Skills4Study.com: Personnal Development Planning. Take charge of your future. It will benefit your studies and future employability to begin thinking about your goals and planning towards them. Personal Development Planning (PDP) is about making your time and effort work for you. In this section: Skills for Success by Stella Cottrell This area of the site has been prepared by Stella Cottrell, author of Skills for Success. Skills for Success offers self-evaluations and invaluable guidance to help you make real progress towards your ambitions. "The exercises are very well designed, follow a logical sequence, and students find them extremely useful. The page on 'Planning your future' has been written by Joan van Emden and Lucinda Becker, authors of Presentation Skills for Students. The National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery. The National Council has published the Guidelines for Portfolio Development for Nurses and Midwives in hard copy, CD-ROM and pdf formats.
In 1998 the Commission on Nursing expressed a number of views concerning the need for nurses and midwives to develop personal career plans. More recently the Action Plan for People Management in the Health Services and the Office for Health Management have highlighted the need for a strategic approach to meeting the education and training goals of both the individual and the organisation through, for example, personal development planning and performance review. It is with the above in mind that the Guidelines for Portfolio Development for Nurses and Midwives have emerged.
The document is aimed at all nurses and midwives, but particularly at individual nurses and midwives working at the frontline of care. Click on the links below to download the full document or the sample record sheets. Portfolio Guidelines 3rd Ed 2009.pdf (application/pdf Object) TOHM (2003) Performance Management in theHealth Service. TOHM PDP Guidelines & Workbook.