Personal Development Plan for Healthcare Professionals

This document provides a comprehensive guide on creating a personal development plan for healthcare professionals. It discusses the overall career aspirations, strengths, weaknesses, and goals for development. It also includes a reflective analysis of learning and development activities.

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

situation, perception and feelings from the point of view of others. Empathy is a very important skill in
order to improve communication with another person and considering what problems individual is facing
(Bayne and Jangha, 2016). Empathy is important for a professional in healthcare and this is why it is
animportant skill for advanced nurse practitioners. I consider that I have empathy skill and this can be
helpful for me in becoming effective advanced nurse practitioners. Through this skill I will be able to
understand situation of patients and communicate effectively with them and consult them.
SWOT – Identify three of your areas of weakness that are necessary for development to achieve
your career aspirations. Explain why they are needed to achieve your career aspirations
Decision-making skills: This is a very important skill that advanced nurse practitionersrequire. This is
becauseadvanced nurse practitioners requiremaking decisions on the basis of diagnosis of patients
(Thabet and et.al., 2017). Advanced nurse practitionersare required to make decisions of health conditions
of patients and this is why this skill is very important for decision-making. Decision-making skill
involves identifying right problem and making decision for treatment accordingly. I believe that this skill
is my weakness because I am able to effectively make decisions and also lack confidence in decisions that
I make.
Collaboration: This is a skill of working together with a other people and a group to complete project or
to complete tasks. This involves working together interpersonal skills, communication skills, knowledge
sharing and strategy. In a healthcare profession it is very important to work with other people and this is
why it is important that individual is able to work effectively with others (Kropp, Meier and Biddle,
2016). I believe that collaboration skill is one of my weaknesses as I feel difficulty in working together in
teams and with other people. In order to achieve my career aspiration it is very important that I have
effective skills for collaboration and I am able to work with many people.
Time management skill- This is also important skill that is important for achieving my career
aspiration.Time management is a skill that enables individual to complete their tasks and activities on
time. This is a important skill through which individual will be able to complete their academic activities
on time so that they can ensure success in academic. Other than this, time management skill is also very
important for achieving my career aspiration of becoming advanced nurse practitioners (Tamanaee Far
and Ghasemi, 2017). Because nurses are required to deal with many of the patients on a time, in order to
ensure effective care and service to every patient it is important that they are having effective time
management skill.
Develop 5 goals in your action plan that will help you progress in achieving your career aspirations
Goals Description of
planned
developmental
Target Criteria to judge
success
Evidence

activity
1. Developing
decision-
making skills
For this I will
solve various case
studies so that I’m
able to take
effective decision.
Besides that that I
will read books off
successful
enterpreneurs and
leaders to analyze
the technique of
decision-making.
For this I have set
target of two
months 2 develop
my decision-
making skills
I will take decision
off any small
problem occurred
and then will take
feedback from
mentor, relatives
etc. and then
measure results
that whether
decision was
effective or not.
I will include
evidence of taking
decision in various
situations and also
comments of
supervisors in it.
2. Developing
team-working
skills
In order to develop
this skill I will
attend training and
seminar sessions
that how do work
in team. besides
that, I will work in
small groups of 2-
3 people.
I have set target of
three months to
develop this skill.
I will take
feedback from
colleagues,
manager etc. to
find out whether I
am able to work in
team or not.
Here, i will include
evidence of
working in team
and attaining
goals.
3. Developing
Time-
management
skill
I will develop this
skill by preparing
a schedule an
working
accordingly. Also I
will develop
timetable weekly
to manage my
time.
I will achieve this
target within five
to six weeks.
I will measure this
by comparing the
results obtained
with my schedule.
This will help me
to find out my
time management
skills.
Here, i will include
evidence of
achieving goals in
time.
4. Developing
effective
listening skills
For this I will gain
some knowledge
about listening on
I have set target of
one month for it.
For this I will
communicate with
friend and then
I will include
evidence of
comments of

for it Internet. Also
I will watch
movies and videos
to develop this
skill.
listen to him. Then
I will take
feedback to
identify my
listening ability
and skills.
friends in it
5. Developing
treatment
planning skills
I will develop this
skill by getting
training from
expert and health
professionals.
Also, i will search
on internet as well
for it.
I will develop this
skill within 3
months.
I will take
feedback from my
coworkers and
Other health care
professionals.
The evidence of
providing
treatment to
patients.
Task 2
Reflective analysis of learning and development
Reflective analysis involves analysing what individual has learned as a result of
participation in learning and development. In order to analyse reflection Gibbs reflective model
can be utilised, this is as follows-
Description
During learning and development I participated in several activities that are aimed at developing
my skills in healthcare services. I participated in activities like SWOT activity, professionalism
activities and service user activity. Different activities helped me in developing different types of
skills and learn different knowledge. SWOT activity was one of the activity that is based on
strengths, weaknesses, and on the basis of opportunities and threats. I identified my strengths and
weaknesses on the basis of previous experience and on the basis of feedback collected from
peers and seniors (Othman and et.al., 2020). I identified my strengths are research skills,
communication skills, and empathy skills. These are mainly important and required for success

