eGDCPrinciple 2: Practise safely and effectively
Use your knowledge and skills to provide the right outcome for your patients, keep up to date and speak up to protect others.
Ways this is demonstrated in practice include:
- Reflecting on your performance and identifying strengths and areas for development
- Reflecting on your own mental and physical health and seeking support when you need it
- Keeping your skills up to date to develop and maintain your practice over the course of your career
- Reflecting on your practice and learning from your colleagues
- Listening to, learning from, and acting on feedback received from patients
- Speaking up when you see something go wrong to support your patients and colleagues and to protect them from harm
- Understanding your personal scope of practice, and only performing tasks that you are trained, competent and indemnified to do. See our case studies on assessing your own scope of practice and working within boundaries
- Keeping up to date, accurate patient records that allow you and other professionals to clearly understand them