Practice of Nursing 3 BSNC 3030

Upon successful completion, the student will meet the following competencies:

Advocate

• Uses relational practice to implement nursing care that recognizes the unique requirements of each client
• Incorporates knowledge of the origins of health disparities and inequities of Indigenous populations and the contributions of nursing practice into nursing care to achieve positive health outcomes for clients
• Incorporates knowledge of the origins of health disparities and inequities of at-risk populations and the contributions of nursing practice into nursing care to achieve positive health outcomes for clients
• Identifies and respects basic human rights
• Facilitates client choice and capacity to maximize their health care outcomes
• Recognizes the professional and ethical responsibility to advocate for client safety, fairness, and equitable distribution of health care resources within a defined scope of practice
• Uses relational practice to implement nursing care that recognizes the unique requirements of each client

Collaborator

• Forms partnerships and relationships with various members of the healthcare team to optimize outcomes for clients and the healthcare system in defined contexts and situations
• Identifies organizational structures within the healthcare system
• Identifies roles and scope of practice of healthcare team members
• Identifies conflict and discusses potential solutions
• Identifies multiple perspectives in any given situation to support safe, high quality, client-centred care
• Identifies and describes facets of a strength-based approach to collaboration
• Displays initiative, a beginning confidence and self-awareness in collaborative interactions within the health care team

Communicator

• Identifies opportunities for and implements strategies to communicate effectively with clients and healthcare team members to provide safe, high quality, client-centred health care with assistance
• Demonstrates elements of assertive communication in practice
• Recognizes the impact of communication in supporting safe, high quality, client-centred health care
• Documents clinical encounters in an accurate, complete, timely, and accessible manner, in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
• Verifies that clients have an understanding of essential information and skills to be active participants in their own care
• Questions unclear orders, decisions, or actions that are inconsistent with positive client outcomes, best practices, health safety standards, and client wishes
• Demonstrates effective group process and presentation skills
• Uses appropriate nursing informatics, communication modalities and technologies in the practice of nursing care

Decision Maker

• Draws on knowledge from nursing and other sciences, humanities, research, ethics, spirituality, relational practice and critical inquiry in the practice of nursing care
• Has theoretical and practical knowledge of relational practice and understands that relational practice is the foundation for all nursing practice
• Applies principles of critical inquiry and relational practice to conduct client-focused assessments that emphasize client input and the determinants of health
• Identifies links between salient patient data, knowledge, required nursing care and expected client responses
• Utilizes a decision making model to guide nursing care planning and delivery
• Reflects on nursing actions and incorporates knowledge into practice
• Reflects on nursing practice during the provision of client care and adjusts plan of care as necessary
• Prioritizes clinical problems/issues to promote client safety and quality of care

Global Citizen

• Recognizes and discusses personal biases and takes action to minimize the influence of personal values, beliefs and positional power on client care
• Provides culturally safe and equitable care in defined contexts and situations

Leader

• Seeks and accepts feedback to foster own professional growth
• Utilizes evidenced based knowledge, and ethical standards to guide practice decisions
• Participates in sharing of thinking about issues and decisions regarding patient care and is open to having ideas challenged by others
• Recognizes own scope of practice and collaborates with the healthcare team as appropriate
• Questions unclear orders, decisions, or actions that are inconsistent with positive client outcomes, best practices, health safety standards, and client wishes
• Consults and collaborates with clients and health care team to identify actual and potential client health care needs, strengths, capacities and goals

Lifelong Learner

• Reflects on practice to identify and actively address learning needs
• Articulates the elements and principles of the research process
• Critically appraises learning resources by systematically examines evidence to ascertain its credibility, value and relevance in a particular nursing practice context
• Draws upon evidence-based resources to actively develop foundational nursing knowledge

Professional

• Maintains appropriate professional boundaries with clients and the healthcare team
• Demonstrates honesty, integrity, and respect in all professional interactions
• Functions within own level of competence in selected contexts and within a defined scope of practice
• Seeks support when needed from the most appropriate resources and persons
• Demonstrates self-care and personal development to build resilience
• Demonstrates consideration of the values, beliefs and practices of clients
• Enacts client centered care and practices
• Maintains own physical, psychological and emotional fitness to practice
• Is accountable to clients, society and the nursing profession for own actions, decisions, and professional nursing conduct
• Maintains individual competence within scope of practice and professional standards
• Demonstrates literacy and computer skills necessary to record, enter, store, retrieve and organize data essential for care delivery
• Takes action to promote the provision of safe, appropriate and ethical care to clients and seeks support and assistance as necessary
• Recognizes and discusses personal biases and takes action to minimize the influence of positional power, personal values and beliefs on clients
• Locates and applies policies and procedures consistent with the standards of the profession

Effective as of Winter 2022