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Reflective practiceC and b criteria
C1 Explain how reflective practice supports the professional development of the health
and social care practitioner.
According to access group (2024), “Reflective practice in health and social care brings a
wide range of benefits for health and social care professionals, patients, and their loved
ones” . it has different approaches which helps to improve the outcomes and care delivery. It
also gives person centred care in the future. It allows the team to share their learning
experiences and insights that has been discovered and developed to maintain a good practice
in the future.
According to National Library of medicine (2024), reflection is important because “It allows you
to recognize your own strengths and weakness and use this to guide on-going learning. By
reflection you will develop your skills in self-directed learning, improve motivation, and
improve the quality of care you are able to provide”. Professionals can reflect on both things
that have gone poorly and great. Professionals can learn from others experiences as well and
learn why that happened, how that happened and how that influenced them. Its useful for them
to take reflections from their peers and identify the areas that they have not noticed which will
help to recognise the points for improvement and improving them. This is also a great way of
being involved in learning.
Formal in reflective practice is more structured while informal is simplified and flexible. An
example of formal is meeting and an example of informal is like having a casual conversation.
Both of these have benefits and can contribute to personal and professional growth of an
individual. Therefore its important to know which one to choose in different situations.
Ongoing review of practice and outcomes: The ongoing review and analysis of data that helps
to identify any issues or trends in practitioners’ performance that may impact quality of care
and patient safety. It promotes effective and efficient evidence-based reappointment process.
Reflective practice provides health and social care practitioners with opportunities to review
their practice on an ongoing basis as well as monitor the outcomes that have been planned.
Reflective practice also helps practitioners improve as they build on their experiences
throughout their career. Gibbs reflective cycle is another way to reflect on themselves.
Analysis and action plan: Action planning helps the individuals to translate their insights into
concrete steps, strategies and habits that will help them to achieve their desired outcomes.
Action plan will help to focus on the ideas and decide what steps are needed for the practitioner
to achieve that goal and make them into a plan. Analysis will allow decisions about what
learning is needed at individuals, team or practice level. Reflective practice involves analysing
experiences and actions and provides the opportunity to apply theoretical models of reflection.
E.g. honey and Mumford model. These models include step by step instructions on how to
effectively reflect on themselves. Gibbs reflective cycle provides a framework for analysing and
evaluating experiences which supports the health and social care practitioner to action plan
from things that went well and the things that didn’t. These gaps should be interpreted and
prioritised within the wider organisational strategy.
Alternative approaches/strategies: reflective practice involves having different approaches for
difficult situations and solutions for experience to be more effective. Positive experiences can
also be reflected on and think about the reasons why it was so effective and how it can be
applied to practice again. Reflective practice involves thinking about different approaches,
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strategies and even solutions for when the situation is difficult. Positive experiences can be
reflected on and applied again by thinking about how it was effective.
Identification and planning for learning needs: planning helps to achieve better
understanding of what practitioner needs to know or should be able to do through exploring
activities or significant events at work. The learner identifies deficiencies in knowledge or skills
with the aim of meeting these needs through the creation of an action plan. Reflective practice
helps the practitioners to identify the areas that need improvement. E.g. communication skills.
Care practitioners need to plan for their development such as having training to put the skills to
work to help the individuals meet their learning needs.
B1 Discuss theoretical perspectives on reflection in relation to professional development.
Kolb has experimential learning theory which includes learning styles such as concrete
learning, reflective observation, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation.
Concrete learning theory: This learning theory happens when a individual learns new
experience or recalls a previous experience that was related to it in a new way. An example of
this is a practitioner learning about new safety policy. Reflective observations: an individual
using this learning theory recalls their memory and reflects on it to correct their way of dealing
with someone or something such as a nurse reflecting on their way of handling a patient and
understanding from their perspective why certain thing didn’t go the way it was supposed to.
Abstract conceptualisation: The learner who is using this theory tries to make new ideas
regarding their experience to learn further. An example of this is focusing on the meaningful
information in a paragraph. Active experimentation: This person uses their new ideas and tries
to adapt it to the world situations and see if they could change or make things better. This
process can take time depending on each individual. Practera (2022)
Concrete experiences are followed by the reflective observations, and it can happen by
engaging in experience and then reflecting on it. Reflective observations happens when the
learner reflects on their new experience ad understand what it says and how its done. Abstract
conceptualisation happens when the learner adapts their thinking or constructs new ideas
based on experience and reflection. When active experimential happens, its done when the
individual is being supported in reviewing and reflecting on their experiences which can be
through the structure or given an activity to focus on their reflection.
These theories can be applied in care settings, and it helps the individual to recognise their
strengths and weaknesses, use a guide on reflective practice and helps to develop skills in self-
directed learning which improves their motivation as well as also update their care to the best
level. One of the learning theory which wasn’t as effective is experimential learning theory
because it did not adequately address the role that non reflective experience plays in the
learning process even though its good at analyzing. There are two learning model cycles which
can be used which are Kolb’s learning cycle and Gibbs reflective cycle. Both of these are based
on the reflective working and helps the practitioners to learn from them, gain insights and learn
skills which can be used to level up their career in the future.
According to Puget sound (2024), “Kolb’s approach synthesizes goal-directed and behavior
learning theories to create a learning cycle which values process and the ongoing nature of
learning”. Kolb’s learning cycle focuses on the importance of reflection in care setting which
allows the individual to process what happened during their experience and how they can learn
from it and apply it to the future experiences.
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