Personal and Professional Development Report - Healthcare Setting

This report delves into the critical role of personal and professional development within healthcare settings, emphasizing its impact on delivering high-quality patient care and ensuring patient safety. It explores the roles and responsibilities of healthcare workers, highlighting the significance of adhering to quality standards and the influence of values and beliefs on work practices. The report underscores the importance of reflective practices, self-evaluation, and feedback mechanisms for continuous improvement. It also examines the availability of support resources for professional growth and the creation of personal development plans to address strengths and weaknesses. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, reinforcing the need for ongoing development to enhance healthcare practices and patient outcomes. The report also includes references to relevant academic sources.

Personal and professional
development

Table of content
 Roles and responsibilities of health care workers
 Quality standards in health and social care
 Values and beliefs affecting work practices
 Importance of reflective practices in healthcare setting
 Ability to reflect on practices
 Explain how reflective practice can lead to improved working

Table of content
 Importance of evaluation of own performance
 Evaluate own knowledge, competence and understanding against relevant standards
 Explain the role of feedback to evaluate the performance
 Find resources of support for reviewing and planning own development
 Review and prioritise own learning needs and development opportunities
 Personal development plan
 CONCLUSION

Introduction
 In healthcare setting personal development plays a significant role as care
workers need to keep their knowledge and skills up to date in order to provide
quality care to patients.
 The main purpose of personal development is to make health care professional
effective at their work which is helpful to enhance customer's satisfaction.
 Personal development is defined as a way in which healthcare professionals
assess their abilities and skills and set their goals in order to achieve
effectively.

Roles and responsibilities of health care
workers
 Health care workers are reliable to deliver quality care services to
patients, disseminate information about how to live a health lives,
prevent diseases from spreading, provide preventive medications
to patients and provide tips for quick recovery.
 Health and social care workers also distribute essential medicines
to vulnerable people in order to promote their health and well-
being. They are reliable to distribute vitamin A capsules and folic
acid tablets to children for their growth as per the governmental
guidelines.

Quality standards in health and social care
 Quality standards for health and care is set of framework which raise
quality in health and care services provided to the patients. Quality
standards were introduced on 14th of march in 2006.
 These quality standards give health and social care and other
organisations a measure against which they can assess themselves and
demonstrate improvement, rights and equality of opportunity for the
people of united kingdom, enable formal assessment of the quality
and safety of health and social care services and assist service users
and carers to understand what quality of service they are entitled to.

Values and beliefs affecting work practices
 Values and beliefs affects the way of interaction and impact professional success. Professionals who are working with
their values and principle. Impact their practices. As for example, health care organisation prioritise patient with high
income so they can afford all the expensive treatments where as low income patient do not access high cost treatments.
 Values and ethics of a honourable health care professional will be hampered by the organisation, he is working for. In
some countries people get discriminated on the basis of their community, race, gender or sexual
orientation(Andersonand et. al., 2022). Health care professional require to work with the ethics and values so people
can get equal access to health resources and facilities.
 Values demonstrate the goals which motivate effective method of care. Values and ethics play a significant role in
delivery of quality car facilities to patient (Crick and et. al, 2019).

Importance of reflective practices in
healthcare setting
 Reflective practices enable healthcare workers to learn from their past working
experiences in order to improve and develop their further practices. Self reflection
is the best way to analyse own weaknesses and strengths.
 Reflective practices help health carers to obtain a better awareness of themselves,
skills, knowledges and competencies. Reflective practices helps care workers
completely focus on their work in order to improve their efficiency.
 It enhance their motivation and improve their patient care. Reflective practices
make carers explore their own working experience and analyse their weaknesses
in order to work on it (Valmas, Himrich and Finn,2020).

Ability to reflect on practices
 Practitioners recognise their strength and weaknesses to analyse
their previous working experience. It enables them to recognise
their strength and weaknesses which improves their working
practices.
 With the help of self reflection, practitioners develop their
knowledge and skills. Reflection is not always about learning form
own experiences but also learn form others mistakes (Deryaeva
and et. al., 2020).

Explain how reflective practice can lead to
improved working
 Reflective practices improve the practices of healthcare
professionals as it allows them to assess their previous
experiences. Reflecting on own actions, emotions, thoughts
and practices helps to better understand about the area of
improvement.
 This understanding make practitioner prepare for their future
events and institutions. They develop their skills and
knowledge's to resolve arising problems in healthcare
settings.

Importance of evaluation of own performance
 Self-evaluation helps practitioners to figure out what they are doing and what they need to improve in
order to deliver quality care to the patients. Self-evaluation provide health carers an opportunity to
highlight their uniqueness and weaknesses in order to accomplish their goals and being honest towards
their works (Rentea, Lazăr and Ciocănel, 2021).
 Self evaluation also helps to build confidence which is required to improve their practices. Analysing the
performance enables health carers develop skills and knowledges for their future events. They also
develop problem solving skills for their patients in order to provide them a safe treatment. Self evaluation
allows professionals to trach their accomplishment (Dyrbye, Lipscomb and Thibault, 2020).

Evaluate own knowledge, competence and
understanding against relevant standards
 There are several ways in which a practitioner can evaluate
knowledge and assess their performance in order to improve
their practices. It is always done against the relevant
standards in order to provide quality care to the patients.
 Relevant standards make practitioners change their
behaviour and practices to meet with the expectation which
is set out by the healthcare organisation and professional
practice.