Safe and effective practice?

[wowowow]

On mycourse we were offered these questions to think about, and use for our development, and I thought HPers might be interested and have an opinion. My initial thoughts are in italics.Practitioner Research QuestionsWhat makes me a safe and effective practitioner?
What sort of patients am I seeing?


How can I evaluate the benefits of their consulting me?


How can I track adverse events and critical incidents that happen as a result of my treatments?


How am I using these difficult cases and unusual interactions with patients as a learning opportunity?


How well am I communicating with colleagues?


What should my professional aims and objectives be this year........and for the next five years?

What follows are my initial responses.

What makes me a safe and effective practitioner? The best training I can afford, taking into consideration each client's individual needs within a class, and open communication with my clients


What sort of patients am I seeing? For exercise, typically those with low back pain. Also asthmatics, and stressed individuals. For EFT, smokers, phobics, chronically stressed, low self esteem. For Reiki, no specific type.


How can I evaluate the benefits of their consulting me? Communication - verbal, and am working on feed-back responses - perhaps a form. Thisis recorded in a reflective journal and my strengths acknowledged or practice changed as a result of critical analyisis.
Also my observations of howclients hold themselves posturally and spiritually.

How can I track adverse events and critical incidents that happen as a result of my treatments? Self-reflective journal.

How am I using these difficult cases and unusual interactions with patients as a learning opportunity? Treat them as they arise as a learning opportunity - Ok I didn't get it right that time - how can I progress my practice? Do I need more training? Am I taking too much on in terms of work-load?


How well am I communicating with colleagues? Hmm - that's not so easy. I have a small core of colleagues I'm in touch with, and I use my association's forum - trouble is no-one else does much! I think I communicate quite well, but this is something I have to address to make satisfactory - feedback required here.

What should my professional aims and objectives be this y

 

[BendaThor]

Hi Sharon,

I think it's an excellent idea to have some form of guidelines when in practice and i liked the questions above!.

My responses would be:



What makes me a safe and effective practitioner?

My training and years of practising, plus learning new ideas from other practitioners.

What sort of patients am I seeing?

For Reiki, anyone. More recently for EFT anyone who is suffering from anxiety related phobias.

How can I evaluate ther benefits of their consulting me?

By keeping written records/scores of how people felt BEFORE they came to me, how they were feeling BEFORE the actual treatment and then how they felt AFTER the session. This to be done at every appt.

How can I track adverse events and critical incidents that happen as a result of my treatments?

By feedback from my client. Contacting them if they fail to keep an appt. to find out how they are. Follow-up calls as and when needed.




How am I using these difficult cases and unusual interactions with patients as a learning opportunity?
By finding out about other methods that may help the client more than what I am doing. Who to refer on to that would be of more benefit to the client. Therefore building up a network of other therapists.

How well am I communicating with colleagues?
I am happy with the communication I have with my colleagues. We keep in touch by phonecalls now and again, e-mails and events.

What should my professional aims and objectives be this year.. and for the next five years?

To continue in my professional development by reading books, attending workshops etc. In five years I will have moved and started something exciting in my new area!

Thank you for the opportunity of actually putting it all down!

Love and light

reikiangel

xxx