Public Health Professional Development

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Public Health Career Development

After graduation, it is everyone’s dream to either get employed or explore other channels that will result in the attainment of other advanced scholarly credentials. During practicum and class sessions students are equipped with a varied range of critical information that not only makes them competent but also knowledgeable in given areas of expertise. Likewise, public health has various opportunities that facilitate respective professional development. For instance, scholarship and research opportunities exist to supplement the knowledge base while building the participant’s portfolio. A well versed professional is acquainted with critical information that upholds national health through equal sharing of healthcare needs and facilities.

1. What professional development opportunities exist for you within public health?

Public health is a broad field that encompasses different professional development opportunities. For instance, the field boasts of research option that allows scholars to conduct various researches and epidemiological studies. Besides, public health offers a chance to interact with patient in the healthcare system. As a healthcare professional, continuous professional development is fundamental in ensuring that the workforce is equipped with skills and knowledge to practice both effectively and safely. Furthermore, professional development enhances participants’ skills set through regular knowledge and skills update achievable in research and practice.

2. What benefits do you receive from professional development? Be specific; cite statistics and references.

Professional development encompasses various advantages to both the healthcare system and public health graduates. First, public health professional development facilitates easy access to information and sharing the best models and practices of patient and environmental care (Ignatavicius, and Chung, 138). Furthermore, this opportunity creates seminars, workshop among other collaborative opportunities, where healthcare team and public health professional freely share developed and researched innovations, practices and ideas that uphold quality and effective medical intervention as posited by (Horn et al. 51).

3. How does professional development help you address the issues of inequality, cultural competency, and analyze interrelationships among systems that influence the quality of life in communities?

Cultural incompetency, inequality issues are among the key factors that derail delivery of quality public health services to those in need. However, professional development provides the best way to overcome such challenges following its multifactorial approach. First, professional development establishes a collaborative environment where different professionals from various ranks meet and freely interact while working on the best practices and study. This nature of operation bridges any stratification that may have been existing. Secondly, the nature and design of professional development results in a close interaction with given members of a taskforce carrying out a particular research. As a result, the respective members tend to interact and understand each other’s culture. This opportunity allows the public health members in professional development to respect other members’ cultural norms. Furthermore, professional development provides insights on how best various healthcare department should work. The interaction allows to closely monitor and track the effectiveness of the departments thus increasing the quality of healthcare.

The field of public health plays a significant role in the daily lives of all human beings. Public health experts conduct epidemiological studies and biostatistics to identify the trends in disease occurrence. Notably, this field requires consistent professional development in a bid to update the participants’ skills set and practice knowledge.

Works Cited.

Horn, Kelly et al. “Paediatric Staff Nurses’ Conceptualizations of Professional Development”. Journal of Paediatric Nursing, vol 45, 2019, pp. 51-56. Elsevier BV, doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2019.01.002. Accessed 22 July 2020.

Ignatavicius, Donna, and Catherine E. Chung. “Professional Development for Nursing Faculty: Assessing Transfer of Learning into Practice”. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, vol 11, no. 4, 2016, pp. 138-142. Elsevier BV, doi:10.1016/j.teln.2016.05.005. Accessed 22 July 2020.