Nursing Assignment: Professional Competence/Development Plan

This nursing assignment discusses the professional competence and development plan for registered nurses. It covers the nursing standards of NMBA, areas of strength, learning needs, and action plan.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Part 1
Registered nursing is the aspect which involves preventative, formative, restorative, and supportive as well as curative
elements so that the patients could be provided with person-centered and evidence based care (Atefi et al., 2014). As per the Nursing
and Midwifery Board of Australia (2017), registered nurse associated practice is the endeavor that requires the professionals to
implement critical thinking and analyze their professional situations so that they can develop thoughtful insights and develop
constructive relation with their profession and associated patients.
I am currently a nursing student in (add the healthcare facility’s name) and in my daily professional life face situations where
the nursing principles of NMBA need to be complied with to improve my practice and associated patient’s condition. However, while
thinking about my development in past two years I was able to understand the range of my improvements and the skills I have
developed to care for patients since the commencement of my nursing education. Unlike few of my contemporary student nurses, I
was completely unaware of the nursing process and after completing my high school I enrolled to this course without knowing the role
of nursing professionals, the skills I need to possess in order to become a compassionate care professional. However, I was not
complete naïve about this profession, the initial training and education surprised me and made first few weeks of my profession little
difficult. Besides all the confusion and dilemmas, one thing I was clear about my career that I wanted to serve the society and wanted
to be referred as a registered nurse. Due to compassion towards children, I wanted to become a pediatric nurse and wanted to see
myself develop in this particular region only. In the current situation, I see myself grow as a pediatric nurse and work with children as

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I feel I acquire the strengths and skills which is required to become a successful pediatric nurse (Bowling, 2015). Hence, using my
strengths of ability to communicate, ability to develop rapport with children, understanding of their concerns I strategize the care
process which helps children to improve their health. I feel confident that these strategies will help me to develop myself as a pediatric
nurse in future. Therefore, my vision as a future pediatric nurse would be sustaining my communication skills and use compassion and
care as my sole strategy to care for children (Cowen, Hubbard & Hancock, 2016). For this purpose, two nursing standards of NMBA
would help me to improve my practice and these are standard 4 which allows comprehensive conduction of assessment and standard
5 that helps to develop care plan as per the need of the patients (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2017). These standards
will help me to develop both clinical and non-clinical relationship with my patients and I will be able to provide safe, comprehensive,
effective and regulated care that will improve my professional skills. Therefore, I will use the standard 4 and standard 5 of the NMBA
guidelines while working as a pediatric nurse, caring for children (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2017).
Part 2

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Professional Competence/Development Plan
Standards of
Practice
Areas of Strength Evidence from: Feedback from prac
instructor, NCAST, Portfolio, other
Identified
Learning Needs
Action Plan Type of Activity(what you will do
to meet your learning need)
How will you know if you met
the Learning Needs?
Standard 4
Comprehensive
ly conducts
assessment
To conduct comprehensive
assessment, strengths such
as communication process,
ability to interpret patient’s
complications and ability to
develop rapport is primarily
required. I had good
communication skills and
hence was able to develop
rapport with my patients.
Therefore, this aspect was
my strength. Besides this
strength of my skill was
crucial as with effective
This evidence was collected from
previous patient feedbacks and
comments from my supervisors as I
supported several registered nurses
in their care setting while working
on my clinical placement. Further,
in portfolio, while reflecting upon
my abilities as a nursing
professionals I found that these
strengths helped me to stay focused
in the care process and utilize
communication and team work as
skills to provide maximum support
to the health professional associated
Despite of these
strengths, there
are several needs I
identified that I
should possess to
develop or
improve my care
skills. I should
conduct the
assessment
specifically about
the patients
concerns and vital
signs, so that
I would try to focus on
patients, their concerns and
their needs and with
complying with the holistic
nature of the assessment, I
would systematically find out
the process which need to be
addressed for the care process
of the patient. Further, I will
communicate with senior
nursing professionals and
would learn their skills so that
through their patient
experience and reflection, I
I will assist senior registered
nurses for their assessment of
patients and in a working day,
I will try to assist three such
assessment methods so that I
could understand the concise
method of patient assessment.
Further, using those
assessment techniques
witnessed, I will try to
conduct 2 patient assessments
daily so that compliance level
could be clearly understood
After every patient
assessment I will provide
the assessment data to the
nursing supervisor and
will ask for feedback so
that in the next
assessment process I
could improve those
aspects and acquire the
strength for conducting
concise and succinct
assessment.

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communication, partnership
with patient is assured and
hence, effective and holistic
approach for patient
assessment is obtained (Bee
et al., 2015).
in the process. specific and
concise
assessment and
intervention could
be provided to the
patients
could improve my abilities as
a pediatric nurse (Missen et
al., 2016).
(Missen et al., 2016).
Standard 5
Develo
ps a
plan for
nursing
practice
After conducting comprehensive
assessment of patients, the next step
is to develop proper plan for the
patient so that effective care and
interventions could be provided to
patients (Fang et al., 2016). My
ability to focus the care on the holistic
approach was my strength and as per
Bee et al. (2015), it is the most
effective way to develop care plan as
holistic approach targets both
physical and mental aspect of care.
The evidence of this
strength was collected
from the feedback
provided from the
supervisor or the
registered nurses I
assisted and hence, I was
assured that I would be
able to utilize this strength
in my future healthcare
processes (Missen et al.,
2016).
However I had the ability to
determine the care process using the
assessment data and considering the
documents, and evaluation of
patient’s drug responses, my
supervisor mentioned that I should be
able to look for recent evidences for
interventions so that collaborative
construction of the healthcare
interventions could be obtained.
Hence, this was the identified as the
need of the care process.
I will be reading several research
articles associated to the patients
health condition everyday so that
I can orient my interventions as
per the ailment of the patient.
Further, I will consult with
healthcare physician and the
registered nurse associated in the
process so that with their
consultation and my research I
could develop my understanding
of evidence based care
I would spend few
hours of my working
time to read and
research about the
intervention so that
while determining the
healthcare
interventions I could
implement the
evidence based
process in the care
process.
The evaluation of
this action plan
will be done by
the supervisor so
that I could
understand the
achievement of
the need and the
efficiency of the
care plan (Missen
et al., 2016).

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References
Atefi, N., Abdullah, K. L., Wong, L. P., & Mazlom, R. (2014). Factors influencing registered nurses perception of their overall job
satisfaction: a qualitative study. International nursing review, 61(3), 352-360.
Bee, P., Brooks, H., Fraser, C., & Lovell, K. (2015). Professional perspectives on service user and carer involvement in mental health
care planning: a qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 52(12), 1834-1845.
Bowling, A. M. (2015). The effect of simulation on skill performance: A need for change in pediatric nursing education. Journal of
pediatric nursing, 30(3), 439-446.
Cowen, K. J., Hubbard, L. J., & Hancock, D. C. (2016). Concerns of nursing students beginning clinical courses: A descriptive
study. Nurse education today, 43, 64-68.
Fang, M. L., Sixsmith, J., Sinclair, S., & Horst, G. (2016). A knowledge synthesis of culturally-and spiritually-sensitive end-of-life
care: findings from a scoping review. BMC geriatrics, 16(1), 107.
Missen, K., McKenna, L., Beauchamp, A., & Larkins, J. A. (2016). Qualified nurses' rate new nursing graduates as lacking skills in
key clinical areas. Journal of clinical nursing, 25(15-16), 2134-2143.

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Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. (2017). Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia - Registered nurse standards for
practice. Retrieved from https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-standards/
registered-nurse-standards-for-practice.aspx