PUBHEA001W: Reflective Journal on Health Protection Team Role Play

This assignment is a reflective journal detailing a student's experience as part of a health protection team during a role-play scenario involving a communicable disease outbreak in nurseries. The reflection covers the student's role as an intern, their contributions to the team, and areas for improvement, including addressing misdiagnosis and enhancing communication skills. It also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the team, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and calm decision-making. Additionally, the student reflects on their interactions with the public, focusing on educating them about communicable disease prevention and emergency preparedness, and how the role-play improved their communication skills and confidence. The student also learned the importance of maintaining a calm demeanour during difficult situations and realized the importance of providing training to people so that they can protect themselves against diseases. The assignment includes references to support the reflections and insights gained from the experience.

l壱Summative one Individual reflection
Students should complete this form as indicated. Please ensure that all relevant boxes are
completed, otherwise cannot be processed efficiently.
Students should then submit this in the Assessment Submission box on Blackboard via Turnitin.
Section 1: Please type clearly in the boxes provided.
AssessmentFor example, Summative Assessment 1, portfolio checklist, Summative Assessment 2
essayStudent IDModule TitleModule CodeCourseBSc (Hons) Public Health PUBHEA001WFieldPublic
Health
Double click on the checkbox and a dialogue box will appear as shown on the last page.
Do you have a disability
recorded with the Wellbeing Team?
Attempt 1st 2nd
Extension applied for
Further extension approved by email
Postponement applied for
Note: students can either have a postponement or extension, students cannot have both.
Word countDate submitted
Student Declaration: I confirm that this is my own work and where appropriate I have appropriately
cited and referenced sources. I understand the University's policy on plagiarism, and I understand
that I can be penalised if this assignment infringes that policy. I also understand that if I go over the
word limit, I can also be penalised. I am also aware of the regulations governing applications for
extension, postponement mitigation. I understand it is my responsibility to obtain approval for an
extension, postponement or mitigation. I also understand that I need to keep a copy of the work I
have submitted. Please refer to Student Handbook for further details.
I accept that by my act of submitting this of assignment, I agree with above Declaration.

Please write 300 words reflection (excluding references) on your role as a member of the health
protection team in the role play. The following details should be included
1.Explain the emergency situation and Who were the members of your team?
Only write professional role/title, not names. ( 100 words)
1.What was your role and how did you contribute? What actions were correct and
what went wrong? How would you improve in the future? Strengths and weaknesses
of the team and who/what else was required to enhance your team’s work and why?
You must use literature to describe your role . (200 words)
Ans 1- The emergency situation arises with regard to outbreak of communicable diseases in
which two nurseries who are presented nearly to each other reported a sudden onset of
diarrhoea and vomiting like symptoms among few children's most of the age of 3-4 years. In
order to handle such crucial task, the team members of physician, interns, specialists,
registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, dietitians and social workers
have been allotted and creation of rapid response team have been done in order to resolve the
issue of sudden break of communicable disease among children's (Johnson and et.al., 2017).
Hence, in order to handle the situation, diversified professionals are greatly required
specifically at the time of emergency situations so that each member will able to effectively
perform their own tasks.
Ans 2- I do act and fulfil my role as an intern within the team that has been generated in
order to handle such crucial issue within the society. As I am pursuing my course related to
public health diploma hence, I have fully engaged into providing further training after my
graduation from medical school. Thus, I contribute my part as per the instructions provided
to me from my seniors or specialists during the program. I did attend all the children's under
the supervision of physicians and doctors. As an intern I do feel that I properly able to
generate my level of knowledge by observation of activities happen at that specific point of
time. I am appropriately able to handle such critical situations in efficient manner after this
particular incident. However, there are certain things in which I was lack behind such as
sometime due to lack of experience, I was misdiagnosed the situation and started panicking
somehow during that specific point of time duration (Connolly, Jacobs and Scott, 2018).
Thus, I have make sure that from next time onwards, I will adopt certain actions such as
always asks questions in order to avoid doubtful situations, always ask patient or their family

members about the whole situation and implement new technologies in order to deal with
emergency conditions which will definitely help me to overcome from my misdiagnose issue.
From the detailed evaluation about my team I had realized and evaluated that working in
collaborative manner and highly calm way irrespective of the situation was the major strength of our
team while at the time of taking appropriate decisions, somehow I felt that the team members
opinions clashed with each other (Veenema, 2018). Apart from this, I have realized that
communication skill had been enhanced among the team members in order to transfer detailed and
appropriate information among each other.

Section 2: Please write 300 words reflection (excluding references) on your role as a member of the
health protection team in the role play. The following details should be included:
Ans: I want to share my experience as a health protection team member. I participated in role play
where I asked some questions from target people regarding ways of protecting themselves against
communicable disease. Most of them did not give specific and accurate answer. So, I made them
aware about this and told them that by wearing masks, washing hands and by maintaining hygiene,
they can protect themselves against infectious disease. It improved my communication skill and
boosted my confidence. I believe that I can accomplish my professional goals in an effective manner
with this improved communication skill (Hawker and et.al., 2018). I asked some more questions
regarding ways of protecting in emergency situation and most of them gave answer that they will
provide first aid to affected people and will call ambulance. So, on the basis of this, I can say that
people need proper training by which they can protect themselves against communicable and other
diseases.
In addition, I can say that role play made me able in dealing with people of different
behaviours and it increased my patience level. My superior helped me out in improving all these
skills and made me aware about importance of being calm in difficult situations. Target people gave
feedbacks to my superiors about my positive behaviour. Overall, I can say that this role play as a
health protection team increased my knowledge to the great extent.

References
Connolly, M., Jacobs, S. and Scott, K., 2018. Clinical leadership, structural empowerment
and psychological empowerment of registered nurses working in an emergency
department. Journal of nursing management, 26(7), pp.881-887.
Johnson, M., and et.al., 2017. Multiple triangulation and collaborative research using
qualitative methods to explore decision making in pre-hospital emergency
care. BMC medical research methodology, 17(1), pp.1-11.
Veenema, T.G. ed., 2018. Disaster nursing and emergency preparedness. Springer Publishing
Company.
Hawker, J. and et.al., 2018. Communicable disease control and health protection handbook.
John Wiley & Sons.