Personal Development Plan for Healthcare Professionals

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Personal development plan..........................................................................................................3
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................7
Reflective analysis of learning and development........................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan refers to a plan that is aimed at supporting individual in career
development and creates basis of decisions that one requires to take in career development. This
is also important for continuous personal development of individual and in health and care sector
continuous professional development is an essential requirement.This report will involve a
personal development plan that is based on identified strengths and weaknesses and reflection of
learning in classroom and through different classroom activities. This report will also involve a
reflective analysis of learning and development based on classroom activities and engagement in
classroom activities.
Task 1
Personal development plan

Student ID: Module: The healthcare
professional
Overall career aspirations - Explain what your specific career goal is and how your university study
will help you to achieve your goal
In relation with health care profession overall career aspiration is to become advanced nurse
practitioner.Advanced nurse practitioners is a role in healthcare profession that are educated at Masters
level in clinical practice and have been assessed as competent in practice using their expert clinical
knowledge and skills. Advanced nurse practitioners have freedom and authority to act and can make
autonomous decisions in their assessment. University study has a key role in fulfilling my goal of
becoming advanced nurse practitioners (Elliott, 2017). This is because in order to become advance nurse
practitioner individual requires post graduation ort masters degree in science and this is only possible to
get this degree through university study. University also helps in acquiring all important knowledge and
skills that are important and required for becoming advance nurse professional.This means that in order to
become successful in achieving goal and later in career of health professional, it is important that
individual posses strong knowledge of all the requisites of becoming advance nurse professionals and also
skill that enable effectively performing duties of advanced nurse practitioner.
SWOT – Identify three of your strengths and explain how they can help you achieve your career
aspirations
Research skills: This is one of the important skills that is required for the profession of advanced nurse
practitioners and I believe that I have this skill. Research skill is an ability to search, locate, extract,
organise, evaluate and use or present information regarding a particular topic (Hoffman and et.al., 2017).
Advanced nurse practitioners are required to assess and determine health condition of patients and in
doing so research skills play a very important role.
Communication skills:This is also one of the important skill that is required for the profession of
advanced nurse practitioners. Advanced nurse professionals are required to carry out responsibility of
expert coaching and advice, in this communication skill play a very important role. I believe that I have
good communication skill mainly oral communication skills through which I can effective advice and
coach people and this is also important for consultation with patients and their families. This is important
for providing them right information and assistance in their treatment and healthcare services. In clinical
leadership communication is also important and this is why communication skill is very important for
advanced nurse practitioners.
Empathy:This is ability of individual in accurately identifying situation of others by understanding