Reflective Essay on Person-Centred Care and Gibbs' Reflective Model

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Reflective Approaches in Implementing Person Centred Practice
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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 2 REFLECTIVE ESSAY & INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLAN...............................................4
Part 1: Reflection Report.............................................................................................................4
Part 2: Action Plan.....................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................18
Reference list.................................................................................................................................19
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Introduction
The practitioners of health care are focused on providing proper support and services to every
individual according to their needs. Person centred care in a significant approach of providing
better support and services to the patient. It is focused on indentifying the problems of each
patient minutely, followed by appropriate planning for preventing those respective problems in
proper way. This help to provide according preventive measure to specific patient on time that
enhances their early recovery. In this context, the person centred care will be discussed along
with describing the relation of Gibbs’ reflection model with it. Dilemmas of this field will be
discussed and an action plan will be formulated in this context.
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Task 2 REFLECTIVE ESSAY & INDIVIDUAL ACTION PLAN
Part 1: Reflection Report
Executive Summary
Person centred care is an important feature of treating a patient in a better way. It is related to
providing specific care and support to the patient on time. It helps to focus on individual patient,
concerned on identifying their specific problems, and provides according treatment to them for
ensuring better recovery. In this context, the person centred care and its entire features are
discussed briefly.
Introduction
Person centred care is an effective way of thinking and performing those things that are related to
promoting the overall health of a patient. It focuses on the overall health status of a specific
patient to identify their problems and health risks. This is associated with according planning,
monitoring and developing of that patient specific care, which are essential for meeting their
needs and promotes their health status. It helps to support the patient in developing their
knowledge; skills and confidence for making effective measures for their own health that
facilitate them in enhancing their overall health status.
Person Centred care
Person centred care is defined as the respective care and support, which is provided to patient for
meeting their need. It focused on every patient individually and hence is related to recognise the
exact problems, criteria and needs of every patient (JASPER, 2013). According to which the
health care practitioners are planned for proper control and preventive measure for them
respectively and provide according support to them for meeting their need effectively and
promoting their health and wellbeing.
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Figure 1: Person centred care
(Source: Rcpmedicalcare.org.uk. 2019)
In the current scenario the health care provider are found to be more focused on the holistic
approach of health while treating the patients. The holistic approach is focussed on the looking
all the dimension of the health and associated with providing necessary health care of an
individual and proper personal care to fulfil the exact needs of the patient effectively. It involves
the observation of a whole patient, which is more beneficial for assessing the appropriate health
condition of them and provide according care (OELOFSEN, 2012). It is an important part of
person centred care. It is associated with providing relevant information to the patient, their
family members and other health practitioner for improving their knowledge regarding the
disease. This helps to make the person able to be more active in decision-making and self-
support.
Reflection
Person centred care is the vest approach of treating patient in a better way. It is associated with
identifying the needs, problems, expectations and criteria of patient individually and focused on
providing according care and support to meet their need in a more significant manner. It helps to
aware every patient by providing relevant information regarding his or her health status, disease
and preventive measure. It helps to support them in developing good health practices along with
developing the ability of self-management for promoting wellness. This approach of treating
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patient can be improved by reflective learning. It is an important tool of adapting the approach of
patient centred care, as it deals with learning more skills and abilities from the previous
experiences.
It can be understood more effectively best by Gibbs’ refection model. This model has established
by Graham Gibbs in the year of 1988. This model is associated with encouraging an individual to
learn new things by proper analysing and evaluating their previous experience.
Figure 2: Gibbs’ reflective model
(Source: Crowe-associates.co.uk, 2019)
Development of various experiences from any performance and proper evaluation of them is
associated with helping the health practitioner to improve their skills, abilities and knowledge in
patient care. It helps to improve the quality of the service, which is related directly with the
recovery of the patient. It is associated with proper description about the fact followed by
providing information regarding various thinking on the fact. Then proper evaluation has been
carried out to recognise the good experiences and the bad experiences that would help the
practitioner in proper analysis and conclusion (BOLTON, 2014). This entire process is related to
provide several relevant information that helps the practitioner to gain more experience and
abilities regarding their work. Hence, it is allied with providing resourceful, effective and well-
organised care and supports to the patient for promoting their wellbeing.
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In this context, this model can be best utilised in person centred care as it facilitate the reflective
learning significantly, which is associated with enhancing the ability of a health practitioner to
evaluate their previous performance. Proper analysis and evaluation of previous task would help
them to gain more experience and improved their skills within limited timeframe that provides
positive impact on the quality of care they are providing (TITCHEN, 2013).
