Question

Identify 5 competencies that hit home for you in a particular way this session. Explain your rationale for picking specific competencies. Explain how these 5 competencies relate to nursing and how they will help you in your career. The five competencies chosen are:

1. Cooperative learning: Student interactions in purposefully structured groups that encourage individual flexibility and group learning through positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills, and regular self-assessment of team functioning (Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Competencies, 2016).

2. Domains of learning: Cognitive domain of learning skills revolves around knowledge, comprehension, and thinking through a particular topic. Affective domain of learning skills describes the way people react emotionally in terms of attitudes and feelings. Psychomotor domain of learning skills describes the ability to physically perform a task or behavior. (Bloom, 1956)

3. Hand-off: Transfer of verbal and/or written communication about patient condition between care providers (QSEN, 2007).

4. Patient safety: Freedom from accidental or preventable injuries produced by medical care (Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, 2006).

5. Safety culture: Commitment to safety that permeates all levels of health care delivery (Agency for Health care Research and Quality, n.d.).

Answer 1

Management of Care
     Demonstrate effective communication.Listen, clarify and communicate clearly through verbal/non-verbal, written and electronic means as appropriate to ensure effective communication with clients, families and other

Professional Development

Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge and skills in research in different healthcare settings.

1.Participate in and contribute to research/evidence- based practice projects/committees.
2.Contribute to the education and professional development of others.
3.Take steps to remedy deficits in skills and/or personal knowledge.
4. Participate in continuing professional development activities to maintain competency in area/s of practice.

Leadership

The Main Nurse demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting through accountability, influence, change management, and collaboration with others in a way that will facilitate the establishment and achievement of shared goals.
  
Evidence based practice

The Main Nurse identifies, integrates, and evaluates current evidence and research findings coupled with clinical expertise and consideration of consumers’ preferences, experience, and values to make practice decisions for quality outcomes.

Teamwork and collaboration

The Main Nurse practices effectively with the healthcare consumer, family, and inter-professional team(s), to build relationships and foster open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.