Mississippi Nurse Competency

Being a nurse does not mean that you simply take vital signs or give medication to a patient, being a nurse is being a caregiver, an educator, a patient’s advocate and much more. There are many components that a nurse should meet or should be able to accomplish. The Mississippi Nursing Competency Model is a model that allows nurses enhance their education and practice, also facilitates articulation across nursing education programs and allows employers to know what are the different skills performed by the different educational degrees. The competencies include: patient-centered care, professionalism, leadership, systems-based practice, informatics and technology, communication, teamwork and collaboration, safety, quality improvement and evidence-based practice. Because this was my first clinical experience, there were certain competencies that I was not able to either accomplish or I accomplished very little, like leadership or …show more content…
The first day of clinical I was extremely nervous. Also the fact that English is not my first language and that I do have an accent, I was nervous about the fact that I would mispronounce something or just make some grammatical error that would make me sound not as smart. Because we did not have many patients that day, I was teamed up with a classmate and that did make me feel better, knowing that I was not going into a patient’s room by myself. At first I was not saying much, but has the morning progressed, I was becoming more confident in my abilities to communicate with my patients. Throughout this clinical experience I believe that my communication skills with the patients improved and on one of the last days of clinical, one of the patients asked me if I was almost finished with nursing school because I looked really confident. This made me really happy, because although I feel like I have so much more to learn, the confidence that I gain was