Nursing Competency Report

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”.

APRN core competencies are standards that are set down in order to guide nurse practitioners in their daily job duties. The most important thing that one needs to remember though is that these are just guidelines and are not the end all and be all of nursing. Because each patient is different each patient and their situation must be looked at on an individual basis. One of the core competencies that is very important to the field of nursing is that of ethics. Ethics is the foundation for the delivery of good quality patient care and should never be compromised when delivering nursing care.

Each of us participated in the creation, design and each with a designated role in the education that was presented to the nursing students on the day of skills fair. The students experienced interactive game play, in the form of NCLEX style questions designed to test and build on their knowledge of safety and infection control. They were given opportunities to demonstrate skills of nursing, such as sterile gloving, properly applying a quick release restraint knot, PPE donning and removing, plus all challenges were performed in teams aimed at practicing collaboration. The atmosphere was positive; the energy level was high and it appeared that most students enjoyed our presentation. During the presentation we requested feedback from each student in the form of a questionnaire, which resulted in positive feedback/remarks from the nursing students indicating that we were successful with our teaching

There are studies based on evidence based practice that proved competencies have a positive impact on educating Frontline leaders. Connelly et al., (2003) claimed that competencies are needed for the charge nurse to be effective in portraying the role while Platt and Foster (2008) evaluated the effectiveness of educating nurses through the use of competencies. The goal of competency is to expand and update healthcare professionals in their knowledge and skills at their own pace.

In the United States (U.S.) nursing education has transferred from hospital training to higher education. Nursing is unique among healthcare professions in the U.S. in that it has multiple educational pathways. In both private and government sectors, stakeholders (administrators, faculty, parents, and students) want to know if nursing programs, which they are funding are having the intended effect. Therefore, stakeholders should be involved actively and ongoing in the evaluation process. To evaluate the data in Associates Degree Nursing (ADN) programs, the writer will discuss program evaluation, accreditation, and polices (attendance and grading).

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,

Faculty must evaluate current curriculum. Are we producing nurses that fit the NLN’s hallmark of excellence? Or, are we producing students who are excellent test takers? I would have to say that

Growing up my mother worked as a nurse which consequently built a strong respect as well as admiration for the profession. However, up until the day I left for college I never considered this career for me. As a last resort I made checklist to try and determine the major that best fit my aspirations for the future. Nursing immediately jumped out at me and since then I have been infatuated with the goal of becoming a nurse.

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.

Throughout my entire life, I thought I knew what I wanted to do as my career. Even going into college I was deadest on getting my business degree in marketing and achieve my minor of fashion.

Assessment is the first part of the nursing process and thus forms the basis of the care plan. The essential requirement of accurate assessment is to view the patients holistically and thus identify their real needs. The general survey of an assessment gives a broad range of impression of the individual.

During Phase 2 (2007-2009), at this time pilot schools began integrating the six competencies into their nursing programs. Phase 3 (2009-2012), The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation gave additional funding to UNC school of Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to assist and continue the project. The UNC and AACN began to develop the faculty expertise needed to be successful and instill the competencies within textbooks, licensing, accreditation, and certification standards.

It is nice to meet you! It is always interesting to hear about the vast backgrounds that nurses have. I hope that you are still singing in some capacity, even as a hobby. Did anyone call the National Inquirer about you giving birth to a Chinese Shar-Pei? I think they would be interested in that story.

My most recent educational story began in August of 2014 when I was accepted to nursing school. I began this journey in a traditional college classroom, like most other nursing schools. I quickly found that it was challenging to endure the long days of sitting and listening to lectures that seemed to drone on endlessly. The lectures were dry and uninteresting, more like disjointed readings than teaching. I found it more profitable to read and discuss the material with my classmates or utilize other available resources such as supplemental material from the publisher of the textbook. Frequently I sought online resources like videos and flashcards. Occasionally, I hired a tutor if I was having a hard time grasping a particular concept.