1. Managing Your Professional Development

2. Session Objectives You will know how to:  Identify key steps in the Professional Development Portfolio process  Reflect and develop professional goals

3. Session Objectives You will know how to:  Conduct professional self- assessment  Develop learning plan  Evaluate learning plan outcomes and their application to your practice

4. Multi-Faceted Process of Ensuring Competence

5. Aim of the Professional Development Portfolio Process Professional Development Portfolio Process To foster and facilitate self- directed lifelong learning and provide the practitioner with tools to assist in professional development.

6. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

7. Examples n Foodservice n Clinical n Not Currently Employed n Retired n Research n Business and Communications n Public Health n Non-traditional Health Care

8. Professional Development Portfolio Process 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan 1. Reflect

9. Step One: Reflect n What is/are my current practice areas and/or professional interests? –work setting –practice area –professional interests

10. Clinical Practitioner What is my current practice area or professional interest? n Clinical nutrition for general medicine inpatients and a very small number of outpatients

11. For example, n manage nutrition support team n develop education materials n volunteer n develop budgets Step One: Reflect “Within my area(s) of practice, what roles or responsibilities do I perform now?

12. Clinical Practitioner What roles or responsibilities do I perform now? n Nutrition assessment and intervention n Nutrition education n Quality improvement data collection

13. Step One: Reflect What external factors or trends are affecting my professional practice? n Emerging information technologies n Government involvement in health care n Aging population n Managed care, integrated delivery systems n Sedentary lifestyles

14. Step One: Reflect What areas of my profession do I enjoy? For example: n Teaching n Facilitating teams n Writing for consumer publications

15. n Seminar chairperson –Program planning, implementation –Budget planning and responsibility –Committee management –Site coordination Step One: Reflect What are my current leadership responsibilities?

16. Step One: Reflect What do I want my future practice to be? For example, n Pediatric nutrition n Public health n Management n Sales/marketing n Performance improvement

17. Clinical Practitioner What are my professional strengths? n Communication skills n Reliability n Keeping abreast of health care for chronic disease conditions What are my areas for improvement? n Collaboration n Understanding of managed care Identifying opportunities to provide cost- effective care Identifying opportunities to provide cost- effective care

18. Clinical Practitioner What are my current professional goals? n Short Term: (1 - 3 years) Maintain nutrition expertise for general medicine population Increase knowledge of outpatient self-management training

19. Clinical Practitioner What are my current professional goals? n Long Term: (3 - 5 years) Learn about the structure of various health systems and the payment mechanisms

20. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

21. CPE Levels

22. Step Two: Conduct a Learning Needs Assessment 1. Select one of your goals 2. Identify the major heading most appropriate for the goal 3. Darken the circle in left column next to your learning needs 4. Darken a circle to indicate your desired level of CPE (right)

23. Clinical Practitioner

24. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

25. Step 3: Develop Learning Plan 1. Record one of your goals from your self-reflection 2. Write titles of learning needs related to the goal 3. Darken the circles corresponding to the learning need code

26. Clinical Practitioner

27. Step 3: Develop Learning Plan

28. Continuing Professional Education Activities n Academic Coursework n Case Presentations n Exhibits n Experiential Skill Development n Interactive Workshops n Journal Clubs n Lectures, Seminars n Posters n Residency & Fellowship Programs n Study Groups n Pre-approved Self- study

29. Continuing Professional Education Activities  Sponsored independent learning (being mentored)  District, state and national professional leadership  Reading peer-reviewed professional journals  Certification programs...if strong overlap with the scope of practice of dietetics  Certificate programs meeting CDR requirements what’s new?

30. What CPE activities are no longer available?

31. The Professional Development Database v Catalog of CPE activities v Free  Search by location, date or key word www.cdrnet.org

32. Clinical Practitioner In order to strengthen my knowledge and skills to accomplish my goals, I plan to use the following CPE activity(s): Clinical Practitioner In order to strengthen my knowledge and skills to accomplish my goals, I plan to use the following CPE activity(s):

33. Verification of Plan After Steps 1, 2 and 3 Submit Learning Plan to CDR for verification

34. Dietetics-Related Integration and application of principles derived from the sciences of food, nutrition, management, communication, and biological, physiological, behavioral and social sciences to achieve and maintain optimal human health.

35. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

36. Step 4 - Learning Activities Log

38. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

39. Clinical Practitioner

40. Professional Development Portfolio Process 1. Reflect 5. Evaluate learning plan outcomes 4. Implement learning plan 2. Conduct learning needs assessment 3. Develop learning plan

41. Accountability n Professional responsibility n Portfolio audit process –Random –Trigger

42. Next Steps n Spring annual mailing n New CPE Guidelines sent early June 2001 for 2002-2005 recertification groups n Electronic access (Web)

43. When do you begin the Professional Development Portfolio ?

44. For Further Information: n Website: www.cdrnet.org n redesign@eatright.org n 1-800-877-1600, ext. 5500