Understanding the Learning Process

Learning is immediate and induced from individual action or
event. In NHS, quality of learning among employees is
improving and it is becoming more transparent for care gaps,
issues and mistakes.
The statistical graph shows rises of health and social care
spending on improving learning of staff members. Bloom's
Taxonomy of learning is one of the way through which
domain of learning is applied in health and social care. There
are certain number of theories of learning which are
associated to developing understanding together with skills in
the field.
1.1 Explaining the ways different domains of
learning apply to learning within health and
social care
Learning is a process to gain new knowledge,
preferences, skill set, values and attitudes. It assist people to
achieve experiences of reaching towards career or specific
objectives within determined duration (Ingram, 2017). In
other words, learning is a sequential activity that wrapped
with environment a person inhabit as well as the relationship
they builds.
The cognitive domain is defined by Bloom that encompasses
developing metal skills along with acquisition of knowledge. The
stages of Bloom's Taxonomy that explains the ways domain is
applied with learning in NHS are as follows:
Remember: In this stage, all the facts are recognised and recalled.
The activities of learning in which a person takes part includes
listing, reciting, outlining, recalling, defining, labelling and
recognising. For learners in NHS, the stage is essential as they
acquire learning through videos, pieces of text and many more.
Understand: Herein, people comprehends meaning,
translation, interpolation along with interpretation of all
instructions and issues. People that are involved in learning state
any problem in their own words. In case with NHS, workers
understand the information through creating analogy, taking notes,
internet research and participating with cooperative learning for
mental abilities.
In all field, learning is key for existence of business and their
people. Ongoing learning gives medical practitioners problem
solving and critical thinking abilities which are required for
resolving issues which are encountered at the time of taking
care or proving treatment to patients. It includes encountering
signals from senses of nerves, attending to them, focusing
towards connections and framing aspects in order to act
meaningfully. In heath and social care organisation, huge
spending is made so that workforce is able to learn how to
provide care and treatment to patients.
As per the above statical representation, it can be said that the
spending of NHS providers on learning of workforce have
enhanced from 2009 to 2019 in increasing aspect. Moreover,
Bloom's Taxonomy of learning is a powerful technique that
assist in development of learning objectives as it defines the
learning process (Ford and Cooper, 2018). It was developed in
1956 by Dr Benjamin Bloom for promoting higher kinds of
thinking including determining and evaluating processes,
principles and concepts despite of just remembering facts or
rote learning. It has analysed that the domains of learning are
cognitive, affective and psychomotor.
Understanding the Learning Process
INTRODUCTION

