Continuing Professional Development for Health Records

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Continuing Professional Developmentfor Health
Records

• Lorraine Nicholson FHRIM
• Chief Executive IHRIM
• President of IFHRO

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Definition of CPD

• CPD is a continuous process of personal growth,
  to improve the capability and realise the full
  potential of professional people at work
• There are a variety of definitions of CPD across
  the professions but it is usually taken to mean
  learning activities, which update existing skills

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CPD Requirements for Individuals

• CPD requirements should be identified on the
  basis of the need of the individual, within the
  context of the needs of the organisation

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CPD in the NHS

• CPD needs in the NHS are identified through
  appraisal with a personal development plan agreed
  between the individual their manager (with the
  commitment of the necessary time and resources)
• (Dept of Health)

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CPD Professional Organisations

• A key development in ensuring that health
  professionals maintain their competence is the
  move among the regulatory bodies (e.g. UK CHIP)
  to develop CPD strategies for the
  revalidation/re-certification of their members
• (Dept of Health)

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Why should I undertake CPD?

• To develop your professional knowledge skills
  keep them current
• It may be a condition placed on your continuing
  membership of a professional/regulatory body
• To demonstrate your professional standing to
  patients employers
• To assist you with your career development or a
  possible career change

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Why the need to update knowledge skills

• Introduction of new technology
• New methods of working
• Legislative changes
• The emergence of new industries and new
  professions
• all these situations define the need for
  constant updating of knowledge and skills in
  order to maintain professional competence

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Professional Competence(Kennedy Inquiry)

• When we talk of professional competence, we
  refer to patients' expectations that the
  professional they come into contact with will be
  up to the job. Professionals should be able to do
  that which they profess they can do.
• .when we talk of professionals, we repeat that
  we mean all of the professionals who make the NHS
  work doctors, nurses, the professions allied to
  medicine, managers and other healthcare workers.
  

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Professional CompetenceMore from the Kennedy
Report!

• Professional competence requires a firm
  educational grounding, followed by a period of
  formal training to acquire the relevant knowledge
  and skills in the workplace
• Thereafter, continued competence rests on a
  combination of education, continuous development,
  confidence and experience
• It depends on the motivation of individual
  professionals to learn and develop and the extent
  to which their employer supports them and enables
  them to do so
• It also depends on the professional standards
  which they are required or expected to meet, and
  on the wider systems for ensuring that those
  standards are adhered to

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CPD Activities Include

• Continuing education
• Lifelong learning activities
• Training and skills development
• Intellectual nourishment
• Forums for reflection
• Exposure to new ideas
• Work experience
• Professional refreshment and rejuvenation
• Personal networking

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Ways of Meeting CPD Needs

• Formal workshops
• Credit courses
• Conferences and other events
• Research and publication
• Professional reading
• Association activity
• Personal networking

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Any Questions?
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Workshop Groups
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Workshop Groups

• Appoint a scribe rapporteur
• Discuss the three slides which follow for half an
  hour until the refreshment break
• Be prepared to feed back in the plenary session
  after the break

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Workshop Groups - CPD

• Identify CPD needs for your staff group
• Can you access appropriate CPD activities?
• What new CPD activities would you like to be able
  to access?
• Do you foresee any difficulties accessing CPD? If
  so what are they?

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Workshop Groups Accreditation of CPD for
professional purposes

• Are you comfortable with
• the concept of CPD having to be approved?
• Having to accrue a number of CPD credits to keep
  up professional registration (e.g. with UK CHIP)?
• Would you find it difficult to access CPD for
  these purposes?

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Workshop Groups The negatives positives of CPD

• Are there any negative aspects associated with
  CPD
• What are the positive aspects of CPD for
• Individual practitioners
• Employers
• The Profession

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Thank You for Your Participation

• Lorraine Nicholson
• l.nicholson_at_zen.co.uk