?
While working with IWA, I have realised there are many theories that are acting as
the foundation of the care giving practice in this association. Some of the significantly
utilised theories are Ethical Care theory, Social Cognitive theory, System theory of social
care, Interpersonal Care theory. The ethical care theory allowed to work under the ethical and
legal boundaries considering the legal obligations and nursing regulations with safe care
environment. Besides, the social cognitive theory is allowing the caregivers to interpreting
the behaviour of the patients to their needs and expectation. System theory is allowing
collaborative work process with effective coordination like a single integrated system.
Interpersonal care theory on the other hand allowing the nurses and care givers to effectively
communicating with the clients for assessment, treatment and therapeutic plans considering
patent’s perspectives, personal values, ethics and culture.