Healthcare Professional's Personal Development Plan & Reflection

This report presents a personal development plan (PDP) designed for a healthcare professional aiming to excel as an occupational therapist. It identifies strengths such as interpersonal skills, teamwork, and rehabilitation knowledge, while acknowledging weaknesses like diagnostic principles, problem-solving, and patience. The PDP outlines five specific goals with action plans to address these weaknesses and enhance professional capabilities, incorporating activities like training programs and academic support. A critical reflective analysis, using Gibbs’ reflective cycle, examines experiences from a classroom project related to healthcare principles, highlighting the impact of teamwork and communication skills on personal and professional growth. The analysis reflects on feelings, evaluates positive and negative aspects of the experience, and concludes with actionable steps for future development, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and skill enhancement in the healthcare field. Desklib provides access to this and similar solved assignments to aid students in their studies.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Development of the Personal Development Plan (PDP).......................................................1
Critical reflective analysis of learning and development .....................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health care professionals are the key part of health care systems and provisions, the
qualified physician with the proper education, training, license, regulation are consider as the
health care professionals (Albers, and et. al., 2020). They perform professional services within
their own scope and speciality of health care and services. In context to the continuous growth
and development of the evidence based practices and experiences, that is important for the health
care professional to to use and implement the CPD plan in their professional development
strategies. Because this helps the social and health care professionals effectively meet their job
role by assuring the safety, effectiveness , this also helps in the development of new skills and
knowledge, which further aid to maintain improvement and effective care across the all area of
practices. In this report Personal development plan is design, as this is the important plat of the
CPD which helps in the further reflective analysis and identification of the strengths and career
goals. Critical reflective analysis is done based on career ambitions.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Development of the Personal Development Plan (PDP)
Student ID: Module: The Healthcare
Professional
Overall career aspirations
My career goal is to become one of the most effective social and health care professional in the
specific filed of the occupational theory as therapist. Through which I can serve effective care
to peoples under health and social care provision. This is my specific career goal under which
my responsibilities will be care of the disable patient and helping them to accomplish various
activities which they can not do individually. My academic activities and projects along with
the studies are associated with the achievement of my career goal. Because their I am greeting
the specific training for the occupational theory , there are the various opportunities of the
occupational theorist courses and projects which helps to develop my learning and experiences
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related to that career objective. University is supporting in the achievement of this goal by the
application of goal setting theory, because this helps in the selection, accomplishment
appropriate career goals according to the skills and performance . This helped me to chose this
right goal and motivate to achieve the outcomes, such as engagement in the practical behaviours
that contribute to future employability.
Identification and explanation of three strengths
In context to my career goal I am having some important eligibility and strength, such as the
key skills of the occupational therapist is determination, patience, enthusiasm, interpersonal
and communication skills, effective teamwork. Some of theses skills are my strengths, given
below.
Strengths
 Interpersonal , communication skills- I am good at the interpersonal and communication
skills. This is the skills through individual can make the effective communication with
patient, with the application of active listening, effective verbal communication, body
language, openness and negotiation. This is one of the most important skills in context
to the every health and social care professionals, because this helps to provide effective
care to the patient along with higher satisfaction. I identified this strength in me by the
evaluation of my performance in group conversation and decision and I fund that people
get interaction with me and understand my prospective effectively. I achieved this by
the support of university group assessments and programs.
 Effective teamwork- Within my university study task and projects I got various
opportunities of the group performance and teamwork, from where I improved my
teamwork skills. Such as in the team projects of patient care and management I fund
that my teamwork performance is improving and I am the good leader at team, who
manage each task and activities effectively. This loveliness the effective
communications, collaboration and time management. In context to my career goal this
is another important strength which will help me in the achievement of success.
Because in context to the disable patient care at occupational setting effective team work
is require to manage different needs and care services of patient.
 Rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions- As health and social care
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professionalism individual should posses the effective knowledge of Rehabilitation of
physical and mental dysfunction. I an having all essential knowledge of this role and
responsibility, because in my university we got appropriate training regarding this.
Identification and explanation of three weakness
Weakness
 Lack of the knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis- I have
identified that I am not having the enough knowledge of the different principles and
aspects of diagnosis which is very important in the my career goal of health and social
care professional. Each and every health care professional need to posses the appropriate
knowledge of the diagnosis principles and method's, as this play key role in the effective
treatment and care.