Purpose:
 To improve the skills and abilities of the health care practitioners
 To provide better quality of services
 To identify the needs, problems and criteria of the patient more effectively
 To promote reflective learning
Benefits:
 It is associated with developing self-regulation and self-awareness
 To develop the ability for understanding their own weakness, strength, goals and values
 To help the practitioner to evaluate the impact of various health care services on the
patient, this is associated with enhancing their knowledge level. This would help them to
improve their experiences
Usefulness:
 Helping people learn from experience
 Help the practitioner for developing a proper sense of situation at their work, which help
them to decide the factor that should be performed by them better for promoting the
wellness of the patient
 Help to improve the experience, knowledge and skills of the practitioners for improving
the quality of their task
 Promote better service quality that is associated with enhancing the early recovery of
patient
Dilemmas faced while implementing person centred care related to policies, legislation and
regulations within your care setting.
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Dilemmas are referred to those situations where a person is related with constructing a choice of
a scrupulous object between two alternatives and more. It is one of the most significant reason
for developing various problems and adverse consequences that should be prevented in a proper
manner for a better exposure of work output. Health and social care Act 2008 is best utilised by
most of the health and social care unit for ensuring that every people receives the opportunities to
have adequate treatment and care, which is specifically personalised for them. This act is
associated with ensuring better quality of services by making sure that all of the health care
practitioners should provide appropriate patient care to meet the exact need of the patient along
with reflecting their preferences (McCORMACK et al., 2013).
This act is associated with developing an effective framework of patient centred care, which
include, providing according care and support to patient on time. Communicate with every
patient with proper respect, dignity, love and in a considerable manner. In this context, it has
found that various dilemmas have been developed while implementing the patient centred care,
which is briefly discussed in below:
 Dilemmas have occurred between the nurse and the health care practitioners during
delivering care and support to those patients who are disabled physically and mentally. In
this scenario the patient, require more care and support for performing their daily activity.
Thus, the health care practitioners and the nurse are found more concerned about their
delivery of care and services (Ross et al., 2015). However, this is related with increasing
the self-harm of that patient. This acts as great dilemmas in this field. The healthcare
practitioners and the nurse have to choice that whether they provide these services for
ensuring their daily activity or they encouraged the patient to perform their own task.
 One of the most significant dilemmas experienced by the physicians and health care
practitioners rely on the fact that in the case of futile patient they should continue life
sustaining treatment or not.
 Another important dilemma is related with providing proper information about the
condition of the patient’s health to the patient and their family members. If a patient is
suffered from severe disease and if their condition is deteriorated then it causes a
dilemma among the health care practitioners about the fact, whether they inform the
entire condition only to the family members or the patient only (McCormack, 2017).
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Conclusion
It can be concluded that person centred care and the holistic approach are the best tool for
treating patient more effectively. In this context, it has shown that the patient centred care is
associated with identifying the health risks, problems, criteria and needs of every patient
individually and is related with providing them according care and support to meet their need.
The above stated report has shown that the Gibbs’ reflection model is the best approach to be
adapted for providing a superior quality of patient centred care. It helps the practitioners to
improve their skills and experiences by evaluating their previous task.
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Part 2: Action Plan
Action plan is an important document that is concerning about listing all of those relevant
procedures that should be taken under consideration for achieving a specific goal.
Purposes:
 To clarify those resources that should be utilised to reach the objectives and goal in an
effective manner
 To formulate a time scale, that is needed for completing the specific task
In this context, the following action plan has been developed with the objective of short, medium
and long-term goal:
Objectives Specific Measurable Action-
Oriented
Realistic Time Scale
Short-term Improvement
of confidence
It can be
measured
effectively by
assessing and
supervising
the task of the
health care
practitioners
over a period
of time.
This is an
important tool
of providing
person
centered care
(Pirhonen et
al., 2017).
This can be
obtained by
the following
way:
Proper
motivation
Consultation
Encouragemen
t
Providing
opportunities
It can be
implemente
d easily and
it is a
realistic
approach. it
can be
achieved
practically.
A period of
5 months
are allocated
for this
approach
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to perform
difficult task
for getting
experiences
Improvement
of
communicatio
n skill
It can be
assessed
accurately by
inspecting the
practitioners
while they are
performed
their task
Proper
communicatio
n is the most
effective
feature to
serve a patient
in a better
way. As it
helps to
identify the
problems and
needs of the
patient more
easily. Hence
able to provide
according
treatment and
care for
promoting
their recovery
and wellness
(Smith and
Roberts,
2015). This
can be
achieved by
This
objective
can be
easily met
and it is a
realistic
approach
4 months
are selected
for this
objectives
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the following
way:
Providing
proper training
Conducting
developmental
program
Proper
counseling
Improving the
quality of
services
The quality of
their services
are measured
by receiving
feedback from
the patient and
their family
members
The quality of
the work is the
most important
attribute in the
favor of
promoting
wellness and
early recovery
(Rosen et al.,
2018). This
can be
obtained by
the following
way:
Promoting
reflective
learning
Conducting
training and
developmental
This
objectives
can be
practically
achieved
A time
frame of 6
months is
formulated
for
achieving
the goal
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