Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care

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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