The third week has allowed me to see my progression from when I started to now, it has allowed me to learn from previous experience in my work by reflecting every week knowing the amount of depth to include and showing an understanding in my blogs. This can help within a health and social care setting as you cannot dwell on mistakes, you have to simply pick yourself up and learn from the mistake to ensure you make the right decision the next time to fulfil all of the service user’s needs.
We started to look at reflection to make us feel more comfortable in what we were doing. We then went onto learning about theories which helped develop further information because it explained through different opinions. Kolb (1984) states that learning involves …show more content…
By understanding the 6 steps this can benefit my future ambition for when I am in a situation where I am communicating to a service user one to one if any mistakes are made there is always time to reflect and improve on the way it has been interpreted. From this if you do not improve on your communication it can mean service users start to feel frustrated as they will feel they are not being listened to and only spoken at. Therefore this could lead a diminished life chance as they will not want to go and receive the care as they are not being understood. Although I felt confident with the theory when me and four of my peers undertook an activity where two of us spoke about a random subject the other two recorded. This made me realise that different locations can be a barrier of communication because of different words people use for different things for example I said ‘shut up’ I was not saying shut up to make someone be quiet, it is a phrase I use for when I am shocked. The girl I was speaking to didn’t interpret it the way I said it to her because it is not something she would normally say, therefore I reflected on this and have realised for the future I need to improve on this as there will be service users from different locations which means I will need to adapt to their way of
We started to look at reflection to make us feel more comfortable in what we were doing. We then went onto learning about theories which helped develop further information because it explained through different opinions. Kolb (1984) states that learning involves …show more content…
By understanding the 6 steps this can benefit my future ambition for when I am in a situation where I am communicating to a service user one to one if any mistakes are made there is always time to reflect and improve on the way it has been interpreted. From this if you do not improve on your communication it can mean service users start to feel frustrated as they will feel they are not being listened to and only spoken at. Therefore this could lead a diminished life chance as they will not want to go and receive the care as they are not being understood. Although I felt confident with the theory when me and four of my peers undertook an activity where two of us spoke about a random subject the other two recorded. This made me realise that different locations can be a barrier of communication because of different words people use for different things for example I said ‘shut up’ I was not saying shut up to make someone be quiet, it is a phrase I use for when I am shocked. The girl I was speaking to didn’t interpret it the way I said it to her because it is not something she would normally say, therefore I reflected on this and have realised for the future I need to improve on this as there will be service users from different locations which means I will need to adapt to their way of