Impact of Personal Development in Health and Social Care Services

This report delves into the personal and professional development within health and social care services, highlighting the effectiveness of personal contributions such as creating developmental plans, fostering team spirit, and resolving conflicts. It acknowledges personal limitations, particularly in handling emergency situations with dementia patients, and emphasizes the importance of coordination in minimizing barriers to teamwork and enhancing healthcare service delivery. The report references scholarly articles to support its claims, focusing on curriculum development, leadership influence on nurses, and learning from global health volunteers.

Personal and Professional
Development in Health
and Social Care
(TASK 4)

4.1 Effectiveness of personal contributions
in health and care services
• The major personal contribution include preparation of personal
developmental plan, which has led to create my short, medium as
well as long term objectives to be achieved within a particular
period of time.
• Developing team spirit and working as a team with my co workers
and developing a coordination with them.
• This has enables me to generate more effective ways of resolving
any conflict that may arise between me and my team members or
among other members of my team, in most effective way.

4.2 Impact of limitations on own work role
on work with others
• Personal limitations refers to the tasks or jobs which can' t be
performed by an individuals or the tasks in which an individual is
inefficient to produce desirable results.
• The biggest limitation that I have realised is that, I am not able to
handle the emergency situations that has arise many a times,
especially, when a dementia patient gets out of the control.

4.3 Own role in minimising barriers to team
work and providing health care services
• Coordination is recognised as the best
tool which can be used to build team
spirit as well as work in a team.
• This healthy relation with other
members of team would generate team
spirit, thus, ensuring appropriate
operational activities in the context of
taking care of a patient.

References
• Thomas, P. A., 2015. Curriculum development for medical
education: a six-step approach. JHU Press.
• Read, E. A. and Laschinger, H. K., 2015. The influence of authentic
leadership and empowerment on nurses’ relational social capital,
mental health and job satisfaction over the first year of practice.
Journal of Advanced Nursing. 71(7). pp.1611-1623.
• Busse, H. and Tefera, G., 2014. Learning from developing countries
in strengthening health systems: an evaluation of personal and
professional impact among global health volunteers at Addis Ababa
University’s Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (Ethiopia).
Globalization and health. 10(1). p.64.