Dissertation

I really think this is an issue for discussion with your Tutor, since there are a wide range of issues that can be linked in that field, e.g. the effects of varying recruitment, training and retention policies or practices on the various grades of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), however these are enormously complex subjects involving both administrative and clinical career development structures alongside ethical and data-processing issues. I also have to suggest (given a fairly extensive background in the NHS and with a number of close family members involved in Healthcare), that your ambition to run a recruiting agency for HCPs straight from qualification seems somewhat over-ambitious, given the scope of that status, from Drs, Nurses, Therapists and professional Councillors, to Porters and Care-assistants. You would also be up against some extremely stiff commercial competition, unless you can find a niche-market relating to a particular field or clinical focus.

I am NOT seeking to pour cold water on your idea or ideals, but I think "one step at a time" might be the best advice, and talking to your Tutor regarding your existing knowledge and background career interests, and how those might best be presented in an original piece of thinking in your dissertation, would seem to me to be the immediate need.

A dissertation (or any presentation of ideas and insights, from speaking to a filled lecture-hall or drafting a learned paper, to what I write here on these pages at this moment), is not a pre-determined path to a known outcome (e.g. choosing "the right" subject to get an "A"), but a course set, by its author (you), to make the value of what you have to say obvious to the reader, even if its significance in the "great scheme of things" at first seems insignificant. It is the association of the components into an original concept, and the clarity of presentation of that concept, which determine the outcome, not the starting point (or indeed the destination).

So again I must return the question to you: What do YOU think is important to recognise about the process of recruiting and training HCPs which both separates them from other professional groups, or might be done (or done differently) to improve outcomes of performance and retention?

Then take that thought, establish its validity through research of sources, develop it using (or challenging) those sources, present your arguments and conclusions clearly and in detail, and there will be your "A".

It's hard work and makes your brain ache! That's what makes it worth doing. But start with what YOU think is worth that effort to say, not what Keith, or Elizabeth, or Anna, or I, or any of the other contributors to these threads think, or what might seem like an exciting, shiny, subject that is bound to get an "A" (there isn't one).

Your tutor will, most certainly, have had such discussions before and will have insights into how best to structure where you are with where you need to be that we here do not have.

Once you have your ideas in place, then test them with us by all means; use us as sources if we have value as such and we'll be happy to help if we can; but it's your path you need to tread, not one that goes to where we would want to go (or think would be a good destination).

P

I really think this is an issue for discussion with your Tutor, since there are a wide range of issues that can be linked in that field, e.g. the effects of varying recruitment, training and retention policies or practices on the various grades of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs), however these are enormously complex subjects involving both administrative and clinical career development structures alongside ethical and data-processing issues. I also have to suggest (given a fairly extensive background in the NHS and with a number of close family members involved in Healthcare), that your ambition to run a recruiting agency for HCPs straight from qualification seems somewhat over-ambitious, given the scope of that status, from Drs, Nurses, Therapists and professional Councillors, to Porters and Care-assistants. You would also be up against some extremely stiff commercial competition, unless you can find a niche-market relating to a particular field or clinical focus.

I am NOT seeking to pour cold water on your idea or ideals, but I think "one step at a time" might be the best advice, and talking to your Tutor regarding your existing knowledge and background career interests, and how those might best be presented in an original piece of thinking in your dissertation, would seem to me to be the immediate need.

A dissertation (or any presentation of ideas and insights, from speaking to a filled lecture-hall or drafting a learned paper, to what I write here on these pages at this moment), is not a pre-determined path to a known outcome (e.g. choosing "the right" subject to get an "A"), but a course set, by its author (you), to make the value of what you have to say obvious to the reader, even if its significance in the "great scheme of things" at first seems insignificant. It is the association of the components into an original concept, and the clarity of presentation of that concept, which determine the outcome, not the starting point (or indeed the destination).

So again I must return the question to you: What do YOU think is important to recognise about the process of recruiting and training HCPs which both separates them from other professional groups, or might be done (or done differently) to improve outcomes of performance and retention?

Then take that thought, establish its validity through research of sources, develop it using (or challenging) those sources, present your arguments and conclusions clearly and in detail, and there will be your "A".

It's hard work and makes your brain ache! That's what makes it worth doing. But start with what YOU think is worth that effort to say, not what Keith, or Elizabeth, or Anna, or I, or any of the other contributors to these threads think, or what might seem like an exciting, shiny, subject that is bound to get an "A" (there isn't one).

Your tutor will, most certainly, have had such discussions before and will have insights into how best to structure where you are with where you need to be that we here do not have.

Once you have your ideas in place, then test them with us by all means; use us as sources if we have value as such and we'll be happy to help if we can; but it's your path you need to tread, not one that goes to where we would want to go (or think would be a good destination).

P