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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Personal values and professional practice

HSC302 · Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care — Week 3 of 16

CourseHSC302
Week3 of 16
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This week’s topics

Personal values and professional practice

  1. Exploring personal beliefs
  2. Unconscious bias and cultural awareness
  3. Ethical decision-making
  4. Person-centred values
  5. 001 LO11 Understanding how own beliefs, values and life experiences can affect attitude and behaviou
  6. What Is Bias, and What Can Medical Professionals Do to Address It?
  7. Let's talk about person-centred care | Caring with Confidence: The Code in Action | NMC
  8. Understanding bias

What you will be able to do

  • 1.3 Explain how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice.

Study materials

Videos

  • 001 LO11 Understanding how own beliefs, values and life experiences can affect attitude and behaviou · YouTube · Connective Care Education · 4 min · for registered students
  • What Is Bias, and What Can Medical Professionals Do to Address It? · YouTube · Institute for Healthcare Improvement - IHI · 5 min · for registered students
  • Let's talk about person-centred care | Caring with Confidence: The Code in Action | NMC · YouTube · NMCvideos · 3 min · for registered students
  • Understanding bias · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 2 (lower secondary level) · for registered students
  • Person-centred care made simple · YouTube · The Health Foundation · 2 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The NHS Constitution for England · Reading · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 2: Individual and Cultural Differences · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 45–70 · for registered students
  • People's experience in adult social care services (NICE guideline NG86, 2018) · Reading · Nice, guidance · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Roles, responsibilities, and professional boundaries
  • Week 2: National standards and codes of conduct
  • Week 3: Personal values and professional practice
  • Week 4: Introduction to reflective practice
  • Week 5: Applying reflection to care scenarios
  • Week 6: Evaluating own performance in practice
  • Week 7: Benchmarking knowledge and competence
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: The role of feedback in professional growth
  • Week 10: Support mechanisms for professional learning
  • Week 11: Personal development planning
  • Week 12: Applying Personal and Professional Development in Health an…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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