Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care

This presentation discusses the importance of personal and professional development in healthcare settings. It covers topics such as roles and responsibilities of healthcare workers, quality standards in health and social care, values and beliefs affecting work practices, reflective practices, and personal development planning. The presentation also emphasizes the significance of self-evaluation and feedback in improving one's performance.

Personal and professional
development

Table of content
 Roles and responsibilities of health care workers
 Quality standards in health and social care
 Values and beliefs affecting work practices
 Importance of reflective practices in healthcare setting
 Ability to reflect on practices
 Explain how reflective practice can lead to improved working

Table of content
 Importance of evaluation of own performance
 Evaluate own knowledge, competence and understanding against relevant standards
 Explain the role of feedback to evaluate the performance
 Find resources of support for reviewing and planning own development
 Review and prioritise own learning needs and development opportunities
 Personal development plan
 CONCLUSION

Introduction
 In healthcare setting personal development plays a significant role as care
workers need to keep their knowledge and skills up to date in order to provide
quality care to patients.
 The main purpose of personal development is to make health care professional
effective at their work which is helpful to enhance customer's satisfaction.
 Personal development is defined as a way in which healthcare professionals
assess their abilities and skills and set their goals in order to achieve
effectively.

Roles and responsibilities of health care
workers
 Health care workers are reliable to deliver quality care services to
patients, disseminate information about how to live a health lives,
prevent diseases from spreading, provide preventive medications
to patients and provide tips for quick recovery.
 Health and social care workers also distribute essential medicines
to vulnerable people in order to promote their health and well-
being. They are reliable to distribute vitamin A capsules and folic
acid tablets to children for their growth as per the governmental
guidelines.

Quality standards in health and social care
 Quality standards for health and care is set of framework which raise
quality in health and care services provided to the patients. Quality
standards were introduced on 14th of march in 2006.
 These quality standards give health and social care and other
organisations a measure against which they can assess themselves and
demonstrate improvement, rights and equality of opportunity for the
people of united kingdom, enable formal assessment of the quality
and safety of health and social care services and assist service users
and carers to understand what quality of service they are entitled to.

Values and beliefs affecting work practices
 Values and beliefs affects the way of interaction and impact professional success. Professionals who are working with
their values and principle. Impact their practices. As for example, health care organisation prioritise patient with high
income so they can afford all the expensive treatments where as low income patient do not access high cost treatments.
 Values and ethics of a honourable health care professional will be hampered by the organisation, he is working for. In
some countries people get discriminated on the basis of their community, race, gender or sexual
orientation(Andersonand et. al., 2022). Health care professional require to work with the ethics and values so people
can get equal access to health resources and facilities.
 Values demonstrate the goals which motivate effective method of care. Values and ethics play a significant role in
delivery of quality car facilities to patient (Crick and et. al, 2019).

Importance of reflective practices in
healthcare setting
 Reflective practices enable healthcare workers to learn from their past working
experiences in order to improve and develop their further practices. Self reflection
is the best way to analyse own weaknesses and strengths.
 Reflective practices help health carers to obtain a better awareness of themselves,
skills, knowledges and competencies. Reflective practices helps care workers
completely focus on their work in order to improve their efficiency.
 It enhance their motivation and improve their patient care. Reflective practices
make carers explore their own working experience and analyse their weaknesses
in order to work on it (Valmas, Himrich and Finn,2020).

Ability to reflect on practices
 Practitioners recognise their strength and weaknesses to analyse
their previous working experience. It enables them to recognise
their strength and weaknesses which improves their working
practices.
 With the help of self reflection, practitioners develop their
knowledge and skills. Reflection is not always about learning form
own experiences but also learn form others mistakes (Deryaeva
and et. al., 2020).

Explain how reflective practice can lead to
improved working
 Reflective practices improve the practices of healthcare
professionals as it allows them to assess their previous
experiences. Reflecting on own actions, emotions, thoughts
and practices helps to better understand about the area of
improvement.
 This understanding make practitioner prepare for their future
events and institutions. They develop their skills and
knowledge's to resolve arising problems in healthcare
settings.

Importance of evaluation of own performance
 Self-evaluation helps practitioners to figure out what they are doing and what they need to improve in
order to deliver quality care to the patients. Self-evaluation provide health carers an opportunity to
highlight their uniqueness and weaknesses in order to accomplish their goals and being honest towards
their works (Rentea, Lazăr and Ciocănel, 2021).
 Self evaluation also helps to build confidence which is required to improve their practices. Analysing the
performance enables health carers develop skills and knowledges for their future events. They also
develop problem solving skills for their patients in order to provide them a safe treatment. Self evaluation
allows professionals to trach their accomplishment (Dyrbye, Lipscomb and Thibault, 2020).

Evaluate own knowledge, competence and
understanding against relevant standards
 There are several ways in which a practitioner can evaluate
knowledge and assess their performance in order to improve
their practices. It is always done against the relevant
standards in order to provide quality care to the patients.
 Relevant standards make practitioners change their
behaviour and practices to meet with the expectation which
is set out by the healthcare organisation and professional
practice.

Explain the role of feedback to evaluate the
performance
 Feedback comes form healthcare organisations and patients
helps practitioners emphasise on their strength and weakness
so they can improve their practices.
 Feedbacks allows practitioners to get an opportunity to read
on their performance so they can make required changes with
the purpose to meet organisation requirements. Feedbacks
makes carers thinking of best possible solution to resolve the
arising problems and make them focus to improve their
practices.

Find resources of support for reviewing and
planning own development
 There are several source of support to planning and reanalysing the own development which include
different approaches:
 Line managers:
 Colleagues:
 Observations:
 Meetings:
 Training:
 Mentors:

Review and prioritise own learning needs and
development opportunities
 Learning requires pertains to any experiential or training chances I required to develop and maintain my
practices. For example, my care system may have invested in a novel computerised care planning system and I
need training on how to utilise it.
 Professional interests are the aspects of my role that I find most interesting and wishing to learn more about my
work. Development chances are nay activities which provide me the opportunity to learn.
 It does not have to be between the working hours and could, for example be learning more regarding the support
of human being with terminal diseases by volunteering the regional hospice (Moore, 2018).

Personal development plan
 Strengths:- As a health and social care professional, I have developed good communication skills in
order to interact with my patients so I can evaluate their symptoms and health outcomes. Good
communication skills helps to foster relationship with co-workers, patients and their families, navigate
complex situations and improve health outcomes.
 Weaknesses:- I am currently unable to deal with mental patients as sometimes I loose my patience while
dealing them. I need to develop skills and well as lot of patience in order to deal with mental patients
comes with horrific past experiences (Price and Campbell,2020) (Randall, 2019).

CONCLUSION
 From the above report, it has been summarised that personal development play a significant role in
healthcare settings in order to deliver quality care to the patients. It also helps to ensure patients
safety and quality of care services.
 Quality standards provides a framework for administering medicines and patient care in order to
maintain the quality. Self-evaluation and assessment is very important to improve practices as it
allows practitioners to evaluate their strength and weakness to perform in their future events.

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