Critical Reflection on Working with Another Practitioner

Identifying individuals in the student's care

Summative: Written Assignment – 3000 words. A critical reflection on your scenario developed from your practice experience. Your scenario will focus on working with another practitioner from a different occupation.

Identifying an individual in the student’s care (patient/client/service-user/learner/research participant)

Identifying an individual in a peer relationship or senior relationship (e.g. mentor, colleague).

Identifying a local area within the institution (e.g. Unit/ward/team)

Identifying an institution (e.g. trust, school, local authority)

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

LO 1 Critically evaluate systems, models and principles for working collaboratively and effectively with other professions and agencies

LO 2 Develop a critical understanding of the skills, knowledge, values and attributes necessary for inter-professional practice, for self and others

LO 3 Develop a systematic understanding and critical awareness of the legal and policy framework and contemporary literature pertaining to IPP

LO 4 Show a conceptual and reflexive understanding of the causes of failures in health and social care, their meaning to service users, carers and professionals and what best practice is.

This is a 5 minute presentation using PowerPoint to explore your scenario you have developed from your practice experience. The scenario is to describe an event where you worked with another practitioner from another occupation. It is suggested that you use a maximum of 2 PowerPoint slides to keep within the timeframe.

Feedback from students and the module leader will focus on your scenario, not on your presentation style. Feedback will be constructive and developmental, and will enable you to form your final, summative, written assignment.

Summative Assignment – 3000 words +/- 10%

Written Assignment. A critical reflection on your scenario developed from your practice experience. Your scenario will focus on working with another practitioner from a different occupation.

Guidance Notes: Your scenario:

The scenario needs to focus on one piece of work that you carried out working jointly with another practitioner. The aim is to explore your relationship with that practitioner. Please write in the first person (eg, ‘I’)

What happened? What was the situation? What was my role? What did I plan to achieve? What did I do? Who was present? What was their role? What did they do? How did it end?

Do not attempt to explore how you, or others, may have felt in your description.

Guidance Notes: Critical Reflection on the scenario

Identifying individuals in a peer relationship or senior relationship

This should reflect (using the first person ‘I’) on what your scenario describes.

Useful questions to help you structure your critical reflection:

What was I thinking during the event, and after the event? What was I feeling during and after the event? What do I think about those who were present? How did others make me feel? How did the ending make me feel?

The essay needs consider the following themes and explore them only if they are relevant to your scenario (all may be relevant, or only some, depending on your experience):

·Aims of interprofessional practice (and definition)

·The importance of supporting service users/patients

·The core values of interprofessional practice

·Professional accountability duty of care

·The legislation framing practice

·Competency

·Current issues affecting the workplace

Relate clearly to your scenario

·What can go wrong (serious case reviews)

·Professional hierarchy and power

Was this evident in your scenario?

·Communication

·Team working

·Emotional competence and elegant challenging

·Confidence in sharing information

Relate clearly to your scenario

·Please use the Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area in your Blackboard module shell.

·Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

·You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

·Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment. ave you read and understood the assessment criteria?

Have you met the learning outcomes? You will lose marks and your work may even be failed if you have not.

Have you demonstrated you can think and write critically in the completed work?     This means you have supported your arguments/explanations appropriately e.g. using relevant academic sources and you have offered discussion points which extends your own or others’ viewpoints to make reasoned conclusions/judgements.

Have you maintained an academic tone throughout your work? Is your work formal, focused, developed and clear?

Have you checked that the referencing in your assignment is in line with your programme requirements?

Have you proof-read your work and used spellcheck software to check your spelling   and grammar?

Have you checked the presentation of your work is as specified by your tutor, for example, are font size, colour, style, line spacing and margins as the tutor specified?

Have you kept to the word count (or equivalent)? If you are not sure, check with your tutor.

Can you confirm that the work submitted is your own and not plagiarised?