HNC/D Healthcare: Role of Reflection in Professional Practice

This presentation delves into the crucial role of reflective practice in health and social care, emphasizing its importance for continuous learning and professional development among healthcare professionals. It highlights how reflection enhances confidence and aids in addressing sensitive issues encountered in practice, enabling a comprehensive review of caregiving phases and informed decision-making. The presentation incorporates six key themes from the HND program, including professional attitudes, health and safety, legal and ethical practice, diversity and inclusion, mental and physical wellbeing, and applied mathematics, illustrating their application through personal accounts and experiences. Ultimately, the presentation concludes that reflective practice, grounded in concrete experiences and active experimentation, is essential for becoming a better healthcare professional by developing and evaluating skills effectively. Desklib offers a variety of resources, including solved assignments and past papers, to support students in their academic pursuits.

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ROLE OF
REFLECTION IN
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
PRACTICEName of the University
Name of the Student

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INTRODUCTION
• Reflective practice refers to the way of studying the self-
experience with the aim of improving the way of work
• It is considered particularly useful for different health
professionals who are expected to participate in continuous
learning, all along their lives (Redmond 2017).
• The act of reflection helps in increasing confidence.
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REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
IMPORTANCE
• Reflection in health and social care is imperative for
challenging and enhancing the delivered practices.
• Reflection provided me a way to deal with several sensitive
issues that I had experienced in my practice (Baldwin 2016).
• It also allowed me to look at all discrete phases of
caregiving.
• I was able to decide if I had taken an appropriate action.
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6 THEMES OF HND
• The six themes that I took into account during my reflective
practice are as follows:
• Professional attitudes, values, and behavior in health and
social care practice
• Health, Safety and Safeguarding throughout the lifespan and
demonstration of skills and knowledge
• Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice
• Appreciating and endorsing difference, diversity, and
inclusion evidence
• Promoting mental and physical health and wellbeing in health
and social care practice
• Applied mathematics

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PERSONAL ACCOUNT
• Theme 1: I tried to explore my attitudes, values and
enhanced my communication skills (Silverman, Kurtz and
Draper 2016).
• Theme 2: I took an effort to empower my patients and
encouraged them to make their own decisions, related to
delivery of care services.
• Theme 3: I was responsible for supervision, teaching and
explored the working of my entire team, while delivering
person-centred care (Glasby and Dickinson 2014).
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PERSONAL ACCOUNT
• Theme 4: I took all efforts to understand, accept and value
the differences between all people at my workplace, thus
showing a commitment to diversity (Steers and Sánchez‐
Runde 2017).
• Theme 5: I explored different ways by which I could enable
the subordinates and service users to identify their skills and
interests that they would like to pursue.
• Theme 6: I used applied mathematics while writing
prescriptions and administering medications to the patients
(Tsaneva-Atanasova and Diaz-Zuccarini 2018).
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CONCLUSION
• My reflective practice was based on concrete experiences,
reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation, and active
experimentation.
• Following all the six themes of HND enhanced my
reflection and helped me become a better healthcare
professional
• It helped to develop the skills and evaluate their
effectiveness.
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REFERENCES
Baldwin, M., 2016. Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization. Routledge.
Glasby, J. and Dickinson, H., 2014. Partnership working in health and social care: what is
integrated care and how can we deliver it?. Policy Press.
Redmond, B., 2017. Reflection in action: Developing reflective practice in health and social
services. Routledge.
Silverman, J., Kurtz, S. and Draper, J., 2016. Teaching and learning communication skills in
medicine. CRC press.
Steers, R.M. and Sánchez‐Runde, C.J., 2017. Culture, motivation, and work behavior. The
Blackwell Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Management, pp.190-216.
Tsaneva-Atanasova, K. and Diaz-Zuccarini, V. eds., 2018. Mathematics for Healthcare.
Frontiers Media SA.

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