Reflect on and Improve Own Professional Practice

This assignment focuses on the importance of continuing professional development (CPD) for personal and professional growth. It includes a description of CPD opportunities, evaluation of current skills, and setting SMART goals. The assignment also provides a professional development plan.

Reflect on and Improve
Own Professional
Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Project one.......................................................................................................................................1
Summary of three (3) CPD opportunities...............................................................................1
An internet search and source two (2) sites............................................................................2
Project Two......................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation of skill and SMART goals....................................................................................2
Part 3................................................................................................................................................3
Professional development plan...............................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Continuing professional development is crucial for all individuals as it a way that lead to
many opportunities to grow and prosper more effectively and also lead to better personal and
professional development (Mollica & Hyman, 2016). The current assignment includes a
description about CPD opportunities along with evaluation of current skills and setting goals. At
last a professional development plan is also included in this assignment.
Project one
Summary of three (3) CPD opportunities
The current assignment is based on continuing professional development for a nursing
career that would lead to a range of professional development opportunities in their field. The
three main CPD opportunities currently prevailing in nursing career are discussed below:
 Learning actions to treat a patient of low back pain that would help in diagnosing low
back pain through targeted history and physical examination. The main target audience
for this learning or CPD plan are the middle age individuals which are above the age of
40 and are suffering from serve back pain due to their long sitting hours of work or any
other reason (Ignatavicius & Chung, 2016).
 The other CPD opportunity prevailing in nursing areas is associated with real time
perception monitoring (SafeScript) that provides a training to prescribers and pharmacist
on the use of Safescript system. It basically targets those patients who are taking high risk
medicines on a regular basis thus, aim at motivating them and showing them the risk of
taking these medicines to take better care of their health. This would also refresh the
knowledge of nurses on alternative options for managing chronic pain, anxiety and
insomnia, including non-pharmacological approaches and other lower risk
pharmacological treatments thus facilitates better growth opportunity for them.
 Further learning techniques for safety through reporting at the time of emergency are also
a suitable CPD opportunity for nursing career that enables a nurse to report adverse
events to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to ensure patient safety and
address other issues. This target those patient and individuals who are situated at remote
places and require urgent medical treatment and care to get aid and better health.
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An internet search and source two (2) sites
The internet search and two (2) sources sites that could be accessed to provide resources
for professional development are as follows:
1) CPD for nurses. 2020. [Online] Available Through:<
https://www.nps.org.au/cpd/professions/nurses>.
MedicineWise is having copyright of this online site that is providing independent,
evidence-based information about medicines, medical tests and other health technologies for all
Australians to get information about the recent CPD for nurses.
2) What is CPD?. 2020. [Online] Available Through:< https://www.apna.asn.au/education/what-
is-cpd>.
The copyright of this site is with Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association
(APNA) that is facilitating crucial and vital information about CPD for nurse and providing Data
Quality Education for Primary Health Care Nurses to ensure there better development and
growth.
Project Two
Evaluation of skill and SMART goals
My current skills as a nurse includes effective time management, critical thinking, teamw9rk
and effective communication thus, I have sufficient sift skills but I required to improve my
professional and hard skills that includes better medical leaning thus, the smart objectives set by
me are as follows:
 To get better knowledge about treatment and diagnosis of a patient of low back pain
within 6 months to enhance my nursing ability.
 To develop effective learning techniques for safety through reporting in coming 8 months
that is necessary to handle an emergency situation and it would also improve my
communication and time management skills through making me able to handle and report
safety of patient at appropriate time and in effective manner.
The strategies that are prepared by me for attaining theses goals includes participating in
some effective workshops, professional networks, seminars along with attaining CPD
programmes to develop and have better growth opportunity. The estimated time required to
attain these skills and learning is around 6-8 months of effective learning but to get expertise and
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betterment in these skills a total of 12 months can be required. The use of various human
resources in form of instructor and physical resources like online classes and other learning
modes would also be made by me to accomplish and achieve my targets.
Part 3
Professional development plan
Area of
Improveme
nt
Activity Aims,
objectives,
outcomes
Delivery
mode
Timeframe Indicators
for success
Benefit to
practice
Medial
Knowledge
Treatment
and
diagnosis of
low back
pain
The main
aim of this
learning is
to enhance
the medical
knowledge
and target
larger
number of
patient who
are
suffering
from this
commonly
seen pain.
The
activities
and
strategies
made for
delivery
and achieve
this goal
includes use
of risk
stratificatio
n approach
to identify
risk factors
for poor
prognosis
for patients
who are
suffering
with low
back pain.
It also
The
expected
time
duration set
to achieve
this goal is
8 months
Indicator
for success
includes
enhanced
ability to
assess and
identify the
limited role
of imaging
for low
back pain.
The benefit
of this
prcatises
would lead
to attract
and target
larger
number of
patients for
having
better
professional
developmen
t and also
ensures
higher
carrier
opportunitie
s.
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includes
attainting
better
workshop
and
learning
session to
enlace my
medical
skills.
Communicat
ion and
reporting
skills
learning
techniques
for safety
through
reporting
To enhance
reporting
and
communica
tion skills
to handle an
emergency
situation in
a better
way.
The plan
and strategy
for delivery
and
achievemen
t of this
goal
includes
learning
about
quality use
of medical
test to
develop
core skills
through
proper CPD
programme
and
learning
workshop.
The time
taken to
improve
this skills is
around 10
months
Effective
communica
tion to
ensures
proper
reporting of
diagnose
diseases
and
information
about other
reports of
patient.
Would
improve my
communica
tion and
reporting
skills to
have better
growth and
career
opportunity
in medical
filed.
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CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from above assignment that CPD is a crucial part for every individuals
to achieve better growth and enhanced career opportunities. It has been also find out that
evaluation of current skills along with setting desired gaols are also necessary to have better
professional and personal development. At last, it can be concluded that professional
development plan is made to have continuous development and betterment in skills and
knowledge.
REFERENCES
Books and journal
Ignatavicius, D., & Chung, C. E. (2016). Professional development for nursing faculty:
Assessing transfer of learning into practice. Teaching and learning in nursing. 11(4).
138-142.
Hopia, H. & et. al. (2019). The voice of paediatric oncology nurses: A longitudinal diary study of
professional development. European Journal of Oncology Nursing. 42. 28-35.
Anderson, C., Moxham, L., & Broadbent, M. (2016). Providing support to nursing students in
the clinical environment: a nursing standard requirement. Contemporary nurse. 52(5).
636-642.
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Burke, K. G., Richardson, C., & Smith, B. A. (2017). Implementing Nursing Professional
Development: Scope and Standards of Practice: One Organization’s Journey. Journal for
nurses in professional development. 33(5). 269-271.
Mollica, M. & Hyman, Z. (2016). Professional development utilizing an oncology summer
nursing internship. Nurse education in practice. 16(1). pp.188-192.
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