Reflective Practice, Principles and Values in Health and Social Care

This report provides a comprehensive overview of reflective practice within the context of health and social care. It begins with a definition of reflection and its purposes, emphasizing its importance in enhancing professional development and improving service user outcomes. The report explores the benefits of reflective practice, highlighting its role in addressing emotional challenges and uncertainties faced by healthcare professionals. It then delves into the negative consequences of poor practice and the impact of reflective practice on both service users and practitioners. A case study is presented to illustrate the application of reflective models, including Gibbs' Reflective Cycle, Johns' Model, Kolb's Model, Rolfe's Model, and Schön's Reflection in action/Reflection on action. The report also examines the Practice Themes, specifically focusing on Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice, Professional values, attitudes and behavior, Health, safety and safeguarding, Valuing and promoting diversity, Promoting physical and mental health, and Applied Mathematics. The report concludes with a discussion on how these themes can be used to underpin reflection in learning and practice, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement and ethical conduct in health and social care.

Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values
in Health and Social Care Practice

Definition of reflection
Reflection is a ongoing process which is vital to generate own idea, through or
viewpoint on basis of self work done and activity either in past or present.
Also, reflection is valuable to get to know about self thought process and
likelihood to persist the self-evaluation on time to time basis. With help of
reflection, person is about to get what he/she has done in past related to own
experiences/ expertise

The purposes of reflection in health and social care
Reflection as part of the health or social care is vital for challenging or
improving long term practices. It helps to provide healthcare worker's to deal
with kind of sensitive issues they are expected to be experiences. Due to the
reflection, health & social care worker is expected to get knowledge about
their weakness or strength while doing practices in case of treating or care
people.

The benefits of reflection in health and social care
Reflective practices is necessary is health and social care sector as this job
carries high level of an emotional cost and difficulties and uncertainties that
practitioner's encounter in their daily basis. In context of health or social care,
reflection is getting knowledge/experience of a practice done for treating and
caring people from any physical problem or issues. This is one of the formal
practices, in which focus is on identifying any kind of critical situation and
checks out an experiences in context of health and social care at a bigger
instances.

The importance to adopt and apply reflective practice in
health and social care
Reflective practices is defined as “capacity to reflect upon any action or
experience, so as to engage into the process of continuous learning.
This is helps to give reflective introduction to the reflective practices
and also how its important or necessary to be in health or social care.

The impact of reflective practice on own personal and
professional development
Skills, knowledge and information is one of the supportive belt for the every
practitioner in order to work effectively and properly. Reflective practice is
used to understands current skill and traits into the professional health care
and how they works out with right abilities or exposure, if in case tackling
any work based situation.

Negative consequences of poor practice for personal and
professional development
In health and social care, poor practice has played one of the critical role
into personal and professional development. Poor practices such as failure
to complete the defined task of care, being unfair with service taker, fraud
or failures to poor practices are some of the poor practices which is not any
beneficial or being ethical for health visitor.

The impact of reflective practice on the service users and
issues connected with ineffective practice
Positive impact: Reflective practice is useful to makes out scope for changes into health
service and increasing performance of manpower who work in that field.
Negative impact: Here, impact is lack of understanding of the personnel and chances of
rising of the conflicts.

Case study example
This case study is based on family with a child who is obese. On past experience, I plan to
propose a diet, a food diary and a schedule of visits. You visit, talk to mum, and agree your
plan.One week later... second visit…
Nothing’s happened. No change. Very disappointing... frustrating

Describe tools and models for reflection
Tools:
Gibbs - Reflective Cycle (1988)
Rolfe's Model of reflection
Johns’ Model of reflection (1994)
Schön’s (1991) Reflection in action/Reflection on action
Kolb’s Model of reflective cycle
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Models for reflection
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of
continuous learning.

Gibbs - Reflective Cycle (1988)
Step 1 Description: This is a primary stage of this reflective cycle.
In given case study, a baby is being supervisor who was suffering
with obese (fat related issues).
Step 2 Feelings: My feeling is good and existed to solve problem of
that child. I feels of being responsible to responsibility given to me.
Step 3 Evaluation: During the first attempt, nothing goes well and
proposed diet plan has failed to assist family or other carer of the
child.

