Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care

This document discusses the significance of personal and professional development in the health and social care field. It explores the responsibilities of nurses and the standards of care. The document also provides insights into creating a personal development plan.

PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
HEALTH AND
SOCIAL CARE
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................3
Preparation for agreeing a personal development plan...............................................................3
Task2................................................................................................................................................6
Task3................................................................................................................................................8
Personal development plan.........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
According to studies Personal and professional development in the terms of social and
health care they helps to manage growth and learning throughout the career. It is very essential
nowadays to continue the knowledge or learnings as well as developing skills and along with this
continuation of skills and knowledge and keeping all these things up to date and being assure to to
continue the work safely, effectively, legally.
There are number of activities in which part is taken and they are mentioned below;
 Computer based learning
 Job learning
 Workshop and courses
 volunteering
Professional and personal development they are also known as continuation of professional
development.
TASK1
Preparation for agreeing a personal development plan
In accordance to studies there are number of responsibilities which are uphold by nurses,
their role is identify patients requirements which are related to care as well as keeping focus on
their acts and needs. Their main role is to ameliorate patients problems and needs. In addition to
nurturing a positive environment filled with compassionate in order to psychological support (Liu
and et. al. 2018).
There are various responsibility of nurses which are mentioned below;
 They identifies patients requirements which could be related to the care
 Creating positive and compassionate environment thus they could provide psychological
support to the patient.
 They resolve their patient problems.
Responsibilities
 They do resolve patient reports and their problems
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 They helps patient to prepare for the examination and they also perform their diagnostic
routine checks on daily basis such as temperature, monitor pulse, or else blood pressure and
along with this they do provide injection and drugs to their patients.
 They maintains the record of patient condition as well as monitors and handles documents
which could provide care services .
 They comply care standards and care regulations.
 They do manage administer workloads
 They also medicate medical emergencies
 The group of nurses they cooperate as well as wok with the multidisciplinary team.
Requirements
-Having ability to do multi-task and managing problem resolving skills
-Nursing experience should be proven, this is a important requirement.
-Politeness and compassionate during communication skills
-Teamwork skills should be excellent
-Qualified in diploma nursing
Duties of nurses while giving care to the patients suffering from chronic mental or physical ill
health;
Studies demonstrate that nurses could work as a part of team in professional sectors or else in
medical staff this involves therapists, social workers and doctors (Millerand and Svrcek 2020)
 Planning and evaluating nursing care necessity
 Monitoring medications as well as administering and monitoring intravenous infusions
 Maintaining and keeping records
 Monitoring patients diagnostic routine check this include temperature, pulse and blood
pressure or else taking group of patients samples.
According to studies both sectors of health care and social care they include many standards
which might drive encourage, enhancement, and along with this these standards promote flexibility.
The standards are mostly built upon five principles this includes respect, and dignity,and
compassion could also be included, well being and support or responsive care. All these standards
have been developed to improve social services or to make better social and healthcare services so
group of individuals could be treated with a whole compassionate, dignity and respect. The
standards of social care and health care are very essential to ensure that whether group of
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individuals are getting proper care and the right support at right time. There are various standards
given below;
 High quality care is experienced and the support which is right
 Involvement in each and every decisions which are related to the support and care
 Having a positive confidence about he organisation that could provide support and care in a
good manner.
