{"id":127,"date":"2024-01-15T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T21:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=127"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:02:19","slug":"professional-practice","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/chapter\/professional-practice\/","title":{"raw":"Professional Practice","rendered":"Professional Practice"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"144\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSupporting [pb_glossary id=\"225\"]KSA[\/pb_glossary]s for this area\r\n<table class=\"alignleft\" border=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td class=\"border\" style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Knowledge Of<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Ability To<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Attributes<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>The impact on individual and collective resilience of uncertainty, stress, grief, and other emotions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Professional expertise, ethics, and standards<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Able to self-regulate in professional environments<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Keep a realistic assessment of challenges, stress, and loss.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Maintain psychological wellness and balance within the space of uncertainty and change.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Uphold health and safety standards<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Be proactive<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Positive attitude, growth-mindset<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Embody a scientific mindset (i.e., curiosity, openmindedness, skepticism, and humility)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div align=\"left\">\r\n<table class=\"grid\" style=\"height: 777px;width: 1290px\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 46px\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 1144.85px;height: 46px\" colspan=\"5\"><strong>Competencies<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 29px\"><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 29px\"><strong>1. React\/Follow<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 447.767px;height: 29px\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>2. Act\/Apply<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 29px\"><strong>3. Anticipate\/Initiate\/Enable<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 29px\"><strong>4. Lead\/Strategize<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate resilience<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate accountability<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Act\/Operate from within professional values framework<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Establish and revise standards of professional practice<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 61px\">\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Statement<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate resilience in relation to own role and areas of responsibility<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate accountability within own scope of work and responsibility<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Act\/Operate from within professional values framework according to role and organizational requirements<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Establish and revise standards of professional practice related to areas of expertise and influence<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 595px\">\r\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Performance Criteria<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Identify own actions, behaviour, and decisions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Navigate ambiguity and uncertainty<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Recognize times of challenge for self or team<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Maintain a support network in times of uncertainty, stress, and disruption of systems and environment.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Intentionally practice resilient coping strategies<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Strive to maintain self, staff, and groups\u2019 well-being<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Integrate creative and mindful approaches to remain positive<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Adopt a flexible, adaptable approach to navigating personal and professional challenges and opportunities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Acknowledge the impact on individual and collective resilience of uncertainty, stress, grief, and other emotions<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Keep a realistic assessment of challenges, stress, and loss.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Call upon personal and supportive resources to mitigate mental and physical health impacts.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Maintain psychological wellness and balance within the space of uncertainty and change.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Work on adaptive responses and skills<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Identify own actions, behaviour, and decisions [self-awareness] in relation to role and responsibilities<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is accountable for acting in compliance with relevant local, regional, national and policies, procedures and standards<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Works within the limits of competence and scope of practice<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Navigate ambiguity and uncertainty<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Is accountable for own actions, behaviour, and decisions [proficient self-management in professional contexts<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Set priorities, reflect on own goals, and incorporate feedback cycles for refining and improving ideas.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reflect on personal qualities and limitations<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Demonstrates sensitivity to awareness of ethical concerns in [mitigation] action<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Upholds professional code[s] of ethics\/conduct<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Emotional reflexivity\u00a0 - able to reflect on the goals of others<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Able to understand one\u2019s own positionality to an argument; and to argue for\/promote different points of view<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Perceive, analyze, reconcile, and negotiate values, norms, principles, and objectives<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Discuss and negotiate values and norms in interaction with others<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Establish and revise regulations and standards; review policies and assertain how they apply to practice.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Empower rights-holders and interest-holders, including those impacted by climate impacts and solutions.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Enable and empower groups to make joint decisions<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice-768x123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice-65x10.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice-225x36.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/cacfv2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2144\/2024\/01\/ReportBanner-ProfessionalPractice-350x56.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Supporting <a class=\"glossary-term\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-describedby=\"definition\" href=\"#term_127_225\">KSA<\/a>s for this area<\/p>\n<table class=\"alignleft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"border\" style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Knowledge Of<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Ability To<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle\"><strong>Attributes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>The impact on individual and collective resilience of uncertainty, stress, grief, and other emotions<\/li>\n<li>Professional expertise, ethics, and standards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>Able to self-regulate in professional environments<\/li>\n<li>Keep a realistic assessment of challenges, stress, and loss.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain psychological wellness and balance within the space of uncertainty and change.<\/li>\n<li>Uphold health and safety standards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ul>\n<li>Be proactive<\/li>\n<li>Positive attitude, growth-mindset<\/li>\n<li>Embody a scientific mindset (i.e., curiosity, openmindedness, skepticism, and humility)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<table class=\"grid\" style=\"height: 777px;width: 1290px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 46px\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 1144.85px;height: 46px\" colspan=\"5\"><strong>Competencies<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 29px\"><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 29px\"><strong>1. React\/Follow<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 447.767px;height: 29px\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>2. Act\/Apply<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 29px\"><strong>3. Anticipate\/Initiate\/Enable<\/strong><\/td>\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 29px\"><strong>4. Lead\/Strategize<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 46px\">\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate resilience<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate accountability<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Act\/Operate from within professional values framework<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 46px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Establish and revise standards of professional practice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 61px\">\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Competency Statement<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate resilience in relation to own role and areas of responsibility<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Demonstrate accountability within own scope of work and responsibility<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Act\/Operate from within professional values framework according to role and organizational requirements<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 168.317px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 236.417px;height: 61px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">Establish and revise standards of professional practice related to areas of expertise and influence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 595px\">\n<td class=\"shaded\" style=\"width: 116.217px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\"><strong>Performance Criteria<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 250.45px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Identify own actions, behaviour, and decisions<\/li>\n<li>Navigate ambiguity and uncertainty<\/li>\n<li>Recognize times of challenge for self or team<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a support network in times of uncertainty, stress, and disruption of systems and environment.<\/li>\n<li>Intentionally practice resilient coping strategies<\/li>\n<li>Strive to maintain self, staff, and groups\u2019 well-being<\/li>\n<li>Integrate creative and mindful approaches to remain positive<\/li>\n<li>Adopt a flexible, adaptable approach to navigating personal and professional challenges and opportunities<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge the impact on individual and collective resilience of uncertainty, stress, grief, and other emotions<\/li>\n<li>Keep a realistic assessment of challenges, stress, and loss.<\/li>\n<li>Call upon personal and supportive resources to mitigate mental and physical health impacts.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain psychological wellness and balance within the space of uncertainty and change.<\/li>\n<li>Work on adaptive responses and skills<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 217.4px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Identify own actions, behaviour, and decisions [self-awareness] in relation to role and responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Is accountable for acting in compliance with relevant local, regional, national and policies, procedures and standards<\/li>\n<li>Works within the limits of competence and scope of practice<\/li>\n<li>Navigate ambiguity and uncertainty<\/li>\n<li>Is accountable for own actions, behaviour, and decisions [proficient self-management in professional contexts<\/li>\n<li>Set priorities, reflect on own goals, and incorporate feedback cycles for refining and improving ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect on personal qualities and limitations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 216.4px;height: 595px;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">\n<ol>\n<li>Demonstrates sensitivity to awareness of ethical concerns in [mitigation] action<\/li>\n<li>Upholds professional code[s] of ethics\/conduct<\/li>\n<li>Emotional reflexivity\u00a0 &#8211; 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