Following the self-assessment that I conducted using the Professional Behaviors Scale, I consider myself to be at “entry level” for all the areas listed. However, through further assessment, I was able to determine my greatest strengths and weaknesses thus far as a developing professional. Although I rate myself at “entry level” for each category, there’s still room for growth and improvement in all these areas, for me to develop into the professional that I strive to become.
The Professional Behaviors Scale allowed me to identify my top three strengths currently as a developing professional. These strengths include; communication, interpersonal skills, and use of constructive feedback. I’m extremely comfortable communicating with not
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Through using my active listening skills and providing patient education during the initial evaluation, I’m able to develop a rapport with my patients from the first day they step into clinic. I believe this is a crucial aspect to having a positive rehabilitation experience. Therefore, I’ll continue to develop and improve this skill by working with a variety of patients throughout my career. The use of constructive feedback is another strength that I possess. At the beginning of each affiliation I told my clinical instructors to feel free to provide as much feedback as possible because I strongly believe this is how one further develops their knowledge and clinical skills outside the classroom. I take all feedback without defensiveness and look at it as a learning opportunity to improve my clinical skills. Furthermore, I believe this will continue to improve and develop with each co-worker and colleague I seek feedback from in the …show more content…
These weaknesses include; critical thinking and stress management. Although I believe my critical thinking abilities are at “entry level”, this is by far my greatest weakness. Throughout my last clinical experience in an outpatient orthopedic setting, I gained a vast amount of clinical reasoning skills regarding whether back pain was a mobility or stability issue. That being said, I enhanced my knowledge and this gave me a new perspective on evaluating/treating patients with low back pain. I was also lucky enough to have the opportunity to evaluate/treat various conditions that are less common in orthopedic clinics including; TMJ, BPPV, and concussion. However, I also saw some very complex patients with a significant past medical history that resulted in me consulting with my clinical instructor and other co-workers to gain further insight into diagnosing and treating these patients. Therefore, I’m confident in my clinical reasoning skills for low-moderately complex patients, but need to improve this ability when working with more complex patients. Not having the ability to see every possible scenario that you will be faced with throughout your career makes developing this skill tough, but I will reach out to co-workers and colleagues to further develop this skill overtime as a practicing physical
I believe that everyone has their own strength and weaknesses, but not everyone is able to figure out their strengths and weaknesses correctly. Knowing our own strengths and weaknesses is essential because it can help to achieve success in anything we choose to do. For me, my weakness is the time management, communication skills and weak in preparing effective Curriculum Vitae (CV) Below will be further explaining all my personal weaknesses and the ways to overcome it.
The five themes from my Clifton Strengths Report overwhelmingly echoed what I already see as active assets in my personal and professional roles. My five attributes in order from highest to lowest are Activator, Command, Woo, Communication, and Futuristic. These have aided and sometimes cause misunderstandings, but these are elements I have learned to hone, define, and exercise in order to develop others under my charge and myself.
Conversely, I must be consistent, work hard, and show commitment to learning during the clinical rotation. I am hopeful that I will outgrow my fear and find my niche in the long run. I have found the didactic portion of the program to be a great learning experience. The amazing support of the instructors, the teaching methods they used, and the interaction with my peers via social media or group assignments have contributed to my academic growth. I have always felt the instructors’ involvement.
I had a great day at clinical, where I learned and perfected many skills. I really enjoyed working with my primary resident, answering call lights, and meeting potential second resident. Strengths included communicating effectively with staff (objective 2), implementing strategies to promote, maintain and restore health (objective 4), and demonstrating professional behaviors at a beginning level (objective 6). An example of objective 2, was when caring for my primary resident, the first thing I checked was his oxygen tank level and for any redness behind his ear; that could demonstrate irritation from the oxygen tube. I noticed his oxygen was getting low but wasn’t in the red, refill zone. At the end
To start implementing this framework, one need to understand and acknowledge that every patient is not only different from one another, but a unique individual. Assumptions and stereotypes about a specific cultural group must be avoided, along with personal biases (Murphy, 2011). Furthermore, actively listening and fully engaging patients’ can improve nurse-patient communication and enhance patient outcome.
Professionalism is an adherence to a set of values comprising both a formally agreed-upon code of conduct and the informal expectations of colleagues, clients and society. The key values include acting in a patient's interest, responsiveness to the health needs of society, maintaining the highest standards of excellence in the practice of medicine and in the generation and dissemination of knowledge. In addition to medical knowledge and skills, medical professionals should present psychosocial and humanistic qualities such as caring, empathy, humility and compassion, as well as social responsibility and sensitivity to people's culture and beliefs. All these qualities are expected of members of highly trained professions.
