NMBA Standards: Continuing Professional Development Critical Incident

This report presents a critical incident review focusing on continuing professional development (CPD) for a registered nurse, aligning with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) standards. The review identifies learning needs, specifically up-to-date knowledge/experience and leadership skills, crucial for safe and competent practice. A learning plan is detailed, outlining goals to enhance leadership abilities and integrate innovative information/technology for quality patient care. The plan includes self-directed activities such as journal reviews, seminar attendance, and leadership book readings. Evaluation methods involve reflection on leadership skill development through active listening, group discussions, and practical application, alongside strategies for maintaining current knowledge via continuing education programs and professional organizations. The report underscores the importance of ongoing learning and adaptation in nursing to meet evolving patient needs and healthcare standards. This document is available on Desklib, a platform providing study tools for students.

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Continuing Professional Development
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Identification of Learning Needs
Registered nurses are person-centered and evidence-based with preventative, curative, formative,
supportive, therapeutic and palliative elements that enable to keep individual and the entire
community in a healthy status (Fishman, 2018, p.13). The codes and principles that guide nurses
are set by various agencies across the world such as NMBA and keep on changing according to
the safety needs of the public. As a registered nurse, I identify the following two learning needs:
Up-to-date knowledge and experience and Leadership skills.
Learning needs are the gaps between the leaner’s current status of knowledge and skills against
the level of knowledge required to perform a particular task (Jones-Bell, 2018, p.38). The choice
of leadership skills as learning need is essential to the management of all the patients and the
nursing fraternity by the code of conduct that requires nurses to practice a safe and competent
manner.
Standard number 2: Knowledge- based practice
The standard requires all registered nurses to always practice using informed knowledge relevant
to their registered and scope of practice to ensure quality care to all patients. I can only achieve
this through keeping myself to update. The practices tend to change according to organization
and requirement of the patients, who have different values, believes and culture (Robert-Tuner,
2014, p.19). Additionally, as a nurse is required to continuously adjust my knowledge of various
care issues that are experienced daily and are not taught in class, to enable me to provide better
care to the patients.

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Standard number 4: Professional Relationship and leadership
The standard requires all registered nurses to establish professional relationship with the
healthcare and demonstrate leadership to provide quality healthcare services to patients and the
core workers. Therefore, gaining the leadership skills is essential for my profession.
Consequently, the high retiring rate of nurses poses the biggest problem to the healthcare
organizations across the world, hence creating the need for leadership development (Morrison,
2016, p.237). Leadership entails the communication and the interpersonal relationship with other
nursing staffs and the patients. Competency does require not only the skills gained in class but
also the ability to carry out the skills in managing the stakeholders: patents and staffs. The choice
of the second learning need that is to up-to-date knowledge and experience in the nursing
fraternity is based on the conduct that requires all nurses to practice by the standard of the
profession and broader health system.
Learning Plan
Learning plan refers to document that is used to facilitate and manage the learning process of a
student over a period of time.
Learning Goals
My major learning goals will be to obtain more knowledge and experience on the leadership
skills that will make me manage and account for the organizational process to balance the
resources within health facility to promote quality care and patient safety. The second learning
goal is to acquire knowledge and skills that will enable me to update me with the innovative
information and technology to deliver quality patient care.

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Learning Plan
Evidence record
Self-directed continuing professional development
Name:
Date Identified
learning
Need
Action Plan Type of
Activity
Description of
topic (s) covered
during activity
and outcome
No./
Title/
Descripti
on of
evidence
provided
CPD
hours
12/01
/2019
Up-to-
date
knowledg
e and
experienc
e in the
nursing
fraternity
Continue
education
program.
Will enroll in
an online
learning
center
especially
Journal about
how studying
postgraduate
palliative care
impact nurse
ability in
practice by
Rawlings D,
2018.
The journal talks
about the
advantages of
continued education
of nurse
professionalism.
Topics that will be
covered include
updated standards
Rawlings
, D.
(2018)
‘Does
studying
postgradu
ate
palliative
care have
5
hours
per
day for
two
years

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University of
Mary’s
Nursing
education to
advance my
knowledge on
the skills and
merging ideas
Journal by
and legal
requirements for
nursing practice in
various countries
and organizations.
an impact
on
student’s
ability to
effect
change in
practice?’
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a an
Journal
of
Advance
d
Nursing,
36(1), pp.
16–24.
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8
hours
for 3
days

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Attend
seminar and
workshops
Fishman
explores the
evolving roles
of registered
nurses that are
taught in such
seminars and
workshops
Topic on Patient
Situating Analysis.
In most cases,
patients situations
needs critical
analysis since either
decision made by
nurse has greater
risks
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Fishman,
G. A.
(2018)
‘Attendin
g
Registere
d Nurses:
Evolving
Role
Perceptio
ns in
Clinical

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Care
Teams’,
Nursing
Economi
c$, 36(1),
pp. 12–
22.
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/2018 p skills participate in
discussions
between
patient-nurse
and nurse-
nurse
communicatio
ns in building
a team.
Glassman on
Nurse
Manager
Learning
Agility and
Observed
Leadership
Ability.
on nursing
leadership and
emotional
intelligence. The
two topics will help
me have the skills
to lead any nursing
team effectively to
acquire efficient
patient care.
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(2018)
‘Nurse
Manager
Learning
Agility
and
Observed
Leadershi
p Ability:
A Case
Study’, N
ursing
Economi
c$, 36(2),
pp. 74–
82.
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hours
per
book

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Read all the
books related
to the
nursing
leadership
skills.
I will make
short notes
from each of
the following
books and
compare their
nursing
leadership
skill:
Effective
Leadership
and
Books on
leadership and
leadership
development
by McGowan,
E. and Stokes,
E. 2017
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Roberts-
Turner,
R.(2014)
‘Effects
of
Leadershi
p
Character
istics on
5-7
hours
per
book
3
hours

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Management
Nursing by
Eleanor J.
Sullivan.
Essentials of
Nursing
Leadership
and
Management
by Diane K.
Whitehead,
Sally A.
Weiss and
Rulb M.
Tappen.
Leadership
and
Management
for Nurses:
Core
competencies
for quality
Care by Anita The patient-nurse
Pediatric
Registere
d Nurses’
Job
Satisfacti
on’, Pedi
atric
Nursing,
40(5), pp.
236–256.
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2
hours
3
hours

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Finkelman
To build on
communicati
on skills
communication
process will be
improved through
learning how to
make interpersonal
relationship by
doing some of the
following activities:
Sitting next to
patient and having
simple
communication
(Accesse
d: 15
October
2018).

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strategies like
BATHE. When a
nurse is a good
listener and
communicator,
helps the patient to
eliminate any
physical and
emotional distress
that affect the
recovery process
Low-Tech Social
Network and
spectrum mapping.
The spectrum
mapping provides
opportunity to give
ideas and opinions
and encourage
others who have
unconventional
views about others,