Self-evaluation essay on nursing skills and competencies

Running head: SELF-EVALUATION ESSAY
Self-evaluation essay
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SELF-EVALUATION ESSAY
Introduction:
Nursing is a dynamic professional field,where the professionals are required to be
competent and experts in terms of both proficiencies and skills, in order to adhere to the legal
and legislative requirements and ethical standards (Masters 2018). However, nursing care, or
health care in general, has been an ever changing domain, with rules and regulations of
designing and implementing care is changing rapidly. In this essay, I will attempt to perform
a self-evaluation of my competence, knowledge and expertise on three very important aspects
of nursing, clinical governance, shared governance, and lifelong learning.
Shared governance:
The first topic chosen for the reflective practice is shared governance, a framework
where the nursing professionals translate their ideals into practice designs, so that the nurses
can participate in the professional care scenario using empowerment, autonomy, leadership,
accountability and decision making.The criteria that has been selected for this skill is
excellent communication and interpersonal skills. I would like to reflect on the experience I
had while completing placement in the St Vincent’s Private Hospital. While in this
placement, I had the opportunity to assess the needs of the patient and engaging with the
patients and their families. In this case, effective and accurate therapeutic communication had
been my most notable strengths. In patient engagement, the importance of communication
and interpersonal interaction is optimal to ensure that the patient needs are being adequately
addressed. Another one of my strengths includes compassion and empathy while
communicating with the patients and their family members (Pool et al. 2015). My
communication techniques, both verbal and nonverbal, helped me easily establish therapeutic
connection with the patients and the family members as well, and my compassionate
technique helped the family members and patients share their issues and grievances.
Although, a notable weakness in this case had been my lack of resilience and maintain