 Ineffective problem solving skills- I have identified that I am not good in the problem
solving skills, because at university in the situation of conflict and risk management
project I was not able to make right solution. Problem solving is the skills which
involves the application of effective analytical and catenative thinking to make the new
idea or solution. Within health and social care, different problems arise on Daly basis in
context to which that is very important skills and I have to improve my problem skill
achieve success in this career goal.
 Lack of the patience- I haven noticed that at the situation of complicated case and lack
of the time I became stressed and so panic. Which is not good for the health care
professionals, we have to be good in patience to achieve my career goal. Because this is
important in the health and social care professional to manage every thins with patience.
Develop 5 goals in your action plan that will help you progress in achieving your career
aspirations.
Goals Description of
planned
developmental
Target Criteria to judge
success
Evidence
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activities -
I want to develop
my knowledge
about the
principles,
methods, and
procedures for
diagnosis. This
will involve the
application of
different training
and leaning
activities.
In order to
achieve this goal I
have to
participate in the
different training
programs of the
university, which
provided all
essential
knowledge of the
diagnosis.
I will achieve
this within 1 year.
The level of
awareness and
experience will
help me define
that how much
knowledge of
diagnosis is
developed.
Certification of
the diagnosis
training program.
I want to improve
my problem
solving skills, the
process of
problem solving
skills will be
association and
contribution in
more task and
responsibilities.
I will require
support of my
teacher in context
to the
development of
my awareness
about the
different
principles of the
problems solving.
And I have to
take more
responsibility of
health
professionals
task.
Will achieve this
within 5 months.
Level of the
performance
improvement in
problematic task
and situation.
Results of the my
academic task
reports.
Patience ability I will have to Achieve this goal I can analyse gaol Results of my
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and skills
development is
my goal. And
process of this
skills
development will
be effective
Learning and
strategic
approaches.
make the
effective learning
regarding
decision making
process and stress
management and
situation control,
within 3 months. achievement by
testing my
patience level in
complicated
situation.
performance in
complicated task
management.
My goal is to
work on the
improvement of
my critical
thinking and
analytical skills.
Participation in
more work task
will be the
process of this
goal achievement.
I will need the
different study
resources, such as
book and journal,
to improve my
knowledge about
the strategics and
principles of
analytical
thinking. I have
to perform in the
different
assessments and
task to improve
my critical
thinking skills.
4 months Analysis and
evaluation of the
my research
practices and
performance.
Results of the
research and
critical health
care practices
task.
My goal is to
become more
effective time
management. For
From the
compliment of
this goal I have
take more
5 months I can evaluate or
measure this goal
achievement by
matching my task
Results of
different
academic task and
grading of time
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this goal process
is can be training
of time
management.
trainings of time
management and
need the support
of effective time
management
guidelines.
accomplishment
with the selected
or given period of
time.
management
skills of that.
Critical reflective analysis of learning and development
Gibbs’ reflective cycle- This model was developed by the Graham Gibbs in 1988, which
provide the effective structure to the learning from experiences. This helps to critically review
the experiences and examine that for effective learning and planing from this, which went well
and bad. This model of reflective analysis is involving 6 stage given below in prospective of my
social and health career experiences and development (Monstadt, and Schramm, 2017).
Description- Continuous professional development is one of the most important class
room learning and health care professional development unit, which involves the different
activities and task of the career related learning and development. Such as this is involving the,
projects, problem solving research, technical learning etc. I was engaged in the CPD activity,
like in the specific project related to the health and social care, that was the group task. Under
which we were assigned to make the research on principles of diagnosis and health, social care.
This project was assigned to me and my group within university. I did great work in that project
with help of effective team work and other essential professionals skills. Other members of the
team and me worked effectively for the task accomplishment by the distribution of task and
activities within team. My responsibility was to make critical research on principles of the
diagnosis and other team member was engage in the study and report development related to the
other important princesses of health and social care. Within the compliment of that project we
learn and developed various important aspect of health and social care along with the
development of health care professionals skills. I was there engaged in that task due to my goal
for the development of my knowledge regarding diagnosis principles and improvement of my
professional skills, which was achieved with some good and bad expiries.
