Pathology & Lab Medicine: Fitness to Practice and Time Management

This report delves into the critical aspects of fitness to practice and time management within the field of pathology and lab medicine. It emphasizes that fitness to practice, as defined by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), involves more than just professional competence, requiring registrants to stay current with their skills and uphold ethical standards in patient care, including effective communication and responsible handling of potential health risks. The report also explores time management, highlighting its significance in efficiently managing workloads, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring accuracy in laboratory procedures. The author discusses personal time management strategies, including multitasking, utilizing incubation times, and creating a personal time management graph. The report references studies on time management, noting differences based on factors like age, gender, and job rank, and concludes with the importance of understanding one's strengths and weaknesses to improve performance. The report includes a bibliography with relevant sources.

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Fitness to practice
According to Health and Care Professions Council often abbreviated as HCPC, being fit and
practice involves more than simply being an exceptional health and care specialist. This means
that it is important for registrants to keep abreast with their up-surging aptitudes and proficiency
since they are critical features of practice to fitness. Nevertheless, fitness to practice as well
necessitates registrants to handle services consumers while upholding the great virtues of
formality and reverence. They need to work together, perform with trustworthiness and honesty
and as well communicate efficiently in order to regulate any prospective peril which might
emanate from their own health.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701437/
Time management
Time management is ability to plan, manage and control specific amount of time spend on a
particular activity. Time management is an important aspect as it helps to clear workload within
shortest period of time and priorities on emergency tasks. Time management is important key to
ensuring personal discipline, maintaining high quality and accuracy of task in hand.
I manage time by multitasking activities that requires long time to be accomplished. This is done
through ensuring that during breaks and offs am busy doing academic work and research
concerning my area of specification. I utilize also this time to analyses complex laboratory data
and summarize my lab reports. I have also come up with my own personal time management
graph to ensure I perform maximally. The graph helps me to balance all the activities that am
supposed to undertake. Such a graph is shown below

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When am doing procedures which require long time to generate the results and there is
incubation time then I utilize the latter time by performing other procedures like preparing
reagent. This reduces concurrency time which was to be done at one time and enables different
tasks to be done at same time. Through proper time management it increases the accuracy and
efficient of the results and save time. Good time management about establishing techniques and
tools and putting them into practice by enhancing habits or work patterns that are effective.
These patterns eventually form the procedural activities that one can perform them with ease.
The studies carried out by (Mohammadian A, Jahangri S. A, Naghizaeh Bagh A, Pour Fizi F. A ,
2006) Indicates that time management differs with age, gender, education and job rank. Studies
also showed that managers were at 57.7% in terms of time management as compared to other
employees who were lower. This calls for me to start acting, thinking and behaving like a
manager of my own and especially the issue of time. Ensuring that there is good flow of work in
my desk and that I do not hinder the persons who need my service is a key to this success. The
capabilities of managers are expected to rise as their experience, age and education increases
with time. The finding by (Liu O. L, Rijmen F, MacCann C, Roberts R. D, 2009) shows that
female has a higher time management skill than male. This concludes that the role of gender in
work force determines the time management skills and experience contributes to effective
procession of accuracy in terms. It is for this reason that I have to work out my gender inbuilt
qualities that may hinder my performance during the placement. This is aimed at ensuring
maximum yield of the time I will be working in the lab.
Conclusion

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In conclusion, the issue of time management and fitness cannot be under estimated by any
student or staff working in a histopathology lab. It is therefore important for one to understand
their abilities, strengths, threats and weakness (W Lauder, R Watson, K Topping, 2008). This
will help them work out the weaknesses’ and the threats to enhance the general performance. The
strengths and abilities can be enhanced further to ensure they are at their maximum.
Bibliography
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Liu O. L, Rijmen F, MacCann C, Roberts R. D. (2009). The assessment of time management in
middle school students. Personality and individual differences, 174–179.
Mohammadian A, Jahangri S. A, Naghizaeh Bagh A, Pour Fizi F. A . (2006). Study on Time
Management Skills in Ardabil University of Medical Sciences (ARUMS) Managers.
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W Lauder, R Watson, K Topping. (2008, july 10). An evaluation of fitness for practice curricula:
self-efficacy, support and self-reported competence in preregistration student nurses and
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