Induction and Learning Opportunities in Health and Social Care

Portfolio Project
Module: Educating in Health and Social Care
Module Code: 6HC514
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Activity A: Induction:
Write an account of where you work and how a learner is inducted into your
placement area. Include the learning opportunities you can identify for them. (500
words maximum)
Start your writing from here.
 What kind of placement do you work in?
I work as a band 7 review nurse manager at a continuing healthcare team. My role is
to guide students and other nurses to deliver high quality of services to patients. It is
my duty to ensure that adequate and updated guidelines and policies are developed
in my organisation and to support my team members by motivating and encouraging
them to reach target objectives. I need to ensure that adequate training provision for
my team embers is consider for their continuous professional development and to
enhance their skills and knowledge.

 What learners do you get? (Profession? Year of student programme?)
I get to provide knowledge to band 6 nursers as well as second year students who
are pursuing nursing courses. As a band 7 review nurse manager, I need to provide
knowledge about clinical skills and essential information about nursing. Band 6
nurses are those who are the the first clinical contact of service users in a healthcare
organisation. Thus, as an educator I need to provide them skills of effective
communication and strategies to identify patient problems as they are the first
individuals who get to contact them.
 How do you welcome and induct them on their first day?
In order to welcome and induct my trainees I would first send them a welcome mail
and appreciate my learners for choosing to learn. I will first provide them overall
information about how training program is going to be conduct. After that I will ask
their individual interest areas in my training program. As a trainer, it is my
responsibility to provide them all materials and resources on the very first day of their
joining and will give advice about useful research and reading.
 What learning opportunities are there for learners? (Give up to five examples.)
As a learning opportunity band 6 nursers and nursing students are need to develop a
collaborative partnership with mentor in order to get most out of placement. As it will
help them to adapt with the clinical environment, to develop a intuitive practice and to
be a professionally socialised in the role of a qualified nurse and this help them to
participate independently and to contribute within the team (Mirowsky, 2017).
 Who else might the learner work with (roles in your professional team and
senior / expert staff)?
Apart from a band 7 nurse, learners will get to work with other stakeholders of the
healthcare organisation. Such as team leader, supervisors, healthcare professionals
like nurses of other bands like band 1 nurses, band 4 nurse, band 8 nurse and many
others.
 How do you ensure that the learner is settled in and that learning is taking
place?
In order to ensure that learners are settled I would first find out if they are taking
interest in the training program or not. Other than this, a regular monitoring of
learners will be done in order to know that learning is taking place in the session
(Hojat, 2016). I will try to ask questions with the trainees in mid session.

Activity B: Facilitating Learning:
Critically analyse how you have planned and facilitated learning for a learner or a
group of learners to enhance their learning. Analyse learning theories covered in
the content of the module within this activity. (1000 words maximum)
Start your writing from here.
Clinical facilitation is the most essential aspect for a training program. Planning for
providing knowledge is important because it help educators to ensure that daily tasks
and activities that are going in the learning process are providing students and
nurses with adequate amount of long-term progress towards the objective outlined
within sequence and scope (Reeves and et.al., 2016). In order to provide crucial
knowledge of clinical practices and effective skills to band 6 nurses and nursing
students it is very important to develop a plan and strategies to facilitate learning of
learners. It is important to make overall session effective and beneficial for nurses
and students. Creating a learning plan will rewards both educator and trainees by
allowing them to reach target objectives. Developing a plan refers to creating a
learning environment where learners are aware that they are totally responsible for
what they re learning. A proper nursing process is an effective tool for putting
knowledge of nursing into practice. It is a systematic program for determining the
healthcare needs of patients and for delivering personalized care. However, there
are few steps that are need to be consider for planning and facilitating learning for
Band 6 nurses and students. They are discussed here.
Determine and measure what needs are need to be learned:
All learners need different approaches of teaching that could push them to
learn more. Before creating a personalised plan for the training session, it is
important to determine that what nurses and students know already and what are
there positive areas (Fitzpatrick and et.al., 2015). Determine what type of skills are
needed to be provide for learners will facilitate the learning process and learners will
actively involve in the session.
Set target goals and objectives:
After analysing that what learners are need to learn, it is important to talk with them
and assist them to set some personal learning objectives. As a band 7 nurse
manager, it is my duty to provide guidance to my learning rewarding long term and
short term goals which suits their interest an personalities. Setting gaols will be
helpful and help to motivate learners to perform well and try to gain knowledge with
interest. Setting target goals and objectives of the overall learning session will help to
acquire maximum positive outcomes and will be cost and time effective if everything
is planned prior to the session.
Let learner choose how to learn:
It is very important to develop some methods that focus on multiple learning styles in
order to make overall session creative and effective. It is essential to determine how
learners want to gain knowledge and which style of teaching they are liking the most.
It can be achieve by communicating with them regarding their interest and analyse