New medicines service (NMS) reflection
This reflection was done using the Gibbs reflective cycle. It has six steps including Description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and finally the action plan. The description section is an introduction to the contents of the reflection, ensuring the reader gets a foundational understanding of the materials. In the Feelings section, I can discuss how I felt about an incident/activity that occurred. The evaluation section allows me to assess the positives/negatives of the way I handled the situation. Then the analysis section is for me to consider steps I could take starting from now that allow me to improve. The conclusion section is for me to bring all the elements of the reflection together. Finally, the Action Plan section is there for me to decide what I would like to do in the future.
Description
As part of my third-year pharmacy practice module which I study at the university of Huddersfield, I just finished a New Medicines Service (NMS) exercise. The aim of this exercise was for those involved to consider communication skills, adherence to medication taking and the application of the NMS. Those involved included pharmacy students in their first year of study and students in their third year of university, with the first years acting as patients and the third years acting as the pharmacist.
First of all, I was allocated to my first year and prior to the first meeting with the patient I had already assessed the
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)
I will structure this essay using Gibbs Model of Reflection (Gibbs 1988). Reflective learning helps practitioners analyse their experiences and how they think and feel about them before
Mackie (2013) also explains that The Gibbs' reflective cycle (1988) encourages a clear description of the situation, analysis of feelings, evaluation of the experience and an analysis to make sense of the experience. This helped me when reflecting on my own professional practice as it allowed me to look at each individual feeling on how I felt in the situation and took look at how I can improve on my practice for next time I am in the same or similar situation. I agree with using this model for looking at how to improve teaching techniques as It allowed me to look at what I did wrong as well as what went well, and I would keep the same. This was a good reflective method for me as the teacher who was observing me during my placement allowed me to repeat the same work activity each week to allow me to improve and adapt different teaching methods that work best for the children. For example, using picture exchange communication as well as talking to a child to help them eye contact and communication skills. I also had a one to one talk about my teaching practices and she gave me some ideas and different techniques and approaches for where I could improve on my teaching practices and what I did well. Paige Smith and Craft said, “This should promote an awareness of the multiplicity
In this work I want to reflect the situation taken place during the last semester to develop and utilize my personal skills needed to maintain the relationships with other team members. Gibbs (1988) Reflective cycle is used to reflect in an effective way. I am using this model because it is a recognized framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988) contains six stages to complete the cycle which improves my personal skills continuously and learning for the best practices in future. As Gibbs cycle moves forward the first stage describes the situation where the team members work together, next stage looks the feelings of members about the work and third stage involves the analysis of the feelings of team members. The fourth stage is the analysis to make the sense of experience, 5th stage includes the outcome of team work and the final stage involves the action plan for the situation if it arose again. This kind of reflection generated the practice knowledge which assisted me to work with my team members and adapt the new situation during the work. The team work generated a sense of satisfaction and developed professional practices. My team
The model of reflection chosen for this essay is Gibbs’ reflective cycle (1988). This model has been chosen as it has clear systematic headings; it allows the individual to reflect precisely and accurately, (Jasper, 2003). The Gibbs’ reflective cycle incorporates 6 stages of refection (figure 2), (Rolfe et al, 2011).
Effective reflection helps the practitioner to see the situation from an outsider's perspective, so that they can develop a better way to respond to a similar scenario in the future. Reflection is meant to achieve a change in practice, rather than simply repeating the same mistakes (Schon, 1983). Many different models exist for structuring the reflective process. Regardless of the framework used, the reflection models are meant to accomplish three things. They are supposed to promote reflecting on events, self-evaluation and analysis, and a plan to change actions in the future. This Reflective essay will utilize Driscoll's 'The What?' model as its structure (Driscoll, 1994). This model has three components"
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