Practice Summary
NURS 403 – Career Pathways: Expanding Horizons
Purpose of Assignment
The purpose of this paper is to guide you through a process of self-reflection and self evaluation to discover the scope of your personal and professional development while enrolled in the RN>BSN nursing program at Old Dominion University.
Student Approach to Assignment
At first, I had considered making all the examples from my coursework. I made reference to some of my favorite assignments in the program in the paper. I then realized that I could add the actual papers to the portfolio itself and addressing them here would be redundant. I decided to start talking about my actual experience as a medical-surgical nurse because that is difficult to describe in any one assignment. I chose some examples of patients that I spent a large amount of time with. The assignments that I do mention have a situation or background story about them that was not part of the original paper. I was also able to discuss the DAISY Foundation Award, my involvement in a study about hourly rounding, and the ANCC Magnet Conference that I attended. These items are things that are important to my career but I did not have an opportunity to talk about them in any assignment.
Reason for Inclusion of this Assignment in the Portfolio
I began writing this assignment as an overview of my activities while in the program. I was involved in many activities during the past year and a half, and this paper helps to archive those activities in one place. I also thought it would help explain why I included the DAISY Award, the ANCC Magnet Conference attendance, the study on hourly rounding, and continuing education certificates in my portfolio.
Core Competencies
Critical Thinking
Nursing Practice
Communication
Teaching
Research
Leadership
Professionalism
Culture
How Perspective on My Practice Has Changed
I began this nursing program unsure about how much would happen to me in the course of the program. I thought I would get my assignments done in a straightforward fashion. But when I started writing, I realized that I’ve done much more in the workplace and professionally. I’ve become a leader and role model as a charge nurse. I’ve been named an honoree the DAISY award, a nationally-recognized organization. I’ve even been involved in research at Mary Immaculate. My coursework was a catalyst to the strides that I had made as I made connections with other departments. I’m moving on to being a competent nurse, and I have pride about the good work that I’ve done.
The purpose of this paper is to guide you through a process of self-reflection and self evaluation to discover the scope of your personal and professional development while enrolled in the RN>BSN nursing program at Old Dominion University.
Student Approach to Assignment
At first, I had considered making all the examples from my coursework. I made reference to some of my favorite assignments in the program in the paper. I then realized that I could add the actual papers to the portfolio itself and addressing them here would be redundant. I decided to start talking about my actual experience as a medical-surgical nurse because that is difficult to describe in any one assignment. I chose some examples of patients that I spent a large amount of time with. The assignments that I do mention have a situation or background story about them that was not part of the original paper. I was also able to discuss the DAISY Foundation Award, my involvement in a study about hourly rounding, and the ANCC Magnet Conference that I attended. These items are things that are important to my career but I did not have an opportunity to talk about them in any assignment.
Reason for Inclusion of this Assignment in the Portfolio
I began writing this assignment as an overview of my activities while in the program. I was involved in many activities during the past year and a half, and this paper helps to archive those activities in one place. I also thought it would help explain why I included the DAISY Award, the ANCC Magnet Conference attendance, the study on hourly rounding, and continuing education certificates in my portfolio.
Core Competencies
Critical Thinking
- Uses nursing and other appropriate theories and models to guide professional practice
- Engages in problem solving
Nursing Practice
- Applies appropriate knowledge of major health problems to guide nursing practice
- Performs direct and indirect therapeutic interventions that incorporate principles of quality management and proper safety techniques based upon assessment findings
- Implements traditional nursing care practices as appropriate to provide holistic health care to diverse populations across the lifespan
- Demonstrates an awareness of complementary modalities and their usefulness in promoting health
- Establishes and/or utilizes outcome measures to evaluate the effectiveness of care
Communication
- Uses therapeutic communication within the nurse-patient relationship
- Adapts communication methods to patients with special needs
- Expresses oneself and communicates effectively with diverse groups and disciplines using a variety of media in a variety of contexts
Teaching
- Provides relevant and sensitive health education information and counseling to patients, and families, in a variety of situations and settings
- Uses information technologies and other appropriate methods to communicate health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention across the life span
- Uses information technologies and other appropriate methods to enhance one’s own knowledge base
Research
- Applies research-based knowledge from the arts, humanities and sciences to complement nursing practice
- Evaluates research that focuses on the efficacy and effectiveness of nursing interventions
- Shares research findings with colleagues
Leadership
- Assumes a leadership role within one’s scope of practice as a designer, manager, and coordinator of health care to meet the special needs of vulnerable populations in a variety of practice settings
- Organizes, manages, and evaluates the development of strategies to promote healthy communities
- Delegates and supervises the nursing care given by others while retaining the accountability for the quality of care given to the patient
Professionalism
- Understands the effect of legal and regulatory processes on nursing practice and health care delivery, as well as limits to one’s own scope of practice
- Demonstrates accountability for one’s own professional practice.
- Advocates for professional standards of practice using organizational and political processes
Culture
- Articulates an understanding of how human behavior is affected by culture, race, religion, gender, lifestyle, and age
- Integrates knowledge of cultural diversity in performing nursing interventions
- Maintains an awareness of global environmental factors that may influence the delivery of health care services
How Perspective on My Practice Has Changed
I began this nursing program unsure about how much would happen to me in the course of the program. I thought I would get my assignments done in a straightforward fashion. But when I started writing, I realized that I’ve done much more in the workplace and professionally. I’ve become a leader and role model as a charge nurse. I’ve been named an honoree the DAISY award, a nationally-recognized organization. I’ve even been involved in research at Mary Immaculate. My coursework was a catalyst to the strides that I had made as I made connections with other departments. I’m moving on to being a competent nurse, and I have pride about the good work that I’ve done.
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