These are the skills and competencies I have learned through my studies at Walden University. Kaslow, Grus, Campbell, & Fouad, et al. (2009) stated professionalism comes from my respect for those who need help. Integrity can be built with confidence in the therapist. Attitudes are charitable, polite, caring emotions toward others that fuel my motivation toward helping.
Feedback is derived from a previous performance initiating a review process of improvements to be implemented (Archer 2010; Dayton & Hendricksen 2007 as cited in Motley & Dolansky 2015). Without honest and constructive feedback the learning process does not improve skills because the knowledge given through feedback allows nurses to see how colleagues viewed their performance and suggest areas for future development, self-awareness, and growth within the industry (Day-Calder 2016). Clear, concise feedback delivered in a manner that is non-threatening and avoids emotions is called constructive feedback (Day-Calder 2016). Disapproval is potentially beneficial in making healthier relationships by bringing you closer to the patient’s views and understanding their concerns (Catto & Mahmud 2012). For a patient to realise that their message has been heard and understood shows that reflection, summarise, and feedback are necessary for ascertaining a positive outcome (Shipley 2010). An empathetic attitude requires self-knowledge in relaying emotions in a mindful and compassionate response (Terezam, Reis-Queriroz & Hoga 2017). Nursing colleagues often work as a team collaborating and communicating with each other to make improvements and achieve goals through team attributes (Motley & Dolansky 2015; De Janasz et al. 2014). This team
As mentioned by Hunter and Arthur (2016), one of the main reasons I could maintain and improve my practice was due to clinical placements. During clinical placements we are frequently being assessed and taught in dealing with real situations. Feelings As learning is a lifelong process, I’m sure there are many things I need to improve and learn to better myself. However, the lessons I learned during the course as a nursing student shall always remain as a bedrock for my future development.
Through the self-assessment instruments utilized in this program, I have gained wealth of knowledge about my strengths, and weaknesses and how they affect my personal and professional life. By using different exercises, I recognized new strengths and weaknesses. At the same time, I identified ways to develop my strengths and overcome my weaknesses. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) identified some of my strengths as the ability to get things done, initiating, and taking risks (Kolb, 2007). In the Strongest Self Feedback Exercise, some of the feedback listed my strengths as having excellent interpersonal and communication skills, being self-confident, a fast learner, determined, hardworking, and an awesome listener (Drucker, 2005).
The two areas that best reflect my strong suits are respectful and inspiring. (Steadiness) Respect should not be taken lightly and people want others to show them that they are important. I am not the one to belittle, talk down to someone, embarrass the other person, or not acknowledge someone because they are not like me or do not hold a certain position. People respond in a negative manner and become very defensive when others treat them in any of the ways previously mention. I look at how I want others to consider when speaking and interacting with me. That is the way I have to try to handle myself when dealing with others. Taking calculated risks is what I do best because I cannot stand losing too much if the results do not outweigh the risks involved. I am also very critical on myself and can point out faults in a heartbeat. I have to analyze future actions before I act on anything because I do not want to go wrong or too far away from initial path. Repeating myself or actually running through multiple scenarios takes up a lot of time. Being overly critical on myself will eliminate some of that time that I cannot get back.
In this report, I will reflect on my professional development throughout this module, from when I started in September, to now. According to Beausaert et al. (2011), ‘the art of self-evaluation is an integral element of reflection and involves critical insight into understanding one 's strengths and limitations’. Therefore, my aim is to identify my learning needs and to recognise my personal skills and capabilities, as well as identifying areas of my skill set that need to be refreshed or extended to stand out in the competitive job market. By doing this, I hope to demonstrate knowledge of the skills that I have gained during this module.
Professional competence can mean various things to different people. Competency in any career or profession has many basic requirements that are learned in a classroom environment as well as many essential elements that must be learned through formal, on-the-job training in order to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to function adequately as a professional in a workplace setting. Competency in the counseling field is not a ‘once learned, always known’ type of knowledge; it requires a combination of classroom education, internship training to acquire confidence, knowledge, skills, and experience, and an obligation of continuing education on a life-long basis.
Other strengths include being self-confident, conscientious, diligent and determined. It was interesting to see my lower scores as well; the lowest average score was sensitivity (3.2), followed closely by self-assuredness and perception and empathy. Although I consider myself sensitive, I believe the sense of sensitivity does not apply as often towards others I interact with. For example, I often speak my mind and voice my opinion with little thought of the consequence or impact it might have on those around me. Thus, sensitivity is not one of my existing strengths, but rather an opportunity for growth. I also found it interesting to note how I scored significantly lower in the human skill, and higher in technical, which I did not expect. This score likely correlates with my score form the LTQ, which identified room for improvement in relating with
Our effectiveness depends on characteristics like talent and experience that is accumulated in the process of personal development. First talent is identified