Reflective Report: Personal Development and Placement Experience

This reflective report details a student's experience during a 15-hour graduate placement in an acute ward of a mental hospital. The report utilizes the Gibbs reflective model to analyze the student's experiences, feelings, and actions within the placement, including group and coordinated sessions. It highlights the challenges faced, such as time constraints and the rapid pace of work, and the importance of reflective practice in bridging the gap between academic learning and practical application. The student evaluates their performance, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and develops a personal development plan to address areas for improvement, such as enhancing knowledge of integrated care pathways and improving clinical judgment. The report concludes with a focus on professional development, emphasizing the value of reflection for improving patient care and preparing for future career challenges.

Reflective Report
Student’s Name:
University:
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
Introduction 3
Aims 3
Description 3
Feelings 4
Evaluation 4
Analysis 5
Conclusion 5
Personal development plan 6
References 8
Introduction
In this reflective report, I will fundamentally think about my insight to date and consider my
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future advancement needs with my focus on my graduate placement as well as career with the
help of the Gibbs reflective model which will tend to help me with my own learning encounters
as well as accomplishments to date and helps in composing a reflective report which features my
improvement needs from which I will detail a Personal Development Plan. This endeavor
exhibits my duty to the requirement for proceeding with personal development so as to improve
my insight, aptitude, and skills of mind required for viable practice and will address deficiencies
in my insight and abilities and recognize any inadequacies inside my very own or others practice,
and help me adapt to rehearse related issues experienced. I have picked Gibbs reflective model as
a reason for reflection as I feel it is effectively comprehended and energizes an unmistakable
depiction of the circumstance, feelings, to evaluate the experience, and analysis of the experience
to consider an answer if the circumstance emerged once more (Black and Plowright, 2010).
Aims
● Developing a personal development plan to identify my drawbacks in practice.
● Connecting theory with practice for developing skills
● Recognition of own abilities as well as responses on various circumstances
● Demonstarting knowledge in an acute ward in a mental hospital.
Description
The Gibbs reflective model states the first question as 'What happened?''. This enables me to
provide a description of the events which occurred, and so as to add essentialness to the events I
will hand over my feelings regarding the event in the organization where I was placed. Over the
span of my situation of 15 hours at the acute ward in a mental hospital, I will be provided some
roles by my senior officials related to particular patients. Similarly, I was regularly permitted to
carry out both the group as well as coordinated sessions which will be regulated by a staff.
However, due to various requests in the acute ward condition staff are found to be regularly unfit
to carry out the groups as well as coordinated sessions including patients would be regularly be
restricted with time (Baird, 2014).
Feelings
The general population with whom I worked typically had a large number of presenting issues as
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well as the concerns, and I knew from the beginning that such type of complicated settings
require the graduates to be smart while carrying out their training so as to have the capacity for
managing a particular events (Black and Plowright, 2010). In any case, it before long seems to be
obvious to me that the rapid series of work at the workplace, where on occasion administrative
work will be carried out overtraining, which also implies that the reflection would be considered
as a disregard for the workplace and targets.
Such type of problems and vulnerability in terms of reflection is frequent in graduate placements
and when starting a new job. The reflection specifically had a significance at the time of making
the progress from college so as to figure out how to utilize that the learning experience at the
time of graduate placement. Graduates are furnished with some direction practically speaking to
help this procedure. The Practice Competency Framework (also referred to as PCF) sections give
some bearing about what sections the graduates are relied upon to underscore in practice, and
what should be confirmed so as to successfully complete a graduate placement. Values and
morals are found to be important to this structure. Essential reflection is, therefore, part of this
framework, making up the total of area. Regardless, it is central that we don't end up being self-
satisfied in our very own appearance, and ought not to fall back on these sorts of directions and
frameworks as a shield against taking part in a reflection on entangled moral subjects (Cottrell,
2010).
Evaluation
Fanthome (2004) suggested that there are a few tools which delineate the pathway of occasions
and activities for all experts associated with a particular practice group. The tools help in
clarifying my roles and duties just as improve group working and correspondence. The next
stage of the Gibbs model is the evaluation of own experience to identify the good as well as bad.
I was satisfied when i see positive results which are due to incorporating a particular plan of
consideration as indicated by the circumstance as well as combined efforts within the group
meeting that tend to decrease the concerns. I was very disappointed on my own absence of
certainty to initially handle the concerns of the patient as well as the conditions in which the
patients require to make any complaint before initially related to the patient consideration.
