Purpose
           The purpose of this assignment is to address the student’s attainment of all eight behaviors and/or competencies that are specific outcomes of the program including critical thinking, nursing practice, communication, teaching, research, leadership, professionalism, and culture.

 

 

Student Approach
          This paper describes the what I have learned and the progress that I have made from my junior year to senior year of nursing school. I included specific examples to showcase how my skill developed within the eight-core curriculum objectives. This paper serves as a reflection of my experiences in nursing school and growth.


Reason for Inclusion 
          The inclusion of this assignment exhibits my progress in the eight-core curriculum behaviors of: critical thinking, nursing practice, communication, teaching, research, leadership, professionalism, and culture. It is a required component in my portfolio that highlights how I fulfilled a number of the end program outcomes.

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• Nursing Practice

  • ​Implements tradition nursing care practices as appropriate to provide holistic health care to diverse populations across the lifespan

    • ​Example: See page 3 - paragraph 2  (Junior year)​

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• Communication

  • Adapts communication methods to patients with special needs

    • ​Example: See page 4 - paragraph 2 (Junior year)

  • Expresses oneself and communicates effectively with diverse groups and disciplines using a variety of media.fespan

    • ​Example: See page 5 - paragraph 1 (Senior year)

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• Teaching

  • Provides relevant and sensitive health education information and counseling to patients, and families, in a variety of situations and settings.

    • ​Example: See page 5 - paragraph 2 (Junior year)

  • Evaluates the efficacy of health promotion, risk reduction, and education modalities for using a variety of settings with diverse populations.

    • ​Example: See page 5 - paragraph 3 (Senior year)

  • Uses information technologies and other appropriate methods to communicate health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention across the lifespan.

    • ​​Example: See page 5  - paragraph 3 (Senior year)

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• Research

  • ​Differentiates between descriptive nursing literature and published reports of nursing research.

    • ​Example: See page 6 - paragraph 2 (Senior year)

  • Applies research-based knowledge from nursing the arts, humanities, and sciences to complement nursing practices.

    • Example: See page 6 - paragraph 1 (Junior year)

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• Leadership

  • Delegates and supervises the nursing care given by others while retaining the accountability for the quality of care provided

    • ​Example: See page 7 - paragraph 3 (Senior year)

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• Professionalism

  • ​Differentiates between general, institution and specialty-specific standards of practice to guide nursing care.

    • ​Example: See page 8 - paragraph 2 (Senior year)

  • Understands the effect of legal and regulatory processes on nursing practice and health care delivery, as well as limits to own scope of practice.

    • Example: See page 8  - paragraph 1 (Junior year)

  • Demonstrates accountability for one’s own professional practice.

    • Example: See page 8 - paragraph 1 (Junior year)

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• Culture

  • Demonstrates sensitivity to the personal and cultural definition of health, and how these beliefs influence an individuals's reactions to the illness experience and end of life. ​

    • Example: See page 9  - paragraph 3 (Senior year)