# data[].attributes.body
Please read and make notes

# data[].attributes.body
What is personal development planning (PDP)? Personal development planning (PDP) ensures higher education students document and demonstrate their learning and employability potential.  The QAA, when first introducing PDP in 2001, describes the PDP programme as;

“…structured and supported processes to develop the capacity of individuals to reflect upon their learning and achievement and to plan for their own personal, educational, and career development...” (QAA, 2001, p2).

# data[].attributes.headline
This is a directed study padlet aimed at giving you one of many tools to develop reflexivity. Why do a PDP? Its purpose at this stage of your professional training and relevance to assessment 3?

# data[].attributes.subject
This is a directed study padlet aimed at giving you one of many tools to develop reflexivity. Why do a PDP? Its purpose at this stage of your professional training and relevance to assessment 3?

# data[].attributes.body
1/ to help you reflect on your personal and professional learning journey so far. They are clearly intertwined.
2/ to help you review, identify past and current issues and plan for the future. This is particularly relevant in the transition process from student to registered nurse
3/ to inform assessment 3
4/ to use as a template for future development

# data[].attributes.headline
Please complete the blank template below and refer to it as you reflect on your individual learning journey. Please refer to it in the online synchronous teams group session this week and develop the content to inform assessment 3 content and professional plans. The content will change in time.

# data[].attributes.subject
Please complete the blank template below and refer to it as you reflect on your individual learning journey. Please refer to it in the online synchronous teams group session this week and develop the content to inform assessment 3 content and professional plans. The content will change in time.

# data[].attributes.body
The concept of the PDP has a three stage process;

# data[].attributes.headline
1/ Define your own development needs in relation to the NMC Code of conduct (and the NMC platforms 1-7, as per module descriptor)

# data[].attributes.subject
1/ Define your own development needs in relation to the NMC Code of conduct (and the NMC platforms 1-7, as per module descriptor)

# data[].attributes.body
2/ How has your experience of researching, reflecting on and writing the previous assessments (review of the literature and business plan) helped you to enhance your own professional practice and improve the safety and quality of care?

3/ What decision-making processes and independent learning journey are you aware of since starting the module (this can relate to knowledge and its impact on your clinical practice).

# data[].attributes.body
1/ Identify goals- short term and long term (strengths skills and abilities)
2/ Plan
3/ Action
4/ Record- progress, further development
5/ Review- collate, review learning, aware of skills and new needs

# data[].attributes.body
A)      A programme of support designed to facilitate the development of academic learning skills and recognise academic and non-academic skills and abilities

B)      Students own records, recording skills, noting difficulties, possible solutions, setting personal goals and recording progress towards achieving them

C)      The university records student learning, awards and achievements

Therefore, stage A and B rare relevent to this exercise

# data[].attributes.body
Blank template, please down load and complete after reading the example below it

# data[].attributes.body
Please read as a guide to your own PDP content, add theory wherever relevant to inform assessment 3 when your refer to it during the presentation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Now in my final year of nursing, it is time for me and many other student nurses to write our final personal development plan.

A personal development plan (PDP) is something that you are supposed to write at the start of each year, detailing your goals for practice and theory and how you are going to achieve them.

I have found PDPs difficult to write, especially at the start of the year as all the modules are launching. My goal is to stay calm and not be overwhelmed by it all, as thinking about the end of the year seems impossible. But this is my final year writing PDPs and I have some tips to share.

Remember the PDP is for you

Although personal tutors at university will look at your PDPs, they are designed for you. The whole point of a PDP is to make it personal to you – not to write what you think your personal tutors wants to read.

The goals you want to set yourself should be things that you actually want to achieve. If the goal is personal to you, you are far more likely to put your energy into achieving it.

Make your PDP realistic

Being a student nurse is stressful and the last thing you need is to set yourself an unrealistic goal in either practice or theory – so be realistic.

Think about your current skillset and your goal. Then think about what needs to be done to get you to where you want to be and whether this will be realistic once you are juggling placement, university, family and friends.

Don’t make things hard for yourself as you can’t do everything at once. Consider all the little steps that will help you to get to where you want to be and take it each step at a time.

Talk to people about your PDP

If you’ve written about wanting a certain experience in practice within your PDP – for example spending time with a psychologist – then when you go into placement and have your initial interview, let them know about your burning interest to work with psychology or whatever you included in your PDP.

The same goes for theory. If you have written about being more critical in your assignments then speak with lecturers for advice on how you can do this.

PDPs are your goals for the year, so it is your responsibility to do things throughout the year that bring you closer to where you want to be.

Hannah Simpson is a third-year learning disability nursing student at De Montfort University

Related articles

# data[].attributes.body
Great resources, thank you :)