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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Personal development planning

HSC302 · Personal and Professional Development in Health and Social Care — Week 11 of 16

CourseHSC302
Week11 of 16
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This week’s topics

Personal development planning

  1. SMART target setting
  2. Prioritizing learning objectives
  3. Monitoring and review milestones
  4. Creating a functional PDP
  5. Aims, Objectives, Learning Outcomes and SMART goals for Nurses
  6. Strategic Planning: Setting objectives using SMART
  7. Lecture 50: Development Planning: GAPS Analysis
  8. Setting project aims and objectives

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Review and prioritise own learning needs and development opportunities.
  • 4.3 Devise own personal development plan.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: review and prioritise own learning needs and development opportunities.

Study materials

Videos

  • Aims, Objectives, Learning Outcomes and SMART goals for Nurses · YouTube · Carol Forde-Johnston · 21 min · for registered students
  • Strategic Planning: Setting objectives using SMART · YouTube · Galton College · 22 min · for registered students
  • Setting project aims and objectives · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

  • College Success, 4.1: Defining Values and Setting Goals · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 104–109 · 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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