Personal Development Plan: Skills Development for Healthcare Student

This assignment is a personal development plan created by a healthcare student to identify and address skill weaknesses encountered in higher education. The plan focuses on improving time management, problem-solving abilities, and emotional stability, which are critical for success in the field. The student outlines challenges faced upon entering higher education, such as managing time effectively, and details strategies learned from classes, tutors, and resources. The plan emphasizes the importance of prioritizing tasks, limiting multitasking, and participating in curriculum activities to enhance communication, flexibility, and emotional stability. The student also references relevant literature and online resources to support the development strategies, demonstrating a commitment to continuous personal and professional growth within the healthcare field.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATION.............................................................................................1
SPECIFIC LEARNING NEEDS.....................................................................................................1
DEVELOPMENTAL AREAS.........................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3
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INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan is about determination of the requirements which needed to
develop in future for attaining competencies while performing work (Personal development.
2018).
This podcast will cover about the development of my own skills in which I feel weaken.
The main skill in which I feel distressed at the time of its performance is about time
management. Other skills upon which needed to provide emphasis to develop as health care
student in semester 2 is about problem, analysing and emotional stability.
ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATION
While entering into the higher education, one of the major challenge faced by me is about
effective management of time according to the different work possess by me for completion.
Education is most important aspect which help an individual to develop their own
personal and professional competencies (Bekas, 2015). After attending many classes and having
conversation with tutors, I learnt about many aspects and approaches which help me to manage
time and complete my whole work within stipulated period of time. The same which are
acknowledged by me from their guidance includes Focus on high value activities, minimizing
interruptions, start day with clear goals and stop procrastinating.
Even though, I read many books and articles which contains the information about the
time management strategies (Campbell, 2018). The main strategy which I acknowledge from
such materials is about Limit Multitasking. In order to attain command over this I started to
make plans in blocks where I focus on completion of one task in one time.
SPECIFIC LEARNING NEEDS
There are many learning needs identified by me after entering into higher education
course is about note taking, problem analysing, time management and self understanding.
There are many aspects which are taught in semester 1 which provides me the
opportunity to learn new concepts and overcome from the issues.
To resolve time management, I start focusing on main goals and prioritizing my work.
As, advised by my tutor, I focus on the approach of limiting multitasking.
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DEVELOPMENTAL AREAS
Overall personal development is possible only when able to analyse the future
requirements and make plans in respect of them for their proper accomplishment.
While entering in Semester 2, the major aspects upon which I provide emphasis is about
taking part in different curriculum activities as to know the importance of time and completion of
project in appropriate manner. As the student of health and social care, I needed have good skills
of communication, time management, problem solving, emotional stability and flexibility.
Participation in different activities help to improve my time management, problem
solving, flexibility and communication skills (Capel and Whitehead, 2015). To improve
emotional stability, I start taking classes which help me to be clam and positive in all situations.
CONCLUSION
In this podcast, I addressed my personal development as I have face many issues in my
skills and competencies which hinder my growth. The skills which are identified to improve
includes time management, problem solving, communication, note taking and emotional
stability. Participation in curriculum activities and attendance of different classes help in
development of all identified weak skills and overall personal development.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bekas, S., 2015. Leadership development in UK medical training: pedagogical theory and
practice. Teaching and learning in medicine, 27(1). pp.4-11.
Campbell, N., 2018. Higher education experiences of elite student-para-athletes in the
UK. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 42(6). pp.769-783.
Capel, S. and Whitehead, M., 2015. Learning to Teach Physical Education in the Secondary
School: A companion to school experience. Routledge.
LeBihan, J., Lowe, T. and Marie, J., 2018. Considerations of the challenges, conflicts and
competitions when expanding student-staff partnerships across an institution:
Perspectives from three UK Universities. Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education, 1(2). pp.173-180.
Mulholland, G. and Turner, J. eds., 2018. Enterprising Education in UK Higher Education:
Challenges for Theory and Practice. Routledge.
Online
Personal development. 2018. [Online]. Available through: <https://www.success.com/the-
ultimate-guide-to-personal-development/>
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