Professional Development Plan for Dental Hygienist Career Path

This assignment delves into the career of a dental hygienist, providing a comprehensive overview of career-related information, professional development, and skills assessment. The assignment begins by identifying various sources of information relevant to the career path, including online resources, professional networks, and publications, and analyzes how these sources can be utilized to gather the necessary information for career planning. It further analyzes the labor market information specific to dental hygienists, evaluating job opportunities, required skills, and educational pathways. The assignment also discusses and analyzes different methods of continuing professional development and training, such as training programs, interactive learning, job rotations, and internships. Additionally, it includes a self-assessed skills audit to identify strengths and areas for improvement in key areas like teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and time management, alongside functional skills. The assignment aims to equip individuals with the knowledge and tools necessary for effective career planning and professional development within the field of dental hygiene.

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LO1 – Know how to access career related information
P1/M1/D1
Identify sources of
information related
to your
career path
{P1}
There is a lot of information on different careers that can be found
online , newspapers,, professional network , family and friends .
The website allows a lot of people .
There are various types of sources which can be used to gather
desired information about career path of dental hygienist. It consiist
online websites, articles, professional network, friends, known
people, journals, books, articles, newpapers and magazines
(Kavaratzis, Warnaby and Ashworth, 2014). However, these
sources are helpful to gain knowledge about career path which is
required to be followed step- by- step in order to become
professional in specific field of hygienist. In addition to thsi, online
websites and opinions of family or friends is helpful to evaluate
scope of the particular area of career with respect of continuining
styudies in correat way to become successful dental hygienist. At
the other hand, these sources of information provide support to
carrying out preparation in more effective as well as efficient
manner which faciliate to complete related course along with
earning desired knowledge and skills respectively. The sources of
information are also essential to make an appropriate decision
making while selecting the career path in specific field. It is
necessary for an individual to make correct decision because it is
related to their career on that their life depends which can be done
with the help of above mentioned sopurces of information in
accurate way (Rothwell And et. al., 2015).
Analyse the different
sources of
information
It has been analysed that usually people uytilise several sources of
information such as online articles, websites, newpapers and views
of family & friends. These resources of dat collection facilitate to
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available related to
the
career path
{M1}
understand about specific path of career like dental hygienist in
order to make decision about selecting profession according to
interest, skills and knowledge accordingly (Taylor, 2016). It is very
importnat to choose correct proffession for achieving greate
success and facilitate better living of standards. However, these
sources are helpful to gather information baout career life and
professonal challenges along with benefits to analyse that this area
is suitable for an individual or not.
Evaluate labour
market information
related to your
career path
{D1}
The labour market information can be described as to analyse
about jobs, skills and hiring in particular field like dental hygienist. It
include infomationation batu various aspects regarding particular
proffession including dental hygienist such as working conditions,
education, training, factors that create problems and specialised
arae to gain bright future as well as growth & success. However, it
is necessary to gain knowledge aout particular sector, duration of
working, education required, work experience and skills which are
mandatory for making bright future in field of dental hygienist. It wil
provide support to students at initial level to acquire desired
abilities, knowledge and skills for particular profession in respect of
becoming better professionalist in proper manner.
LO4 – Understand methods of professional development and
training
P6/M3
Discuss
methods of
continuing
There are varous kinds of methods of continuining professional trtaining
and development career path of dental hygienist. It include several
practices which facilitate to conduct training programs for dental hygienist
in order to improve their skills and abilities to perform their tasks in proper
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professional
development
and training
relevant to
your career
plan
{P6}
manner with better outcomes. Some of these methods are explained here
which are helpful to increase productivity of an individual along with attain
perfection in their work (Giloth, 2018).
Initialy, training programs fior different learning styles such as verbal,
visual, hands on and many more. These learning style are effective to
make people acquire new skills and abilities about particular aspect.
However, different learning style are much efective to make dental hyienist
learn about to improve themselves in performance. Moreover, it is
necessary to provide knowledge to them for maintaining cleaning and
hygienic area in accurate way. Secondlly, training methods should be
intercative like group work, quizes and team activities which is helpful to
increase capabilties of employees. Thirdly, job rotation can be considered
as a helpful method to become flexible in respet of wokringat different
araes iwth same perfection and effectiveness.
However, internships training is another method which is helpful to learn
new aspects which helps to maintain dental hygiene in proper manner. It
is essential to personalise information in oredr to make specific to
particular healthcare organisation and make training reflects in chnaging
skills of staff members working for dental hygiene maintenance. Moreover,
it is mandatory to first evaluate demands of employes related to training
and consider them to conduct more effective learning procedure.
