Unit 6:
Personal and Professional
Development in Health and
Social Care
Unit code:
D/600/8958
QCF Level 3:
BTEC Nationals
Credit value:
20
Guided learning hours: 120
Aim and purpose
This unit aims to enable learners to understand the learning process and to give them the skills they need to plan for, monitor and reflect on their professional development. Learners will then be able to investigate and gain an understanding of health or social care provision. Learners must complete 100 hours work experience as a requirement of this unit.
Unit introduction
Initially, learners will explore factors that affect learning, then plan and monitor their personal and professional development and reflect on it. They
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on own professional development over time
Review at start of programme: current knowledge and skills, practice, values, beliefs, career aspirations; self-awareness Knowledge: review, plan and monitor, eg relevant formal and informal learning to date, current contemporary issues, understanding of theories, principles and concepts, understanding of potential careers; gained from a variety of learning opportunities
Skills: communicating: language (verbal, non-verbal); working with others, eg service users, professionals, peers; technical, eg IT, use of equipment, creative/craft skills; research, eg primary, secondary, data handling; personal, eg organisational skills, personal presentation
Practice: review, plan and monitor, eg respect for the value base of care, professional interactions with others, cooperative working with others, teamwork, influence of personal values and beliefs, awareness of need to develop personal value base to support and promote good practice, awareness of the impact of legislation, codes of practice and policies on own practice, responsibility and limitations
Values and beliefs: personal and professional eg, values and beliefs, value base of care
Career aspirations: career options, preferred choice
Action plan for own development: targets/goals, short term (up to six months), long term (minimum of 18 months), specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, timely
Consider personal goals: in terms of knowledge, skills, practice, values,
As a HNC Health Care student I am required to provide evidence of the following principal aims and objectives: to integrate knowledge, theory and practice, to develop and apply a broad knowledge and skills and to have an individual patient/client focus in my practice. To achieve all of the above I am required to complete project in a form of Graded Unit which consists of three stages: planning, development and evaluation.
Cognitive skills and the student’s abilities’ alone cannot account for individual’s learning. Other factors such as motivation and self-regulation play a role in the students learning as well. This cognitive approach leads to self-regulation learning. This learning process places emphasis on the student being proactive in developing their learning skills. The learner sets their goals, develop their own learning strategies, monitor and modify their progress when needed (Schunk, 2006). In order for this learning process to be effective, the student has to be motivated and committed to accomplishing their goals. The more the learning is invested in the process, the more effective learning becomes. This is critical to the learning process.
This subject is of great importance because it attempts to understand how people learn or relearn motor skills, how they develop and use them in various situations. Learning involves a modification in the internal state of a person, which must be inferred from the observation of the behaviour or performance of that person. For learning to be effective, one must consider the variables that interfere with this process.
BTEC Apprenticeship Assessment Workbook Level 2 Health & Social Care 1. THE APPRENTICESHIP AND YOUR ROLE 1 In this induction section you will show that you understand the employer/employee relationship and what someone who works in the health and social care sector is required to do. The Workbook will help you to show that you follow agreed ways of working. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Task 1 WorkSkills: Unit 1: 1.1, 1.2 Task 1a
I am going to be writing an essay about factors that could influence peoples learning. The essay will start by explaining the positive and negative influences of my childhood experience. I will then explain my present experience and finish this assignment with my future plans for my learning process. This assignment will also include theorists and how they influence peoples learning. It will also discuss how others can be helped to learn and how effective this can be.
A good way to think of a self-development plan is to consider this a business plan for your professional career development. Like a business plan, it should express your desired goals (both short-term and long-term), your objectives, and the resources you need. All elements of the plan should be specific enough to allow you to self-monitor your progress. The following is an outline for a development plan that addresses your personal career goals and the five integral components for professional practice (caring, communication, critical thinking, professionalism, and holism).
Practice: A piece of the nursing practice relies on the Care Management Model which sets up functional teams with different focus points such as clinical data analysis, safety, utilization review, patient education, and performance improvement (BMC, 2015). BFMC surely has a code of conduct manual but it was not available for the public to view. The Banner organization utilizes many company developed frameworks of care centering on the patient and results of care (Mensik, Maust-Martin, Scott, & Horton, 2011). Additionally, Evidence based practice is expressed as scientifically based care promoting integrity and striving for the highest quality of care and services (Goebel, 2016). While BRMC does
Factors to consider when selecting opportunities and activities for keeping knowledge and practice up to date are individual development needs, ever changing policies and procedures along with staff members chosen area of expertise such as education, training and employment, health, child sexual exploitation, parenting, self care and practical skills, budgeting and benefits and drugs and alcohol. It is important for staff knowledge to be kept up to date to ensure best practice.
Outline your current development needs and produce an action plan, detailing your goals in order to meet these needs.
People processes new information based on their learning styles. VAK learning styles are designed to describe how an individual processes information. VAK stands for Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic. The VAK learning style uses these three senses in order to determine a person 's dominate learning style. In theory, an individual usually prefers to learn through one of these senses more than another. Everybody, including your family members, friends and strangers may have the same or a different learning style. Some individuals have a mixture of these three learning styles, which is not uncommon. It all depends on how one perceives and retains information.
Who would have ever thought taking a college course would require one to learn how to learn? It is a good concept we normally undergo at a very young age. At the pre-school age one will find children learning their strength and weakness through their playtime. As adults we almost forget we have to learn how to learn to continue growth in our workplace, school, and in life. In our second week of online classes I learned strengths and weakness in my learning style with the aid of learning assessments, personality spectrums, and time management logs. In this paper, I intend to describe the various components of my learning style and outline a plan to improve my time management and study skills.
education for learners at this level. It develops in line with changing needs, and we update and extend it
Programs and curriculums try to gain people’s enthusiasm for learning and help people gain skills for self-awareness, self-directed learning and professional development [3].
There are a number of contemporary theoretical perspectives that surround the psychological process of learning. Over the years these perspectives have been examined and analyzed in the hopes of discovering the process that is most effective for the process of learning. Three of the top theoretical perspectives: Constructivist/cognitivist theory, Phenomenographic/Variation theory and Socio-Cultural theory are all theories that have been proven to be powerful processes in the field of learning. Although these perspectives are different in theory, they all focus on the context, meaning and experiences of learning, while having similar beliefs regarding the active role of the learner and the influence of their environment.
There are several qualities that are essential for a self-determined, intrinsically motivated, and active learner to possess. Each of the three listed descriptions relate to one another in tandem. In order to be a self-directed and active learner, the course of action begins with a catalyst stimulating the learner’s interest by creating the impulse for a learner to act. This organically inspired impulse is considered to be intrinsic motivation (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Once there an initiative to take action occurs, the learner can then independently create an organized strategy to become a self-directed learner to maintain a focused and disciplined mindset by independently governing their own learning process, persistently discovering self-confidence in fundamental learning skills, and effectively managing study time (Cobb, 2013). Thus far the student has experienced the impulse to take action, established a structured competency, and can now be an active learner and execute their skills through various techniques such as asking questions, recording notes, intently listening, reviewing images for clarity, observing the learning as applied to real life, repetitious practice, and writing to articulate retained information (“Active Learning,” n.d.). Consequently, the essential qualities for a successful learner must be to possess the urge to learn, establish self-discipline, and exploit their knowledge through various activities. In the end the most prevalent quality for a learner