Abstract
Nursing competencies are the benchmarks that identify the changes needed by nurses as they dispense their professional duties. Based on the changing demands across various avenues, the role of the nurse is confined to the basic demands of the profession as a way of enhancing and generating the kind of importance needed to boost patient safety. Working with American Association of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) and Quality, Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) creates a different way of addressing competencies amongst nurses. The aspect of patient-centered care as denoted by QSEN shows a need to recognize the importance of the profession as well as the ability generate the necessary demands that nurses need to meet in the process. The competency on essential demands of professionalism and professional values amongst nurses only exhibits the need to address the various demands as required to meet patient demands. These two competencies will be highlighted and discussed to formulate a platform imperative when handling changes across the workplace. The discussion will be based on competence definition, factors shaping them and their applications. Understanding their influences can build on a better nursing profession.
Every profession has its considerate means of addressing the standards of competence as defined across the community. It is important to understand the application of the professional practices as provided by the occupation, an aspect that follows present values and addresses the registration of such demands across the community. Professional values, interpersonal and communicating skills, decision-making and nursing practices as well as team working, leadership and management present the core demands of every nursing practitioner. The aim is to present them with a platform to idealize what they consider as the most essential in determining the concerns of the intended demands in their occupation. The competencies set have everything to do with the provision of the competencies from American Association of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) and Quality, Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN). Definitely, of greater importance to this report is the patient-centered care competence from QSEN and essential eight discussing professionalism and professional values as defined by AACN. Comprehending the importance of these competencies will allow one to define the importance of nursing in the healthcare environment and identify the needed consistent in such cases.
Competencies
The concept of patient-centered care from QSEN is considered an ideal way of dealing with the influences that patients will have as they leave the centers. Nurses must take into consideration the patient-centered care that allows for easier development of multidimensional conceptualizations to develop the attributes that influence experiences within the healthcare environments. As a competence, the notion of patient-centered care is only important as part of addressing the recognition of the source of control as nurses seek to provide coordinated and compassionate care necessary to develop a respect for need’s values and preferences (Lee, Jang & Park, 2016). To work on the knowledge, nurses need to integrate multiple dimensions of patient care to center it on the preferences values, coordinate better care and address the support for such patients at all levels. As part of the skills, nurses needed to elicit such preferences in a way that can be addressed through implementation of care plans to suit their needs (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016). The diversity of such human experiences only shows the kind of sensitivity needed to address human experiences as well as work on the best ways of making every step of the treatment better.
Attitudes need to change as well since they display a huge demand for the way the patients feel. Everyone will feel the pressure that comes with the need to show the value for each patient based on the opportunities present. The nurse has the role of recognizing that the patient ahs needs and make better choices as part of supporting different ethnic and cultural demands. Nurses must consider this as it shows the basis of every interaction (Lee, Jang, & Park, 2016). Nurses must be willing to explore the aspect of ethical and legal implications since that will delimit the far a nurse can go when tending to a patient. As such, skills are needed to assist in recognizing the boundaries that come with therapeutic notions and relationships necessary to address and facilitate patient consent for such care (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016).
The Essential VIII competence discusses professionalism and professional values as defined by AACN. Professionalism is the benchmark for the nursing practice an aspect that will address the expected frameworks (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016). It is important to address the core values that emanate from provision of optimal care. The role of nurses in such cases is to address the expected outcomes and present new changes that will lead to the upholding of excellence, ethics, altruism, respect, accountability and communication. The nurses must be aware of the intended demands that allow demonstration of civility, especially when working on societal and cultural aspects. Professional nurses must be willing to provide patients with the care and compassion they desire as that addresses the intended empathy. Nurses must further show a need to uphold the aspect of diversity since populations are different compared to a few years ago (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016). Globalization has created a bring that nurses must respect and their professional attention must be linked to the integration of different principles of client interactions as a way of encouraging increased safety.
The accountability that comes with such an aspect only details the elements of professional behavior that should be considered as part of working towards the expected sensitivity in such contexts. The nurses are guided by similar principles such as autonomy that detail the importance of respecting patient self-determination, an aspect that is two-way between nurses and patients (Lee, Jang & Park, 2016). Human dignity is further respected as part of addressing the inherent worth and individual uniqueness as reflected. Integrity is another mark of nursing professionalism, an aspect that shows a need for respecting and using appropriate code of ethics as well as standard practices (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016). Social justice is an important aspect as well since that brings out the aspect of fair treatment regardless of one’s race, age, citizenship, and ethnicity.
Factors Shaping Competences
Two main factors shape the way an organization will control the changing environments across the community. As part of addressing this, it becomes clear that the nurses and the healthcare environment must play a vital role to enhance the changing environment as a means of encouraging such demands to take place. The aim is to work on the ability to meet the needed demands, an aspect that nurses must consider as vital. One of the barriers to achieving such control in patient-centered care is a lack of engagement of nurses during its implementation. Rather than overlook the usefulness of the knowledge and skills applied, it is important to work on the application of such notions that will improve on the leadership of such programs within the center (Ferrell, Malloy, Mazanec & Virani, 2016). Nurses must act professionally at all times, but still, come out as being touch with the needs of the patients. Furthermore, the nurse must be willing to demonstrate that the focus on the patient-centered structure is now more concrete compared to the engagement of such scores as part of effectively delivering better outcomes across the community (Lee, Jang & Park, 2016). In effect, this moves on to show that even when dealing with professional values nurses must be made aware of what they expect and ways of achieving such attributes. It is important to work on such demands and the intended self-care management system that comes with better and easier way of creating values to empower and facilitate various demands as the art of addressing communication across the centers. Even those with master’s degrees must use the skills learned to assist in the continued expansion of their principles within the expected platform (Pelletier & Stichler, 2014). Moreover, it allows nurses to create better reflective practices that assist in building consensus as part of addressing leadership demands as evaluating the expected demands.
