Professional Values and Reflective Practice in Healthcare: A Report

This report delves into the critical role of reflective practice and professional values within the healthcare sector. It emphasizes the significance of these elements in enhancing the quality of patient care and decision-making in complex situations. The report explores various reflective models, including Gibbs' reflective cycle and Kolb's experiential learning model, providing structured frameworks for healthcare professionals to analyze their experiences and improve their practices systematically. Additionally, it highlights the six themes framework, which encompasses safety, timeliness, effectiveness, equity, patient-centeredness, and efficiency, as essential considerations in healthcare quality. The conclusion underscores the necessity of reflective practice for healthcare professionals to continuously improve their skills and patient outcomes. The report references key literature on professional role development and the value of systems thinking in healthcare, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

Demonstrating
Professional Principles and
Values in HSC Practice (Part A)

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Purpose of Reflection
 Reflective Models
 Gibbs Reflective Model
 Kolb’s Reflective Model
 Six Themes Framework
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Professional values and principles are the guiding believes that impact
the work behaviour. Values reflects standards, practices, ethics as well
as other norms in commercial environment. In context of healthcare,
value includes compassion, empathy, caring, respect, dignity, social
Justice, competency, knowledge, excellence etc. These values help a
healthcare professional in providing quality care to the patients.

Purpose of Reflection
Reflective practice is characterized as a way of studying own
experience to enhance working way. For health professionals,
reflective practice is very useful to carry on learning in their entire
lives. In the setting of practice based professional learning, reflective
practice is an important tool their individuals loan from own
professional experiences instead of knowledge transfer or formal
learning.

Reflective Model
 Models, sometimes called as frameworks for reflection, it
encourages structured process to direct the action of reflection. It is
essential to choose one which feels most comfortable and suitable to
you and guides you in the direct direction to learn from your past
experiences or actions.
 Common models are- Gibbs and Kolb’s.

Gibbs Reflective Model
Gibbs reflective cycle evolved in 1988 by Graham Gibbs to give the structure
to learn from past experiences. It involves six phases which are as follows:
 Description
 Feelings
 Evaluation
 Analysis
 Conclusion
 Action plan

Kolb’s Reflective Cycle
Kolb's model reflection is also known as experimental learning. This model is
based upon personal experiences, which is then analyzed, evaluated and
reviewed systematically in stages. It includes 4 stages
 Concrete experience
 Reflective observation
 Abstract conceptualization
 Active experimentation

Six Themes Framework
In the healthcare setting, all these six themes are important to be
considered while providing care to the patients. While reflecting it is
required by the professional to consider 6 theme frameworks for
healthcare quality including safety, timeliness, effectiveness, equity,
patient centeredness and efficiency. . The first theme that is safety is
concerned with avoiding harm to care uses from the care which is
intended to help them.

Conclusion
As per the presentation, it can be concluded that reflective practice is
very crucial for health care professionals as this helps them in
reflecting on their own experience and improve the quality of care by
taking appropriate decisions in the complex situations. The reflective
models like Gibbs and Kolb’s reflective cycles will help health care
professionals in reflecting on their own experience in systematic
manner.

References
 Brenda Scott, D.N.P. and Mindy Thompson, D.N.P., 2018. Transitioning from
RN to MSN: Principles of Professional Role Development. Springer Publishing
Company.
 Ellis, B.S., 2016. The value of systems and complexity thinking to enable
change in adaptive healthcare organisations, supported by informatics. In The
Value of Systems and Complexity Sciences for Healthcare (pp. 217-229).
Springer, Cham.

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