Apply: In this learning stage, learners uses concept in
unprompted usage of abstractions and some new situation. In
relevance to NHS workers, a nurse or intern applies what
they have learned in classes while communicating with
patients. In this stage, cognitive domain is applied that
emphasis on most traditional education for learning and is
used for structuring out curriculum learning assessments and
activities. Within NHS, application of cognitive domain
improves learning of workers by developing their mental
skills as well as acquisition of knowledge and intellectual
skills. It involves recalling specific facts, procedural patterns
and so on that serve developing abilities and skills.
Analyse: It is the potential to differentiate opinions as well as
facts (Mezher and Sajid, 2019). In context to NHS Workers,
they starts developing powerful understanding about subject
matter. Within normal learning environment of NHS,
professionals asks questions from learners with little
contextual clues and learners are required to work for
providing accurate answer. For example, a nurse is able to
recognise the patients situations and accordingly provide
medication to treat the person. Evaluate: the stage involve
ability to come with judgements related to significance of
concepts. In learning among workers of NHS, evaluation
may takes in various forms. For evaluation of acquisition of
mental skills, nurse or other learners appraise, defend, select
and appraise their learning. They initiates judging their
values related to information, mental skills and ideas.
Create: It is last stage in which all parts are combined for
devising a new whole. In this, stage, learners analyses
whether they can create a new point of view or some new
technique for improving mental skills.
In context to NHS, in stage of creation, learners would be
able to assemble, construct, devise, design, develop and
formulate their metal abilities to enhance their learning so to
attain their career objectives.
Blooms Learning Domain plays key role in educational
activities in all fields. The three domains that are applied in
health and social care are cognitive, psychomotor and
affective. Cognitive domain is said to knowledge and the
development of intellectual skill. In NHS, cognitive domain
is applied for recalling specific facts, procedural patterns and
so on which serve in developing intellectual skills of health
practitioners. The another is psychomotor domain that is
physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill
areas. At same time, affective domain is termed to
involvement of feelings, emotions, and attitudes. Within
NHS, affective and psychomotor domain are applied to deal
with situations emotionally and developing skills required in
practices respectively.
1.3 Analysing theories of learning related with development
of understanding and skills with health and social care
Learning theory is said to belief that describes the
ways an individual receive, process along with retain their
knowledge in stages of learning. In other words, learning
theory is any kind of proposal which puts forth to describe
changes in behaviour and values produces through practice
(Tingle, 2019). Learning theory presents special opportunity
for expansion of knowledge base and understanding abilities
for all employees.
In health and social care, there are various theories of learning that
are concerned with developing understanding, abilities, knowledge
and skills. Some of learning theories that are used by professionals of
NHS to develop skills and knowledge of workers are as analysed:
Cognitive learning theory: The theory explains the ways internal
along with external factors influences mental processes of an
individual for supplementing learning.

In all field, mental processes are essential to understand how a
person learns. With this theory, organisational administrators
interpret that a learner could be influenced through extrinsic and
intrinsic elements. The factors of the theory that develops skills
and understanding of learners are comprehension, application
and memory. In case with NHS, application of cognitive learning
theory encourages medical practitioners to take their hands on
approach of learning. It permits learners to explore materials
along with developing deeper understanding. Moreover, the
theory promotes long term learning, improves confidence, builds
problem solving skills and helps learners to emphasis towards
what they know despite of what happened.
Behavioural learning theory: It is one of popular concept of
developing learning which emphasis on the ways an individual
learn by interacting with an environment. As per behavioural
learning theory, a person learns behaviour from an environment
and inherited factors have low influences of behaviours. In
association to NHS, professionals apply behavioural learning
theory for learners or staff interns so to analyse their reactions
and response towards particular stimuli. This is done in repetitive
manner so to regularly reminding them what kind of behaviour
patients and medial experts are looking for. In this, repetition as
well as positive reinforcement works together with the learning
theory. In this, medical professionals work for striking right
balance of repetition of circumstance and motivating them
developing required skill in the field.
A range of techniques and theories of learning
have been applied to the development of
understanding and skills in health and social care
In health and social care, various techniques
as well as theories of learning are applied for the
purpose of developing skills and understanding
among learners or staff members. In context to NHS,
one of technique that is applied by medical
professional is Bloom's Taxonomy of learning that
involves cognitive domain to learn mental abilities.
At same time, learning theories applied for learners
or workers in NHS are behavioural learning theory
and cognitive learning theory. Through behavioural
learning theory, health and social care professionals
shows practitioners about the ways they must react
and respond to particular stimuli (Boocock and
O'rourke, 2018).
It provides explanatory concept of putative
mediators related to changes in physical activities.
At same time, application of cognitive learning
theory influences people to reflect towards materials
as well as ways to apply them in present and future
circumstances. Through the theory, health
practitioners are able to improve critical thinking
abilities, visionary leadership traits along with
problem solving skills that assist in viewing things
that others fails to see clearly. These learning
theories provides effective framework which assist
in developing knowledge as per needs of an
individual.
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Conclusion
From the information, it is concluded that learning exist
everywhere. An individual learns mental skills, devise
attitudes as well as acquire new skills through
performing various activities. With Bloom's Taxonomy
of learning, an organisation apply domains related to
learning. Key learning theories which are related to
development of skills as well as understanding are
behavioural and cognitive learning theories.
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