Six Stages Of Gibbs Model

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Six stages of Gibbs reflective cycle
1) Description
Describe as a matter of fact just what happened during your critical incident or chosen episode for reflection.
2) Feelings
What were you thinking and feeling at the time?
3) Evaluation
List points or tell the story about what was GOOD and what was BAD about the experience.
4) Analysis
What sense can you make out of the situation. What does it mean?
5) Conclusion
What else could you have done. What should you perhaps not have done.
6) Action Plan
If it arose again, what would you do differently. How will you adapt your practice in the light of this new understanding?
Six stages of GIBBS Reflective Cycle CASE 2
1) Description
Describe as a matter of fact just what happened during your critical incident or chosen episode for reflection.
Working on an ambulance with my colleague, we received a call to a nursing home for an elderly female "fallen". When we arrived on scene we were met by staff who informed us that the lady had missed her seat as she went to sit down and landed heavily on the floor. Approaching the female I could see that the area she had landed on was carpeted and that she was of slight build and elderly and seemed in a great deal of pain. Her RIGHT leg was shortened and rotated.
2) Feelings
What were you thinking and feeling at the time?
My first concern was that this lady had obviously sustained a RIGHT hip fracture and had the potential of a serious internal bleed. I was also concerned whether it was indeed a simple 'slip' or whether there was any underlying condition that had caused her fall. Rao SS (2005) stated that causes of falls in older people are usually multi factoral but can include: Accident and environmental hazards 31%, Gait and balace disorders 17%, Dizzines and vertigo 13% Drop attack 9%, Confusion 5%, Visual disorders 2%, Syncope 0.3%, Arthritis, acute

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