DSRS1210 HLTH1304 Reflection on Communication & Practice S1 2018

This assignment is a reflection on interprofessional communication practice, focusing on feedback received on a previous assignment (Part A). The student identifies areas of improvement, particularly in providing in-depth understanding and supporting arguments with evidence from research literature. The reflection highlights the importance of team building values, principles, and specific communication skills needed for effective collaboration with other healthcare professionals, such as doctors and nurses. The student discusses strategies for future assignments, emphasizing the need for early preparation and thorough research to enhance the quality of work and achieve better grades. The assignment also references the DSRS1210/HLTH1304 course and includes a reflective communication checklist pro-forma.

Running head: COMMUNICATION AND INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Name:
Student ID:
Profession wrote in Part A:
Communication skills discussed in Part A:
Workshop number:
Workshop facilitators name:

1COMMUNICATION AND INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Reflection on feedback:
When I got my Part A paper back from my tutor, I carefully read over the feedback
provided by the tutor. This helped me to understand that sections that I have covered well and the
sections that I need to improve. The review of the feedback gave me the idea that I could give in-
depth understanding about the description of the role of nurse and doctors in professional
practice. I was happy to review this feedback and this was possible because I always took
interest in the nursing job and researched for the roles of the nurse so that I could easily take up
the nursing role in the future. I could also give clear understanding about the other profession
(doctor’s) role in the profession. However, I got poor feedback for others sections of such as the
reasons for nurse to work together with other professionals and reasons for why skills are need to
work with inter-professional team.
I felt disappointed for getting poor score in the last section of my paper. After thinking
about this, I began to carefully consider what mistake I did. So, I read my paper again. I found
that I had given the reason for a nurse to work with a doctor and the role of both professions
during interprofessional communication. However, the after checking the marking rubric for
criteria to achieve excellent understanding, I realized that I needed to backup my discussion with
variety of evidences. Black et al. (2015) supports the fact that accessing research literature is
eseential for evidence based practice. By using similar approach, I could identify my
shortcomings in discussing about the skills required to communicate effectively tools. I gave
good summary regarding skills required to communicate effectively, however lack of critical
discussion regarding the reason for such skills gave me low score. If I had spent more time to
find peer reviewing articles that explained about the need to have respect, empathy and trust in
interprofessional collaboration, I would have enhanced the quality of my work.

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While reflecting on my mistakes, I changed the way I had framed the inter-professional
practice session. After analyzing the communication skills that I had discussed in Part A, I
realised that these were not the most appropriate skills to work with inter-professional team. This
can be said because I mentioned only about values like respect and empathy in inter-professional
team work. I research further to find specific communication skill that is needed by nurse to
work with other profession. As a result, I found that several research articles that gave idea about
values and skills needed as well as the rational for those skills. For example, Babiker et al.
(2014) explained that team building values and principles can help to collaborate with other
professionals and deliver quality patient care. I spent more time on research and found relevant
research article to improve my work. In future, my strategy while preparing assignment is to start
early and spend extra time on research so that I can discuss my point with support from various
research evidences. This would help me to get excellent marks from the tutor. The main rational
for discussing a point from variety of research literature is that it validates research finding and
favours utilization of a paper for evidence based practice (Hamer & Collinson, 2014).

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Reference:
Babiker, A., El Husseini, M., Al Nemri, A., Al Frayh, A., Al Juryyan, N., Faki, M. O., ... & Al
Zamil, F. (2014). Health care professional development: Working as a team to improve
patient care. Sudanese journal of paediatrics, 14(2), 9.
Black, A. T., Balneaves, L. G., Garossino, C., Puyat, J. H., & Qian, H. (2015). Promoting
evidence-based practice through a research training program for point-of-care
clinicians. The Journal of nursing administration, 45(1), 14.
Hamer, S., & Collinson, G. (2014). Achieving Evidence-Based Practice E-Book: A Handbook for
Practitioners. Elsevier Health Sciences.