Another influence may be the internet and search engine sites such as Google, they have a positive influence on our learning process as they can search information very quickly which develops our knowledge and increases our learning process. However internet may hinder our learning process’s as we may be less creative and too dependent on the internet for knowledge and ideas rather than for example, reading a book.
M1: One very big influence on my own personal learning process is my parents, from a young age both my parents encouraged me to read books and allowed me to be creative and independent. This has excelled my learning process as they were able to teach me the skills I needed for my school life from anything such as learning right from wrong, how the tie my shoe laces to even not to play around with fire. They have taught me valuable life lessons as appropriate ages which I fully understood. My teachers were then able to reiterate what skills my parents had already taught me and combine this with my own conscience and knowledge.
Personal statement:
I’m currently a student at Derby college (The roundhouse) studying level 3 extended diploma in health and social care, already I’m finding it very interesting and on target with what I want to pursue in the future as my career of nursing.
Nursing is a very challenging and demanding career, however I hope to feel the rewards and have self belief that I am ready to embark on this career. I am eager to pursue a career in which I am able to help and care for people, becoming a nurse would allow me to fulfil this ambition. Nursing is a career for dedicated, reliable, trusting people who are able to develop relationships with patients quickly. I have these skills and I genuinely want to make a difference to people, to assist them and their families through difficult times when they are at their most vulnerable. The role of nursing is changing as nurses are far more involved in the welfare of patients and this is placing more responsibility on nurses. I am confident of embracing this challenge and to take advantage of these changes and opportunities and use them to further my career.
I currently work part time at the popular DIY store, Home base, as my current role in my job is a checkout assistant and during the New Year I have been aware of a promotion to a showroom representative which involves the ability to sell kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms to customers. This will be a demanding job which requires my best sales skills in order to make Home base the most money and to also gain the rewards financially myself in commission. I thoroughly enjoy my job as I feel my communication skills are very good and I’m capable of delivering a great customer service. These communication skills that I’m gaining from Home base will be essential for my desired career as good communication is exceptionally important in nursing as I will be experiencing and working in some extremely pressurised environments.
D1: In the health and social care sector, each workers individual personal learning development can benefit many people as their influence has a huge effect on the care they are providing. For example, a care worker needs to have learnt and developed fantastic communication skills for this is essential with working with clients and patients that display being venerable and need that help and support they look for within care workers. This will benefit others as care workers may be dealing with patients with communication barriers such as visual or hearing impairment making communication harder. It’s important for care workers to understand these communication barriers during work in the health and social care sector before they can then excel their own learning/ working processes.
Care workers need to obtain good organisation skills in order to develop and work with clients that depend on the care workers. Being organised is very important in personal learning and development as it shows how easy to make mistakes should be kept to a minimum as this could be fatal, an example of this is a nurse in a busy ward delivery patients with their daily medication, if the nurse is disorganised, this increases the possibility of that nurse making a mistake with medication with the impact being fatal (giving a patient the wrong medication). Personal learning and development in health and social care is very important as what they learn does have either a positive or negative effect for anyone working alongside that care worker. Being a nurse of care worker is a demanding job and does require the ability to adapt their learning process to each different situation in order to develop their knowledge positively in health and social care.