Personal Development Plan for Healthcare Professionals

The healthcare
professional

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Development of the Personal Development Plan (PDP).......................................................1
Critical reflective analysis of learning and development .....................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health care professionals are the key part of health care systems and provisions, the
qualified physician with the proper education, training, license, regulation are consider as the
health care professionals (Albers, and et. al., 2020). They perform professional services within
their own scope and speciality of health care and services. In context to the continuous growth
and development of the evidence based practices and experiences, that is important for the health
care professional to to use and implement the CPD plan in their professional development
strategies. Because this helps the social and health care professionals effectively meet their job
role by assuring the safety, effectiveness , this also helps in the development of new skills and
knowledge, which further aid to maintain improvement and effective care across the all area of
practices. In this report Personal development plan is design, as this is the important plat of the
CPD which helps in the further reflective analysis and identification of the strengths and career
goals. Critical reflective analysis is done based on career ambitions.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Development of the Personal Development Plan (PDP)
Student ID: Module: The Healthcare
Professional
Overall career aspirations
My career goal is to become one of the most effective social and health care professional in the
specific filed of the occupational theory as therapist. Through which I can serve effective care
to peoples under health and social care provision. This is my specific career goal under which
my responsibilities will be care of the disable patient and helping them to accomplish various
activities which they can not do individually. My academic activities and projects along with
the studies are associated with the achievement of my career goal. Because their I am greeting
the specific training for the occupational theory , there are the various opportunities of the
occupational theorist courses and projects which helps to develop my learning and experiences
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related to that career objective. University is supporting in the achievement of this goal by the
application of goal setting theory, because this helps in the selection, accomplishment
appropriate career goals according to the skills and performance . This helped me to chose this
right goal and motivate to achieve the outcomes, such as engagement in the practical behaviours
that contribute to future employability.
Identification and explanation of three strengths
In context to my career goal I am having some important eligibility and strength, such as the
key skills of the occupational therapist is determination, patience, enthusiasm, interpersonal
and communication skills, effective teamwork. Some of theses skills are my strengths, given
below.
Strengths
 Interpersonal , communication skills- I am good at the interpersonal and communication
skills. This is the skills through individual can make the effective communication with
patient, with the application of active listening, effective verbal communication, body
language, openness and negotiation. This is one of the most important skills in context
to the every health and social care professionals, because this helps to provide effective
care to the patient along with higher satisfaction. I identified this strength in me by the
evaluation of my performance in group conversation and decision and I fund that people
get interaction with me and understand my prospective effectively. I achieved this by
the support of university group assessments and programs.
 Effective teamwork- Within my university study task and projects I got various
opportunities of the group performance and teamwork, from where I improved my
teamwork skills. Such as in the team projects of patient care and management I fund
that my teamwork performance is improving and I am the good leader at team, who
manage each task and activities effectively. This loveliness the effective
communications, collaboration and time management. In context to my career goal this
is another important strength which will help me in the achievement of success.
Because in context to the disable patient care at occupational setting effective team work
is require to manage different needs and care services of patient.
 Rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions- As health and social care
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