CNA151 Health Promotion Project: Individual Reflection on Teamwork

This individual reflection details a student's experience working within a team to develop a health promotion project, specifically addressing postnatal depression. The reflection covers the successes and areas for improvement in teamwork, highlighting the importance of diverse perspectives a...Read More

Running head: REFLECTION
Individual Reflection
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Reflect on your experience working within a team in terms of what worked well and what
could be improved
I have learnt and explored my experience while working in this group project. My
team members helped me to learn the skill of critical analysis of the articles in order to
highlight the evidence-based practice. Department of Health and Human Services Tasmanian
Government (2019) reported the analysis of the evidence-based practice is the first step
towards development of the health promotion program. Sharing and discussing about
different ideas and information among the different group members helped me to increase my
horizon of knowledge. According to Ellis (2018) working in groups help an individual to
explore different perspective of the same information and thus helping to enrich the
knowledge and at the same time helps to increase the cultural competencies. I think this was
the best part of working in groups as our shared horizon of knowledge helped to come up
with diverse interventions to overcome PD and to use diverse approaches to incorporate
women from different ethnic background who are suffering from PD without having pre-
conceived notation or cultural bias. All my team members were extremely supportive and this
helped me to discuss my concern actively and to come up to some conclusion.
However, since each of the team members worked in each of the different aspect of
the health promotion plan, each one of us failed to avail the opportunity to take part in the
entire development of the presentation. We first divided out works and then started doing it.
Though it helped to save time but restricted out knowledge development. Thus going
forward, I will plan the group work in such a way that each member of the group is aware of
each step of the activity.
Reflect on your learning of health promotion principles and practice developed through
the group activity.

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The personal knowledge enhancement of the importance of the health promotion
principle was developed by reading the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion by WHO and
Health Promotion Framework Developed by The Tasmanian Government, Department of
Health and Human Services. A through reading of these two frameworks helped me to
understand that comprehensive health promotion deals with advocating, enabling and
mediating the target group. In order to do this, the first step that is required to be taken
application of the evidence based practice. In the domain of postnatal depression (PD)
management, the application of the evidence-based practice was mainly done through
rigorous search of the literary articles that have covered non-pharmacological management of
post-natal depression. Through analysis of the literary articles, we have found that regular
execution of the physical exercise, quitting cigarette smoking helps in overcoming post-natal
depression. Working in groups helped us to analyse a gamut paper in limited period of time.
However, Weobong et al. (2015) reported that abusive spouse, or children born with genetic
problems or physical inability also forced that mother to pass on to PD. Thus I think, while
working as a group we failed to uncover this aspect of management of PD. The second step
of health promotion includes social determinants of health (SDH). Since it was a part of the
presentation, the main SDH that was included in our presentation was poor socio-economic
status and lack of proper health awareness. In order to highlight two specific SDHs, we
critically analysed the demographic data of the PD in Australia. In the third and the fourth
step of comprehensive health promotion that is equity and partnerships. Equity deals with
working in diverse ethnic groups and partnership deals with working in close association with
the informal or primary care givers and other members of the multidisciplinary team
(Azzopardi et al. 2018). Thus, in order to promote equity in the health promotion, that main
practice that we developed in group includes incorporation of the women from different
ethnic background. Thus our health promotion plan included PD women from Aboriginal and

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Torres Strait Islander background and also the non-indigenous women. For increasing the
partnership, different group members came up with different options of the multidisciplinary
team members. On the basis of the justified rational, the finalization of the multidisciplinary
team was done. Health Promotion Framework Developed by The Tasmanian Government
also gives importance to the actions across continuum and cultural change. As per from
understanding from the study in order to action across the continuum it is the duty of the
health promotion policy development group to first screen the vulnerable groups followed by
health promotion and skill development and implementation of the proper community based
action in order to create a supportive environment in order to prevent the development of the
disease. This supportive environment also deals improving the health and well-being while
addressing the cultural competencies. However, under the group-based activity of the policy
development, we failed to highlight any specific interventions to promote culturally
competent care plan for the PD health promotion. For comprehensive health promotion, I
think community based participation is of utmost importance. Roh e al. (2015) stated that
community based participation helps to promote disease awareness while increasing the
disease self-management skills. In this group based assessment we thus mainly kept our focus
on community based health promotion activities.
Reflect on how your participation in a team relates to your professional development as an
emerging nurse or graduate in your chosen field
My participation in the team helped to refine my inter-personal communication skills.
Inter-personal communication skills deal with both verbal and non-verbal communication.
Non-verbal communication skills deal with maintenance or proper body language, eye
contacts and active listening. Proper inter-personal communication skills also help to express
though process clearly (Sprangers, Dijkstra and Romijn-Luijten 2015). Williams, Ilten and
Bower (2016) stated that one of the important traits of the nursing professional is proper

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development of the inter-personal communication skills. This in turn helps to develop
therapeutic relationship with the client and thereby helping to increase the quality outcome
through implement person-centred care plan. Thus development of the inter-personal
communication skill will help me to flourish in my professional career as a nurse. Working in
team also helped me to finish the work on time my making proper SMART goals. Stonehouse
(2017) stated that in order to implement effective nursing intervention, it is the duty of the
nursing professional to make proper SMART gaols and simultaneously execute the same.
SMART gaols help to achieve the desired set of outcome within the definite span of time.

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Department of Health and Human Services Tasmanian Government. 2019. Welcome to
Working in Health Promoting Ways. Access date: 25th April 2019. Retrieved from:
https://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/wihpw
Ellis, P., 2018. Leadership, management and team working in nursing. Learning Matters.
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Sprangers, S., Dijkstra, K. and Romijn-Luijten, A., 2015. Communication skills training in a
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Stonehouse, D., 2017. Understanding the nursing process. British Journal of Healthcare
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Owusu-Agyei, S., Prince, M. and Kirkwood, B.R., 2015. Association between probable
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Williams, K.N., Ilten, T.B. and Bower, H., 2016. Meeting communication needs: Topics of
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pp.38-45.