Since one of the most important issues on the agenda of the mankind is the state of people’s health, the issue of health promotion is important as ever. With help of efficient reflective practice, the modern medicine and health care system will be likely to change the situation. Therefore, the issues concerning the reflective practice are to be studied thoroughly to realize what effect the practice will produce.
One of the prior goals would be to define the very notion of health practice. Without knowing well what the phenomenon presupposes, one ill not be able to analyze its components. According to what Keith Tones, this is a “quasi-political movement and professional activity”, the “militant wing of Public Health” (Tones 2).
Therefore, connected with both political and health issues, this invention is likely to spread worldwide to enhance the growth of health care level all over the world.
The first and, perhaps, the foremost aspect of the health practice, or health visiting, is the process of search for health needs (Robotham 264). Only after identifying the problematic issues of the given person, one can start the effective healing process.
The next thing that one should pay specific attention to is the relative autonomy of the health practice. Indeed, once starting the healing process, one must be ready for the change of health condition; therefore, the schedule established for the health practice period must be flexible enough.
Another idea that can be quite useful when creating specific health practice approach is creativity. Applying to certain norms of the health care does signify that it is the professional who is tackling the problem; yet the person creating the scheme of the health practice schedule must also make good use of his/her imagination. Otherwise, there will be no effect in the practice.
Another thing that one must think of is adjusting the healing practice process to the peculiarities of the patient. Knowing the weak and the strong points of the patient’s health, a doctor can be absolutely sure about the course of procedures that (s)he prescribes to the given person. Once missing an important fact about the patient’s organism, a doctor can make a serious mistake that will drag the most deplorable consequences.
Making the patient realize his/her health problems also demands certain time and skills. In certain cases, people merely fail to realize their real problem, laying the blame on the other factors. Thus, a chain smoker would rather consider that his health problems are connected with the contaminated environment than with his uncontrollable habit.
Therefore, making the patient aware of his problem is one of the core issues of the reflective practice. Without this element, one cannot achieve success in the reflective practice with a certain patient. Thus, specific plan must be worked out to create the pattern of a worthy reflective practice.
One must also keep in mind that reflective practice is impossible without specific tools designed to help the patient. Applying various approaches, combining traditional means with innovative methods of health practice, one must create a reflective practice paradigm to follow and the tools to achieve the goal.
Combined of the abovementioned elements, reflective practice is designed to solve the most complicated health issues. Helping people realize their problems and solve them, a doctor can help the patients forget about their health problems. With effective health practice, the mankind is one step closer to solving the basic health complicacies.
Reference List
Robotham, A. & Frost, M. (2005) Health Visit: Specialist Community Public Health Nursing. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Health Sciences.
Tomes, K. & Tilford, s. (2001) Health Promotion: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity. Cheltenham, UK: Nelson Thornes.