Placement Success: Building Relationships & Handling Challenges

This presentation outlines the top five crucial actions for succeeding in a professional placement, emphasizing the importance of building supportive relationships at the workplace and maintaining professional ethics, values, and autonomy. It highlights strategies for building professional relationships, such as listening to experts, being patient, and interacting with mentors and staff. The presentation also addresses managing difficult situations by identifying problems, communicating with the appropriate individuals, reflecting on feedback, seeking support, and developing effective strategies. The aim is to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to navigate challenges, enhance their professional development, and achieve placement success. Desklib provides resources like past papers and solved assignments to further support student learning.

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Top five things that has to be done in placement
The placement feels like the never ending struggle. This is that phase in which the
questions such as, “Will I be able to do it right”, “What if the mistakes has been made by me”,
“What if I fail” and so on. Such questions keep revolving in mind. The major elements that has
to be keep focus along with performing at the time of placement includes:
Supportive relationship at workplace- I will keep a focus on implementing the effective
relationship at workplace. In healthcare, along with treating the patient it is important to
understand the client as well. Also, maintaining the supportive relation with the another service
providers is important as well. As it assures the sign of professionalism. Thus, this element is
important in placement.
Ways of building the professional relationship
Professional relationship refers to maintaining the relation at the workplace. In the
placement of the students it is important to maintain the professional relationship as healthcare is
concerned about high professionalism. The professional relationship can be maintained in these
ways:
Maintaining ethics, values and autonomy- In healthcare, the keen focus has been made over the
value, ethics and autonomy elements. Medical experts are concerned about these things as it adds
in the professional development of the service providers. The professional relationship can be
build within performing the ethics and values towards the healthcare professionals.
Listening to the experts- In placement, medical experts analyse different cases to the students so,
the students can become aware about the different types of cases comes in healthcare. In order to
build professional relationship it is important to listen all the experts with full concentration. It
impacts the image as well. The medical experts are highly professional and do not like the
disturbing behaviour. Therefore, it is important to listen the experts with full concentration.

Be patient- Patience is the key that takes towards the success. Maybe the first week of the
placement has not been proven good. But, the patience is the sign of developing the professional
character. There is a chance that, medical experts provide the feedback that affects the practices.
In such situation, being patient and listening to the advice of the experts helps in maintaining and
building the professional relationship.
Interact with the mentor and staff- There are many difficulties that arise in the placement that
can affect the professionalism pattern. In such situation, it is important to interact with the
mentor and staff as it leads to create the sense of comfort and also helps in maintaining the
professional relation at the workplace.

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Managing the difficult situations
In placement the difficulties arrive in front of the students and it can be managed in these ways:
Identification of the problem- The first step is to identify the problems that is arriving in the
placement whether it is related to the understanding of the patient of performing the use of
medical instrument. Also, it may-be related to the communication with the experts. The major
step is to identify the problem that is creating the difficulty.
Communicating with the appropriate person- Next step is to communicate the problem with the
accurate person. It can be communicable with the clinical educator, academic advisor or the
student support service.
Reflection over feedback- After communicating the problem with the appropriate person the
suggestion that has been given by them has to be taken inconsideration. So, the improvement can
be made and the difficulties can be solved.
Support from the accurate person- The support has to be taken from the supportive person it can
be mentor or the medical professionals. Their support helps in solving the issue.
Developing strategies- The strategies in order to solve the problems has to be developed. Also,
this has to make sure that such strategies. The strategies are just not limited to solving the current
issue. It has to be designed in such manner that in future the problems can be sorted in easy
manner and helps in enhancing the professional development along with learning of the
professional skills.
The above steps help in managing the hurdles that comes in the placement. The difficulties can
be face within ensuring the full dedication in solving of the issues.

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