Healthcare Practitioner: A Reflection on Learning and Practice

This paper presents a student's reflection on their learning journey to become a healthcare practitioner. The student underwent a 6-week program, delving into the history of public health, key milestones, and philosophical changes in models. The curriculum also covered the social ecological model of health and its determinants, as well as the practice implications of different health models with evidence-based and practice-based approaches. The student highlights the importance of dedication in healthcare and emphasizes how the acquired knowledge and practical experience will inform future decision-making in clinical settings. The reflection concludes with the student's commitment to applying the learned skills to provide the best possible care in their future practice.

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Students’ name
Student’s id

Reflection on the practice as a healthcare practitioner
The profession of health practitioner is quite challenging and it requires lots of skills
and knowledge to provide the best performance (Krakower, & Mayer, 2016). Therefore,
learning the skills properly is a crucial step and an effective theoretical as well as practical
based learning program can make a practitioner more efficient (Jackson, 2015). I also have
gone through a learning experience to become a health practitioner and here in this paper, I
am going to reflect my experience over the learning process.
I have undergone a 6 weeks of learning program. Initially, I had no idea about the
syllabus and in week 1, the subject was on the history of public health and change in models.
In this week, I leaned about the chronological history of past 200 years of public health and
the key milestones (Wold & Mittelmark, 2018). I came to know about several interesting
facts about the barriers of receiving treatment from history which made me more courageous
about the topic. The second week continued the same topic but it revealed some more facts
and information regarding the history of public health that discussed the philosophical and
theoretical based change in models (Bauman, Bittman & Gershuny, 2019). During these two
weeks of learning I went to the deeper insight of the history. However, the third week brought
a fresh topic and in this week I learned the definition and other details of social ecological
model of health. I learned that it is a theory based framework for understanding the effects of
personal as well as environmental factors that determines the health status of people (Sallis,
Owen & Fisher, 2015). In this week, I came to know about the impacts of various social
determinants on public health (Wold & Mittelmark, 2018). The learning in this week was also
quite informational that helped me to develop more interest on this learning. Again, in the
fourth week, one of the most interesting topics of healthcare was introduced which is practice
implications of different models of health. I got opportunity to learn in an evidence-based
practice setting which was extremely stimulating. However, the sixth week provided

opportunity to learn practice implication of different models of health with practice-based
evidence which is essential in enhancing knowledge of working in practical settings (Jackson,
2015).
A health practitioner should be highly dedicated towards the profession as people’s
health is dependent on the healthcare industry (Xue, Ye, Brewer & Spetz, 2016). The
knowledge I gained from this learning is extremely helpful for me. The practical experience I
achieved from this learning will assist me a lot in taking vital decisions in clinical settings
(Williamson, Moreira, Quattromani & Smith, 2017). In future, I will apply the skills I gained
from this learning to provide the best performance.

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