Reflective Journal Entry Guidelines GNRS 583
Name:
Date:
(1) Select TWO Core Competencies from the form below and articulate how you applied it to your clinical performance. Comment on a minimum of 3 points in each section, as applicable.
(2) Discuss the developmental appropriateness of one of your patients in terms of Eriksons and Piagets developmental theories. Did he/she meet the expected milestones for development?
(5) Comments and/or Any Concerns:
Patient Centered Care
- Institute and individualize plan of care (POC) with a focus on assessment and planning
- Communicate care provided and needed to each transition in care
- Implement interventions to address physical and emotional comfort pain and or suffering
- Describe the Pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy for selected patients
- Interpret patient assessment data
- Teach family patient regarding health promotion wellness, disease management, and prevention.
- Utilize comprehensive assessment data, incorporating the patients values preferences needs and diversity.
- Provide emotional support to patients and their families. Describe spiritual needs and develops interventions to meet them.
Teamwork and Collaboration
- Communicates with patients, family and inter-professional team
- Demonstrates awareness of own strengths and limitations as a team member, asks for help when appropriate.
- Able to give Handoff, with providers and transitions (SBAR)
- Understands roles of Health care team to meet the needs of patient
- Function competently within your own scope of practice as a member of the intra/inter-professional team
- Demonstrates accuracy and relevancy in bedside report
Evidence Based Practice
- Reference clinical based activities with evidence-based literature
Quality Improvement
- Recognize the nursing and other health professions are parts of systems of care and care processes that affect - outcomes for patients and families
- Identify Quality Improvement Projects in the care setting
Safety
- Demonstrates effective use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality
- Adhere to national patient safety guidelines that affect outcomes for patients and families
- Implement strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others
- Use appropriate strategies to reduce reliance on memory
- Communicate observations or concerns related to hazards and errors to patients families and health care team
- Organize multiple responsibilities and provide care in a times manner
Informatics
- Navigate and document within the electronic health record, where appropriate for clinical setting
- Apply technology and information management tools using critical thinking for clinical reasoning and quality improvement to support safe processes of care.
- Manage data, information, and knowledge of technology in an ethical manner
- Product confidentiality of electronic health records
Professionalism
- Demonstrate core professional values (caring altruism, autonomy, integrity, human dignity and social justice).
- Maintain professional behavior and appearance per ELM Handbook
- Maintain competent confident and professional bedside manner
- Comply with the Code of Ethics Standards of practice and policies and procedure of APU, Dept. of Nursing and Clinical Agencies
- Accept Constructive criticism and develop plan of action for improvement
- Maintain a positive attitude and interact with inter-professional team members, faculty, and fellow students in a positive professional manner
- Provide evidence of preparation for clinical learning experiences
- Arrive to clinical site at assigned times; ready to receive report
- Demonstrate expected behaviors and complete tasks in a timely manner
- Assume full accountability for professional behavior during the experience and perform within ethical/legal norms. - Use time constructively, even when direct patient care with assigned patient is complete
Core Competencies
- Accept individual responsibility and accountability for nursing
- Engage in self-evaluation
- Assume responsibility for learning