Healthcare environments play three main roles when establishing the basis for patient-centered care. First, the starting step is to provide a clinical decision that assures nurses of the best support possible. Having such support from a health point of view is vital since that establishes the best decision-making structures. The goal is to work on the patient preferences based on what the management supports (Pelletier & Stichler, 2014). The best thing for nurses is to gain the support that allows them to capitalize on the ways that will create easier address of the changes across the system. The second attribute deals with a center that can easily coordinate such services to determine the expected continuity and deliver better ways of working on the transition of services from one level to the next. Furthermore, nurses must be allowed to use available resources and their professional skills will only detail an integral need for the flow of information needed to boost the patient’s recovery (Lee, Jang & Park, 2016). The third aspect depends on various encounters. Professional nurses must be willing to use their skills to work on the accommodation of various structures as they apply to the health care center (Constand, MacDermid, Dal Bello-Haas & Law, 2014). As that occurs, it is important to understand the varied needs of the patients in question, an aspect that develops in-office visits to assist come up with better means of making patients feel cared for appropriately.
Application of Competencies
For a student in the nursing profession, skills, attitudes and knowledge are vital for the development of new changes in the social space. Instead of working on varieties that will complicate the profession, I wish to use the time to understand the exact framework necessary to improve on the changes arising in such ventures. Rather than overlook the importance of such demands, learning new talents boosts the way such avenues are considered (Constand, MacDermid, Dal Bello-Haas & Law, 2014). Nurses need to be at par with evidence-based learning that allows them to learn new intrigues as they change within their profession. It is important to establish such concerns and work on deliberations that emanate from such demands. Critical skills are learned when dealing with the patients since making the services center on their needs requires more understanding of various cultural demands.
Every center must be careful not to ignore this since patients deserve the best care within their capacity, an aspect that can boost the changes expected eventually. The goal is to understand the best way of presenting these demands and work towards delimiting the changes across the community (Barnsteiner, et al., 2013). Health centers must support their employees as much as they can, which will depend on the decisions made. As a master’s nursing student, I will learn more ways of improving communication with both the nurses and the patients. Such highlight the role evidence-based practices have when working on patient safety and the best ways of working on them only increases as changes arise in such avenues. The same goes for professional values, an aspect that should be concerned with the changing environments and highlight demands as they deem fit. Professionals need also to demonstrate they can model their values and reflect on their beliefs and values as they affect their practices. Many will ignore such demands instead of highlighting changes across the professional platform.
The two competencies, patient-centered care, and professionalism, and professional values can contribute a lot to concepts of scholarship. Nurses know the importance of working on their skills by improving their knowledge as well as attitudes. The first step is to allow for the use of present skills to understand and discover new and unique ways of generating the required knowledge (Barnsteiner, et al., 2013). By studying this process, it becomes easier to address shortages across various knowledge-based precincts. It creates a new way to lay emphasis on what is important in the profession so as to solve problems and ensure that all patients understand their importance when setting new bridges to assist in the learning process (Lee, Jang & Park, 2016). It helps boost the way nurses can respond to the issues at hand.
Any professional in nursing understands the importance of the spirit of inquiry. Over time, every research done has had a considerable impact on the way such attributes affect the community. In different avenues, such ventures have played a vital role in raising the necessary questions and challenging traditions across various competencies (Barnsteiner, et al., 2013). The professionals are coupled with increased research in the areas of expertise, an issue that enhances learning and creates an increase in the infusion of such creative approaches.
Committing one’s self to lifelong learning is an essential consideration amongst professional nurses so as to improve their skills, knowledge, and ability to present patient-centered care. That kind of motivated learning presents an integral part of directing one’s life towards the learning sessions that allow personal development and increased pursuit for knowledge (Tanaka, Taketomi, Yonemitsu & Kawamoto, 2016). The aspects of formal and informal learning only increase the chances of increasing the competitiveness and sustainability of the profession given the hurdles along the way. In such cases, it is clear that the range of solutions presents only have to present lifelong address to different situations (Tanaka, Taketomi, Yonemitsu & Kawamoto, 2016). Solutions only come when one opens up to more learning.
Conclusion
AACN and QSEN have presented nurses with better learning guides that dictate the changes needed to address quality within the hospital. Rather than overlook the impact nurses have, these competencies, mainly the one on patient-centered care and that of professionalism and related values define the importance of working towards such demands. The nurses must be taught ways of resolving conflicts in such a diverse working environment as well as granted support to apply what they learn. It is important to share the changing environments and generate a system that encourages learning and application of modern alternatives that can be used to maintain such demands. Therefore, competencies are vital for all nurses.
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