CPD in Healthcare: Benefits, Principles, and Planning

This presentation discusses the importance of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in healthcare. It covers the core concepts of CPD, differences between training and development, identifying individual mandatory training and development needs, benefits of CPD, principles of CPD, creating a CPD plan to improve own and staff training & development, and facilitating CPD and linking it to institutional development.

Unit 29
Human Resource
Management in
HealthCare

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
Differences between Training and Development
Identifying individual mandatory training and development needs
Benefits of CPD
Principle of CPD
Individual responsibility
Benefits of service user
Improve the quality of service delivery
Balance and relevant to each person area of practice or employment
Relevance of CPD
CPD plan to improve own and staff training & development
Facilitating CPD and linking it to Institutional Development
CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION
Continuing Professional Development is the process of progressing for
development, maintaining, and documenting your professional skills. Will
discuss here about the difference between training and development and will
also see the benefits behind these development programs are like it will built
confidence as professionals will be updated about new trends.

What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
They are the learning activities that professionals need to be upgrade their
working potentials. It consist of short term courses,e-learning programs,
workshops,webinars or guest lectures. To get good in the development program
one should first have proper plan what is the need for it, resource required,
analyse the outcome you get.

Differences between Training and Development
Training Development
• Training is the process of learning that
enhance interest of professionals to learn
updated or new skills required for the
modification of their strength.
• This is a short term process usually last for 3
weeks to 2 months.
• Training is conducted to make professional
updated or skilled towards the required role.
• This is provided to uplift skills according to
new trends.
• Development is process of proper tutoring that
is required for the overall evolution other
professionals or employee.
• This a long process, needs more time and
professional should be focussed enough.
• During development, focus is towards the
candidate, proper analysation of employee is
done and then suitable development program
is provided to built career. It is provided to
built the concepts.

Identifying individual mandatory training
and development needs
Purpose of these development programs are to make professionals up to date according
to the market trends or demands, boost their performance in required work profile,
guide professionals about how to use the acquired knowledge and help others also.
Professionals take part in training sessions to get employee promotions By these
programs professionals get opportunity to more analyse themselves which help them to
work towards their weakness. Programs are set to uplift their capabilities on the
professional ground.

Benefits of CPD
By registering with CPD program one can uplift their skills and knowledge
required according to the customer demands, you become more modernize
according to the market demand, it can also lead to early evaluation in work
space. Professionals can easily understand the barriers and how to overcome
them, updated skills give you more confidence and interest in your field of
work which is directly link to your feasibility and increase in capital due to
good and effective work you perform(Yaqub, and et. al.,2020).

Principle of CPD
CPD is design to guide individuals and employers for improvement,
development and improve outcome for service user. There are some principle in
CPD such as

Individual responsibility
Individual is responsible for planing, carry out, applying and reflecting on
lifelong learning and continuing professional development. It encourage and
supports access to resources when they are needed.

Benefits of service user
It provide new learning, skills and knowledge that can be added in existing
skills and also provide opportunities to start best practice.

Improve the quality of service delivery
Improving in learning knowledge and skills can leads to improve the quality of
service delivery and reduce risks.

Balance and relevant to each person area
of practice or employment
Learning should includes activities across the some area such as evidence
research development, leadership, business and social management and
evidence research and development.

Relevance of CPD
CPD is important for new learning, skills and knowledge to stay up to date with
changing trends.
▪ Stay up to date with changing trends
▪ Become more effective in workplace
▪ Maintain and enhance knowledge to supply a better service
▪ Advance the body of knowledge within profession
▪ increase interested in profession

CPD plan to improve own and staff training &
development
The CPD plan is quite essential for an organization as it can aid a person, an
organization as well as whole industries to effectively maintain as well as
develop the skills and knowledges, but it can also aid the workers adapt towards
the alterations within organization. As a motivational tool, a CPD plan can
enhances the working capability of both the care managers and workers as well,
can encourage their confidence, can strengthen their professional credibility as
well as aid the workers to become more creative in facing the difficulties or
challenges within healthcare organization.

Facilitating CPD and linking it to Institutional
Development
The continuing professional development within healthcare is generally crucial
for allowing the healthcare professionals to acquire as well as apply the
effective skills which are relevant for sustaining a person-centred as well as an
effective and safe care. The CPD can entails the healthcare professionals
participating in daily skills renewal to match the alterations within the
healthcare requirements and their complexity as well. In this, using a result
based approach to effectively assess the effectiveness of the CPD is generally a
narrow pathway of understanding its influence.

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that CPD is a motivational tool that
can aid the care staff workers as well as the managers to build their skills and
confidence levels for a productive outcome. It can generally remind the human
resource professional their own development as well.

REFERENCES
▪ Färber, C. and Johnson, A., 2006. Continuing professional development.
In Success Strategies for Women in Science (pp. 19-35). Academic Press.
▪ Gottlieb, M., et. al., 2020. Rethinking the approach to continuing professional
development conferences in the era of COVID-19. Journal of Continuing
Education in the Health Professions, 40(3), pp.187-191.