Analyse
different
methods
of continuing
professional
development
and training
relevant to
your career
plan
{M3}
There are varuious kinds of methods which can be carried out by
healthcare organsations in order to increase skills and productivity of staff
members. It consiitst different methods such as coaching, jobtinstructions,
job rotation, committee assignments, internship training, case sudy
method, incident method, role play and so on. Howevre, these methods
provide support to an individual for continuing professional training and
development to plan of career (Franklin, Feller and Yanar, 2014). In
adition to this, training and development programs facilitate to clear doubts
of employees and make them perfect by gaining better knowledge and
techniques to conduct tasks appropriately on regular basis. Morteover,
improve abilities, knowldge and skills are helpful for organisation and
supportive to workers for achieving bright future in career.
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LO2 Be able to develop a personal career development plan
P3/P2/P4
{P3} Self-Assessed Skills Audit
A = Good B = Fair C = Poor
To get the most out of this activity you should answer the questions as honestly as
possible
The resulting self-assessment can be also used as a basis for students’ discussions with
tutors where gaps in understanding and knowledge can be identified.
Self Assessed Skills Audit Form
Team Working
A B C
● I am able to build and develop working relationships with
colleagues
Y
e
s
● I work effectively with others to complete tasks and achieve
results
Y
e
s
● I encourage others to work together as part of a team or
group
y
e
s
● I recognise and understand when compromise and
accommodating others is necessary
y
e
s
● I interact well with others and work cooperatively as a team
member
y
e
s
● I understand how to gain the attention of others in a team or
group when required
y
e
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● I understand how to contribute effectively and cooperatively
with others even if they do not share the same ideas and ways
of working
y
e
s
● I express myself effectively in a group and in one to one
situations
y
e
s
● I have an understanding of team roles y
e
s
TOTAL y
e
s
Problem Solving
A B C
● I use an appropriate approach to questioning in order to gain
information from which to draw conclusions
y
e
s
● I am able to find creative solutions to problems y
e
s
● I explore more than one solution in order to solve a problem y
e
s
● I consider the ideas of others to help solve problems y
e
s
● I demonstrate resilience and lateral thinking abilities when
applied to problem solving
y
e
s
TOTAL y
e
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communication
A B C
● I understand the differences in presenting types of
documents, e.g. reports, essays, dissertations, summaries
y
e
s
● I check written work for errors before submission y
e
s
● expressing and conveying ideas appropriately and accurately
in writing
y
e
s
● expressing and conveying ideas appropriately and accurately
verbally
y
e
s
● I can successfully give a presentation or demonstration y
e
s
● I know how to check information I am giving someone is
understood by using a range of verbal and non-verbal signals
y
e
s
TOTAL y
e
s
Planning and Time Management
A B C
● I can plan my day in order to manage time more effectively y
e
s
● I apply suitable approaches and put in extra effort if required
in order to meet tight deadlines
y
e
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● I know how to prioritise my own work y
e
s
● I can identify resources required to complete a set task y
e
s
● I can motivate myself and work hard to assist in the
completion of work objectives
y
e
s
TOTAL y
e
s
Functional Skills
A B C
● I am confident performing calculations involving addition and
subtraction
y
e
s
● I am comfortable performing calculations involving
multiplication and division
y
e
s
● I am comfortable performing calculations involving measure
e.g. weight, volume, length
y
e
s
● I am comfortable performing calculation involving ratios and
percentages
y
e
s
● I am comfortable surfing the internet and using it to find
information I need
y
e
s
● I am comfortable using email to send and receive messages y
e
s
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● I understanding how to use Word Processing Software y
e
s
● I understanding how to use Spreadsheet Software y
e
s
● I understand how to use Presentation Software y
e
s
● I am comfortable writing an email or letter in English y
e
s
● I am comfortable reading a newspaper or magazine that is
written in English
y
e
s
TOTAL y
e
s
Personal Development
A B C
● I am able to apply knowledge I have gained from experience
to everyday life5. Ensure training reflects changing skills.
Hospital training programs have always covered issues
such as compliance and clinical competency, but
increasingly hospitals are developing programs around
newly sought-after skills, such as customer service and
patient-centered care.
●
● "What we've seen more than anything else because of
y
e
s
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value-based healthcare is that we're putting more focus on
the patient experience and balancing it with quality and
cost," says Ms. Machuga. "We've always covered customer
service in orientation, but it's certainly more in depth than
before. As the patient experience plays more into our
reimbursement, we have to get across to staff what this
means and how the employee can impact it."
● I have developed the communication s5. Ensure training
reflects changing skills. Hospital training programs have
always covered issues such as compliance and clinical
competency, but increasingly hospitals are developing
programs around newly sought-after skills, such as
customer service and patient-centered care.
●
● "What we've seen more than anything else because of
value-based healthcare is that we're putting more focus on
the patient experience and balancing it with quality and
cost," says Ms. Machuga. "We've always covered customer
service in orientation, but it's certainly more in depth than
before. As the patient experience plays more into our
reimbursement, we have to get across to staff what this
means and how the employee can impact it."kills I need to
help apply knowledge gained from experience
y
e
s
● I actively work towards developing skills needed to work
effectively in my line of work
y
e
s
● I am able to apply theory to practice where appropriate y
e
s
● I find opportunities to enhance and develop
transferable skills
y
e
s
● I set goals for myself and review them regularly y
e
s
● I recognise my personal successes y
e
s
● I can establish a course of action for myself and
evaluate my own performance
y
e
s
● I find opportunities to enhance and develop
transferable skills
y
e
s
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TOTAL y
e
s
Consider what the results says about your
ability in each of these sections.
