University Assignment: Personal and Professional Development in H&SC

This report provides an in-depth analysis of personal and professional development within the health and social care sector. It begins by comparing personal values and principles with the support provided in the field, exploring the influence of personal culture on supporting users. The report then examines the impact of new developments on personal values within the health and social care context. The second task focuses on self-assessment, identifying current skills and abilities, and culminates in a holistic development plan with clearly defined short, medium, and long-term goals. The report emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement, adapting to changes in the healthcare landscape, and leveraging personal strengths to overcome weaknesses, ultimately aiming to enhance professional practice and patient care. The report also touches on the importance of communication skills, language proficiency, and the need for ongoing learning and adaptation within the dynamic healthcare environment.

Personal And Professional
Development In Health And
Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the support while working in H&SC.......1
1.2 Personal culture influence role in supporting user of H&SC...........................................2
1.3 New development in personal values impact on working in H&SC................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Assessment of current skills and ability...........................................................................3
2.2 Holistic development plan with short, medium and long term goals...............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development is the important aspect which provides an
opportunity to improve own skills that further aid in building effective professional carrier
(Wykes and et. al., 2015). In present report, Health and social care sector is undertaken in which
presentation is provided in respect of the own personal skills while working in the same sector.
The role played by the personal culture along with its impact over users is explained with the
help of examples. Afterwards, self skills and abilities are determined for the purpose of
development along with the formulation of development plan in accordance to bring
improvement in same.
TASK 1
1.1 Compare personal values and principles with the support while working in H&SC
Values refers to ideas and thoughts shared by the same community related to difference
between good and bad, ethics and non ethics etc. Values and principles assist individual to shape
their career according to their past knowledge and experience. I belong from Romania which has
neighbour countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova etc and has Romanian culture from the
birth. Whole country has different type of people from various background but more than 85% of
the population comes from the Romania culture only which solely focuses on hierarchical
society. One of the important values which is possess from my culture is equality to all the
people and eradicate all the factors of discrimination so that every one can live happily. They
prefers to use title and surname until and unless someone demands call them by their name.
People of Romania do not trust strangers people and prefers to stay in privacy in most of the
time. In context of health care, Romanian does not prefers to visit hospital due to trust issues
that's why conditions of the H&SC sector is negative in nature. Due to poor conditions of health
care, country suffers from diseases like lungs cancer, AIDS, underweight baby, problem related
with uterus etc.
So according to H&SC, worker should not discriminate the patients on the basis of age,
gender, sex etc as it is unethical in the industry. All the patients arrives in the hospital should get
proper treatment by avoiding discrimination from mind (Stoddart and Evans, 2017). On the other
hand, other factor is equality to people. Whenever any individual comes for treatment then I
always considered them a patients instead of male, female, children etc as all are equal. Privacy
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is all one of the factors which I luckily got from my Romanian culture. Details of every patients
is secured and I have no rights to share those details to third person as it is illegal and unethical
in the laws of HSC (Girotti, Park and Tekian, 2015). So it can be said that all those mentioned
values has helped me at the time of working by enhancing my motivation level to a certain level.
1.2 Personal culture influence role in supporting user of H&SC
Culture which every individual possess comes from the society where they are living and
their life time experience in that culture (Stewart, Jameson and Curtin, 2015). If culture possess
from the society is positive then it will create a favourable environment in the future by living in
other society or while working and vice versa. Romanian culture states that every citizen should
perform their roles and responsibilities by following the path of ethical as it will help them to
make the decision correctly while working resulting in better performance. For instance, as
abortion is legal in Romania but any girl comes who is under 16 for abortion then it wont take
time to reject that patients treatment as it is illegal according to laws and Romania culture. So
this time, culture makes a positive impact on supporting use of HSC.
As mentioned above, Romania culture says that person should never discriminate on the
basis of any aspects, it makes a favourable impact in my working career as I always put all my
potential while doing clinical practices so that high quality of services is provided to the needy
person. On the other hand, some culture elements make a negative impact on my working as
Romanian culture depicts that they prefers privacy and did not openly talk to the strangers due to
trust issues. So as a practitioner, I continuously have to meet random patients so I have faced
problem in the starting as I could not be able to properly communicate with the patients. But as
the time flows, I have adapted my behaviour according to the external environment and now I do
not have any problem in making rapport with the clients. Other example is confidentiality
information of patients, for instance client work is to explain every problem they are facing
regarding the problem as then only doctors would be able to make the most effective treatment
plan. Role of doctor is to make the information confidential or concealed in nature so that third
party wont be able to take the advantage of it (Payne, 2015).
1.3 New development in personal values impact on working in H&SC
Any development in the HSC will have a positive as well as negative impact on the
working of practitioner as it has a direct connection with the performance of employees. As in
the recent past, local authorities has amended their Care Act which now states that its the
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responsibility of social care services to provide every support to the person in need without
considering their eligibility to get a funds from government. So from now onwards, we can not
deny any one to get a services from hospitals which means that doctors and nurses have to
enhanced their potential when working due to increase in number of clients on a daily basis. In
other development, UK government has amended their safety and quality act 2015 which speaks
that every hospitals should follow certain guidelines related to safety of patients while treatment
and quality of services to them only (Foster and et. al., 2017). If any one found guilty for not
following it then they might face legal issues and punishment from the side of government. So
now our work is to continuously analyse and monitor the changes government is planning to do
and then align our activities with it so that high quality of services is provided to them (Health
and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015, 2019) Along with this, government is also
motivating hospitals and doctors to use advanaced and latest technology with the aim of
increasing quality and quantity of services to their patients so that various diseases would be
eliminated from the place. To attain this, proper training is provided to the doctors by the experts
so that no obstacle would be faced by them while working effectively.
