SWOT, EBP, and PDP in Nursing

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SWOT, EBP, and PDP in Nursing
Nursing is the profession within the area of healthcare which specifically focuses on
providing care to the family, person and communities to help them achieve, recover or
maintain the optimal health (Hoeve, Jansen, and Roodbol, 2014). A nurse should understand
his or her strength, weakness, opportunities and threats associated with the respective field of
work. This can be done by using SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threat)
analysis. SWOT analysis is the tool that is used by the professional in different industries
such as healthcare, and management. SWOT analysis in nursing is done by examining a
person's life and career from various perspectives of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities,
and threats (Sincy, 2016). In this particular essay the reflection related to the identification of
strength, and weakness will be done. The key skills which underpin life-long learning with
the nursing profession and investigation of evidence-based practice to utilize in PDP will also
be discussed in this report.
Reflective writing is our response to opinions, experience, events or any new information. It
is a way of thinking to discuss or explore our learning. Gibbs reflection cycle is the
theoretical model that often used by professionals, and student as the framework in reflective
writing. This model includes five different stages such as description, feelings, evaluation,
analysis, conclusion, and action plan. Another model named Kolb’s model is the model
referred to as the experiential learning model and Gibbs’ reflective model is referred to as the
iterative model. This model can be used to reflect the strength, weakness, weaknesses and
threats in a SWOT analysis (Husebø, O'Regan, and Nestel, 2015).
In SWOT analysis, recognising strength means identifying what is working, where the
strength lies, can someone took his or her own horn, taking the opportunities to elucidate
what is good about the person and his or her workplace etc., an individual’s own strength,

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identifying where one’s career will go and what is the power behind the person’s personal
potential (Helms, and Nixon, 2010). I have recognized the strengths that help me to grow my
careers such as my organizational strength, team player, good communication, friendly
behaviour, and cheerful nature. I am able to deal with the patient with. I have been effective
in dealing with patient loads and comfortable in rotational shifts. As a team player in a health
care team I have been motivating and helpful to other team members. More importantly, I
have been a good listener throughout my career, therefore I am able to communicate well that
ultimately help me to build a therapeutic relationship with the patient and communicating
with the team member. I have very friendly with everyone I meet, helped me to gain the trust
of the patient and their family members and making a good relationship with other healthcare
workers. Being cheerful is another key strength of my professional career; this motivates me
to work hard in order to provide good health services to the patient.
Everybody has some type of weakness related to their personal and professional life.
Analyzing weakness may help the person to identify what they can improve, what are the
limitations, which tasks are in conflict with the person's natural style, what are the activities
or responsibilities to the person dread, where an individual feel overcommitted. Identifying
the weakness can help one to work on that problematic limitation and mitigate them by
putting more efforts (Gantt, 2010). I have been facing issue due to my lack of confidence. I
am not very self-confidence and feel lack of confidence in dealing with critical cases. I have
been facing problems while writing academic papers as my academic writing is not very good
specifically in referencing. I confused between the type of reference I have to use and how
many authors should I write in the in-text citation. Lack of believing in myself is another
issue I faced. I am not able to develop a confidence that I am able to provide care to the
person with the critical condition. Time management is another issue that I face while
working and studying.