2.2 Describe the importance of reflective practice for healthcare professionals.

It has a huge benefit of increasing self-awareness which is a key component of emotional intelligence and helps in developing a better understanding of co-professionals.
It develops creative thinking skills and active engagement in the work process.
It allows recognizing one's own strengths and weaknesses.
It improves self-motivation and increases the quality of care that healthcare professional provides to a patient.
It is often performed as writing, probably because this allows us to examine our reflections and strengthen them more thoughtfully.

jenifersynergy jenifersynergy · Answer 2 · 2020-02-11T11:55:04+01:00

Importance of reflective practice for healthcare professionals

Explanation:

Reflective practice aids one to learn from self experience. Reflection of our own practice helps one to assess oneself objectively and to find ways to improve. This is a combination of one’s experiences, the learning out of experiences, and the resulting action processes.

In healthcare, reflective practice helps a lot to provide better healthcare and serve better.

Reflections in healthcare practice by healthcare professionals help to think and approach differently, find out what went wrong, any missed or wrong diagnoses, any wrong procedure etc