I Had To Take A Personality Test And Discuss My Results: Learner Record Personal Reflection, UCD, Ireland

Reflection on my personality test.

For my learner record, I had to take a personality test and discuss my results and how accurate I felt they were. The personality test results said I am a protagonist. The questionnaire scores range from about “60% and higher on extraverted, intuitive, feeling, judging and turbulent”. (16peronalities.com (2021).

Protagonists are the definition of a leading role and someone who enjoys working with people. I am used to being the leader in my current job by training and supervising another member of staff. Reading the results, I felt good thinking these traits are the reason I wanted to do this course, I feel I have so much to give as a healthcare worker and will have the opportunities to learn more about caring for others, plus I will learn so much about my wellbeing along the way.

The test shows that I am a people person, outgoing, and socially confident, I know my bouncy energy will go well in a care home facility and I feel it will make a difference to the elderly/intellectually impaired there. I believe it is important to develop a good relationship with the patients individually and build up trust with care to help them feel at home in a health care environment. This is one of my strengths as am so used to being in front of the house that I’m the first person people see when they walk into the premises, I’m always bursting with energy and find it always inviting and exciting making people feel comfortable.

I believe my kind of personality in healthcare is important because you develop good friendships and trust with the clients and staff members building communication within the facility by feeling comfortable talking to one another. This would help me prepare for self-care and awareness as well, communication and personal well-being are important in the healthcare facility for all patients and staff, and I feel I can bring that to any place of work.

My emotions are going to be hard to control in that environment, I am a very emotional person and feel others pain and suffering, controlling my emotions and feelings towards the clients and their families if the client becomes ill and dies, I need to prepare my self-awareness for this and to be professional in that situation and prepare myself on how I should sympathize for the families and their loved ones and not react to my personal feelings in an unprofessional way.

I am confident I will be able to prepare myself to learn to control my feelings, whilst developing good relationships with people that will lose their lives so frequently and suddenly, by doing this I want to prepare my thoughts with memories of them and learning how I did something well and what I would change while moving on to the next client. By motivating myself with hobbies and things I love to do, taking that time for personal wellbeing is important and remembering to live my life, planning things like events and holidays will always give me something to look forward to, as well as daily routines like walking, dancing and singing all things I love to do regularly. I believe I have so much to bring to the healthcare service and look forward to trying something new.