Personal values comes with the person culture they possessed from the starting but it
should be change according to the rules and regulations of the hospital as it must be essential to
get adjusted in the environment where they are working. For instance, when I first arrived in the
hospital I was not sure that who to talk when to talk as their culture is different but proper
training is provided to me so that excellent communication and interpersonal skills would be
inculcate within me. As per the Romanian culture, people does not prefers to visit hospitals
physically because they have more trust over home remedies as compare to social care services.
So its doctor and nurses responsibility to motivate them by launching various programmes so
that awareness and benefits of social care would be disseminate to the people (Koh and Rudd,
2015).
TASK 2
2.1 Assessment of current skills and ability
It is important for every individual to find their capabilities and weakness as it assist them
to modify their performance accordingly (Hanko, 2016). For instance if worker of HSC removes
their weakness and strengthen their strengths while working then their practices and performance
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while working would improved to a certain level. My current skills and ability is explained
below,
Strengths Weakness
I have good communication skills attained
through following good culture which help to
provide effective services
One of my biggest weakness is short temper
behaviour. It is hard for me to control my anger
at that which sometimes affect me in a negative
way. I loose my focus which ultimately results
in making silly mistakes. This will hinder my
capacity to work with people
Other strengths of my behaviour is patience
while talking. It is an essential factor in the
HSC industry along with dealing with person
as if accurate information is not ascertained by
me then not able to give prescription
accordingly.
I have less knowledge regarding the new laws
and medical information in the HSC sector
along with the behaviour of people due to
which I have to give more focus on reading and
implementing them accordingly.
It should be important in the HSC to follow the
rules and guidelines provided by the hospitals
as it avoid any negligence while working and
legal issues which might be imposed by the
government. I always follow ethical rules
while treating people as it helps me perform
my task with highest productivity. Various
ethical principles includes no discrimination at
work, prescription according to patients health
etc.
I found problem while handling patients as I
do not understand their concerns due to the
language barriers.
I am good because with the help of visual
learning I easily show visual data in the form
of maps and graphs. As it will helps me in
solving each issues within health and social
care faced by the different communities
I am weak in Auditory learning. This will
negatively impacts my capability about
assessment of the patients issues belongs from
different backgrounds along with the
consideration of the right practice to overcome
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people. This will allows me to deal effectively
with all communities People.
the same. To hinder me to serve perfectly to
all people.
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2.2 Holistic development plan with short, medium and long term goals
As already mentioned in the above part, I have shared my strengths and weakness and
now its time for me to work on that effectively as finding these capabilities and weakness does
not affect the performance of the person. Proper dedication is required from the end of
employees as without their proper strategy and development plan, they can not attain
professional development in the future (Golightley and Goemans, 2017). PDP is a documents
which consist of various strategies and actions taken by the individual to remove their weakness
so that they can perform better in the critical as well as in normal conditions. My PDP plan is
given below,
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Short term Where am I
now?
Where do I
want to be?
Actions to
support
development
and achive
objectives
Criteria to measure/assess
achievment?
Improve
english
language
within 6
months
These skills
are weak in
me due to
which i
could not
communicat
e my ideas
with the
team.
I want to
communicate
with the team
members in an
effective
manner so that
they can
understand the
message or
information
conveyed.
In order to
improve
english
lanuage i keep
a notebook of
new words I
learn. I also
develop this
skills by
attnding
english
speaking
classes as well
as by
practising
english in
daily life.
Effective communication with
the patients from different
nation and back- ground
Certificatio
n in
Healthcare
Risk
Manageme
nt within 2
years
Right now I
am at
bachelors
level.
I want to gain
more
certifications.
This will help to
develop my own
potential along
with skills.
Getting
admission for
certificate
course.
Comparing previous
performance with the obtained
performance so that increment
can be identified.
Improves
Auditory
learning
within 6
I am
focusing on
dealing with
each issue
I want to
improve my
auditory
learning beacuse
In order to
develop
Auditory
learning I
Analysing importance of
auditory leraning in health
and social care.
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moths of patients. it will helps me
in solving each
issues from
patients.
need to take
an action plan.
For this, i
participate in
discussions
and debates,
read aloud,
use mnemonic
devices etc.
To get a job
in Health
and Social
Care as a
nurse
within 1
year
I am
currently
working as
care
supervisor
in health
and social
care.
For becoming
nurse, i have to
improve my
knowledge
regarding the
medical
profession so
that i can
perform my
work as a nurse
in an effective
manner.
For this, i
have to taken
the training
from a
recognised
medical
institution so
that proper
information
and
knowledge
can be
acquired.
Ability to perform different
job roles by using the existing
skills and competencies.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that determination and analysis of the own
values and skills helps in identification of the areas in which person lacks. This will provides an
opportunity to bring improvements in these areas through made changes in actions. In health and
social care, it is must for an employee or person to perform ethically as this will have impact
over enhancement of their clinical practices. All the individuals working in this industry needed
to focus over the continuous development as this will not only help in personal development but
aid in development of overall professional carrier.
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