: Individual Development Plan

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Assignment brief

The assignment requires that each student produces an individual development plan with reference to supporting rationale and other evidence. This will include analysis of past, current and future critical perspectives in terms of personal and professional development (3,750 words including the reference list but not appendices).

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Advancing Practice through Personal and Professional Development
2015
Assignment Development
Individual Development Plans
Content
To consider issues around;
1)
Introduction (Portfolio, Profiling and Individual Planning)
2)
The Individual Development Plan
3)
Principles in Learning
?
Novice learners
?
Experiential learning
?
Reflection
4)
Planning & Production
?
Structure
?
Scene setting
5)
The Place of Experience, Theory and Evidence
?
Triangulation of evidence
6) Some Final Thoughts
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Advancing Practice through Pe
rsonal a
nd Professional Development
2015
Individual Development Plans
Introduction:
Change within health care education:
1.
Increase  in  health  care  technologies  and  culture  of  change  calls
for competent and flexible practitioners
2.
Increase  in  ‘professiona
lisation’  requires  demonstration  of
evidence of currency and fitness for practice
3.
Portfolio,  profiling,  considered  an  appropriate  medium  to  express
the  diversity  within  professional  health  care  practice  (provides
context)
See respective websites
Nursing
& Midwifery Council
N.M.C. (
www.nmc
–
uk.org
)
Health
Care
Professions Council
H.
C.
P.C.
(
www.healthprofessionscouncil.co.uk
)
and
Department of Health (
www.dh.gov.uk
)
and
Websites of respective professional bodies