Career Development Action Plan for Midwifery: Goal Achievement

This assignment presents a career development action plan focused on the role of a midwife and the strategies for achieving work-related goals. It uses Gibbs' reflective model, including description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, and an action plan, to assess and improve antenatal care service delivery. The plan reflects on experiences providing antenatal services, managing tasks under pressure, and identifies areas for personal development such as communication, leadership, and time management skills. The action plan includes specific steps for handling similar situations more effectively in the future and improving skills through targeted training and practice. The document concludes with a summary of how improving these skills can enhance personal development and service delivery as a midwife. Access more solved assignments on Desklib.

CAREER
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Description.............................................................................................................................3
Feeling....................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................3
Analysis..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................4
Action plan.............................................................................................................................4
Action plan.......................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Career Development plan refers to the written list which can include the short term goal that
can allow midwife to provide better care support as the antenatal care services. This can allow to
improve health of individual with better care and support which are associated with improving
care services to delivery better health improvement. There is need to reflect the situation through
Gibbs reflective model which allow to reflect all the situation and its impact with analysis that
involve different stage like description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan
(Lacsamana and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
Description
Here, while providing antenatal service I have learned to manage different task at one. In
this, I have face difficulty in dealing with the situation of takin care of pregnant women where no
other staff were available at that time. During this, I have used my skill that allows to manage
different task at same time and help to perform it more effectively. I also provide the antenatal
services which includes some normal instruction regarding diet and nutritional diet. I also help in
ensuring about some prenatal check-ups (Leidner and et. al., 2018)(Looms, 2019).
Feeling
During that situation, it was difficult to manage it more effectively that impact the delivery
of care services quality which was associated with providing care in absence of other staff
members. I felt tired and even through that it is very difficult to manage different task at a time.
Here, also face the situation of feeling low due to not getting support to care for pregnant women
while delivering antenatal care services.
Evaluation
I have used my communication, leadership and multitasking skills and management skills
that enable me to perform different task at time where no other staff was available there. Here, I
used my skills which were learned during the training which allows me to perform various
activity effectively (Yoder and Hardy, 2018).

Analysis
Here, I was able to manage the care of antenatal services effectively without getting any
other help or support from anyone. Here, I also take care of pregnant women to fulfil her needs
that was needed to perform for better health. My skills were able to get better care of situation
with better effect.
Conclusion
Here, I learned to manage different task which is related to provide antenatal care services.
Here, I would have asked for help form other staff member and wait until they came. But to
provide care services it was needed to perform different task which restrict to wait for other staff
member.
Action plan
If same type of situation gets help in future, then I will be able to handle it more effectively. in
this, I will perform good with using me possess skill that can help to create good result (Dahl and
et. al., 2020).
Action plan
Skills Present ration out of 5 Expected rating out of
5
Time interval
Communication skills 4 5 3 months
Time management 3 4 2 months
Work management
skills
4 5 6 months
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can conclude that through improving different skill it can help to
improve the personal development of individual. Here working as midwife, it can help to allow
take better consideration about the services delivery for better health improvement.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Dahl, B., Heinonen, K. and Bondas, T.E., 2020. From midwife-dominated to midwifery-led
antenatal care: A meta-ethnography. International Journal of Environmental Research
and Public Health, 17(23), p.8946.
Lacsamana, R.M., Portugal, L. and Delos Reyes, E.F., 2018. Learning Needs Assessment of
Non-Teaching Personnel as Input to Human Resource Development Plan. Asia Pacific
Journal of Education, 5(3).
Leidner, D.E., Gonzalez, E. and Koch, H., 2018. An affordance perspective of enterprise social
media and organizational socialization. The Journal of Strategic Information
Systems, 27(2), pp.117-138.
Looms, R., 2019. Creation of a primary care personal asthma action plan. Journal of Prescribing
Practice, 1(1), pp.33-36.
Yoder, H. and Hardy, L.R., 2018. Midwifery and antenatal care for black women: A narrative
review. SAGE Open, 8(1), p.2158244017752220.