Nurse Competency Report

Spent several years as a Charge Nurse in Long-Term Care. Responsible for implementing change for improvements related to Joint Commission Survey Readiness. Changes included improvement for Fall Risk, Skin Assessments and MDS Compliance. I’m currently working in a leadership position as a Charge Nurse on Rehab/Medicare Unit at Overland Park Nursing. Prior preceptor experience at Truman Medical Center on a busy Medical Surge Unit. Responsible for training new grads and students on a Registered Nurse

Based on my administrative experience and working experience as a health aid, I seek to learn more about the healthcare industry and utilize my clerical and communication skills in a hospital setting. I am passionate about providing quality hospital and community-based services through the PRN position in order to demonstrate compassion, respect, dependability, stewardship, responsibility and especially professionalism for all who seek care.

The patient tells me that she is unsure when her last menstrual cycle was. Her periods are very irregular and she had not been keeping track of it. She and her husband have been attempting pregnancy for the last year and a half and she tells me that as of Thursday, August 27th, she and her husband had gone through the procedures for adoption. She said that she knows she ovulated on August 18th. She was using an ovulation kit. She took a home pregnancy test on the 28th, which was positive, repeated with a different brand of test on the 29th and that was also positive. She has a regular gynecologist with York Gynecology, Robert Cervenka, MD, that she uses regularly, and she already has an appointment with him

After reading the Nurse of he Future Nursing Core Competencies (NOF), I believed it was created to help nurses used critical thinking when delivering care. Being a nurse had empowered me to know the important of critical thinking when caring for patients. “Nurses use critical thinking to integrate objective data with knowledge gained from an assessment of the subjective experiences of patients and groups, and to apply the best available evidence and research data to the processes of diagnosis and treatment”.

The importance of an ethical basis for nursing practice has been emphasized in recent years. Ethics programs that work with VBP improves patient outcomes (Bailes et al., 2014). Beneficence is incorporated in the clinical practices of the strategic plan on improving communication, developing a policy protocol for administration of pneumonia vaccine in ED, and creating strategies to decrease CHF readmission rate. Bedside report will be implemented as a new strategy to improve the communication and care to the patient.

Comprehensive assessments is the most valuable piece which allows Nurse Practitioners to know about the health risks, strengths and needs of their patients. Furthermore, the comprehensive assessment strengths the relationship between the Nurse Practitioners and their patients. From clinician-patients relationship, it helps a complete assessment to answer patients questions which in the long run help to achieve measurable goals and provide quality outcomes to the patients. Nurse Practitioners use comprehensive assessment approach to analyze, interpret, implement and follow up care to ensure their patients receive appropriate care and prevent inappropriate diagnosis. Comprehensive assessment is where the patients are encourage to

Have a strong interest in chronic disease and working with underserved communities and health disparities. As a senior Registered Nurse, Nurse Manager and educator, I am responsible for supervising the staffs and serve as an advisor for staff 's education and information in formulating appropriate strategies, program planning and policy formulation with strong leadership experience through building and leading teams. I have experience in budget and resources management, data analysis using Excel, SAS and SPSS. Skilled at communicating technical and non-technical materials to audience, peers and administrators

Connelly et al., (2003) conducted a qualitative study regarding competencies needed for the charge nurse role. To gather data a semi-structured open-ended interview questions were used. The study was implemented in a military medical center in the Southwest, a total of 42 participants joined. It was composed of charge nurses, head nurses and nursing supervisory personnel. The data identified fifty-four competencies. It was further analyzed and grouped into four

Nurses are consistently rated as one of the most trusted professionals in the United States. One of the reasons for this distinction may be the many nurses who obtain specialty certification within their practice area. Certification confirms the nurse has acquired a level of skill and knowledge above average (Rauen, Shumate, & Gendron-Trainer, 2016). It is important to me to obtain certification when I complete the master’s program in informatics at American Sentinel University. This paper will discuss the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) eligibility requirements to become board certified, the competencies required on the certification test, describing those I have mastered, those I have been

The orientation process for new hires lasts six weeks. The new nurse attends nursing orientation for one week and then is assign a preceptor on the unit for each shift. The DPCS introduces the new employee to their preceptor. This nurse works three weeks on the day shift, one week on the evening shift and one week on the night shift working with both medically acute rehabilitation patients and surgical patients. Nurses receive extra days of their orientation with patients that the nurse has limited clinical experience such as a nurse with postoperative experience will work more with the medically acute rehabilitation patients to practice new skills. For new graduates their orientation is individualize and can last from 8-16 weeks.

When deciding to advance a nursing career from registered nurse to an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or APRN, there are many avenues to choose from. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse is a broad term for a Registered Nurse who has obtained at least a Master’s Degree in Nursing. Every nurse has different interests, and reasons for the type of nursing they choose; as well as strong suits in his or her specialty. For this reason it is important to research all education categories of APRNs. Categories of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing include Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. Each type of Advanced Practice Nurse has a broad scope of practice, giving a Registered Nurse who is looking to

 Have a strong interest in chronic disease and working with underserved communities and health disparities. As a senior Registered Nurse, Nurse Manager and educator, I am responsible for supervising the staffs and serve as an advisor for staff 's education and information in formulating appropriate strategies, program planning and policy formulation with strong leadership experience through the building and leading teams. I have experience in budget and resources management, data analysis using Excel, SAS and SPSS. Skilled at communicating technical and non-technical materials to audience, peers, and administrators

American Nurses Association (ANA) Standards of Professional Performance explains how all registered nurses do their work and activities consistently according to their professions that promote the wellbeing of their patients and communities (ANA, 2010a). The standards provide a mechanism to patients that they are been taken good care of and that the nurses know exactly what to do so as to provide high-quality care and the measures are in place to determine whether nursing care meets the standards. These activities are related to performance like ethics, quality of practice, education, communication, resources, leadership, environmental health, professional practice evaluation, and evidence-based practice and research. Registered nurses are responsible for their professional actions to themselves, their patients, their peers, and the community at large.

One of the challenges posed by the IOM in its report is that nurses “practice to the full extent of their education and training” (IOM, 2010, para. 4). The transformation of the health care system, first and foremost, would only be realized if “competent professionals understand their own limitations and are able to provide safe care autonomously according to defined responsibilities, professional standards, education and qualifications” (Lau, Cross, Moss, Campbell, De Castro, & Oxley, 2013, p. 656). Studies have shown that not all organizations support practice nursing with “competency standards, a well-defined role, a career pathway, and a professional organization” (Lau, et al., 2013, p. 656). Nurses, on the other hand, as cited by Lau,

The national league for nurses defines critical thinking in the nursing process as “a discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concerns” (Kozier, 2008). This definition is imperative to help a nursing student learn how to think in terms of nursing care. Nursing students must achieve a comprehensive understanding of critical thinking in order to understand the nursing process. The purpose for this paper is for nursing students to learn how to use the nursing process, how to properly document their findings and assessments, and correctly implement APA formatting in a formal paper.