Nursing Competency Report

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.

Nursing is the most trusted and reliable profession leading in the transformation of healthcare. “Nursing helps to promote, protect, and optimization of health and abilities to prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations” (American Nursing Association, 2017). Nursing offered careers for both men and women and it is the profession that provides healthcare everywhere. Society has great expectations for this profession. Caregivers are one the reasons why nursing is seen as the engine room of healthcare system. In the quest to provide preventive and restorative measures. There are three basic career guides which are; education, job opportunities, and salary.

Like most other professions, nursing is controlled by government regulatory agencies and professional organizations. For instance, boards of nursing in various states are the government entities mandated to regulate nursing at the state level, while the American Nurses Association is a professional organization that governs nursing at the nation level. Regulatory agencies and professional organizations are guided by the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.

CC Alison is a 36-year-old female here today to discuss a positive pregnancy test. HPI 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”.

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 Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies were selected to serve as the backbone of nursing. This means that every nurse that has the initials RN behind his/her name has the exact same competency-based education, no matter where they obtained their degree. These competencies serve as a foundation to nursing.

The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) identifies competencies using the competencies that the Institute of Medicine has set as goals for nurses and the healthcare profession. Some of those competencies are patient centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics (The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, 2014). There are a few way that nurses can implement these competencies into their practice; for example, nurses can keep up to date on research to ensure they are current on issues and change their practice if needed. Nurses can for committees, do evidence based research, and develop pilot programs for change (Chamberlain College of Nursing, 2015). Lastly, nurses

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published several recommendations on how best to meet the challenges of an rising patient population while the number of available nurses decreases Among these are to increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020, double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020, and ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning (IOM Report, 2011). This paper will identify how I see myself coinciding with these suggestions, and will point out how heightening my education will help me complete in the current job market and how it will affect my role in the future of nursing.

Practice problems are those that affects care, need a solution, and would make a difference when gets improved (Assisting Nurses with Practice Problems). Every workplace has one or other practice problems that are current (Current Issues and Topics, n.d.). In my workplace, one of the major problems is the varying competency levels of nurses. The purpose of this paper is to establish that varying levels of nurse competency is a current practice problem.

There is nothing better than the sound a cricket ball makes when it hits the wickets, or the feeling of a cricket ball in your hands. Cricket has changed and impacted my life for the better, and has created memories that I would never trade for. Playing cricket at a young age caused it to be a huge part of my life. Playing and watching cricket was my first love. I grew up watching cricket legends such as Sachin Tendulkar and Shoaib Akhtar battle against each other. Cricket has taught me many things about life; it taught me how to listen, how to be a leader, and how to be a good teammate while working well with others. Cricket has also taught me that sometimes you have to lose some before you can win some, and that success requires hard work.

What is a competent nurse? Competency in nursing care is not determined by the number of certificates one may hold. Rather, it is an ongoing process of continuing education and learning. Keeping up to date and informed with changes in practice that are evidence-based is paramount in ensuring positive patient

According to Cappel, Hoak & Karo (2013), “nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression” (p. 22). This recommendation is one of the eight recommendations presented in “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” report in 2011. The research has shown that the Nurse Residency Programs (NRP) is often mistaken for “the new hire” orientation or an internship in a nursing specialty area. This concept was first noted in the literature review in the 1908s as a model for transition into practice for the new graduate nurses (Cappel et. al., 2013).

First let’s emphasize that the eight competencies are integral to learning and education. It can be said that one builds on the other. As a bedside nurse for so many years I am propelled towards the second competency the “Facilitate learner development and socialization” (Billings & Halstead, 2016, p. 10).

According with the Nursing Practice Act of Florida the delegation to a competent individual the authority to perform a selected task must consider factors such as the nature of the assignments, the competence of the individual to carry out the task, the education and training, and also the nurse ability