...BTEC National Diploma in Health and Social Care Unit 6 Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care LO1 Understand the learning process * Theories of learning * Influences on learning * Skills for learning * Support for learning * Learning opportunities LO2 Be able to plan for and monitor own professional development * Review at start of programme * Knowledge * Skills * Practice * Values and Beliefs * Career aspirations * Action plan for own development * Consider personal goals LO3 Be able to reflect on own development over time * Monitor and evaluate plan * Changes * Contexts * Professional development portfolio * Relevant experience * Support for development * Reflect on own development LO4 Know service provision in the health or social care sectors * Provision of services * Local health or social care * Health and social care workers What you will be taught 1. Understand the learning process * Theories of learning: theorists, * Skills for learning; * Support for learning; * Learning opportunities; 2. Be able to reflect on own professional development over time * Review at start of programme; * Knowledge; * Skills; * Practice; * Values and beliefs; * Career aspirations; 3. Be able to reflect on own development over time * Monitor and evaluate plan in terms of own development; * Professional development portfolio; * Relevant evidence;...
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...#1 Access to Health Care: Improving overall health status Equality in Access to health services is one of the forty two topic areas in Healthy People 2020 that caught my view as one of the objectives to have the highest importance in achieving a national goal of healthy Americans in the future. But what does access to health care actually means? According Gulliford et al (2002), facilitating access to health is concerned with helping people to command appropriate health care resources in order to preserve or improve their health status but unfortunately gaining access to healthcare depends on some factors such as financial, organizational and social or cultural barriers that permits or limit the said utilization of services. Therefore having much available health services is not a factor in itself to improve the quality of healthcare but the utilization of such services by all of the people which will depend on affordability and general accessibility of the service. According to Healthy People 2020 (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012), it is important to have access to quality health care service in order to achieve equity in health and eventually improve the general health status of all Americans. This I think is one of the most important move that the state should make in order to make the vision of having healthy Americans, including all migrants, ethnic and minority groups, by the year 2020. Though free service is not always the key to have access to...
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...must influence all aspects of health and social care work. Person centred values influence all aspects of health and social care work, for the reason that by law requirements in regards to the Human Rights Act 1998, Health and Social Care Act 2012, along with Codes of Practice for Social Care Workers, health and social care should be based on person centred values. In the interest of individuals who are receiving care, it enables them to be treated with respect and dignity, involving their own needs beliefs and identities, as well as to be supported to remain independent as much as possible. Person centred values also involve individuals to be supported to access their rights, as well as providing anti-discrimination practices together with promoting equal opportunities for individuals, and presenting choices and safety. Ultimately, it is all about diverse people who are involved in health and social care work, so therefore, the values that influences care must be person centred. 1.2 Evaluate the use of care plans in applying person centred values. For information regarding individuals such as patients/service users, a care plan otherwise known as a support plan is used as a vital source of document. Individuals who generally have a long-term condition require a care plan as it is an agreement involving themselves and their health care professionals. The document enables the health of an individual to be managed daily, involving what care they require as well as how it...
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...Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence Nur 531 July 29, 2013 Instructor Greg Friensz Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence The current U.S. population exhibits unparalleled sociocultural and ethnic diversity, yet the nursing workforce fails to reflect the current state of the nation’s diversity. According to Clark, Calvillo, Fongwa, Kools, Dela Cruz, Lowe, and Mastel-Smith (2011) non-Hispanic Whites constitute 83.2% of the nursing workforce, although Hispanics, African Americans, American Indians, Asians, and other ethnic groups remain underrepresented. Nursing faces the challenge to meet the health care needs of such a culturally diverse population while promoting diversity in the workforce through educating nurses on cultural sensitivity and competence. Cultural competence in nursing is evolving as the standard of care. Nursing and other health care providers must employ knowledge of various social and cultural influences in the care setting to promote patient-centered care (Mitchell, Fioravanti, Founds, Hoffmann, & Libman, 2010). It is crucial to recognize and appreciate the relevance of diversity in the acute care setting to set standards of culturally competent nursing care, and improve care delivery through meeting and improving these standards. When examining definitions and concepts of cultural competence, it is evident that it not only pertains to race, sex, age, and ethnicity, but encompasses “other inseparable factors of culture...
