Reflective Study on Continuous Professional Development

Reflective
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Learning from incident related to continuous professional development...................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................11
My career timeline.....................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Continuous professional development is a procedure in which we focus on learning
activities that leads us towards learning outcomes (García and Weiss, 2019). We as an
individual’s need to develop our career and for that we all are required having some skills. We
need to become successful in our selected job role in the future and for that we need to identify
areas in which we are good and in which we need to make improvements. This reflection study
on continuous professional development, I will discuss my experience and share feelings of some
incidents from which, I developed my knowledge. I have problem to speak in the front of lots of
people, but slowly, slowly I will improve that! In this study, I will discuss effectiveness as well
as importance of having communication, team working, decision making and problem solving
skills. My carrier in teaching brought about all these skills help us out in becoming successful in
our career and continuous professional development. It will also discuss some advantages and
barriers of working in multidisciplinary team.
MAIN BODY
Learning from incident related to continuous professional development
Continuous professional development is a process in which individuals get engaged in
learning activities in order to increase their knowledge, skills and focus on developing
themselves. I have attended modules and participated in some activities in class that developed
me professionally. I want to share my experience of incident that helped me out in increasing my
knowledge regarding healthcare sector.
Description: In this first step of Gibbs reflection, I want to discuss my feelings about
incident that developed me professionally. As a student I participated in all learning modules in
class. I used to observe my tutors in order to know the best way of teaching and engaging
diverse students in learning activities. My university was going to engage in group discussion
with other colleges. I was asked to participate in group discussion. I become a teacher when I
had fear of public speaking so, I denied but with the help and support of other students and
tutors, I participated in group discussion (McComb and Eather, 2017). Initially, I faced number
of problems. Due to fear of public speaking, I got nervous but an ability to communicate with
others helped me out in becoming successful. I did not win that debate but it boosted my
confidence. After participating in that group discussion, I realized that engaging ourselves in
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learning activities and all activities is important as it leads continuous professional development.
It decreases our weaknesses, increases our skills that help us out in our both professional and
personal lives. I came to know that pushing ourselves in all those activities that can increase our
knowledge is important.
My tutors often used to focus on team working. I was assigned a project that I had to
complete in a group. I was good in team working as I preferred to complete projects in team
working. I was asked to work with multidisciplinary team that is a group of health care workers
who are member of discipline such as social workers. I Had keen desire to become a successful
social worker and I got an opportunity to work with multidisciplinary team. Team working was
the main skill that I loved using as I was good in this skill and team working gave number of
benefits. While working, I realized that working in a team is important as there are number of
benefits. When social workers and healthcare professionals work in a team then it improves
health of patients. When we work in a team then it increases our knowledge. When I worked
with multidisciplinary team then I came to know that social workers play a vital role in
improving health of people. Being a part of social care, it is a necessity for satisfying needs of
clients, we require having an ability to communicate, empathy skills by which we can feel the
pain of our clients. With self evaluation, I found that I am good in team working and oral
communication skill. These skills can be beneficial in getting an employment opportunity in the
future in my desired field. Communication is the main key of working effectively in
multidisciplinary team as it provides clear, sufficient and accurate information to all (Bass,
Fenwick and Sidebotham, 2017). Accurate and clear communication among team members helps
us out in making decision with effectiveness. It increases our decision-making as well as
problem solving skill. Along with these advantages, there are some barriers that might create
problems when we work in multidisciplinary team as a part of social care. One of the main
barriers that might occur and I experienced while working in multidisciplinary team was: lack of
trust among team members. Uncertainty and different position of health care professionals can
also create some problems that may affect decision making process. Overall, on the basis of this
incidence and working in multidisciplinary team, I can say that having communication and
decision making skill is vital and I am good in these both skills. It can help me out in the future
in developing my career.
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