P2 Farzana

P2: Assess own knowledge, skills, practice beliefs and career aspirations at start of programme.

Knowledge:

Subject studied at school: health and social care

Strength -  

Health and social care is helping me progress to do my career choice. Unit 4 helped me know about development. It was easy for me as i done a similar unit during level two. Unit 4 will help me to progress to be a midwife or nurse because i will have to work with different people at different stages.

Weakness: 

My weakness would be unit 1 - communication, this is because I’m not really that good at communicating within big groups, and however, I am good at one-to-one communication, meaning I would be able to work well with the mother or patient and learn to work with bug families in any situation.

Opportunities: 

Learning unit 4 has allowed me to know about what happens before and after conception. Learning this unit will help me implement it into my studies at university and after university when i am in my job.

Threats: 

I think that unit 5 could be a threat to me as i don't have enough knowledge in the biology area and within my chosen potential career choices; this has a big part as i would have to know how to deal with medicine dosages and know about injections and how to deal with illnesses.

Keeping up with the news:

The Baby P case study is about him being brutally beaten up by his parents from birth. His mother did not provide him with food and he suffered over 50 injuries within the first eight months of his life. A midwives role in this case would have been to identify the signs of baby P's abuse.

Strength:

After studying the baby P case, this gave me knowledge to look out for signs and symptoms of abuse within babies. It has made me aware of not to dismiss the abuse and report it to the right person and take the right cause of action. As a midwife, I would have to know about the Every Child Matters 2004 Act because I would have to know all the rights that children are entitled to.

Work experience or voluntary job:

From doing work experience in a nursing home, this has helped me to understand the way that I have to treat service users and how to go about different situations in the work place. From doing this, it has given me the knowledge that

Skills: communicating: language (verbal, non-verbal); working with others, eg service users, professionals, peers; technical, eg IT, use of equipment, creative/craft skills; research, eg primary, secondary, data handling; personal, eg organisational skills, personal presentation

Practice:

When I was doing work experience at a nursing home, I had to show a caring manner while working with the residents. I had to be very supportive and understanding of their needs. I would sit and talk to them and let them tell me stories about their life which is caring as I wasn’t bored of hearing about them. This links to my career because I would have to deal with different people every day.

Values and beliefs:

What are values and beliefs and what are they influenced by?

-       Values and beliefs are someone’s set of rules and morals that we follow on an everyday basis. It is our norms and values. It can influence our behavior to what we think is wrong and right. Beliefs can be influenced by things such as family, society, education and religion.

As working as a nurse, my beliefs may have to be put aside in some situation. For example, if I was working in a prison, I would have to work with the inmates even if I didn’t agree with the reason they are in prison. However, I would still make sure that they are taken care of and get the right treatment that they need.

I also learned about the care value base. The care value base has 7 principles:

1.    The promotion of anti-discriminatory practice,

2.    The promotion and support of dignity, independence and safety,

3.    Respect for, and acknowledgement of, personal beliefs and  individual’s identity,

4.    The maintenance of confidentiality,

5.    Protection from abuse and harm,

6.    The promotion of effective communication and relationships,

7.    The provision of personalized individual care.

In my career I will need to follow the care value base. As a nurse I will need to especially follow the fourth step in maintaining confidentiality. This means that I will have to respect the person I am working with and not show any personal details or documents that involves with anybody else unless said by them to do so.

Career options:

My career aspiration is to be a midwife. I would like to be a midwife because I love helping people and working with children has always been something that I’ve been around my whole life. In order to study to be a midwife, I would need to have 300-320 points from:

-       A-level: science or health-related subject preferred. Grades BBB. General Studies not accepted.

-       BTEC National Diploma: Science or Health Studies. Distinction Distinction Merit.

-       Other Level 3 qualifications equivalent to 300 UCAS Points