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HSC33 pls help

 
Author fayeandtoothy
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#1 | Posted: 22 Jul 2009 16:28 
My assessor has told me to write a reflective account on this unit (Reflect on and develop your practise) I dont know where to start or how i can even write a reflective account on this unit. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thankyou


Author jje1973
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#2 | Posted: 22 Jul 2009 20:45 
Hi, do a search on gibbs reflective cycle. That explains how to go about it in stages as follows:
Stage 1: Description of the event
Describe in detail the event you are reflecting on.
Include e.g. where were you; who else was there; why were you there; what were you doing; what were other people doing; what was the context of the event; what happened; what was your part in this; what parts did the other people play; what was the result.
Stage 2: Feelings
At this stage try to recall and explore the things that were going on inside your head, i.e. why does this event stick in your mind? Include e.g. how you were feeling when the event started; what you were thinking about at the
time; how did it make you feel; how did other people make you feel; how did you feel about the outcome of the event; what do you think about it now.
Stage 3: Evaluation
Try to evaluate or make a judgement about what has happened. Consider what was good about the experience and what was bad about the experience or didn't go so well
Stage 4: Analysis
Break the event down into its component parts so they can be explored separately. You may need to ask more detailed questions about the answers to the last stage. Include e.g. what went well; what did you do well; what did others do well; what went wrong or did not turn out how it should have done; in what way did you or others contribute to this
Stage 5: Conclusion
This differs from the evaluation stage in that now you have explored the issue from different angles and have a lot of information to base your judgement. It is here that you are likely to develop insight into you own and other people's behaviour in terms of how they contributed to the outcome of the event. Remember the purpose of reflection is to learn from an experience. Without detailed analysis and honest exploration that occurs during all the previous stages, it is unlikely that all aspects of the event will be taken into account and therefore valuable opportunities for learning can be missed. During this stage you should ask yourself what you could have done differently.
Stage 6: Action Plan
During this stage you should think yourself forward into encountering the event again and to plan what you would do – would you act differently or would you be likely to do the same?
Here the cycle is tentatively completed and suggests that should the event occur again it will be the focus of another reflective cycle

Author steadysue
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#3 | Posted: 23 Jul 2009 23:02 
Hi,
I agree with you that a reflective account for this unit is daunting.
I get my candidates to do a little bit in each reflective account they do. So, say they have described how they moved a service user, I ask them to reflect on how they did the task, could they have done better? did they find the task difficult for some personal reason? was service user happy with what they did, was any training useful? how was it useful? did they feel they could have done with some more training and if they did how did they use sepervision to address this. Just a short paragraph at the end of each reflective account will soon add up to an impressive amount of evidence.
Steadysue

Author fayeandtoothy
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#4 | Posted: 25 Jul 2009 23:21 
thankyou

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