Kelly Jewell

Practice Summary Paper

Nursing 403- Career Pathway- 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.

 

Approach to Assignment:

 

To complete this assignment, I assessed all of my previous coursework and reviewed events that occurred in my nursing practice to show the attainment of the 8 core competencies of this program.

 

Reason for Inclusion:

 

I have included this in my portfolio to show bullets that I have met within each of the 8 core competencies.

 

Curricular outcomes

 

Critical thinking

.Uses decision-making skills in making clinical or professional judgements

 

Nursing Practice

· Implements traditional nursing care practices as appropriate to provide holistic care to diverse populations across the lifespan

 

· Demonstrates awareness of complementary modalities and their usefulness in promoting health

 

Communication

· Adapts communication methods to patients with special needs

 

Teaching

· Provides relevant and sensitive health education information and counseling to patients, and families, in a variety of situations and settings.

 

Research

· Applies research-based knowledge from nursing as a basis for culturally sensitive practice

 

· Differentiates between descriptive nursing literature and published reports of nursing research.

 

Leadership

· 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 scope of practice

 

· Applies an ethical decision-making framework and legal guidelines to clinical situations that incorporate moral concepts, professional ethics, and advocacy for patient well-being and preferences. As seen in Nursing Practice

 

Culture

· Demonstrates sensitivity to personal and cultural definitions of health, and how these beliefs influence an individual’s reactions to the illness experience and end of life.

 

· Maintains an awareness of global environmental factors that may influence the delivery of health care services