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Interprofessional Studies for Health and Social Care

During this essay I shall demonstrate my knowledge and understanding of two learning outcomes from the Interprofessional Studies for Health and Social Care Module. To achieve this I will describe two reflective models and then use one of these models to reflect on my two chosen learning outcomes. The first learning outcome which I will reflect upon is the importance of team working within the health and social care context, the second will be an understanding of the role of the patients/service users and carers in delivery of health care. The two reflective models which I shall use are Gibb’s model of reflection and Borton’s framework for reflection.

Gibb’s model of reflection as described in Beginning Reflective Practice by Melanie Jasper consists of six stages which take the practitioner through the reflective cycle by asking significant questions. The six stages of the cycle are the description of what happened, the feelings involved, an evaluation of the event, and analysis, a conclusion and finally an action plan.

The description of the event should be as objective as possible asking yourself key questions the where it happened, who was there, why were you in that situation, what were you doing and any other people there doing, in what context did the event happen, what was your part and other peoples part in the event and what was the outcome.

The feelings part of the cycle is about trying to remember the feelings you were experiencing during the event. These should include how you were feeling at the beginning when it started, what you were thinking about as the event unfolded, what did other peoples actions make you feel, how you felt about the result of the event in comparison the how you feel now. When you think about how you felt during the lifecycle of the event, which of the emotions you experienced were the most important.

An evaluation of the event will help us come to some understanding about what happened. The questions we would ask ourselves would be what was good or bad about this event and what particular parts of the event went well or didn’t go well.

Moving on to the analysis of the event involves asking detailed questions about the evaluation stage. We would want to know what went well and what part you played in it that went particularly well, what others did well. What went wrong and what part you  and others played in what went wrong. Why did these things happen?

The conclusion stage is the stage where we ask ourselves what else we could have done. We then move into the action plan stage where we think about how we would deal with the same event again. Would we do something differently or would we do the same again?

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Borton’s framework for reflection is described by Jasper as a simple model for reflection consisting of three basic questions; what? So what? What now? Jasper describes the what phase as the descriptive level of reflection, asking questions such as what is the problem? What are the reasons for feeling as you do? What was my role is what occurred, what were the consequences of my actions on the other people involved, what was good or not so good about the experience. Jasper goes on to describe the so what? of the reflective cycle as the theory and knowledge building level ...

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