Self Evaluation
Please answer everything as best to ability in paragraphs.
For this self-evaluation of yourself during your clinical experiences, please evaluate each item and explain how you met each of the criteria below.
Patient-Centered Care
Implement nursing care to patients, families, and groups across the lifespan from diverse backgrounds in a variety of settings that is compassionate, age and culturally appropriate and based on a patient’s preferences, values and needs.
Perform a general health assessment including physiological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual needs of patients and families across the lifespan experiencing common health alterations in a variety of settings.
Use the nursing process to guide the delivery of patient care to achieve optimal outcomes.
Provide culturally sensitive care to patients and families from diverse backgrounds.
Use clinical decision making when providing nursing care based on evaluation of patient needs.
Advocate for patients and families regarding nursing care issues.
Teamwork and Collaboration
Participate as a member of the interprofessional healthcare team in the provision of safe, quality patient-centered care.
Participate as a member of the interprofessional health care team
Use communication techniques that support sharing of patient-related information to members with member of the health care team.
Evidence-Based Practice
Identify best current evidence from scientific and other credible sources as a basis for developing individualized patient-centered plans of care.
Identify reliable sources for locating best current evidence and clinical practice guidelines
Use best practice resources when developing individualized patient-centered-plans of care.
Quality Improvement
Participate in data collection processes that support established quality improvement initiatives.
Identify patient care issues that can impact quality of care.
Identify gaps between current patient outcomes and desired patient outcomes.
Identify the relationship between Nurse Sensitive Indicators and patient outcomes.
Safety
Implement strategies that minimize risk and provide a safe environment for patients, self, and others.
Identify safety risks and environmental hazards in health care settings.
Practice performance of psychomotor skills that minimize safety risks and environmental hazards.
List National Patient Safety Goals that promote safety in healthcare settings.
Informatics
Use evidence-based information and patient care technology in the provision of safe, quality patient-centered care.
Describe the effect that computerized information management systems have on the role of the nurse.
Professionalism
Practice nursing in a professional, ethical, and legal manner while providing patient-centered, standard-based nursing care.
Identify professional standards of nursing practice that guide practice.
Display professional accountability and responsibility in classroom and laboratory settings.
Describe how ethical principles and legal tenets guide nursing practice.
Describe how regulatory guidelines and institution policies guide nursing practice.
Leadership
Describe how leadership, management, and priority-setting skills are used to support safe, quality patient-centered care.
Identify organizational, time management and priority setting skills necessary to provide safe, quality patient-centered care.
Identify the nurse’s role in regard to delegating tasks to appropriate members of the health care team.
Communication
Use verbal and nonverbal communication strategies with patients and families from diverse backgrounds that promote an effective exchange of information, development of therapeutic relationships.
Use verbal and nonverbal communication techniques that promote caring, therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
Integrate changes in communication and use of self, in relation to communication barriers, when caring for patients and families.
Communicate effectively with members of the healthcare team and report issues that indicate conflict is impacting patient care.