Week 5 Assignment Professional Development Plan

Week 5 Assignment Professional Development Plan

 

HLT 307V Grand Canyon Week 5 Assignment

Details:

Read the Introduction to the “Professional Development Plan” carefully.

Fill out this document in its entirety. Be completely honest in your self-evaluative responses. This resource is intended to provide you with insight into your professional practice that you may have overlooked in the past.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

 

Collaborative Learning Community: Interprofessional Collaboration – An Interactive Case Study

Details:

This is a CLC assignment.

Within your assigned Collaborative Learning Community (CLC), complete each of these specific tasks.

Review the “CLC Group Project Agreement” document.

Read the patient scenario in the “Allied Health Community” interactive learning media at http://lc.gcumedia.com/hlt307v/allied-health-community/allied-health-community-v1.1.html

Assign an allied health role (from among those profiled in the learning media) to each member of the CLC group.

Once each member of the group is assigned an allied health role, each member must consider and answer the following Key Questions from the perspective of the allied health provider they have been assigned:

1. What knowledge, skills, and approaches must the allied health provider employ in the care of the patient featured in the case study?
2. Who must the allied health provider collaborate with (departments/persons) in order to ensure care is provided correctly and in a timely fashion?
3. What negative outcomes will likely occur if the patient does not receive the care offered by the allied health provider?

As a CLC group, compile the individual responses to the three questions and create a PowerPoint presentation in which you:

1. Summarize the responses.
2. Define the concept of interprofessional collaboration.
3. Describe how collaborative approaches to healthcare results in positive patient outcomes.
4. Provide at least one clinical practice example from your own experience in which collaborative care was demonstrated, and describe how this collaboration affected patient care.

Your PowerPoint presentation must include the following: 10 slides for content, one slide for references with a minimum of three scholarly peer-reviewed references, and one title slide (which contains the title, the names of the CLC group members, and the current date). This presentation must be submitted to the Instructor by one member of the CLC team.

While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

 

 

MORE INFO 

Professional Development Plan

Introduction

Many people have a job they love and don’t want to change. However, there may be times when you need to improve your skills or learn new things in order to keep up with changes in your field or industry. And if you’re like most people, you don’t want to spend all day learning new content on the job—that’s why it’s important to create an effective professional development plan!

The first step is to form a development plan.

The first step is to form a development plan.

This is the most important part of your professional development plan because it will help you stay focused and motivated.

You should write down what you want to accomplish over the next year or two, broken down into small goals, like “I want to be able to introduce myself at networking events” or “I want to be able to communicate more effectively in meetings.” Once each goal has been written down, consider how much time would be required for each one (for example: “This goal doesn’t require too much effort but it will take me about six weeks”). Then determine how many hours per week are needed for each activity (again using an example from our earlier paragraph: If I spend 20 minutes per day on this activity then that means 100 hours total). Finally look at where those activities fit into your schedule so far—maybe one falls right after another? It’s important not only when but also where work gets done! It may seem obvious but sometimes we forget this aspect when planning out our lives…

Use your job description as a guide to creating your development plan.

A job description is a good starting point for creating your development plan. The job description should be used as a guide, not a contract. It should be reviewed regularly to ensure that it meets the goals and objectives of your organization, but it should never be used as an absolute way of telling people how they must do their jobs or what they have to do in order to stay employed at the company.

If you’re looking for inspiration on developing a development plan, take note of these tips:

Also use the performance appraisal and evaluation feedback.

In addition to the performance appraisal and evaluation feedback, use it to identify your strengths and weaknesses.

• Identify areas where you can improve.

• Set goals for yourself to learn new skills or improve on old ones that you’ve mastered.

The key here is taking action based on what you’ve learned from this process!

Think about what you like and dislike about your job now.

In order to make the most of your professional development plan, it is important that you think about what you like and dislike about your job now. Consider both positive aspects and negative aspects of the work environment. Next, think about what would improve in this area (e.g., “I would like to improve my skills in working with other people”). Finally, think about whether there are particular areas where you could develop new skills or knowledge that would benefit both yourself and others in the organization (e.g., “I could learn more about how computers work so I can do more efficiently at work”).

Consider where your strengths lie, and think about areas where you can improve.

Now that you have identified your strengths and weaknesses, it’s time to think about where you can improve. This can be done by looking at the list of both strengths and weaknesses.

For example: If you have a weakness in being able to communicate clearly with others, consider what activities would help improve this skill while still keeping in mind that it is important for others’ growth as well as yours. You might find that writing letters of recommendation or giving presentations are good ways to practice communicating effectively with people.

Another way to improve on a particular strength is by identifying new skills which will help you achieve your goals more easily and efficiently than before (but without sacrificing yourself).

Set short-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-based.

Set short-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based.

• Specific – What do you want to accomplish over the next week? The next month? Your career goals should be clear and measurable.

• Measurable – How will you know if your goal has been accomplished? This can be as simple as asking yourself how many times you’ve read this article or whether or not you’ve made it through every line of text on this page (you did). Make sure to track your progress throughout each step of the process so that it’s clear which steps led up to achieving an end result.

• Achievable – Can anyone achieve these results? Are there any obstacles standing in your way that might prevent success from happening (i.e., lack of time)? If so then consider breaking down smaller goals into sub-goals which are easier for people with busy schedules like ours here at [company name]!

A professional development plan will help you grow in your field.

A professional development plan is a document that outlines your goals, how you will get there and when. It should be created by you or someone else on your team. The purpose of this plan is to help guide your career growth over time.

The first step in creating a professional development plan is setting goals for yourself and what type of job you want in the future. Once these are set, they need to be evaluated based on whether they’re realistic or not (i.e., doable). If it’s possible but not likely, then reevaluate them again until they make sense as far as being achievable within a reasonable amount of time frame—and once again make sure there isn’t anything else preventing them from being reached within that timeframe!

Conclusion

A professional development plan is an important tool that can help you become more successful in your career. Even if you don’t have a formal plan yet, it’s never too late to start thinking about how you want to grow as a professional and what steps will help you get there. As we covered earlier in this article, the key components of a good plan include setting short-term goals that are specific, measurable, achievable and realistic; taking action on those goals through learning opportunities; and regularly evaluating your progress along the way so that adjustments can be made as needed.