Gibbs Reflective Cycle In Nursing

As a nurse, reflection is a vital part of our learning (NMC, 2015). Reflection teaches people to look back on events and helps to separate the good from the bad. This, in turn, enables us to better ourselves and future practice as health care practitioners. Gibbs reflective cycle uses six stages, description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and finally action planning. This theory provides a useful insight into reflection and how to use it effectively to gain the most from our experiences in a clinical setting.
Within any health and social care team, it is vital that we understand what a team is and how to efficiently work as part of a team. “ A team is a small number of people with complimentary skills who are committed to a

The task at hand, was to create a presentation which would include some of the barriers and facilitators within inter-professional teams. My team consisted of two adult nurses, physiotherapists, optometrists and myself- a mental health nurse. Initially, when we were given the task, I assumed that it would be a straight forward task and no issues would arise. I quickly discovered that I was far from correct. As a team we faced many barriers that we would need to overcome in order to complete the assignment. . In the beginning, we decided to allocate specific topics to each individual group member in order to enhance our findings. This worked extremely well for my team as timescales and availability to exchange findings was extremely sparse. It enabled us to divide the work load equally and gain a large amount of research. Due to the mass difference in our timetables it was difficult for us to overcome timescale barriers when setting dates to meet. However, we managed each week to dedicate mutual time to discuss our research findings and begin to design the poster and plan the

He also states that we tend to take on more than one role and can sometimes take on too many roles which can result in a stressful work load. I found this to be true when working within my team. I decided that I would take the creative position and design the poster on behalf of my group. Initially, I did not find this stressful until a conflict within my group arose over the content and aesthetics of the poster. Understandably each individual will have different opinions on the poster design as a whole. To overcome this within the group, I asked for each member to develop one design concept and I would complete the poster using each agreed aspect. In Turn, this ended the conflict and resulted in each person being pleased with the final outcome. On reflection, by taking charge of the poster design and creative side of the assignment, I freed up time and removed stress from the other team members which allowed them to focus on the other tasks at hand. However, in hindsight, there was a point close to the deadline where I began to feel stressed and isolated. I believe that this situation potentially could have been avoided if I had communicated better with my team and received some help when finalising the poster. Nevertheless, my group were supportive and happy with the final poster which lifted our spirits in time for the