2. As a future healthcare professional, I understand that practice is very important when we are learning. Reflecting on our practice, what we did well and wrong, can enlighten us on what we have learned, what we must improve on, and what we should do. My favorite model of reflective practice is “The Conscious Competence Learning Model”. This model took my interest since I relate to it. Entering PT, I did not know much about the lectures I was learning, but after a few years, I seem to know more but also not everything. Hence, this model will be relevant in my future practice as well. Studying health conditions is different from handling a real patient, hence I will be exposed to a new environment again where I will not know some things. But after a few months or years after being exposed to patients, I will gain more knowledge and experience and hopefully will be competent in my chosen field. Moreover, in the medical field, there is always something new to learn or experience. Therefore, reflective competence is important to keep up with my future patients to provide them with the best care.

2. Reflecting on practice is essential especially for us future healthcare professionals as it allows us to think about our past actions and decisions regarding our day to day practice and how these affect not only ourselves but more so our patients and clients. Aside from this, it serves as an opportunity for us to determine what areas we can improve on to better our practice. My favorite model is the Gibbs Reflective Cycle because it can be easily applied in our daily activities and it seemed the most useful among the other models. As said in the lecture, this model targets a specific event that transpired in our day which allows us to reflect more deeply regarding such. That said, I can apply this model in my future practice in instances wherein I feel like I made an incorrect decision that may have did more harm to my patient than good. When utilizing this model, I must first understand and describe what happened, and navigate through all my feelings whether positive or negative. From here, I can then identify the good and bad experiences from the event in order for me to analyze and rationalize what occurred and eventually create ideas on how to improve or what to change in the future. Hence, having this kind of thought process during my future practice enables me to become reactive in my experiences which likewise allows the honing of my skills and increases my adaptability for unforeseen situations that I may encounter. 

In any task or paper that our group has to accomplish, we make sure to set a meeting time where everyone is free so that everyone is oriented on what to do. Most of the time, we also have minutes of the meeting for those members who are not able to attend; this allows everyone to be guided even if we are not able to meet synchronously. What went well is the different practices that we were able to employ in order to submit quality outputs on time. Moreover, our team still has a lot of room for improvement to make our team dynamics more effective and efficient.

2. By reflecting on one’s practice, an individual is able to learn new abilities, which enhances skills to adapt to difficulties, make quick decisions, control emotions, and handle stress. For healthcare professionals, it considers our previous experiences and decisions to arrive at the best approach for our clients. The Gibbs Reflective Cycle is my favorite since it explores different stages of experience, specifically description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. It is a cycle where after the action plan, you go back to your experiences and repeat the cycle. It takes into account multiple factors to ensure a proper conclusion. I like this model because it takes up a lot of insight and reflection on a given situation which may be used when in practice. A deeper understanding of these thoughts and experiences may give us the understanding that people have different opinions and beliefs. Using this model, I get to think hard about how to approach every individual considering the many differences we have, Lastly, I can use this model to ultimately improve on myself as I get to revise and change the wrong learnings that I have. 

2. A reflective practice allows an individual to monitor and evaluate his or her progress in their occupational performance. More so with healthcare practitioners like us, a reflective practice is important since we deal with different people on a regular basis. This would allow us to keep an open mind, and evaluate ourselves as a practitioner if we are keeping a good professional relationship with our clients. Moreover, my favorite model of reflective practice would be Gibbs Reflective Cycle as I believe this is an easier and more efficient way of reflecting in our practice as practitioners. It said to target an event that happened in your day (e.g. in the workplace, at home, relation with the other practitioners, etc.), where we reflect on the actions or response we made on that particular event. It also explores stages of experience such as description, feelings, evaluation, conclusion, and action plan. What I like the most about this model is how it includes an action plan where you may directly apply on your daily life instead of it being a mere reflection. To utilize this model, I believe I get to reflect on my values as an individual as I reflect on the experience that I had in that particular event. For example, I would get to utilize this when it comes to clinical reasonings to clients with cases that may affect ethical principles of our healthcare practice. I would get to see the mistakes I have made during rotations and hence, would be able to create an action lan to better myself in the future. Moreover, with this model, I also get to improve myself- not only as a practitioner, but also as an individual of society.

2. Reflection on practice is important for us to know what we are lacking or what we have done wrong and could have done better. It is only through this that we can further improve ourselves and make us better and more competent professionals. Reflection allows us to see especially more from like a different perspective on us doing our practice which will allow us to where there is room for improvement. My favorite model of reflective practice is Gibb’s Reflective Cycle. The reason for this is because while it has 6 stages, it is actually very straightforward. It is basically a step-by-step process in how to reflect on something which I think makes as it really good as a reflective model as it is makes it easier to process and reflect on things. It can also be applied not only to reflection as a professional, but also on a more personal level. 

