Preparing for professional practice in health and social care / edited by Anita Atwal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflection -- Care and self-care -- Ethics and professional practice -- Practice and allied health professions service delivery -- Quality assurance, quality improvement, and leadership -- Allied health professionals and interprofessional practice -- Preparing for successful career transitions -- Professional identity and allied health professional practice.

"This chapter discusses the mechanisms Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) use to assess the relevance of knowledge to their practice. The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), in their standards of proficiency for regulated AHPs, (HCPC, 2013a; 2013b; 2014; 2018) demand that they are able to demonstrate that they can critically reflect on practice, as well as being able to draw on relevant information to guide practice. What is professionalism? How does professionalism relate to the practice knowledge healthcare workers need? What are the ways in which these workers use their professional knowledge to come to decisions about what they do? These are complex but important questions. It will be helpful to locate them within commonly used terms about knowledge and healthcare. Firstly, professionalism will be defined as well as its relationship to the knowledge a healthcare worker needs and uses. Common terms used to reflect how AHPs deal with this knowledge are 'evidence-based practice' or 'clinical reasoning' so both of these terms will need some explanation. Finally, this chapter will make the case for reflective practice as a cornerstone of professionalism, evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning"-- Provided by publisher.