NR 351 Week 1 Discussion 1 – Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies
: The purpose of these ten core competencies is to provide ongoing education and knowledge for future nursing care. As our textbook states, these competencies are meant “to facilitate a seamless continuum for progression in nursing education.” (Hood, 2017). With continuing education about these core competencies, we can ensure that the best practice is provided for each patient. These ten core competencies include patient-centered care, professionalism, informatics and technology, evidence-based practice, leadership, systems-based practice, safety, communication, teamwork and collaboration, and quality improvement.
I personally believe that it’s hard to pick just two and claim them to be the most important to one’s future nursing practice because they are all equally just as important. Having to pick the top two, in my opinion, would be patient-centered care and safety. As stated in Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies, patient-centered care is “holistic care that recognizes an individual’s preferences, values, and needs and respects the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate, coordinated, age and culturally appropriate, safe and effective care.” If the care we provided for our patients was not patient-centered, what’s the point? The care wouldn’t be directly related to nor would it directly impact the patient. Safety in patient care can be defined as the reduction of risk for unnecessary harm directly related to health care at an acceptable minimum (Tavares et al., 2018). Now, if the care we provided for our patients was not safe, why are we providing it? The care a patient receives should always be directly related to them, and safety for that patient should always be a priority.
NR 351 Week 1 Discussion 1 – Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies
For example, I would like to go into anesthesia once I finish my bachelor’s. Not only related to anesthesia, but in order to get into a program, I must meet a requirement for critical care experience. Of course, patient-centered care and safety are important to all patients, but could you imagine providing care for a patient in a critical care setting that isn’t centered directly on the patient? What about providing care for a patient in a critical care setting that isn’t safe? As I have previously stated, all of the core competencies are equally as important, but my point is this: in a time of life or death, would you prefer professionalism over patient-centered care? Or would you prefer communication over safety? I personally would not, but to each his own.
Resources:
Hood, L.J. (2017). Leddy & Pepper’s conceptual bases of professional nursing (9th Ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. (2016). Massachusetts nursing core competencies: A toolkit for implementation in education and practice settings. Retrieved from http://www.mass.edu/nahi/documents/NursingCoreCompetenciesToolkit-March2016.pdf
Mousinho Tavares, A. P., Carvalho Moura, E. C., Silva Dantas Avelino, F. V., Aguiar Lopes, V. C., & Tolstenko Nogueira, L. (2018). Patient safety culture from the perspective of the nursing team. Revista Da Rede De Enfermagem Do Nordeste, 19(1), 1-7. doi:10.15253/2175-6783.2018193152
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NR 351 Week 1 Discussion 1 – Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies
Now that you have examined the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies©. Why do you think these competencies were selected? Which two of the ten competencies will be most important to your future nursing practice, and why?