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Transition to Practice
Professional practice development plan
Increasingly, health professionals are required to maintain records for their continuing professional development, though often this is achieved through an ad-hoc process rather than a defined plan.
Task description
This assessment task requires you to engage in a process of critical self-reflection to assess your journey thus far and to design your continuing professional practice development plan. There are four (4) sections required in your plan outlined below. As you develop your plan, there will be various points where you will turn to the literature. Please ensure you reference any work that is not your own appropriately. Your plan must be functional and consolidate your ideas to ensure a smooth progressive transition to a new scope of practice.
Please address the following in your professional practice development plan:
1. Your professional development to date
Critically reflect upon and discuss your development as a professional to the decision point of enrolling in this course (your Masters degree).
What is your background and context?
What professional development had you undertaken prior to enrolling in this course? What was your motivation for enrolling in this course?
What did you hope to ascertain from this course?
2. Your future
Next, contemplate your future career. In doing so, please discuss:
Where do you plan to apply your new knowledge and qualifications upon completing this course? Do opportunities in this field exist within your current service or organisation?
What is the prevalence of opportunities for your skills, experience, and knowledge portfolio beyond your current employment or outside your discipline area?
Are there further studies or professional development tasks you would like or need to undertake to set yourself up for success in the future?
3. SMART goals
Having considered where you have been professionally and where you would like to take your career in the future, formulate at least three (3) goals utilising the SMART framework. Each goal must address each component of the SMART framework, being that your goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. You may represent this information in a table for each goal developed. Please ensure you focus on goals relevant to your own professional development.
4. Summary
Review what you have written in your development plan and summarise your planned direction. Finally, articulate the first step you will take after completing your course.