Assignment: Reflection Journal
Professional Practice - Year 3 - CA Brief - Reflective Journal
Length: 2,500 to 3,000 words.
• It is essential that social care workers exercise a professional duty of care. Explain what is meant by ‘professional duty of care'. Drawing on the CORU Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Social Care, describe 3 specific examples of how your social care practice within your practice experience has demonstrated a professional duty of care. (This links with CORU proficiency 1.6 - Be able to exercise a professional duty of care.)
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• It is essential that social care workers exercise a professional duty of care. Explain what is meant by ‘professional duty of care'. Drawing on the CORU Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Social Care, describe 3 specific examples of how a social care worker might demonstrate a professional duty of care.. (This links with CORU proficiency 1.6 - Be able to exercise a professional duty of care.)
• Making professional decisions is a key part of social care work. Identify a decision that you have made in practice and indicate how this decision was made and how you took personal responsibility and professional accountability for your actions. You may write about a decision which was made by a team. (This links with CORU proficiency 1.17 - Recognise personal responsibility and professional accountability for one's own actions and be able to justify professional decisions made.)
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• Making professional decisions is a key part of social care work. Identify a decision in a case study that you have read about. What was the decision-making process? What went right or what went wrong in relation to decision making in this case? Your case study should be taken from an academic source (book, report or journal article). (This links with CORU proficiency 1.17 - Recognise personal responsibility and professional accountability for one's own actions and be able to justify professional decisions made.)
• Social Care workers need to take responsibility for managing our own health and well -being. Write about an incident or situation which may have posed a challenge to your health and/or well-being in your placement and detail what you did to manage your own health and well-being in this situation. (This links with CORU proficiency 1.20 - Be aware of and take responsibility for managing one's own health and well being.)
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• Social Care workers need to take responsibility for managing our own health and well - being. Write about how social care work can pose a challenge to a social care workers health and/or well-being and detail some strategies to manage our own health and well-being as social care workers. (This links with CORU proficiency 1.20 - Be aware of and take responsibility for managing one's own health and well being.)
• Discuss what is meant by practicing in a ‘non-judgemental manner'. Show how you have been able to maintain a non-judgemental attitude with one particular service user over the course of your placement. What were the challenges involved in this and how did you overcome such challenges? How have you communicated this non-judgemental attitude? (This links with CORU proficiency 1.22 - Be able to see the world as other's see it; be able to practice in a non-judgemental manner and be able to understand another's feelings and be able to communicate that understanding.)
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• Discuss what is meant by practicing in a ‘non-judgemental manner'. Why is it important to practice with unconditional positive regard and empathy? What are the challenges to maintaining a non-judgemental manner? How can a social care worker communicate this non-judgemental attitude? (This links with CORU proficiency 1.22 - Be able to see the world as other's see it; be able to practice in a non-judgemental manner and be able to understand another's feelings and be able to communicate that understanding.)
• Identify 3 specific examples of how your own values, life experiences, attitudes and personal characteristics have had an impact on your interactions with service users over the course of your placement. Talk about where these aspects of your ‘self' originated. Explain the impact on your practice. Identify how you have managed this impact appropriately within your placement. (This is linked to CORU proficiency 4.4 - Understand and recognise the impact of personal values and life experience on professional practice and to be able to manage this impact appropriately.)
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• Identify 3 specific examples of how your own values, life experiences, attitudes and personal characteristics may have an impact on your interactions with service users over the course of your social care career. Talk about where these aspects of your ‘self' originated. Explain the possible impact on your practice. Identify how you plan to manage this impact appropriately in your social care practice. (This is linked to CORU proficiency 4.4 - Understand and recognise the impact of personal values and life experience on professional practice and to be able to manage this impact appropriately.)
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.