Continued....
Step 4 Analysis: In this, I realised that future results or outcomes can be act
suitable opportunity, in which consideration will be put to deliver positive tricks to
control obese by using of measures to control eating complex food
Step 5 Conclusions: if this event would happen once again, it will to focus on
realising what other's has done to deal with same and what they have gained out of
a caring process.
Step 6 Action: Here, this is decided that, I would go for my skill development
such as communication, interpersonal or problem solving as first priority to
remove communication gaps between me as health visitor and family people of a
baby.

Johns’ Model of reflection (1994)
Looking in: During the practices, I realised that my least focus major cause of the
Obese and I was just briefing and treating. It is the part of negative practices and my emotion
says that I need to be work hard to do practices over treats of the issues.
Looking out: During making of planned structure of dietary, food diary and visit, I
found lack of parents response and focus while addressing of an issues. In this, I was treated
to this issues of obese and doing planning for the same.

Kolb’s Model of reflective cycle
Concrete Experience: During the practice, issue of non responsiveness
of the child parent as well as they are unaware of this issues has been
encountered. This issue is critical and right response is need to be taken
on same. Counselling of the parents is the perfect option.
Reflective experience: During this my understanding has reached to top
of the level and experience is also grown at the most productive stage or
platform. Here, relationship between experience and understanding is
positive

Rolfe's Model of reflection
What: My role into practice is of health visitor who is assigned to handle
situation which is necessary to handle situation such as obese of the child.
As my role is focus to do work for welfare of a people or child
So what: After the discussion of an issues, I acted in very positive manner
and have an option such as studying of an approaches. In this situation, my
knowledge says that the right approach is need to be taken to accomplish
recovery of a child problem in an effective manner.
Now what: After this, I need to be focus on other colleagues response such
as what strategies they have taken to overcomes the critical issues or
problems in an effective manner.

Schön’s (1991) Reflection in action/Reflection on action
During this event, I was working with role of the health visitor and
treating child with an issues of Obese and during this I prepared
dietary plan, food diary and health visitors. During this event, my
ability was pure and consists of right work or intention
At the end, I treat the issue of obese by understanding situation by
right trick or work.

P3 Explain how the Practice Themes can be used to underpin reflection in learning and
practice
THEME 1
Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice
I work in team with passionate, interest and dedication. I can work effectively with right
ability and passion along with enhancing right goals at right point of time. I have great
capability to work using right skill or ability. I actually provided personal centred care
making plan of remedy to be given at a right point of time. My strength is communication
and weakness is lack of patience which is a need. I also realised that I am able to higher
responsibilities and duties to do more practices.

THEME 2
Professional values, attitudes and behavior in health and social care practice
I am very much aware of values, attitudes, in which I worked with use of
democratic style with sharing norms or idea to other so as to work with other in
an effective manner. I have perfect capacity to utilises verbal communication
such as audience sound to interact and non verbal using Mail, messaging etc.

THEME 3
Health, safety and safeguarding through the lifespan and
how skills and knowledge are demonstrated
I would be able to ensure health, safety and well being of service user by
using feedback, back to back service quality check and interacting with user
on knowing their response on the same. There is no as such poor practice
which is being noticed by me and if in case any, perfect evaluation would help
me in overcoming poor practices. Definitely, I need a kind of support such as
training & development and learning or counselling.

THEME 4
Valuing and promoting diversity, difference and inclusion
I would ensure different service user need by taking feedback, taking their review as well as
information through technological utilisation. I will promote equality and values diversity by
understanding of situation of the practice with help of different point of view. For example: I
have utilises practices such as goals orientation and service which is necessary to decide
values and equality.

THEME 5
Promoting physical and mental health and emotional well-being in health and social care
practice
Yes, I met individual needs by taking feedback, review of an every individual
and makes out understanding on much they are satisfied. Also, I have right
knowledge or idea in context of the same as well as skill or abilities are also
appropriate.

THEME 6
Applied Mathematics
I am confident of my mathematical skills and I evaluates this by doing aptitude
test, examination along with taking regular test on the regular basis. My strength
is increased ability to tackle situation and circumstances of numerics. Weakness
is still having lack of interest in the numerics. By doing regular practices,
chances of accomplishing mathematical improvement is quite and adopted to
gain more efficiency into the same.

References
• Gibbs, G. (1988) Learning by Doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. Further Education Unit. Oxford
Polytechnic: Oxford.
• Johns, C. (1995) Framing learning through reflection within Carper’s fundamental ways of knowing in nursing. Journal of
Advanced Nursing. 22: 226-34
• Kolb, David A. (1984). Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and Development. Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.