How To Improve Your Skills Knowledge And Practice

Health care is a fundamental element to sustaining the welfare of our society. The ability to become a student in the Grand Canyon University (GCU), Master of Science in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program, takes me one step closer to being able to achieve my dream of playing a vital role in helping our society towards disease prevention. My experience in the acute care setting has reinforced my passion in disease prevention and health preservation. My short term goal is to be able to successfully complete the required course work. Secondly, I want to be able to acquire the necessary certifications to be able to practice as a FNP. The program at GCU will provide me with the knowledge, and skills I will need to effectively develop my role. The long term goal I have set for myself is to reach the Doctorate level degree at some point in my career. I would like to practice at an independent level and have my own practice in

This week in the field I gained more experience because of being in the office longer than what I normally am during the other weeks. One of the tasks completed this week was helping Vanessa’s coworker find different agencies that would assist with bathroom modifications within her client’s home. The client is disabled and is currently in a wheelchair, which their caregiver was having trouble getting the client inside of the bathroom. This is that the doorway was narrow; making it impossible for the caregiver to roll the client in the bathroom. By helping Vanessa’s coworker find different agencies, I was able to strengthen competency skill 9. Together, she and I were able to proactively refer the client to community resources that would assist the client with the best services to have the modifications made to the bathroom entry.

While being a support worker I learnt how to work in partnership with my clients and other professionals, incorporating clients interests into care programs finding suitable interests for each individual i.e. college courses, relaxation possibilities, family involvements, and etc. I successfully completed SVQ 3 in care so I can offer higher working standards which also helped me to develop strong theoretical base s about values and ethics in care. This improved my effectiveness, listening and problem solving skills and taught me of

This week in the field was a little different even though I completed some of the same task as I do every week. Therefore, I was able to experience competency skills that revolved around the behavior of families within and outside of the institutional setting. During the beginning of the week I had to sort through files and reorganized them in order to have all health information in one section and general information in another. While completing this task I was able to learn a great deal of information about the children and their families. By performing this action, I was able to understand why teachers perform certain activities in the classroom with certain children. For example, there was a child who teachers have eat by himself. I could

During my clinical placements I have learned a range of nursing skills which enhanced my ability to think critically and be accountable for my own actions in the clinical setting. I think that you will find my background and experience details my high attention to detail, very strong aptitude and adaptability, strong ability to work in a team and excellent work ethics under extreme time pressure while integrating holistic care into practice.

I feel that I have grown in my personal delivery of social services as I am more aware of the various micro, mezzo, and macro challenges and how they affects clients. I have been able to engage clients, assess their needs and seek out various resources. The concerns that I have is that I have only been able to practice casework in the areas of child welfare and from a school based higher education setting. I would have loved to have experiences in a medical setting because often times these areas intersect with each other.

Moreover, undertaking work experience at an elderly day centre allowed me to experience all aspects of patient care. I attended a range of patients’ needs from limited mobility to patients with chronic illnesses. This developed my skills enabling me to be confident and strong whilst handling stressful situations. Projecting independent working as well as team working. Also, improving my organisational skills by planning the patient’s personalised routine whilst learning to preserve

The first year of college can prove to be quite challenging. There are many new adjustments students must adapt to, but everybody must find their own way. Hearing from someone who has been in my shoes before has helped me begin down my path. Claire Carter Bailey an Oklahoma State University, President’s Leadership Council, and Student Government Alum talked about transferable skills has resonated with and caused me to evaluate my life so I can be more successful.

Over the past eight weeks many self-improving skills have been obtained. In unit one we learned about multiple intelligences, growth mindset, and resilience. A growth mindset is simply believing that there is always room for improvement, and remaining positive, despite the challenging obstacles you may encounter. Over the past four weeks I have developed a growth mindset because, it has been proven that people with growth mindsets have higher quality performance over those with a fixed mindset. An example of my new growth mindset is that I now remind myself to not settle for mediocre performance but instead, work to my fullest potential. I now believe it is imperative that working towards goals requires the maximum amount of effort. You are not just born with skills, you acquire them. My major as of now is criminal justice and at first, I was very discouraged and did not perform well. However; over the last few weeks I have turned things around by applying myself and, seeking extra help. When I am confused about a topic I now make it a point to ask questions. Determining my intelligence has altered the way I approach academic and professional work. By doing so, I have learned my strong points and what fields I excel in. For example, learning that music, social and, body movement skills are my three highest strengths has helped me consider

Active learning through interaction with patients of all ages, cultures, personalities and severity of disease has enhanced my critical thinking skills and optimized my learning experience which will affect my ability to perform high quality patient care in all aspects of my nursing career (Waltz, Jenkins, & Han, 2014). Working in the ED and towards goals which cover a spectrum of nursing skills has allowed my personal identity as a nurse to begin to surface as I work towards my career path. The ED has exposed me to beyond what I could imagine seeing on a single unit. Flexibility and increased exposure during my nursing studies will increase my praxis, competency and ability to act as a leader in my future (Millar, 2014). If I could change anything about my experience I would be more forthcoming with my learning and face my challenges and weaknesses with a more head on approach. I enjoyed being pushed to answer questions, research interventions and pharmaceuticals, and have my assessment skills questioned and reinforced. Although I learn well through experience and reflection I have been able to incorporate written and auditory learning to further my learning experience. My learning has gone above and beyond what I expected thanks to the staff on the unit and many more learning objectives were met than I expected. I feel my experience level, comfort and ability to provide care to different ages, cultures and diseases has been a result of strong leadership and teaching from my preceptor, and members of the interprofessional

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Following the Kolbs cycle (1984) for my active experimentation the skills I have learned through skill development are communication, decision-making and listening skills.

Sexual and reproductive health is promoted in schools and the community in order to develop personal skills. Various programs have been introduced in schools to provide accurate health information to young people and enhance their skills in communication and decision-making. This empowers individuals to make their own safe choices and decreases health risks. Information on sexual health has also been incorporated into the school syllabus, so it is being taught in schools to the students by teachers. Raising awareness of STIs through media, for the general public, is a strategy being used to spread information.

Context: Working a standard job can become overwhelming in itself. Conversely, when it comes to taking care of others in a health care setting, the desire and outlook should be the main qualification before being considered for the job.

A description of what occurred throughout my professional development and academic progression throughout my second year is that I had the experience of two placements which was on a ward and in the community. During my time on placement my professional development as a student nurse I acquired a variety of new skills and build on my attributes which helped with my development towards being a competent health care professional. My time on a cardiology ward increased my knowledge further on the heart function and anatomy. I learnt about the diverse types of medications such as Beta-Blockers and Ace Inhibitors. I developed clinical skills such as completing an electrocardiogram (ECG) and applying a cardiac monitor on patients. Whilst in my community placement I had the opportunity to visit patients in their home and complete two weeks with a health visitor. Throughout my academic progression I completed a range of assessments and exams which I have completed and they included empowerment essay, clinical report, research, nursing practice and anatomy and