Healthcare professionals

• Providing healthcare is not a career like accountancy or

  engineering. It is a vocation more like priesthood, a

  healing ministry.
• • How well do you know yourself?
  • The nature and function of a healthcare practitioner are in the harmony with God-given talents, field of interest, resources, and personal values

  SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE
• • What makes me decide to take the course in healthcare?
  • What and who are the factors that contribute to my decision making to take up the course?
  • Do I really like the course?
  • What are the reasons why I believe I am meant for the career?

  PURE AND CLEAR MOTIVATION
• A strong will or a chosen will for a chosen profession develops

  when motivation are cleared up and purified necessitating

  sufficient knowledge and acceptance.

  STRONG WILL AND DETERMINATION
• Patients would like their condition and medical

  procedures explained to them in simple language which they

  can easily understand

  EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS
• The health care provider must

  be emotionally stable as shown

  by his/her ability to handle

  stressful and traumatic

  situations, such as patients'

  suffering and death. He/she is

  able to work without allowing

  these situations to cause

  him/her personal harm and

  affect his/ her job performance.

  EMOTIONAL STABILITY
• The willingness to work for long periods, overtime, night shifts,

  and even on holidays is one of the important qualities that a

  health care provider should have

  FLEXIBILITY
• A health care provider should have proper regard for the

  dignity of oneself and one's profession and should have an

  appreciation of his/ her obligation to care for the sick.

  SELF-RESPECT
• A health care provider needs to

  be very attentive to details.

  He/she should be able to follow

  and administer instructions

  carefully to avoid errors.

  GOOD ATTENIONAL TO DETAIL