Having this consideration regarding my own emotions and shortcomings in my preparation and
advising with others promises me that I am regulating myself, my preparation and that seeing my
very own abilities and limitations and settling this by making a move to improve in this
particular section of practice (Helyer, 2010).
Analysis
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I will continue utilizing intelligent practice to upgrade my knowledge and aptitudes and develop
my Personal Development Plan to highlight holes in my understanding. I will use my personal
development plan in my alumni situation to address my weakness and develop my characteristics
while searching for open entryways for further progression surveying any risks. At an individual
measurement, the likelihood of self-awareness incorporates works out, for instance, improving
self-learning and care, to assemble identity, making characteristics, significant progression,
updating potential, improving prosperity, fulfilling desires, overhauling lifestyles, and to improve
social limits. Following my interest for self-improvement, I have come to see that, any kind of
progress whether individual, money related, land, political or various leveled, demands a
framework to have the ability to acknowledge whether change has in reality occurred. For the
case of self-improvement, an individual consistently fills in as the essential judge of
advancement. Backing of target improvement requires an examination which must be finished
using a standard model, for example, the Gibbs model. These frameworks incorporate
benchmarks or destinations that portray the procedures, end-centers or making arrangements for
achieving goals, examinations and appraisal of headway, levels that delineate accomplishments,
finally an information part that gives data on upgrades (Jackson, 2011).
An individual with select prerequisites of self-improvement is better taught about the internal
systems required with eager experiences and, consequently, has better expert over them
(McCarthy, 2011). People can make interests towards their occupations by apparently doing
things some other way. Thusly, I will in all likelihood bolster the occupations that I will take. I
have evaluated my execution and perceived districts of which I should need to make in order to
improve my standard of achievements in my capacities. The Gibbs intelligent model by and by
has a better direction over my slants and enthusiastic experiences along these lines, I am
prepared to deal with things differently in different conditions, in different occasions, and in
different ways. Concerning my own care, I will have ended up being aware of my extraordinary
attributes and deficiencies. In this manner, I will organize supervision with my instructor to
structure my future vocation plans (Workman et al., 2011).
Conclusion
I feel the more experience I gain in the intense ward condition in mental emergency clinic and
more I get some answers concerning it I can improve patients nature of thought and work
together with various people from the multidisciplinary gathering. I will get learning and
assurance to engage me to make that walk from being an understudy to transforming into a
beyond any doubt master and game plan complex conditions. Taking everything into account,
my principal point is to improve my expert advancement by reflecting upon past training and
clinical experience. Besides by using the Gibbs reflective model I have distinguished my
qualities and shortcomings as well as perceived potential chances or dangers which will
empower me to plan for my future improvement and alarm me to any dangers enabling me to
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conquer any troubles I may experience in my career.
Personal development plan
Plan period: From: to:
Long-term goal(s)
Personal
development
goals
Objectives Schedule of
activities
Time Period Evidence of
objectives
achieved
Date of
Objectives
achieved
Before the
end of my
graduate
placements, I
will have a
superior
comprehensi
on of
Integrated
Care
Pathways
to address my
shortcomings
inside both
my
improvement
regions and
this can be
accomplished
by setting
these as a
need and
focussing on
these inside
my next
training
position.
By
examining
the patient's
ICP I had the
capacity to
advance his
wellbeing
and
prosperity all
through the
gathering.
By refreshing
the patient's
arrangement
of
consideration
appropriately
I had built up
needs of
consideration
in
organization
with the
patient inside
the structure
of educated
assent.
May 2019-
June 2019
Effectively
designed plan
of care
25 May, 2019
to build up
my training
from a
fledgling
professional
Through self-
coordinated
examination
and using all
assets inside
By imparting
my insight
and abilities
to my
partners and
June- July,
2019
Clinical
judgement at
the time of
multidisciplin
ary meeting
3 July 2019
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and become a
proficient
expert
satisfying the
prerequisites
of my job
profile.
the ward I
would like to
upgrade my
insight on
incorporated
consideration
pathways and
how it is
executed
inside the
ward setting
to improve
nature of
consideration
for patients.
using my
self-
awareness
intend to add
to an
atmosphere
helpful for
learning
By taking an
interest in the
multi-
disciplinary
gathering I
showed
sound clinical
judgment and
had the
capacity to
adjust
nursing care
to meet the
patient's
individual
needs.
for self-
coordinated
examination
of a patient
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