Week 6: Reflective Practice Flashcards
Who wrote this definition? “Activities in which individuals….explore their experiences in order to lead to new understandings and appreciations”
Boud
Who wrote this definition? “Reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe, analyse, evaluate and so inform learning about practice”
Reid
Who wrote this definition? “Examination of personal thoughts and actions. For HCPs this means focusing on how we interact with our colleagues & patients to obtain a clearer picture of our own behaviour”
Somerville
Why is Reflective Practice required?
- Develop critical thinking skills by reflecting and deciding how to improve practice.
- Results in personal and professional growth
- Dealing with change
- Is often undertaken by individuals, but can also be done as a group
- Reflecting on a critical incident, (e.g. a ‘debriefing’)
Define Competence
- The required knowledge, skills and attributes (attitudes)
- The routine and judicious use of the appropriate communication, clinical knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, ethical decision making
- Is contextual for each situation
- A continuum
What is Personal Judgement in the health industry?
- Is the difference between a healthcare professional & a healthcare technician
- Develops with experience & time
What Changes in Health?
- Treatment protocols
- New diseases & resistance
- New drugs
- Community health needs
- Equipment & ability to diagnose
HCPs need up to date:
- Skills
- Attitudes
- Scope of practice
What is Scope of Practice?
A HCP must:
- Limit the scope of their practice according to their own current knowledge & professional competence as defined by AHPRA
- Practise in accordance with the current and accepted evidence-base of their profession, including clinical outcomes
- Recognise and work within the limits of the individual’s own competence and does not engage in practices beyond that area of competence
- Undertake appropriate training if the scope of practice extends, expands or advances
What is Continuing Professional Development?
- Learning and developing workplace capabilities including technical skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours
- Maintaining, improving and broadening knowledge, expertise and competence, and developing the personal and professional qualities used in our professional lives
Reflecting Goals Should Be…
- Committed to learning, improvement and self-development
- Honest with yourself
- Willing to listen to feedback from others / self
- Realistic about what needs to change
- Understanding that learning is lifelong for HCPs
- Motivated to reach your potential as a person and HCP
- Striving for excellence in practice
Types of Reflection
- Portfolio = “a collection of evidence of personal and professional development through critical analysis and reflection” (Wallman et al)
- Journals as a tool for learning and “…journal writing as ways of making sense of the world and how we operate within it.” (Boud)
List the Gibbs Reflective Cycle
- Description
- Feelings
- Evaluation
- Analysis
- Conclusion
- Action Plan
Describe the Gibbs Reflective Cycle briefly
- Description
- BRIEFLY describe the situation - Feelings
- Describe what you honestly thought and felt? - Evaluation
- Look objectively at what worked, and what didn’t - Analysis
- How did your actions, and those of others contribute to the situation (either positively or negatively)?
- What have you learnt about yourself that is new? - Conclusion
- How could this event have had a more positive outcome?
- If you were faced with the same situation again, think of what would you do differently?
- What skills do you need to develop, so that you can handle this type of situation better? - Action Plan
- If it occurred again in the future, what would you do next time?
