Nursing Self-Assessment and Competency Development

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1. Conduct a self-assessment of current nursing knowledge, skills, and competencies utilizing transition models, theories, and program resources to create and achieve an individual learning plan that prepares the student for clinical practice.

2. Utilize the nursing process to provide safe, competent, and ethical care that draws on evidence, theories and frameworks from nursing and social sciences and adheres to legal requirements and regulatory standards.

3. Contribute to the development of quality practice environments by supporting the delivery of professional practice that improves client safety, inter-professional collaboration, workplace health and wellness, and scholarly activities.

4. Apply effective communication skills and professional behaviors that establish and maintain respectful and positive relationships with clients, colleagues, and members of the public.

5. Provide care that values the dignity and inherent worth of each client and incorporates the client's decisions, spiritual beliefs, and cultural practices.

6. Incorporate the processes of critical thinking, critical reasoning, and critical inquiry to produce well reasoned and evidence-based decisions in practice.

7. Integrate legal and professional standards to achieve effective and professional practices associated with nursing informatics and online social and professional communication technologies.

8. Apply a variety of leadership skills and techniques that are relevant and appropriate to a multitude of unique situations involving self, clients, colleagues, learners, and members of the public.

9. Analyze and respond to ethical dilemmas, conflicts, and distress according to ethical decision-making models, frameworks, and processes

10. Integrate social justice theory to create awareness of inequality in health and wellness in society and improve accessibility to services that meet the needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations.