4.2 Reflective practice is important in a number of ways.It can be used as a tool to help managers to guide and support staff.It develops self esteem,confidence.It improves a way to learn. Can also aid as a source of feedback. Identifies personal and professional strengths and areas to be improved.…
1. Explain why reflecting on your work activities is an important way to develop your knowledge, skills and practice.…
Reflecting on practise helps me to see what I am doing good,where(in which areas)I need advice or more training…
- Reflecting on activities from work and also other places is a great way to develop the things that you know, and also discover what you don’t know, allowing you to set your mind on ways to develop your knowledge and fill in any gaps in your knowledge. Learning to properly reflect on what has happened is in the past is one of the most valuable personal skills, and it’s a way that an individual can develop themselves without the need for textbooks and training, merely learning not to repeat mistakes you’ve made, and recognising actions as mistakes in the first place goes a long way to making a person more efficient at their job role. It’s important to access the skills you have, and also the skills you lack to know where improvement is needed, and knowing exactly what you want to learn is useful in reducing the time necessary in producing a new skill.…
Why is reflective practice so important? Reflective practice is important for everyone - and nurses in particular - for a number of reasons. First, nurses are responsible for providing care to the best of their ability to patients and their families (NMC, 2002; UKCC, 1992). They need to focus on their knowledge, skills and behaviour to ensure that they are able to meet the demands made on them by this commitment.…
The importance of reflective practice is to review what you have done so that you can improve on it and change it to suit the needs better. Reflection allows the practitioner to learn about new things and learn from practice.…
Reflecting on own work activity helps a person to identify their weakness and strengths. Reflection helps a person on how to approach their work. For example working in an Dementia unit, a carer is assisting a resident with personal care, the resident becomes aggressive and resistive, the carer feels scared that he or she might ended up getting hurt or the resident gets hurt in situation. So when reflecting on the work activity the carer will think about his or her approach when getting the resident ready for personal care, whether it was positive or negative. On reflection the carer will look for different ways to assist in personal care that will not get the resident…
Reflective practice should help you become more confident in doing tasks as you can find better ways of completing a task. It will also help you clearly see where you need extra support or training therefore making you becomes more competent.…
Explain why reflecting on work activities is an important way to develop knowledge, skills and practice.…
The chance to look at what I did well or what I can do better.…
The activities above ask you to reflect on your work or your workplace. Can you say how…
Reflective practice is important in as much that it enables me to review real life situations I have been in, how I dealt with them, how I felt and the outcome of how I acted towards others all these will enable me to improve personally and improve the service I provide.…
Reflecting on the situation that had taken place during my second placement working in the community. This will give me the perfect opportunity to develop and utilise my commutation skills in order to maintain the relationships with my patient. In this reflection, I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle. This model is a recognised framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988). Baird and Winter (2005,) give some reasons why reflection is require in the reflective practice. They state that a reflect is to generate the practice knowledge, assist an ability to adapt new situations, develop self-esteem and satisfaction as well as to value, develop and professionalizing practice. However, Siviter (2004) explain that reflection is about gaining self-confidence, identify when to improve, learning from own mistakes and behaviour, looking at other people perspectives, being self-aware and improving the future by learning the past.…
The ability to reflect on one’s own practice is crucial because you can evaluate your effectiveness and assess how well you think you are doing and identify any areas that need improvement or development.…
Reflection is an important tool for all health care practitioners. It can improve our skills and help us understand the choices we make while in practice. Williams (2001) states that “Reflective learning involves assessment and re-assessment of assumptions and critical reflection occurs whenever underlying premises are being questioned”. Critically reflecting on events we experience will continually add to our understanding and knowledge base. “Reflection makes the practitioner mindful of their practice, encouraging analysis and increasing self-awareness in relation to our own skills, knowledge and emotions”. Price, (2005).…