Continuing professional development

All registered health professionals in Australia are, under the National Law, required to undertake Continuing Professional Development (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, 2015). Continuing Professional Development or CPD is the way through which professionals preserve, enhance, and expand their knowledge and skills that are required of them throughout their professional career (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2015). These learning activities would help ensure that a professional’s competence is supported and updated and would at the same time help in the progression of his or her career (Continuing Professional Development, 2012; Katsikitis, et al., 2013). CPD also involves the development of personal qualities of…

state the HCPC requirements for continuing professional development (CPD) and seek to explain the benefits of CPD. The benefits for health professionals, patients and the diagnostic radiography profession may not always be aligned. The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) set the standard for continuing professional development (CPD) in the UK. The HCPC were created safeguard the public by regulating and making health professionals accountable through a register. They monitor standards for…

The health care field is every changing and it is important for nurses to stay up to date on the current treatments, policies, procedures, and diseases. In the health care field there is “continuing professional development (CPD), [which] is an iterative and integral part of both professional and personal development” (Hayes, 2016, p. 860). The nurse is responsible to keep up to date on the most current information. In Massachusetts a nurse needs fifteen continuing education credits every two…

This conclusion is the same as to what Jill Schostak, Mike Davis Et. Al (2009) stated in their report with the title “The Effectiveness of Continuing Professional Development” conducted on behalf of College of Emergency Medicine, Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians and Manchester Metropolitan University that there was no single, singular or correct way of doing CPD and that the processes and context were dependent upon the personal preferences, field of practice and learning styles of a…

One of my favorite fields in nursing is mental health because of its complexity and sensitiveness of the topic. These also made me realized and bring back memories the struggle I experienced and overcame at one point in my life. This essay will primarily answer and talk about the reason why I chose these Continuing Professional Development (CPD) topics, how will these help me gain more knowledge about mental health, how can I apply these in my chosen profession, what are the things I need to…

Continuing professional development (CPD) CPD is a term used to describe the opportunities in which individuals will take in order to develop and enhance their skills and abilities and it is the process of monitoring and documenting these skills and experience that are acquired either formally within the workplace or informally referring to elsewhere oppose to within their working environment. These skills may have been gained over the likes of training, and this process helps individuals to…

Evaluation • Have you learnt what you set out to at the start of your CPD cycle?  Yes, I learnt the fundamental informational which is required in this term.  Meet the patient in the therapeutic seminar is made it easily to understand the topic when you have something which is real.  However, some aspect needs more time to make the research which impossible as there is no enough time to do it. • If you have not fully achieved what you intended, what do you plan to do next?  …

My project advocates continued professional development while providing awareness that not only do we need good communication skills with our co-workers, we also need good communication skills for the families that we work with daily to the development of secure and trusting relationship communication is of the utmost importance. The staff members are given additional skills needed to fully discuss the situations which arise on a daily basis that involve a child within their families. Quality…

This assignment discusses and explains the benefits of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for healthcare professionals, patients and the profession itself. Background The health care and professional’s council (HCPC) is a regulatory body that protects the public (HCPC, n.d). They go about doing this by keeping a register of health and care professionals who meet their standards for their professional skills and training (HCPC, n.d). They operate by meeting various objectives such as…

It also gives the updated procedures and policies in which the setting should follow in order to promote the best possible working practices within the organisation. For example, the ‘Whistle blowing policiy’ this policy may be updated and then have more duties may be addd to the list and so thereforefore CPD allows workers and organisations to update their knowlwdege and make sure that they are uswing the updated practices. Continuing Professional Development can help a professional keep your…