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...Qualification (Course code) | F12122BTEC Diploma Health Studies / Health & Social Care | Unit Number and Title | Unit 6: Personal and Professional Development | Assignment Number & Title | Assignment 1 | Issue date | Week commencing 22/2/16 | Submission date | Week commencing 7/3/16 | Assessor | Debbie Hilton | IQA | Alyson Blud | Grading Criteria:(P1): Explain key influences on the personal learning processes of individuals. (P2): Assess own knowledge, skills, practice, values, beliefs and career aspirations at start of the programme(P3): Produce an action plan for self-development and achievement of own personal goals(M1): Assess the impact of key influences on the personal learning processes on own learning(D1): Evaluate how personal learning and development may benefit others | Scenario: Must be vocationalYou work for a health and social care service provider and you are developing your personal and professional development portfolio. The portfolio aims to enable you to understand the learning process and to give you the skills needed to plan for, monitor and reflect on your professional development. A minimum of 100 hours of work experience, in addition to the guided learning hours, is required for successful completion of this unit. | Task 1: Complete the electronic chart from Moodle (upload to vital) explaining the key influences on personal learning processes of individuals it should include the following: (P1) * Theories of learning: i.e. Honey...
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...Faculty of Health and Wellbeing Advanced Diploma in Adult Nursing. Summative Assessment Submission. Collaboration in Professional Practice – January ’08 Intake Date of Submission: 20th April 2009 Assignment Title: "Effective Inter-professional Collaboration is key to providing good quality *patient/client/service user centred care"...Discuss. Student details: Name Student Number Word Count: 2,976 Module Tutor: The aim of this assignment is to discuss the importance of working inter-professionally within a multidisciplinary team to achieve the best patient-centred care. It will demonstrate developments achieved, and the knowledge gained around this area throughout my training and practice to date. The assignment will focus on the inter-professional care for adults within a hospital environment, as ‘Advanced Diploma in Adult Nursing’ is my course area. Interprofessional collaboration looks at teamwork, communication, professionalism and modern issues which influence practice at present. Various health care professionals have a range of expertise and skills different to others, their experiences and insights into situations capture dissimilar care needs, therefore enabling the patient to receive the best care. Through working in a multidisciplinary team, different professionals can collaborate with each other in order to benefit the patient and deliver person-centred care. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN 2007) describes person centred care as; care which...
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...DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Unit abstract The aim of this unit is to act as a focal point for all other units in the programme and embed the vocational nature of the qualification. In addition to the requirement for work experience and the opportunity to relate theory to practice, the unit will enable you to bring together your learning from other units. You will initially explore factors that affect learning, then plan and monitor your own personal and professional development and reflect on it. You will also gain key understanding of the health and social care sectors, including aspects of service delivery, and the fundamentals of research methodology. This unit explores the different ways in which learning can take place and how learning from individual experience can be used to enhance the quality of knowledge, skills and practice. You will initially explore your own knowledge, skills, practice, values and beliefs in relation to working in health and social care. You will then draw up a personal plan for self-development over the duration of the programme. The unit also introduces you to health and social care service provision. A minimum of 100 hours work experience is required for successful completion of this unit. Learning Outcomes On completion of this unit you should: 1. Understand the learning process 2. Be able to plan for, monitor and reflect on own development 3. Understand service provision in the health or social care sectors ...
