Reflective Commentary on Employability Skills in Nursing

Reflective
Commentary

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
APPENDIX: CV..............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills refer to those skills and knowledge that are required by an individual
for being a better employee and practicing their career effectively and efficiently. Employability
skills are needed by every individual to enhance the performance and career growth opportunities
in their respective field. The report is a reflective account that will demonstrate my progression
on the training and development programme of nursing that I had enrolled in. It will also include
the assessment of my ongoing processes and skills in the work and how it can be improved. I will
be utilising the feedback for understanding the areas for improvement in by learning and growth
of the career and developing key transferable skills for enhancing my future growth
opportunities. It will also provide the overview of the understanding about my personal
development issues and discover the methods for improving my career growth opportunities.
Finally, I will be discussing the various learning from the work related experience that could help
to improve my personal and indeed career growth opportunities in future.
MAIN BODY
Employability skills are needed by every individual to enhance the performance and career
growth opportunities in their respective field (Vogler and et. al., 2018). Due to the high level of
maturity which I had gained from the experience of the practice of self-care, I developed self-
discipline that could enhance the learning process for better employability skills. I think it is
important to develop effective learning, strength and confidence in all transferable skills like use
of information technology, communication, teamwork, continuous learning and problem solving.
These skills have been developed throughout my course work as well as my practicing in the
care house for many years. I have very good communication skills but I lack adequate learning
skills because of my dyslexic behaviour. In such cases my learning has become inappropriate and
I faced problems with organising the work effectively and efficiently.
The course work and my experience have helped me to develop better aspects of
communication, that may be worker or nonverbal in conduct such as body language, eye contact,
expressions, touch etc. During my practice at the care house I put into practice various
communication skills in order to understand people from various backgrounds and cultures
effectively and efficiently. For instance, once I was working in the care house with a staff
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