Are they strengths or weaknesses?
What do you think the results say about you?
How can you improve in each area?
Teamwork I have an ability to make effective relation with team members
which is essential to establish more effective as well as efficient
coperation between whole team. It will provide support to make
better coordination with ecah other in order to put individual efforts
towards single goal in respect of achieving the same along iwth
better outcomes (Gray, 2014). Maintaininh relation with others is
my strength as it facilitate to maintain effective communication
which is helpful to reduce misunderstanding and desired tasks can
be complete in accurate way. However, I have an ability to
coperate iwth other team menfers in order to perform effectively
which is strong point for working in proper manner.
Problem Solving
My approach of using questions to gain required information is helpful to
evaluate the roots of created problems which facilitate to draw an
appropriate conclusions for the same in correct manner. It consist to
analyse overall scenario through which the issues take place in terms of
determining scope of acquiring solutions for the specific problem
(Damon, 2017). My technique of questioning is strength which helps to
identify roots of threat which automatically provide appropriate solution. I
also use to provide my own ideas to others to solve their problems which
are suitbale to make better relations with them but at the same time, few
of individuals do not want advice, hence they become aggressive whihc
create conflict situation. This is a kind of weakness for me.
Communication
I have a knowldge about to write content in reports, essays,
dissertations and and summaries due to my strength of having
clear concepts of these aspects. It will proviode support to
communicate particualr information to other people in different
forms is suitable to make tem understand about specific data
(Knight, 2015). Moreover, I can express my ideas in writing more
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effectively rather than verbally which is a kind of weakness for me.
Additionally, I am much capable to give presentation on particular
topic with the help of powerpoint presentation in order to convey
desired informaion to audiences properly. I can present desired
data effectively to make people understand about specific issue
mentioned in slides of presentation.
Planning and Time
Management
I can plan my whole day routine in oredr to complete overall tasks
within required duration of time with desired outcomes respectively.
It will provide help to me for managing my whole day work in
correct manner which facilitate to reduce chance of pending work
for me on daily basis. Sometimes, I spend more effort to manage
my work if it is on deadline and complete desired task within set
duration of time. Moreover, I have a capability to manage extra
work within particular period of time to complete my daily work
during the duration of work load.
Functional
Skills(Numeracy,
Literacy and ICT)
The calculation skills ar every important of an individual is working in
related departments like finance or accounts. I do not have an
effective ability to make accurate calculations regarqding ratios and
percentages whihc is weakness for me. However, I am comfortable
in writing an e-mail or letter in English which can be consider as my
strength for effectively conduct functioning of conveying desired
information to people. It is confortbale for me to understand
spreadsheet aoftware in order to wokr of the same in effective way
or achieving better outcomes. Moreover, it is favourbale to conduct
data entry in accurate manner for preserving the same for future
perspectives (Charles, Schmidheiny and Watts, 2017).
Personal
Development
I have a habit to determine favourable opportunities in order to grab
them for enhancing my career to gain more benefits and
compensation. However, it is possible to set target for
performance according to my own capabilities and which provide
support to evaluate performance in proper way. It will facilitate to
put efforts for improving productivity in respect of gaining better
incentives and other benefits (Allen, 2018). In addition to this,
these abilities are my strengths which helps to complete work on
time along with analysing threat to overcome with the same.
Moreover, it is necessary to identify problems in performnace to
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overcome with them for improving productivity on daily basis.
{P2} Complete the career plan below to help
identify your development needs
What my current
situation career
wise?
The current situation demands for several developmental needs
including soft & hard skills such as oral communication, attention to
detail, compassion, problem solving and manual dexterity,
conducting initial dental assessments, removing deposits from
teeth, applying flouride treatments, taking X- rays and assiostive
with restorative procedures (Murphy and Lambrechts, 2015).
However, it is necessary for dental hygienist for acquiring esired
knolwdge, skills and abilities for conducting overall tasks mentioned
above in more effective as well as efficient manner. Moreovre,
these capabilities are helpful become more capable for carrying out
different tasks of dental hygienist to improve perfection in their
performance.
What
job/career/business
do I ultimately want
to be in?
I want to be in profession to become dental hygienist with the help
of gaining appropriate knowledge about to carrying out desired
tasks in accurate way. It is necessary to acquire accurate skils,
abilities and knowleadge job of dental hygienist in order to conduct
various aspects such as oral communication, attention to detail,
compassion, problem solving and manual dexterity, conducting
initial dental assessments, removing deposits from teeth, applying
flouride treatments and many more. Moreover, it is required to gain
improvement and perfection in work for attain growth in career for
success and bright future.
Where do I want to
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