Maintaining Competency in Nursing Practices

This assignment discusses the importance of maintaining competency in nursing practices. It highlights the significance of proper documentation, communication skills, and staying updated with current industry trends. The assignment also emphasizes the need for building a trustworthy relationship with patients and providing them with accurate health information. References are provided to support the information presented.

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The mainframe of values and belief at the workplace alliance with maintaining a
positive work environment and framing a trustworthy relationship with client (Takase et al.
2015). In particular, this is important because it helps in collecting appropriate health history,
provide opportunity to give information and education about health issues, and offer
satisfaction to the client. The self-evaluation with supervisor helps in maintaining
competency with reference to proper documentation while collecting health history, using
evidences to find out the possible assessment criteria, and learning appropriate style of
communication while dealing with patients. While evaluation the feedback from co-worker,
the same thing was highlighted regarding proper documentation, as it helps in avoiding
misconception.
In conjunction to the current and emerging industrial trend, nowadays patients are
coming to appointment with learned information about symptoms, conditions, and treatment
options available. Hence, it is important for nurses to clear the misconceptions as well as
render appropriate information that are valuable to their specific cases. Another important
trend is the continued growth of technological utilisation into routine practices, which
demands the nurses to gain competencies regarding IT and computer software usage (Gürdaş
and Kaya 2015).
To confirm own practices with respect to ethical and legal requirement, in my opinion
it is utmost important to collect the information regarding health history properly and shared
them accordingly to achieve appropriate clinical outcomes. Additionally, maintaining privacy
for patient information is also another practice that I followed regularly. With reference to the
industrial trend, I always focus on upgrading skills related to computer literacy and
communication practices that in turn helps in maintaining accurate care practice standards.
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References:
Takase, M., Yamamoto, M., Sato, Y., Niitani, M., & Uemura, C. (2015). The relationship
between workplace learning and midwives’ and nurses’ self-reported competence: A
cross-sectional survey. International journal of nursing studies, 52(12), 1804-1815.
Gürdaş T., S., & Kaya, N. (2015). Nurses' computer literacy and attitudes towards the use of
computers in health care. International journal of nursing practice, 21, 141-149.
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Realistic
goals and
targets
Improveme
nt to
professiona
l practice
How to
keep
abreast of
current and
emerging
industry
developmen
t to
improve
practice.
Ways of
measuring
and seeking
specialist
advice
Time
Frame
Range of
support
network
Building
skills in
communicati
on practices
Support
myself
while
communicat
ing with
patient
Will help in
collecting
appropriate
health
history,
Opportunity
to offer
patient
complete
satisfaction
for the care
outcomes
(MacLean
et al. 2017).
Attending
course on
communicat
ion skills
4 months Coursewor
k will be
further
training
Building
additional
skills:
evidence-
based
practices
Using the
information
from
experienced
professional
, and
medical
research can
be
extremely
helpful in
health
assessment
and
intervention
procedures
Reduce the
error in
clinical
outcomes.
Taking the
help of
Internet,
database
and library
for
searching
literature on
health cases,
and
discussing
the evidence
collected
with
professional
and co-
workers
This is a
major
competen
cy to be
implement
ed in
routine
healthcare
practice.
Enable to
keep
abreast
with
current
and
emerging
industrial
requireme
nt and
expand the
opportunit
ies
Competency
to give
medical
Giving
knowledge
and
It is
important to
clear the
Using
appropriate
communicat
Annually Support
will be
obtained
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education to
the patients
education
about the
health issues
to the
patients, can
facilitate
proper
health
management
as well as
helps in
building
trustworthy
relationship
(Lee, Jang
and Park
2016).
misconcepti
ons and
gave proper
understandi
ng of the
health
condition to
the patient
This will
enable them
for self-
management
of health
issues.
ion Style,
proper
knowledge
of nursing
issues and
epidemiolog
y, enables
accurate
delivery of
education to
the patient.
from
patient as
feedback
Note (additional comment): In addition to this, timely collection of feedback from co-workers
and clients for further improve improvement.
References:
Lee, N. J., Jang, H., & Park, S. Y. (2016). Patient safety education and baccalaureate nursing
students' patient safety competency: A cross‐sectional study. Nursing & health
sciences, 18(2), 163-171.
MacLean, S., Kelly, M., Geddes, F., & Della, P. (2017). Use of simulated patients to develop
communication skills in nursing education: an integrative review. Nurse education
today, 48, 90-98.
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The effort for maintaining the competency level especially for evidence based
practices and communication skills improve the nursing practices to a significant level. This
is reflective with, positive feedback from supervisors as well as patient. Recognition for
these additional supports came from routine experiences, for example patient often comes
with knowledge gained from internet; which is risky if they are misleading. Thus, it is first
important to establish trustworthy relationship with them, followed by using evidences to
collect appropriate information and later giving them requisite medical education (Grove and
Gray 2018). Certainly, I believe that the critics and negative feedback given by co-workers or
client are useful in improving the loopholes present in routine care practice.
The effectiveness of self-evaluation and personal development plan is reflective with
the fact that maintaining empathy and appropriate tone while communicating, using evidence
to discuss the requisite intervention and assessment plans with other professionals, enabling
patient for self-management, prove to give proper clinical outcomes.
I use the learned nursing theories and collected evidence during the decision making
process. In contrary, I always seek advice from other professionals in the cases where my
expertise or knowledge seems to be insufficient. As for example, my routine responsibility is
to collect health history, involve in the decision-making for assessment criteria, and recording
the information during patient care programs. According to these responsibilities, there
should be involvement of evidence-based practices for making decision as well as using
proper communication tool to collect and record the information (MacLean et al. 2017).
Certainly in the same area, I use to take advice from other professionals, if there exists any
difficulty or risk in the care delivery scenario. In addition to this, to maintain collaborative
environment at workplace, I use to delegate co-workers according to the situation, however,
always according to the situational context (Curtis et al. 2016). The illustrated example can
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be considered as code of practice, right and responsibilities towards assigned duty, and
limitation to the work role.
References:
Curtis, K., Allan, H., Magnusson, C., Horton, K., Evans, K., Ball, E., & Johnson, M. (2016).
Delegation and supervision of health care assistants' work in the daily management of
uncertain and the unexpected in clinical practice: invisible learning among newly
qualified nurses. Nursing Inquiry, 23(4), 377-385.
Grove, S. K., & Gray, J. R. (2018). Understanding nursing research: Building an evidence-
based practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.
MacLean, S., Kelly, M., Geddes, F., & Della, P. (2017). Use of simulated patients to develop
communication skills in nursing education: an integrative review. Nurse education
today, 48, 90-98.
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