The standards are very essential to find what kind of care should be given and along with
this determining best practices, and identifies gaps this might leads to the higher quality of social
and health services. There are many activities and methods which are available for monitoring,
identifying and implementing all the evidences which are available in the healthcare and they are
known as best practice sector. Such Health care and its activities, and health policy or public health
activities these all activities are advised by the finest available evidence but recently their concept
have been broken into three categories this include, evidence- based medicine, health technology
assessment or else clinical practice guideline, these are the guideline by which every evidence is
synthesized for the purpose of decisions in the healthcare sector. Such kind of activities achieve
their inputs from disciplines for example health economics,clinical epidemiology, and research as
well as health services research. The term best practice they are the framework for the maintaining,
classification, or efficiency and furthermore improving effectiveness and its classification in the
health care systems. Professio9nal standards they demonstrate the adequate levels of the care in
each and ever phase of nursing process, this is a level of performance in which actual performance
of the nurse could be compared. These standards are very important for the specific profession
because they do promote clinical practices and guidelines, in addition they do provide estimating
tools for measuring the safety and clinical proficiency, thus these standard best practices they play a
vital role in the nursing phase, or else in social and healthcare sectors. Differing personal
experiences, beliefs, values between the group of individuals this could affect peoples, how they
feel around about one another this might lead to conflicts, because this becomes very necessary to
respect each other as well as to respect each other views and peoples should try not to interfere in
others working practice. In addition, nurses they never judge their patients on behalf of their past
experiences , they always treat them with whole compassion and sup[port them mentally and
emotionally. Nurse because they are compassionate and non judgemental it becomes very easy for
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them to communicate well with the patients and to understand their point of view therefore this
helps in reduction of conflicts as well as increase compromise.
Task2
Working as a healthcare professional in nursing staff I had many responsibilities towards number of
patients suffering from illness . The role as a nurse is mentioned below.
 To determine patients requirements and what kind of help they need.
 Creating positive atmosphere in order to provide psychological support.
 resolving patient's obstacles or problems.
 Providing them mentally as well as emotionally support.
Responsibilities – There are several responsibilities of nurse towards the patients they are like I
used to prepare my patient's for the examination on the daily basis helps them perform their
diagnostic routine checks everyday such as monitor pulse, temperature or else blood pressure. I
used to give drugs to the patients timingly or intravenous infusions according to my shifts. I used
to monitor my patients and maintain their records based on their health conditions. I had
responsibility to handle administer workloads even though due to the busy schedule I used to treat
in medical emergencies too. The process of reflective practice they assure to keep their standards
in a continuation of circumstances such as environment change and children, in this process during
the reflect one must be aware of several approaches how they should be used and or how they could
be changed or else how they could be developed. Such kind of practice are those which enhance
skills and and knowledge and this also could improve the qualities of a service (Karageorgeand et.
al. 2019) This practices are very essential to develop new skills on the other hand they helps
individuals to face challenges and making decisions timely and along with this managing
relationships and emotions. Reflecting on several work activities this is fantastic way of improving
knowledge and skills because this practice devotes breathing space so that that person could stand
and this identifies how things are done or how they could be improved. This is a very informative
process which could helps in managing situations and later on its reflection give insights, how
improvements are made in both phases personally and professionally as well as how to gain a
proper experience. Reflective practice may improve different ways of working, they expands
leader's as self awareness and further they do brings rigour to the communication skills and to
critical thinking. Reflective practice this barely assist professional and personal development and
growth and this is quite helpful in enhancing outcomes. This process is mainly linked with the
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rudimentary level of experience and learning this is a simplest form in which individuals thinks and
what they are doing, what happened , and after this they decide what differently they have to do.
The term performance evaluation is upon the individuals assigned duties of job for example
nursing. Such kind of evaluation are stepping- stone for an employee and supervisors they identifies
where the performance could be enhance. Evaluations they are mostly documentation which are
based on past performance. There are some sectors those are using this as vehicle for the
improvement and development of employees, they might enhance understanding about personal
and professional goals, this approach could help employee to recognize their work and devotes
opportunities for the right training so that they can improve or develop their skills which could be
beneficial for both sectors and employees. There are reviews process which could come in many
varieties mentioned below;
Top – down review – This statement directly puts supervisor in charge of process, and in this
process managers and executes can also be involved. The supervisor's in a direct manner their
involvement is very essential in order to maintain working relationship with the group of
employee's (Klaeijsen,Vermeulen and Martens 2018).
