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The Effective Practitioner

The Effective Practitioner. Themes from The Evidence Base Carol Watson Professional Adviser. Aims. Definitions Key Elements Emerging Early Themes Contemporary Issues CPD Focus Challenges. Definitions. What does Effective mean? In terms of the practitioner In terms of practice

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The Effective Practitioner

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  1. The Effective Practitioner Themes from The Evidence Base Carol Watson Professional Adviser

  2. Aims • Definitions • Key Elements • Emerging Early Themes • Contemporary Issues • CPD Focus • Challenges

  3. Definitions • What does Effective mean? • In terms of the practitioner • In terms of practice • For whose benefit are we being effective? • The users of our services? • The wider population? • The service? • The practitioners? • Can a practitioner be effective within a team/service that is less than effective?

  4. Key Elements • Capability, Competence • Knowledge skills attitudes • Motivation • To change, to improve, to learn, to be involved/engaged • Accountability • Social, public protection, patient safety Each of these has implications for CPD, but also for management and service structures/ processes

  5. Emerging Themes • Clinical skills and knowledge- role, profession, service specific • Supervision • Appraisal • Guided Reflection • Interactive and multimethod; inc WBL & PBL • Multi-professional/agency • Locally (ie team) driven, owned and customised • Involvement of all stakeholders in training needs analyses and delivery of CPD

  6. Key Elements (cont.) • Managing change and surviving • Managing professional relationships • Building and sustaining effective relationships with service users and the wider public How much of your CPD activity engages the communities you serve?

  7. CPD Focus On: • Interpersonal skills, e.g influencing, negotiation, conflict management, partnership working • Research/audit/evidence based practice • Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making • Change management skills • Workforce planning, service re-design • Health improvement/promotion • Political awareness

  8. Contemporary Issues • The link between emotional motivators for staff and better services • The increase in mandatory training • The constraining effects of role descriptors • Implications of Social Accountability • For front line practitioners • For managers • Organisational systems and processes which inhibit critical thinking • The importance of networks, peer support • The critical role of managers and their changing needs

  9. Challenges High quality CPD is rooted in both self-directed learning and reflection in practice, which involves both multidisciplinary and organisational learning as well as that of individuals. Mathers N et al. Evaluation of European CPD Programme in Primary Care (LOTUS). Education for Primary Care. 18 (3) May 2007 . 328-337

  10. Challenges Developing a framework of strategies to improve quality of care is heavily dependent on supportive management, skilled feedback and appraisal, and an established learning environment. King G. A Framework of personal and environmental learning based strategies to foster therapist expertise. Learning in Health and Social Care 2009 8(3) 185-99

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