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...DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Unit abstract The aim of this unit is to act as a focal point for all other units in the programme and embed the vocational nature of the qualification. In addition to the requirement for work experience and the opportunity to relate theory to practice, the unit will enable you to bring together your learning from other units. You will initially explore factors that affect learning, then plan and monitor your own personal and professional development and reflect on it. You will also gain key understanding of the health and social care sectors, including aspects of service delivery, and the fundamentals of research methodology. This unit explores the different ways in which learning can take place and how learning from individual experience can be used to enhance the quality of knowledge, skills and practice. You will initially explore your own knowledge, skills, practice, values and beliefs in relation to working in health and social care. You will then draw up a personal plan for self-development over the duration of the programme. The unit also introduces you to health and social care service provision. A minimum of 100 hours work experience is required for successful completion of this unit. Learning Outcomes On completion of this unit you should: 1. Understand the learning process 2. Be able to plan for, monitor and reflect on own development 3. Understand service provision in the health or social care sectors ...
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...Emerging Standards of Culturally Competent Care NUR/531 University of Phoenix Emerging Standards of Care: Cultural Competence The current U.S. population exhibits unparalleled sociocultural and ethnic diversity, yet the nursing workforce fails to reflect the current state of the nation’s diversity. According to Clark, Calvillo, Fongwa, Kools, Dela Cruz, Lowe, and Mastel-Smith (2011) non-Hispanic Whites constitute 83.2% of the nursing workforce, although Hispanics, African Americans, American Indians, Asians, and other ethnic groups remain underrepresented. Nursing faces the challenge to meet the health care needs of such a culturally diverse population while promoting diversity in the workforce through educating nurses on cultural sensitivity and competence. Cultural competence in nursing is evolving as the standard of care. Nursing and other health care providers must employ knowledge of various social and cultural influences in the care setting to promote patient-centered care (Mitchell, Fioravanti, Founds, Hoffmann, & Libman, 2010). It is crucial to recognize and appreciate the relevance of diversity in the acute care setting to set standards of culturally competent nursing care, and improve care delivery through meeting and improving these standards. Cultural Competence ...
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...Task 1 1.1 Compare your personal values and principles of support for working in health and social care In the health and social care field, the performance of an individual at work is very much influenced by the Personal values of the individual and principles. As this health and social care profession involves a lot of communication and interaction with individuals from different background, it is highly essential for the care workers to have a greater awareness of self values. Inadequate and uneven care rendered results for the uprising issues in this field are mainly because of not realising the importance of personal values by the health care workers. Awareness of one’s own self makes a major contribution in improving personal qualities and the individual’s social skills. 1.2 Discuss and Identify the advantages and disadvantages of how personal culture and experience influences on your own role in supporting users in health and social care I strongly believe quality is of more priority than quantity. From my personal experience as a student nurse, while providing care to the clients, I will make sure that the relationship between the nurse and client should always be client centred and for the well being of the client, rather spending hours to ensure the basic needs were being provided. In our whole life we develop personal beliefs, and each belief can be altered/modified and new beliefs arise every now and then. I regard to this there is something which is very...
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...NMC Code (2008) charges nurses to protect confidential information, and to only use it for the purposes given – for their treatment. Therefore all patients and events mentioned in this essay are inspired by real patients and events, but names, locations, dates and other details have been altered or obscured to make identification impossible. Following the introduction of the knowledge and skills framework (DH 2004a) and emphasis on quality of health care and patient centred, interprofessional, health and social care (DH 2000; Leathard 2003; Thompson et al. 2002) health care professionals and students will need to be able to demonstrate the quality of our care and team working abilities. There is a connection between practice and thinking about practice – action and reflection are interdependent; they need one another. Reflection may be triggered by an awareness of a gap between theory and practice, a difference between what ‘should be’ and ‘what is’ (Sullivan & Decker 2005). Our actions and the quality of our care are improved by reflection-on-action, by making sense of what we have experienced, and thinking about how we might act differently in the future (Lillyman & Ghaye 2000). Reflection has a rôle in maintaining one's personal portfolio and maintaining competency and continuing professional development. Support and supervision from managers, who already have a responsibility for assessing competence and continuing professional development of staff can help make this process much easier...