Peer review – In this process all the employees are evaluated by different or other co- workers. This
process is very beneficial because at the same level co- workers and employees they both
understand their job, these are like challenges and faced and performed day to day and this leads to
the finest way of management. Performance evaluation they are very beneficial and important
opportunities for both managers and employees expectations which are to be clarified and
reinforced. Being a nurse I had learnt that key skills are quite essential to understand ,
understanding own skills and learning and working on performance and how could principles are
generalised in the future for the process of learning, bringing enhancement and development in the
own performance and learning this is known as meta skill. This is mainly based on three stages
such as monitoring progress,developing strategy, as well as estimating performance which are used
to develop key skills and the learning skills generally. The improving skills is all about enhancing
own learning and practice as well, as performances of monitoring they mostly adopt the strategies
which helps in achieving best quality of outcomes. This section is based on improving of
information technology and communication and performance. Receiving feedback this is a best
way to evaluate the performance. If there are positive feedbacks this helps to that working is well
on the other hand negative feedbacks helps peoples to know where they need to improve.
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Professional development this play a vital role in social care and health care in worker's role, this is
very important to keep up to- date best practices and changing legislation and along with this
improves them. Perhaps there is best source which might support development and learning is a
manager in a organisation. If there is annual appraisals are available and supervision on regular
basis so that training opportunities could be discussed thus this is a way of getting benefits and
where development goals could be achieved. There are some sources available mentioned below;
 Supervisions
 Observations
 Regular training
 Managers
 Mentors
Training and research – Trainings are provided so employees could have ability to work on the
minimum standard which are required for the social care worker and healthcare workers. Nowadays
research barely done by using source of internet even though books could play a vital role in the
case of research.
Feedback
Receiving feedback this is effective source of information this helps to know how well things are
done or what is there to imp[rove this all about positive and negative feedback.
Task3
Personal development plan
Personal development planning this is demonstrated as making an action plan which is based on
reflection, values, awareness,and setting- goals for the purpose of personal development and
planning in the context of relationship, education, career , this whole process is used for the self-
improvement. While evaluating performances people should be aware of practice which meets the
standards, for this process there is need of collecting informations about the analyse of data,
performance, in addition to draw conclusion.(Hammersley et.al M. and Mc Manus, V., 2018.)
Analyses could be performed by reflecting on the specific information and along with this find the
practice areas which could be improved easily. In order to measure the performance accurately
there is need of compare practice with standards. Conclusions can be drawn on based on strengths
and weakness methods this is barely considered for the professional development and this involve
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training opportunities or finding opportunities in order to gain experiences in a specific field. It is
important to keep up to date changes which occurs in the social and health acre sectors so that
practice could be remained current. While doing profession of nursing personal development
becomes essential because than individual should work with others learning needs, reviews, and
also should work on others priorities or development opportunities and professional interest. The
term learning this is refers to any experimental opportunities or a particular training which could
maintain and develop practice. Reviews , learning needs should be followed regularly the needs of
an organisation would change overtime. (Khuong, C. and et.al, 2018)Professional interest,
opportunities of development, and learning needs this involves given below;
 Own research
 Formal training
 Observations, induction
 Joining professional sectors such as nursing.
Being in a nursing profession maintain a personal development plan is very important because this
kind of plan helps employees to accomplish their goals and also this helps in improve performance
while doing current job. Goals of nurses are to provide care to the patients in good manner, as well
as supporting patients emotionally and mentally. Their personal plan development is to providing
medication to the patients, communicating with them with a respect and dignity and encourage their
patients for the diagnostic routine check such as temperature, blood pressure, regulating their their
medicines. Their man goal is to provide proper treatment to the patients and helps them to get over
their illness. Devoting care to the number of patients suffering from acute or chronic illness, illness
prevention, health maintenance care or rather than this assisting discharge planning these are the
personal development plan in the nursing practice. Nurses provide comprehensive care which
considers patient's physical needs, patient's emotional and social, culture needs. Personal
development plan this is nothing more than a details of goals or practising of theory or the way
group of individuals are going top achieve them .Professional development in nursing mainly
focuses technology skills, or providing patient- centred care in a excellent way, this also develops
interpersonal skills.(Schwartz, K., 2019 )
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CONCLUSION
As per discussed personal development plan is very essential to accomplish goals. Personal and
professional development both are essential because they helps in managing learning and growth
throughout the career.
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