Rasmussen Design Relevant Multidimensional Nursing Care for Optimal Health Reflection

Directions:

Reflection

Initial Post

Areas for reflection:

• Describe how you achieved each course competency, including at least one example of new knowledge, gained related to that competency.
• Describe how you achieved the transferable skills (listed below), including at least one example of new knowledge, gained related to the transferable skill.
• Describe how this new knowledge will impact your nursing practice.

Course Competencies

Design relevant, multidimensional nursing care for optimal health inclusive of client preferences, values, and beliefs.

Multidimensional care is critical in healthcare. We must understand different cultures, beliefs, and practices to help maintain the best care for the clients. Multidimensional care includes many different members of the healthcare team and can require outside sources for certain values or beliefs. Understanding this type of care will be important in my career as a nurse to be able to care for the client and all of their complex needs.

Select approaches to client care that incorporate care and comfort, risk reduction, health promotion, and disease management.

I learned this course competency best through the ATI Live Review we had to attend during this course. We were taught how to properly answer ATI questions while giving rationales to the questions in great detail. I will utilize this information in the future when taking my NCLEX. I will also use this competency when I am caring for my clients when I become a registered nurse.

Prioritize evidence-based, client-centered nursing care as a foundation for emotional, mental, spiritual, and social well-being.

Evidence-based practice is used every day in the healthcare setting. We use it to determine policies and procedures that will be used in the workplace as well as treatment for clients. This is especially relevant during the pandemic we have been in for over a year now. We have to use any evidence-based practice we can that may help determine how to care for these clients and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Client-centered care is the most important thing to remember in nursing. Everything we do should be based on the client’s needs.

Utilize data-driven nursing care strategies inclusive of continuous quality improvement.

This course competency is similar to what I explained in the previous question. We use data and evidence-based practice to continue improving our care for clients. This can include collaborating with other team members and using critical thinking skills to give the best care possible. This also means keeping up on continuing education credits and any educational opportunities we can after nursing school to help gain and maintain knowledge in the field.

Synthesize components of clinical judgment, professional nursing identity, and reflective practice for lifelong learning.

Clinical judgment is important for nurses to help prioritize care and determine how to care for clients. Creating a professional identity was achieved by determining what we had left to do to finish school along with what our goals are after graduation and what kind of nurse we want to be throughout our professional careers. This was included in our concept map assignment where we had to look at the next year to 5 years to 10 years. We had to decide what characteristics are important to us as a leader and what we would want to see in ourselves and other coworkers. Creating a professional identity will help me grow as a nurse and will allow us to be the nurse that correlates to our integrity and our values.

Determine effective responses to clinical problems integrating information technology, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and interprofessional collaboration.

Interprofessional collaboration can be used to help avoid any errors in client care and can help determine if there is a piece missing in the treatment plan. Communication is essential when collaborating with others to prevent any mistakes. To determine effective responses to clinical problems we can run surveys or studies to show areas of needed improvement.

Transferable Skills:

• Communication

Communication is extremely important in the medical field. I have gained immense knowledge of therapeutic communication during my nursing school journey, and this knowledge will continue to be helpful throughout my nursing career.

• Critical Thinking

My critical thinking skills have improved due to the courses that I have taken throughout the course of lectures and clinical. You must possess quick and accurate critical thinking in order to succeed as a registered nurse.

• Digital Fluency

My digital fluency knowledge increased due to so many courses being online. Also, through online clinicals and vSim. Digital fluency is a big part of nursing now and getting educated on Epic during our clinical will be invaluable to us as nurses.

• Diversity and Teamwork

In the healthcare profession, you will only be successful if you can be a team player and work well with all cultures and diversities.

• Information Literacy

I gained this competency through lectures, readings, clinicals, and online reviews. ATI has also been a valuable tool for gaining knowledge about nursing skills.

• Ethics and Professional Identity

This competency is the most valuable. It is how we will shape our career as a registered nurses. We must possess high ethical principles and a respected professional identity in order to be extraordinarily successful nurses.

Reference:

Ignatavicius, D.D., Workman, L.M., Rebar, C.R., & Heimgartner, N.M. (2018). Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care (9th ed.). Elsevier. 

1. Select approaches to client care which incorporate care and comfort, risk reduction, health promotion, and disease management.
2. Prioritize evidence-based, client-centered nursing care as a foundation for emotional, mental, spiritual, and social well-being.
3. Utilize data-driven nursing care strategies inclusive of continuous quality improvement.
4. Synthesize components of clinical judgement, professional nursing identity, and reflective practice for lifelong learning.
5. Determine effective responses to clinical problems integrating information technology, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and interprofessional collaboration.

Transferable Skills

Take a moment and review the Transferrable Skills Media from Module 02.