in area of advanced nurse practitioners. Some of the weaknesses that I identified include
decision-making skills, collaboration or team-working skills and time management skills. I also
identified that on the basis of these advanced nurse practitioner is an opportunity for me and also
healthcare services. Threats that I identified was increasing competition in healthcare services.
Other than this, I also participated in Professionalism activity and Service User activity.
Professionalism activity is mainly concerned with understanding how it is like to be professional
in healthcare service and service user activity was based on services and healthcare service users.
Outcome of these activities was different types of learning and contributed in development of
different skills that are required for healthcare services and for advanced nurse practitioners.
Feelings
Concerned with feeling during learning and development and different activities as part of
learning and development I was having different types of feeling including nervousness, stress
and sometimes I also felt lack of confidence during activities. As a result my experience
sometimes was good and sometimes was bad. Bad experience was mainly related to the
situations when I could not perform good and as expected in activities. That time I used to think
that having certain skills would have helped me in performing effectively in activities. As the
activities completed I thought that it is important that I start working on development of these
skills, so that I do not perform below average while I am working in healthcare services
(Markkanen and et.al., 2020). This means that I felt bad when I could not identify what are the
opportunities for me during SWOT activities. I also faced difficulty in professionalism activities
as sometimes I could not perform well specially because I was lacking certain skills and also
because my confidence was low.During activities I also became conscious because what other
participants are thinking of me and this also felt bad because of these. However, participation in
these activities also affected my beliefs as I felt that I can perform effectively in every activity
and also that I do not require any typeof practice for effectively performing in any activity.
Because due to this belief later I could not perform well in activities and lack of skills and lack of
preparation also added in this.
Evaluation

Concerned with experience what I believe and feel good is that it lead me towards the decision
that I will work on development of these skills because of which I do not have to face same
situation again in professional life. Other than this, situation and active participation in activities
and successful and effective performance was also one of the reasons that I felt good during the
participation in activities. Communication skills was one that helped me in performing
effectively in a task and this helped me in feeling good about the learning and development
experience that I have had during these activities. Time management and decision making skills
created difficulty in performing some of the activities and this affected my performance in
activities (Tanaka, Okamoto and Koide, 2018). This mainly happened during professionalism
activities as lack of decision making skills and confidence led me towards underperformance in
activities. However because I worked best and put my all efforts in effectively performing
activities I believe that my contribution in activities was positive. However as ineffective
performance was the result of lackof skilled and adequate knowledge hands only choice that
remained to solve problems was to develop skills and gain adequate knowledge. I realise that
developingskillsand gaining knowledge will help me in in ensuring effective performance
afterwards. However, when I performed in effectively in some of the initial activities letter I
identify the reasons behind ineffective performance and worked on improving performance.
Analysis
Analysis of experience helped me in in understanding that only reason because of which some of
the experiences were bad was lackof skills and required knowledge. However other experiences
related to activities in which I performed effectively work because of my hard work and efforts
that I put in order to perform effectively in given activities and ensure that I am able to gain
knowledge as well as positive experience related to participation in activities. In some of the
activities are performed well because of knowledge and experience gained from previous
activities and learning associated with previous activities on the basis of which I determined how
can I improve my performance in future activities (Li and et.al., 2020). This can be explain
through Kolb's reflective cycle. This means that on the basis of concrete experience that I had in
in previous activities I head observation that I should identify reason behind poor performance
and thisled me conclude that I have poor decision making skill also time management was bad.
On the basis of this I decided that I will improve time management in next activity concerned

with this and will also become confident in order to take decision. This means that this learning
cycle theory helped me in making sense of the situation and understands what went wrong and
reason behind that. Later this theory also helped me in taking decision regarding how can I
improve performance in future activities.
Conclusion
Overall learning and development activities were very effective and helped me in understanding
different concepts gain knowledge of different activities and learn skills that are required in
Healthcare profession. I believe that these activities and participation in these activities also
helped me in improving and enhancing existing skills that I considered as my strengths like
empathy. In one of the activity I also managed to perform good with help of skill known as
empathy. I believe I could have performed effectively e in every activity if I have had knowledge
and skills adequate to perform in these activities (Tawanwongsri and Phenwan, 2019). I believe
that with help of these activities and experience gained through the activities I will be able to
perform effectively e during my professional practice. Along with this as a result of participation
in swot activity I realised my strengths and weaknesses that I also so good to know through this
participations. I can now work on developing skills and knowledge that are my weakness and I
will also so try to utilise strengths that I have in academic as well as professional life to gain
success in in both. On the basis of experience I believe that it with the help of my research skills
I can identify and develop different ways through which I can work on developing skills that I
lack in order to ensure that they do not effect efficiency of my performance in academic as well
as professional duties.
Action plan
Participating in different activities andswot activity I identified some of the weaknesses that I
haveI decided to work on improving this skills and ensure that they do not remain weaknesses to
affect my performance as advanced nurse practitioner (Kanofsky and C CCPA, 2019). On the
basis of this I have developed a personal development plan including what I need to develop and
how it will be developed. As reflecting upon learning events that are related to career ambitions
and goals it is important to have a plan on the basis of which I can ensure personal development

and continuous professional development. Detailed personal development plan have been
included in task 1 of this report.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it can be concluded that personal development plan can
make effective contribution in overall personal development of individual. This plan also is
important to take right decisions regarding development of individual. Considering this elements
one personal development plan was included in this report. Later reflection was also added and
included on the basis of learning activities during learning and development process of the
individual. This reflection was based on what was good and what was bad in learning and
development experience and what was the reason behind good and bad experience and on the
basis of this action plan was also involved in report.

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