Competency 6
In the professional world, competency is a crucial aspect to have as it encourages a profession in any field of work to maintain professionalism in his or her day to day activities. Maintaining professionalism in the medical field is essential as it allows delivery of quality care to all the patients, which results in improvements in the health status of the patient and encourages collaboration of various professions that lead to proper care for the patients. The chosen file reflects on how the application of competency results in personal growth and collaboration to improve patient’s health.
In an ICCU scenario, patients who are admitted, there are usually at a high risk of losing their lives due to health complications and other threats that might come with their health status. With the application of competency by the health workers ensure that they do everything possible to offer the best care to the patient to save his or her life. Through the competency principle, it encourages inter profession collaboration where different healthcare professionals bring their ideas together and work as a team to ensure that they save the lives of the patients. A team works better than an individual because of the integration of different skills and knowledge that improves the patient and public health.
Competency principles should be applied in professional fields to ensure that the products or services that they offer to the public improve their living conditions and health status. The collaboration nature in most areas of work enables the achievement of more than what one can achieve if he or she works alone. Teamwork improves the quality of services offered to people, which in return results in a better living and health status and conditions. With competency ethics and morals are maintained in the serving the people. It leads to a good relationship between the public and the professionals achieving growth in their profession.