Competence

concept includes the 6C’s of nursing: care, compassion, competence, communication, commitment and courage (National Health Services England 2012). This assignment will focus on the importance of competence in nursing. Competence in nursing, from a professional perspective, is having the knowledge and skills to carry out a job and being capable of delivering high quality care based on evidence and research (NHS commissioning board, 2012). Competence in nursing, from a patient’s perspective, is…

Treatment and Intervention from the textbook that were covered for week four. In addition, when assessing my competence, it will discuss the process of problem identification, planning and the methods of planning, contracting and short and long-term goals, and written and oral contracts and identifying major barriers. Furthermore, the second part of this journal will assess my competence in understanding the cultural context in therapy, the impact of client motivation and resistance in therapy…

Communication competence requires both knowledge and the performance, according to Spitzberg (1988) ‘communicative competence is the ability to interact well with others, the term “well” refer to a positively valence judgement of quality (Intrinsic Attractiveness – positive valence, or Aversiveness – negative valence)’. For majority of the people communication is just a talk or conversation, it’s a natural event. Communication focuses on how we use message to generate our meaning within and…

When a person from one culture sends a message to a person from a different culture, this process is known as intercultural communication (McDaniel, Samnovar & Porter, 2012). We interact with people from different cultures on a daily basis and therefore it is useful to have knowledge of the theories which develop our intercultural communication skills. Several of these concepts can be explained through stories relayed to me by my friend Victoria, who has experience working with Middle Eastern…

In this written assignment, a chosen nursing colleague’s scope of practice and competence to practice nursing will be discussed and evaluated. Then the concept of competence will be additionally explained. Furthermore, the assessment and standards used to measure the competent nursing practice will be analysed whilst taking into consideration of the assessment’s reliability, feasibility and validity factors. As the healthcare environment continues to change and expand, the scope of registered…

allowing prior experience working with a particular group to overly influence current client therapies and assessments. Developing multicultural counseling competence requires considering multiple factors that influence a person’s life. Factors such as family, community, and environment should all be considered (Hays & Erford, 2014). Competence begins with considering the individual in the group context such as culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and spiritual affiliation. The…

Interpersonal competence gives someone the knowledge to choose the correct way to communicate in the appropriate situations (McCornack,21). Since writing my journals and expanding my knowledge on communication, I have learned how to better communicate in different situations. Three things that writing my journals have helped me better understand is self disclosure, perception, and Self disclosure is when someone shares private information with another person (McCornack, 63). Through writing my…

I love Grand Canyon University. The primary aim of cultural competence and movement is to increase health quality, and reduce disparities by concentrating on people of color and other disadvantaged populations (p.vii). Cultural competence is defined for our purposes as the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary for providing quality care to diverse populations (California Endowment, 2013). The importance of cultural competence in nursing is that it helps to address patient centered-health…

2.1. InterlanguagePragmatics and Pragmatic Competence 2.1.1. Definition of pragmatics and interlanguage pragmatics In his work, Yule (1997) explains that pragmatics is “the study of the relationships between linguistic forms and the users of those forms”. He details that studying pragmatics allows learners to “talk about people’s intended meanings, their assumptions, their purposes or goals, and the kind of actions that they are performing when they speak”. In other words, it’s about how people…

In the changing demographics the significance of cultural competence and diversity in health care settings the growing need for cultural transformation. So that as a cultural transformation leader in the opportunity to influence the lives of millions of people through building relationships, ensuring effective education and reporting, and through promoting a culture of learning. For sustained change to occur, it has to come from the inside out and from the top down (Stockamp, 2004). In…