Personal and Professional Development in Health Care Context

[Name of the Institute]Personal and Professional Development in Health Care Context

Introduction

Personal development must be based on propositional and personal knowledge. Propositional knowledge is related to the subject matter, such as concepts, facts and theories, whereas personal knowledge is attained through information, interpretation, experience, and intuition. In the light of the above mentioned perspective, the role of communication skills in the medical profession cannot be ignored.

Portfolio Assessment: Task 2

Use of Communication Skills in a Health and Social Care Context

Medical professionals are required to exhibit effective and convincing communication skills. This allows the practitioners to exchange information among the co-workers. It also provides space for useful collaboration with patients, their families along with the clinical and non-clinical colleagues and the general public. For developing effective communication skills, a medical practitioner must exert himself to be an active part in group works, interprofessional relationships, emotional intelligence, brazenness, and information and communication technologies (Pitkala et al, 2003, p. 155-160).

Communication in the health care context is characterized by the characteristics of socio-demographic factors of the caregiver and patient. With this, the environment in which the communication takes place is of immense significance. Communication between the practitioner and the patient is greatly affected by their sex, age, ethnicity, and social and educational background. Other factors, like room for privacy, ample time for encounters, cleanliness and comfort at the clinic, and the whole interaction of the patient with the practitioner inhibit or improve the relationship. Some of the aforementioned factors are independent and out of control, so the care providers can improve their communication skill by adopting specialized behaviors which can incur yielding results. The short term positive results include proper diagnosis and more effective treatment of medical problems (Newble et al, 1986, p.162-175).

SWOT Analysis for the Current Skills, Ability and Learning Style

SWOT analysis is the best tool for getting personal awareness about the current skills and abilities along with the strengths and weaknesses. A medical practitioner personal analysis is the first step towards professional development plan. Following is the personal SWOT analysis which is the part of a project for monitoring and evaluating professional and personal growth in skills and abilities.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Unflinching Faith on the Creator, passionate about profession,

Medical qualification, helping

Strong writing skills,

Sharp memory

Loveable

Technology lover

Love to take out aspect of beauty from any ordinary thing

Weak communication skills, bad time manager,

Not able to meet family commitment,

No social life, no time for recreational activities,

Cannot work in groups,

Lack of emotional intelligence

Opportunities

Threats

My helping family and friends

Blessed to help needy and poor

Able to contribute to the society constructively

Very cooperative medical staff

Time pressure, increasing demands of patients and their families

In the light of the above SWOT analysis, it is clear that the priority must be given to overcome weaknesses so that more productivity can be shown in the provision of services with less effort. A medical practitioner has to be a person with the abilities of multi-tasking as he has to take care of so many things in the tense ...