Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care

This report discusses the importance of personal and professional development in healthcare settings, including roles and responsibilities of healthcare workers, quality standards, values and beliefs affecting work practices, reflective practices, evaluation of own performance, and personal development plan. It emphasizes the need for continuous learning and improvement to provide quality care to patients.

Personal and Professional
Development in Health and
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

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. Personal development is also helpful to maximise their potential to work
effectively and efficiently. Personal development plans have been developed to obtain specific
goals in the given time. This reports insight roles and responsibilities of health care professionals
in order to provide quality care to patients. There is brief discussion over how relevant standards
can promote best practice in heath and care. All the values, beliefs and experience which may
affect working practice, is going be covered in this report.
MAIN BODY
Healthcare sector feel huge pressure in order to deliver high quality carte facilities to
patients. Personal development in healthcare setting promotes the learning and development of
healthcare professionals in order to ensure patient's safety. The main aim is to provide quality
care to patients which enhance their experience in care facilities. All the healthcare professionals
required to undertake continuing development plan as a part of registration renewal for their
professional registration.
1.1 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. Health carers play a significant role in
improving access and quality health care for society. They deliver important services which
promotes health and well-being of people in so city. They prevent prevalence of diseases to
ensure patient safety. There Are many other responsibilities of health and social carers including
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provide treatment options for health conditions, medical assessments and diagnostic tests,
communicating with family members, providing ongoing care, running wards and managing
nurse practitioners, operating medical equipment, fundraising, implementing a patient’s
treatment plan, conducting medical procedures, administrative tasks, providing patient and
family education and administering medication. Social care workers provide emotional and
practical support to different group of people for their good health and well-being. They promote
good heath and well-being of people so they can live a quality life. Social care workers are
considered as frontline workers in healthcare setting As they work for wide range of people to
meet their health requirements. Their duties completely depends upon the requirements of people
in community. Social carers support people so they can live healthy and independently (Ahmed,
2018).
1.2 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. With the help of quality standards, governmental authorities inspect
the services provided by health and care facilities in UK. Quality standards make healthcare
professional improve their practice in order to provide quality care to patients. Meeting with
quality standards helps to ensure patient's safety. Now, evolution is on the peak and so healthcare
setting is also seeking to maintain the quality. Quality standards sets a standard for healthcare
procedure which helps to improve practices. Improvement in quality helps to enhance efficacy
and effectiveness. The health care organisations which assess, improve and monitor the quality,
Able to deliver quality care to patients. Chain of organisational activities requires continuos
improvement to achieve higher level of performance. Quality standards help healthcare
professional to keep their knowledge and skills up to date and utilize advanced technology for
their practices. Health care professionals implement different methodologies to improve their
practices (Anderson, 2022).
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1.3 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). A patient's
education, social group, past experiences r cultural background may have negative or positive
impact on nurses and other healthcare professionals. There are certain ethical values of nurses
which affects their practices including patient relationship, honesty, professional competency,
sympathy and accuracy in caring. Accuracy in caring helps to determine accurate results which
minimizes chances of medical errors.
2.1 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). It makes healthcare professionals identify their behaviour, thinking and related
emotions so they can improve their practices. It helps carers too identify the modifications in
their approach is they have similar future events. Reflective practices enables team members to
discuss their performance openly and honestly o they can improve their quality of care.
According to national health services, reflective practices assist carers to rectify actions which
help in their learning and development. Reflective practices allows carers to make sense of
critical situations. A reflective practitioner can help and support individual healthcare
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professional in a collaborative team, foster development and improvements in healthcare
services. A reflective practitioner make public ensure that the healthcare professionals are
improving continuously.
2.2 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). Practitioners reflect on situation what they have witnessed
and improve their practices in future. Reflective practices makes practitioners enable to learn
form their past experiences in order to improve their quality (Cardillo, 2019).
2.3 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 knowledges to
resolve arising problems in healthcare settings. Self reflection helps practitioners to work more
effectively and efficiently in order to provide quality care to the patients. Reflective practices
allows nurses and other health care professionals develop strategies to overcome with their
weakness and improve their practices. Reflective practices enables practitioners to learn form
their past experiences in order to develop required skills and knowledge. It helps practitioners to
obtain better understanding of their own practices so they can work on their weaknesses.
Reflective practice has a number of benefits in enhancing self-confidence which is required to
ensure the accuracy. Accuracy play a vital role in the delivery of quality patient care.
3.1 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
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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). Self-assessment is considered as a powerful mechanism to improve the learning
and practices. There are a number benefits of self-evaluation which includes Feel more engaged
in the appraisal process, feel more confident about their abilities, enhance capacity building, feel
more motivated to learn new skills, develop an inquiring mind for problem solving, gain greater
insights and set future goals for improvement, become more accountable, select training
programmes that are most suited to needs and feel more valued (Anderson and et. al., 2022).
3.2 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. Organisation may support professional by providing
supervision, support with reflective practices, informal feedback and appraisal. Feedback form
patients and service users also helps to evaluate the performance and improve the practices
(Anderson, 2022).
3.3 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 partitioners
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.
4.1 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: they assist me through answering my concerns which I have regard work.
Colleagues: by talking with colleagues about my works and follow the guidelines in positive and
negative things and also follow the correct approaches of my colleague.
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Observations: by observing the appropriate approaches I can develop my skills and knowledge in
the field of my job.
Meetings: In my work place various meeting are conducting and describing the correct approach
through which I get support to develop my skills.
Training: through the appropriate training we are able to learn the things that I m struggling with
through going on different courses to enhance my development.
Mentors: someone, who is given to us to be capable to answer my questions about the work and
put me in the appropriate path (McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020).
Senior doctors : I can go to the trainers with any issue regard work and development and they
will continuously feedback to me on my development and progress.
Yearly appraisal: this meeting is about to discuss my progress and development where I can ask
my question and reanalyse the things in my job description to make service (Ahmed, 2018).
4.2 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).
4.3 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
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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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(McGill, Heikkila and Lazarowicz, 2020) (Moore, 2018) (Price and Campbell,2020) (Randall,
2019) (Rentea, Lazăr and Ciocănel, 2021) (Valmas, Himrich and Finn,2020)
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