Recording your professional development

The whole learning experience should be recorded in a professional development portfolio.

1. Write a summary of the learning experience details which should include a description of the actual experience, when it occurred, where it occurred, who else was involved and how many hours it took to complete.
2. Record the actual learning outcome of your learning experience. These may fulfil or be slightly different to the learning objectives that you had planned in relation to your learning needs or they may be incidental following an unplanned learning experience.
3. After this your reflections on your learning experience should be documented.
4. You might then want to make links between your learning and research evidence to prove development of your evidence based practice.  The integration of research evidence into your practice provides a more solid foundation for your practice.
5. Then try to link your learning outcomes to other standards such as competency frameworks, professional standards and service targets to enable you to easily refer back to learning activities completed that will support processes such as proof of competence or professional body registration for example.

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