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...My major in college is social work. After graduating from the Bachelors program I intend on continuing to work as an LPN and going on to get my Masters in social work. After I obtain my Masters I plan on working as a mental health social worker. 2. The documents that I might produce in mental health social work are: • Assessments of the patient • A plan of care for the patient • Letter of referral to doctor if serious mental disorder • Letters to employers to assist the patient in keeping employment • If the patient is unable to continue to work, assist with paperwork requesting government assistance. 3. Scenario #1 Audience: Supervisor and human resources at Volvo Purpose: To inform the supervisor and human resources that employee is mentally capable to continue work in a factory setting. *James is currently employed at Volvo working on the production line. After finding out his wife of 3 years is having an affair at her place of employment, James gets intoxicated and decides to overdose. James is taken to the hospital and upon evaluation is transferred to a mental health facility where he stays as an inpatient for four days. Upon release James is called in to his...
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... “Interprofessional working involves complex interactions between two or more members of different professional disciplines. It is a collaborative venture in which those involved share the common purpose of developing mutually negotiated goals achieved through agreed plans which are monitored and evaluated according to agreed procedures. This requires the pooling of knowledge and expertise to facilitate joint decision making based upon shared professional viewpoints” (Barrett, Sellman & Thomas, 2005, p18). How individuals collaborate and work towards a common goal for the benefit of the patient is essential for a swift recovery. This essay will discuss the roles and responsibilities of three health care professionals in the rehabilitation process of Mr Robinson and how their collaboration will ensure his timely recovery. One of the selected professionals will be explored in significant detail, discussing legal and moral issues and statutory regulations of their practice, using both examples and reflection from clinical placement and the group presentation. Evaluating Mr Robinson’s medical history the three professionals that I have chosen to discuss are; speech and language therapist, physiotherapist and social worker. Since the passing of his wife he has reported a loss of appetite, reduced mobility, and difficulties in maintaining his daily routine/regime. By helping him with these issues he would be able to regain a good quality of living. Speech and language therapists...
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...Developing the Health Promotion Strategy and Action Plan in Georgia In 2009 Oxford Policy Management (OPM) completed technical work to support the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Georgia, in producing a comprehensive national Health Promotion Strategy (HPS) along with a prioritised Health Promotion Action Plan (HPAP). This work was commissioned as part of the European Union support to the Ministry, aimed at facilitating evolution of key evidence-based policies, and enabling the people of Georgia to increase control over their health and its determinants. This briefing note develops the case for giving support to the Georgian government in elaborating the HPS. It argues that transparent and participatory processes must be established to assure strong national ownership and consensus over the outputs. The process must also guarantee the skills transfer and capacity building of national stakeholders; and be flexible and highly responsive to the government needs while producing strategies effective, feasible and applicable to the local context. Georgian public health Over recent years Georgian efforts to adopt and nurture a democratic market oriented economy have been impressive (Chanturidze et al. 2009). On the down side however, the Georgian health sector still demonstrates system imbalances between curative services and O x f o r d • prevention, and between clinical services and primary health care (MoLHSA 2009b)...
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...Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued the Privacy Rule to implement the requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”). 1 The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of individuals’ health information—called “protected health information” by organizations subject to the Privacy Rule — called “covered entities,” as well as standards for individuals' privacy rights to understand and control how their health information is used. A major goal of the Privacy Rule is to assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public's health and well being. Who is Covered by the Privacy Rule The Privacy Rule, as well as all the Administrative Simplification rules, apply to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and to any health care provider who transmits health information in electronic form in connection with transactions for which the Secretary of HHS has adopted standards under HIPAA Health Plans. Individual and group plans that provide or pay the cost of medical care are covered entities.4 Health plans include health, dental, vision, and prescription drug insurers, health maintenance organizations (“HMOs”), Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare+Choice and Medicare supplement insurers, and long-term care insurers (excluding nursing home fixed-indemnity policies). Health plans also...
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