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Evidence Based Practice Reflection Paper

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Evidence based practice is a vital component of professional development as it provides a framework in which practitioners can incorporate clinical expertise, best research evidence and patient values to provide the most appropriate and efficient service to their patients (Upton and Upton, 2006). A rigorous development process is required to develop an evidence based guideline (EBG) which is a valuable and accurate guidance on best clinical practice. This paper is a reflection of an Occupational therapy student who developed an Evidence based guideline (EBG) with a team. It will include the process that was undertaken to develop the guideline, the methods of assessing and appraising articles with a team to highlight any significant events …show more content…

Our team consisted of Occupational therapy students who had established a rapport with each other due to the social dynamic of our cohort. During the formation of our group we all completed a Belbin (1993) team roles questionnaire to characterise each member's key attributes. The results from Self-perception Inventory (SPI) determined my role as the co-ordinator and resource investigator, which emphasised my role of delegating work and finding innovative ideas. However it is difficult to conclude weather the roles that we were given from the test accurately reflected our attributes as some team role descriptions had similar features (Mathieu et al., 2014). We identified that we had a variety of Belbin roles in the group which allowed us to designate our project tasks depending on each members strengths. Our team consisted of seven members and we decided to pair up in groups of twos and threes for the appraisal process based on our confidence in using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme tool (CASP, 2013). Due to the odd number of people in our group I teamed up with two fellow

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