The most important learning that I was able to obtain upon working on the activities for this course is that: even though we are different professionals who have different tasks, lessons, and learnings from our specific courses, collaborative learning is still very important and in fact, this is what is observed even in work institutions. Because even though we have differences, patient-centered care will still prevail and this entails us to work together to strive to provide the best care that we can give to the patient, and that will be done through collaborative planning and treatment. 

I also realized how important the first activity was (self-introduction and sharing 3 dilemmas encountered) because through that activity, I was able to gauge and know my groupmates a little. It was important because I saw a glimpse of their personality and it helped me on how I can communicate with them during groupworks. This reflects how important it is to know your workmates and build good relationships with them especially during work. 

2. In which areas, personal or professional, will I use what I learned? 

These learnings would definitely be useful in both personal and professional aspects of my life because in this course, my social skills have been challenged. I will use these learnings to be more open to people and their ideas, their criticisms and their experiences. I will be open minded to any suggestions from other people because this is vital in the professional aspect where we apply multidisciplinary interventions to provide care to the client. I will know my limitations in my knowledge but at the same time, have the courage to share my thoughts and opinions on specific matters. In relation to what was mentioned, one of the aspects of the activities in this course that had me a hard time was in developing client care ideas. Interventions are not limited to what is seen in books and is what was taught in the classrooms, but the reality of it is that we have to use our imagination in applying these techniques. That is why when there are questions that require us to formulate interdisciplinary activities for the clients, it is a little challenging given that we still have no experience on this. However, as early as now, I will improve on this so that I will be able to do it well in the future. 

As physical therapists, we are responsible for the reacquiring or developing the gross motor movements of the patients/clients after an injury, or for general well being of the patients. We are tasked to formulate exercises for them that will target their

weaknesses so that as they come out of the clinics, their health and condition will be better. We are also responsible for continuing education, in research and in promoting the health education of the people, through ceaseless study so that we can develop or discover new intervention techniques that will help our patients. 

From one of our previous activities, we had an idea that in some incidents there will be overlap in the tasks of the members of the IPE team; in such that the interventions that they apply are repeated. This is where the value of the role of clarity comes in because when a professional knows what his goals for the patients are, then that is the reason why he is performing the intervention. Knowing your roles will let you identify your limits and when you are needed by the team.

Most of the activities that we did during the synergy, I, and even my groupmates, would agree that we had good teamwork. It was good that most of us had inputs while some listened and also gave suggestions on how we can improve the idea that others gave. We were all open-minded to new suggestions and also hands-on on making the plans happen. It was most observed during the activity of chain making that we were able to execute tasks by helping each other, however, its was also there that improvements could be made. Specifically, planning. All in all, I can apsay that my group exemplifies good teamwork, even in our previous outputs.

2. Why should we reflect on practice? What’s your favorite model of reflective practice? Explain. How can you apply this model in your future practice? 

Gibbs’ model of reflective practice would be the most relevant to me because as I analyze myself, this is what I do most of the time. Upon encountering any dilemma or challenge, I immerse on my feelings about it and this is where I also think about my action plan. Then finally, I execute this action plan. This is very important because as future professionals, we must always reflect on our performance and analyze if we are able to serve our patients and clients well, or if we are able to provide them the care that they deserve to obtain a better lifestyle. Moreover, constant reflective and change is vital in pur profession to also improve techniques and practices. 

In a team, members will be better able to collaborate and work together to accomplish a common objective more quickly when they can communicate clearly with one another. A team that communicates well can exchange ideas, carry out initiatives, and work together more effectively. As a group, we ensure that every of the deliverables are achieved when we plan how to properly execute them which is why we make sure to at least meet one another in a Zoom meeting. During the zoom call, we will talk about what the activity is in order for us to have a clear and common understanding on what we will do. In addition, we distribute tasks based on our potential in such a way that each and every member of the team will confidently contribute their work. If there is one thing that we can improve on how the group communicates is how we manage our deliverables since there was an incident that the group almost forgot to pass an activity. I think with regards to this matter we should assign people on checking and passing the output as well as setting an internal deadline so that we will not cram on the day of the submission.

2. Why should we reflect on practice? What’s your favorite model of reflective practice? Explain. How can you apply this model in your future practice? 

As a future speech language pathologist, we best reflect on our practice when we get to experience them personally especially when we are working with different professionals in our field. The importance of reflecting in our practice is for us to experience success and failure in order for us to learn from it. We all know that our best teacher in life is our experience which will make us responsible for improving and deepening our understanding of our practice. In line with this, we can use the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle model that emphasizes the need to reflect and think about what we have experienced and to learn from that experience. This model can help us in the future when we handle cases that we may have overlooked. We cannot deny that along our journey as a therapist we will get to experience mistakes whether in diagnosing or treating a patient. With this model, we can apply our experience from it by describing the incident, what we felt when we committed the act, evaluate the action, analyze the situation on why it happen, make a conclusion or decide other options, and lastly, create a solution.