Background
Nurses are challenged by the Institute of Medicine (2010) to practice to the fullest extent of their licensure and scope of practice in order to deliver results that will provide value to the healthcare consumer in a cost effective, customer satisfying, high quality and safe way. Understanding one’s ability to perform in the nursing leadership role requires insight and self-reflection. This exercise in the self-evaluation of learning, using the American Nurses Association’s scope and standards of practice, provides a platform for future educational actions that will enhance and help fulfill the greatest potential for one’s nursing practice. The following questions address the learning needs of this MSN student, and will serve to guide the Waynesburg University Practicum experience.
What are my strengths and weaknesses?
My leadership strengths rest in my diverse clinical and leadership experiences that include practice in a wide array of settings, in two states Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. These experiences span practice with all patient age groups, and with a wide variety of service lines, including:
• Intensive care to medical-surgical, cardiac, trauma and neonatal patients
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These varied experiences are well suited for directing operations of patient care services and directing care related to risk, quality and safety. Within each of these roles, as defined by the framework outlined by the ANA (2009) scopes and standards of practice include my strengths in the nursing process, the culture of quality and safety. The practice environment qualifications I possess include regulatory, legal and risk proficiency. These areas are examples of practice where my skills are refined and my level of expertise is sought by others in my
Nurses are challenged by the Institute of Medicine (2010) to practice to the fullest extent of their licensure and scope of practice in order to deliver results that will provide value to the healthcare consumer in a cost effective, customer satisfying, high quality and safe way. Understanding one’s ability to perform in the nursing leadership role requires insight and self-reflection. This exercise in the self-evaluation of learning, using the American Nurses Association’s scope and standards of practice, provides a platform for future educational actions that will enhance and help fulfill the greatest potential for one’s nursing practice. The following questions address the learning needs of this MSN student, and will serve to guide the Waynesburg University Practicum experience.
What are my strengths and weaknesses?
My leadership strengths rest in my diverse clinical and leadership experiences that include practice in a wide array of settings, in two states Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. These experiences span practice with all patient age groups, and with a wide variety of service lines, including:
• Intensive care to medical-surgical, cardiac, trauma and neonatal patients
• …show more content…
These varied experiences are well suited for directing operations of patient care services and directing care related to risk, quality and safety. Within each of these roles, as defined by the framework outlined by the ANA (2009) scopes and standards of practice include my strengths in the nursing process, the culture of quality and safety. The practice environment qualifications I possess include regulatory, legal and risk proficiency. These areas are examples of practice where my skills are refined and my level of expertise is sought by others in my