Personal And Professional Development In Health And Social Care

Personal And Professional
Development In Health And
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the support while working in H&SC.......1
1.2 Personal culture influence role in supporting user of H&SC...........................................2
1.3 New development in personal values impact on working in H&SC................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Assessment of current skills and ability...........................................................................3
2.2 Holistic development plan with short, medium and long term goals...............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is the important aspect which provides an
opportunity to improve own skills that further aid in building effective professional carrier
(Wykes and et. al., 2015). In present report, Health and social care sector is undertaken in which
presentation is provided in respect of the own personal skills while working in the same sector.
The role played by the personal culture along with its impact over users is explained with the
help of examples. Afterwards, self skills and abilities are determined for the purpose of
development along with the formulation of development plan in accordance to bring
improvement in same.
TASK 1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the support while working in H&SC
Values refers to ideas and thoughts shared by the same community related to difference
between good and bad, ethics and non ethics etc. Values and principles assist individual to shape
their career according to their past knowledge and experience. I belong from Romania which has
neighbour countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova etc and has Romanian culture from the
birth. Whole country has different type of people from various background but more than 85% of
the population comes from the Romania culture only which solely focuses on hierarchical
society. One of the important values which is possess from my culture is equality to all the
people and eradicate all the factors of discrimination so that every one can live happily. They
prefers to use title and surname until and unless someone demands call them by their name.
People of Romania do not trust strangers people and prefers to stay in privacy in most of the
time. In context of health care, Romanian does not prefers to visit hospital due to trust issues
that's why conditions of the H&SC sector is negative in nature. Due to poor conditions of health
care, country suffers from diseases like lungs cancer, AIDS, underweight baby, problem related
with uterus etc.
So according to H&SC, worker should not discriminate the patients on the basis of age,
gender, sex etc as it is unethical in the industry. All the patients arrives in the hospital should get
proper treatment by avoiding discrimination from mind (Stoddart and Evans, 2017). On the other
hand, other factor is equality to people. Whenever any individual comes for treatment then I
always considered them a patients instead of male, female, children etc as all are equal. Privacy
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is all one of the factors which I luckily got from my Romanian culture. Details of every patients
is secured and I have no rights to share those details to third person as it is illegal and unethical
in the laws of HSC (Girotti, Park and Tekian, 2015). So it can be said that all those mentioned
values has helped me at the time of working by enhancing my motivation level to a certain level.
1.2 Personal culture influence role in supporting user of H&SC
Culture which every individual possess comes from the society where they are living and
their life time experience in that culture (Stewart, Jameson and Curtin, 2015). If culture possess
from the society is positive then it will create a favourable environment in the future by living in
other society or while working and vice versa. Romanian culture states that every citizen should
perform their roles and responsibilities by following the path of ethical as it will help them to
make the decision correctly while working resulting in better performance. For instance, as
abortion is legal in Romania but any girl comes who is under 16 for abortion then it wont take
time to reject that patients treatment as it is illegal according to laws and Romania culture. So
this time, culture makes a positive impact on supporting use of HSC.
As mentioned above, Romania culture says that person should never discriminate on the
basis of any aspects, it makes a favourable impact in my working career as I always put all my
potential while doing clinical practices so that high quality of services is provided to the needy
person. On the other hand, some culture elements make a negative impact on my working as
Romanian culture depicts that they prefers privacy and did not openly talk to the strangers due to
trust issues. So as a practitioner, I continuously have to meet random patients so I have faced
problem in the starting as I could not be able to properly communicate with the patients. But as
the time flows, I have adapted my behaviour according to the external environment and now I do
not have any problem in making rapport with the clients. Other example is confidentiality
information of patients, for instance client work is to explain every problem they are facing
regarding the problem as then only doctors would be able to make the most effective treatment
plan. Role of doctor is to make the information confidential or concealed in nature so that third
party wont be able to take the advantage of it (Payne, 2015).
1.3 New development in personal values impact on working in H&SC
Any development in the HSC will have a positive as well as negative impact on the
working of practitioner as it has a direct connection with the performance of employees. As in
the recent past, local authorities has amended their Care Act which now states that its the
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