Course description
Developing Yourself Personally and Professionally
This module has been designed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals from a broad range of practice settings and disciplines through the development of an individualised journey of learning.
It will help you develop the skills you need to thrive in the fast-moving healthcare sector. You will be able to develop yourself professionally and academically in areas relevant to your field of practice making links between your practice and the theories and frameworks supporting it. You will be able to study modules relevant to your area of practice and gain recognition of your prior learning, academically and experientially.
This module aims to create a culture of professional and personal development where you will develop a personal journal of development to evidence your understanding of your professional role within contemporary healthcare practice.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Entry requirements
- Ability to study at level 7
- Professional registration as a healthcare professional:
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Working in health and social care.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Credits: 15
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, youwill be able to:
- Critically reflect on your experiences, past learning and achievements to construct an outline plan for a structured programme of learning/ development addressingyour individual learning and development needs.
- Critically explore the relevance of your proposed scheme of study for both your personal and professional development drawing on the contemporary literature on professional development.
- Critically explore current health and social care policy and implications for service users/patients within the context of your own practice and personal development.
- Demonstrate your understanding of lifelong learning and how it relates to the maintenance of personal and professional skills and proficiency through critical reflection and information fluency.
- Critically evaluate the relative success of this strategy post-placement and relate yourwork practice to a discrete body of academic literature.
Training Course Content
Indicative module content includes:
- Reflective practice
- Individual planning
- Lifelong learning for health and social care professions
- Policy development
- Legal and ethical issues
Course delivery details
For the 2022/23 curriculum, our CPD moduleswill be delivered usinghybrid learning. This means that depending on the subject and content of learning and teaching, modules will mainly be delivered via a combination of face to face and online delivery, as this has worked really well for our practice-based colleagues. A couple of modules will be delivered solely online, however for most modules face to face contact time and attendance at the university will be required.
Learning and teaching methods include:
- Lectures (including e-lectures)
- Seminars
- Guided study
- E-learning.