Nursing Assignment: Professional Competence/Development Plan

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
NURSING ASSIGMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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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