Personal and Professional Growth

Action Plan for a Personal and Professional Self-Care Centered

Derrick Underwood

Waldorf University

Goals of the Plan

To become a reputable healthcare provider, an individual need to find balance between their personal and professional. The goal of my professional goal plan is to help me develop holistic from both specs, that is, personally and professionally. The plan will aim at the following:

· Helping gain the necessary competence required in the healthcare setting to provide high quality medical services.

· To protect myself and colleagues around me from unnecessary physical, psychological and social hazards that may come when we are working together.

· To create a communal working environment where myself and my colleagues can work in team work to deliver quality services to the patients.

· To prevent work-related gender-based violence among my colleagues at work and hence create harmonious environment for the working of us all.

· Help me know how to work with various stakeholders from the profession for better dispersal of the health services to our clients.

The plan will not be accomplished without a proper timeline being drafted. A timeline acts as the driver of the whole plan, driving it from the very start to its end (Lindner et al., 2019). As a result, we will come with an elaborate plan for the whole process. It is as follows:

Task	Period
Understanding the working of my working environment	2 months
Identifying potential stakeholders	1 month
Getting stakeholders aboard	2 weeks
Explaining to the need for the action plan to the stakeholders	2 weeks
Roll out of the plan	1 week
Control processes	Throughout the project

Rationale for carrying this action

After long time of looking into my working environment, I have realized a need to personal and professional self-care centered plan. I have been aware of the challenges that we as the health practitioners go through in our daily activities. As a result, I noted that we need to come up with an elaborate action plan that will resolve our challenges as well as prevent work hazards that we bear during work. As healthcare providers, we need to carry out a self-evaluation for us to be able to understand if we can meet the requirements of the issue. Therefore, I decided to come up with this action plan.

Coaches to see that the goals are reached

The couch that will encourage us to see the success of this plan will be any knowledgeable individuals that will deem resourceful within our esteemed healthcare sector. Reputable personnel both from the private and the public sector will be essential in making this plan successful. Specifically, I believe my college academics instructor will play a significant role in coaching me throughout the processes.

My colleagues in the line of duty will also serve as the couches during the whole process. I will be liaising with them to ask them about the areas they think needs some more work so that I can be able to correct them as soon as possible. Experienced colleagues will be able to identify possible areas that I am not doing well and tell me so that I can prevent potential damage that may arise.

How to persevere when it becomes too tough

It is important to note that every project has its ups as well as its downs (Jarvandi ET AL., 2017). When rolling out the project, we set out the necessary contingency plans in case it becomes hard for us. One way to persevere through hard situations is by drumming all available support from our stakeholders. We will have to involve them in strategy review meetings that will help us come back stronger from the underlying setbacks.

Effect the plan will have on me professionally and personally

Rolling out of this plan will be of great help for me both personally and professionally. I believe it will help me appreciate the need for me and my colleagues to protect ourselves while at work. This action plan will help me appreciate the numerous challenges that we go through work setup and hence then need to come up with elaborate methods to help protect all of us. On a professional scale, I believe this will develop my medical skills because of the great exposure that I will be having.

References

Lindner, F., Mattmüller, R., & Nebel, B. (2019, July). The moral permissibility of action plans. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 33, pp. 7635-7642).

Jarvandi, S., Yates, D., & Donaldson, J. (2017). Goal Setting, Past Performance and Behavioral Outcomes in a Worksite Wellness Program. The FASEB Journal, 31(1_supplement), 149-8.