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Feelings- As I was engaged in the project due to my own goals and objectives of health
and social care professional skills and knowledge development. I was feeling grate full to have
that opportunity. For effective learning and health care professionals experience development.
Within that specific class room activity I faced different situation, which are now added to my
experience increasing the value of my knowledge and eligibility. One of the most impacting and
important situation of that project experience was group activity in which we were performing
the critical review of the online secondary resources, where we got success due to the effective
team work and communication skills. Know I an feeling that my commination skills are more
better at present and improved due to the positive effects of that project. I feel the my critical
analysis and problem solving are improved, experience of that project is adding more knowledge
in my performance report and now I an having information and Knowles several principles of
health and social care. From that project I learn the importance of patience and how to manage
this within health and social care practices. About my group performance I feel that distribution
of the project as l was the effective move, which result in the accomplishment of project with in
right time.
Evaluation- Within the project “principles of diagnosis and health, social care” there
was the different situation which we faced in terms of good and bad. Such as we were engaged in
the project task like research, study, information collection, report writing and presentation.
Under which things went good but in come place, I faced the difficulty due to the lack of
problems solving skills, but with in application of effective communication and team work skills.
That situation was managed, I also developed my problem solving skill support of team members
and effective learning. Task distribution was also the good approach, by aid of which collection
of the right information regarding related to the project time is done. Learning of that collected
information helped me to achieve my goal for development of knowledge regarding health and
social care principles. Report writing and presentation went good and also helped me to improve
my writing and presentation skills, which is important skill for each and every health care
professional. Team assumption regarding report writing format was wrong but improved within
the right time through effective research.
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Analysis- research is very important and complicated task in which each and every
health and social professional have to be good and effective. This is involving the application of
different skills to achieve success in the research project. Such as learning, reading, critical
analysis and problem solving skills. And due to that reason in the research task I faced the issues,
because problems solving is the important skills of the research and this is my weakness too. For
the development of problems solving skills individual have to take more responsibility and go
through with the situation or experience of problems solving, hence I have developed my
problem solving skill from this experience. Task distribution is the important skills or activity of
the effective team work and due to this strength or approach, project is successful accomplish
with the collection of relevant information. This is very clear that performance make things
better and improve skills, my communication skills was my strength and according to the
academic literature communication skills is the sets of abilities like, writing, presentation, verbal
communication etc. so due to this strength I got success in the effective report writing and
presentation along with my team. For the research report development that is important to use
well organised structure and if not having the knowledge about that then this is important to
make research for that. Which we did not use in starting of the project but get aware about that
with in the right and then improved the report.
Conclusion- From the above reflective analysis of my class room CPD activity which
was the research project on principles of diagnosis and health, social care. I learned that effective
team work and skills are very important in context to the accomplishment of health and social
care projects and task. I learned that in health and social care activities that is important to work
according to the principles and communication, problem solving, team work are essential skills.
Along with this professional have to be patience. Its analysed that changes to the my problems
solving skills, research strategies will help to give more effective performance in future. Pre
analysis and study of the project criteria will we effective approach to perform good in the future.
Analysis of the individual strengths and weakness will be the good approach to make effective
task distribution.
Action plan- In next project and assignment I will make sure that before the starting of
project we will make sure that strengths and weakness of the every team member should be clear.
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I will improve my problem solving skills and knowledge of the different research criteria. I will
make sure that the relevant sources should be use in the project to collect relevant information.
different strategics of work planing will learn and use in the net project in order achieve more
effective results. Systematic approaches of project management will identify and implement in
the project. And I will make sure that in net project I should perform with more patience ability
and skills. Experience of the health social care practices principles which e learned from the
project will continuously apply or used within health social care practices programs and training
in order continuously develop it with more relevant information and knowledge.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that in context to the health care
professional CPD is very important practices of planing and learning. This help hem to make the
continuous learning for their improvement of their social and health care career achievements.
Some of the most important part of the CPD are personal development plan and critical
reflection. Which helps to identify career related strengths and weakness and seating of the goals
for improvement and more effective learning or experiences. Gibes model is one of the most
effective and applicable model of reflection in context to the health care professionals, which
involving the different stages of reflection, such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis,
conclusion, action plan.
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