Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values in Health and Social Care

DEMONSTRATING
PROFESSIONAL
PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1 Purpose of reflection in health and social care practice........................................................1
P 2 Models and tools used for reflection in health and social care practice................................2
M 1 Review the ways that reflective practice is applied in health, care or supportive service
environments................................................................................................................................6
D 1 Ways in which own reflections can impact on own personal and professional development
and the experience of individuals using health, care or supportive service.................................6
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................6
P 3 Ways in which practice themes can be used to underpin reflection in learning and practises
.....................................................................................................................................................6
P 4 Illustrate link between the practice themes and other performance indicators .....................7
M 2 Production of plan for reflection on learning and development using the practise themes
and other quality assurance indicators.........................................................................................8
D 2 Assess effectiveness of the plan in supporting the development of own reflective practice
skills...........................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is one of the most important part of a learning process. It helps an individual
in identifying areas in which they need to bring improvement and identify ways in which they
can learn new required skills and knowledge and in order to enhance their skills, knowledge and
provide more appropriate care and service to service users (Gibson and et.al., 2017). Refection
further provides an opportunity to individuals to move forward within their professional career.
In health and social care environment also reflection and reflective practises are important as it
helps healthcare providers to identify ways in which they can provide more appropriate service
to their patients. Patients are suffering from dementia and they require more care as they are
dependent upon their carers or family members partially or completely depending upon their
dementia condition. In health and social care settings as well an individual need to adopt
reflective practises so that they can identify area of scope where they need to bring improvement
and changes that are required to be brought with health and social care practises. This report will
lay emphasis upon the role of reflection in health and social care settings and by writing a
reflective report as a care assistant working within a dementia care home.
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P 1 Purpose of reflection in health and social care practice
Reflective practise can be defined as a kind of capacity through which once can reflect on
their actions in order to engage themselves in process of continuous learning. Reflective practise
is important in health and social care practice as it helps in bringing changes and carrying
improvement within current practises (Tsingos-Lucas and et.al., 2017). It can further help
healthcare workers or other employees working in this sector to deal with sensitive issues they
experience while working. It helps in providing employees working in this sector to identify
areas where they need to bring improvement or health and social care practises in which changes
are required to be brought. There are various purposes because of which reflection in health and
social care practises is important. Some of the main purposes of reflection in health and social
care practises are as follows:
 It helps in understanding self- values, attributes, behaviour, approaches of one’s own work
which is required to be carried out. As a care assistant in a dementia care home, reflection
will help in understanding behaviour and values that one need to maintain in order to provide
appropriate care to dementia patients.
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 To work and collaborate with others effectively. As a care assistant, one needs to work with
other healthcare professionals and many other professionals collaboratively so that proper
and effective care to dementia patients can be provided, they need, requirements can be taken
care off (Sweet and et.al., 2019).
 To bring changes within one’s own and others attributes values, approaches and behaviours
like challenging hidden assumptions. There are various kinds of challenges that were faced
by me as a care assistant. One of the main challenges was to have patience. Many times, it
was a bit difficult to deal with dementia patients who used to easily get hyper and aggressive.
At that time, it was a bit difficult for keep calm and have patience to deal with them. It
helped me to understand that I need to bring changes within my behaviour and approaches
though which I can deal with such patients.
 For revising and evaluating one’s own practise and influence organizational changes. By
evaluating my practise and ways in which I and others deal with dementia patients helped me
in understanding that there is a need to bring changes within training and development
program at dementia care house. So that the required behaviour and values of employees can
be enhanced.
 It is a continuous cycle that helps in enabling and building and checking changes in order to
achieve positive outcomes (Ullmann, 2017). Reflection helps in checking whether required
changes have been brought within oneself and organizational practises adopted by dementia
care house.
P 2 Models and tools used for reflection in health and social care practice
Reflective tools and techniques help in providing a guidance to individuals reflection so
that they can identify their scope of learning and bring improvement within their skills,
knowledge and qualities in a much appropriate manner (Shum and et.al., 2017). There are
various kinds of tools and techniques that can be used by a care assistant to reflect upon their
roles and responsibilities in dementia care home.
 One to one records and group appraisals: Appraisal is one of the most effective reflective
tools that can be used for reflection. This is because, one to one records and appraisal helps
an individual in understanding their main key strength areas and weakness areas.
 Assessment and feedback from colleagues, assessors, professionals, friends, family and
service users: Feedback is another effective and appropriate tool that can be used for
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