Applicant’s Name: ________________________________________

Date____________________________________________________

Nurse
Example

Scope: The Nurse at this level demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
Example: Promoting positive relations with staff. The issue was poor communication, which I enhanced by encouraging open communication with staff members. This led to improved work engagement to the benefit of patients.

Practice: Demonstrates ability to function effectively in charger nurse, team leader or other leadership role which requires problem solving skills at the unit or team level.  Uses team approaches to identify, analyze and resolve problems/issues.
Example: Delegation of nursing assignments. The issue at hand was overlapping roles and redundancy in the unit. I prepared schedules, which helped nurses to understand their specific roles during shifts. This led to efficiency in patient care.

Ethics:  Supports & enhances client treatment wishes.  Serves a s a resource for clients & staff in addressing ethical issues.
Example: Privacy and Confidentiality. Issue was inadequate protection of private information. I ensured patients’ medical information was store securely. This led to public confidence in healthcare services at the facility.

Resource Utilization: Identifies potential problems involving resources and/or safety issues and takes  appropriate action.
Example: Helping patients discharged from the hospital. Lack of access to appropriate services and medications. I explained patient options in details to make them aware of medical choices at appropriate and low costs.

Education/Career Development: Seeks knowledge and skills to maintain/improve expertize in area of practice.   Participated in educational activities to improve clinical knowledge and enhance role performance
Example: Further education as a telemedicine nurse. Poor exchange of information, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. I took a course in Telehealth to be more conversant in the use of technology in administering care, which in turn reduced cases of medical errors leading to better patient outcomes.

 

 

Performance: Evaluates practice of self and others using professional standards, and regulations.  Takes action to improve performance.
Example: Adoption of a performance improvement plan. Issue at hand was performance deficiencies. I set clear objectives and learned to plan and prioritize patients’ tasks. This enabled me to attend to almost all of my patient and staff responsibilities in an orderly fashion.

Collaboration: Consults with other members in the unit/work group and uses group process to identify, analyze and resolve problems affecting care.
Example: Participating in interdisciplinary conferences. I have attended conferences and workshops with healthcare practitioners in different fields. This has led to an all rounded approach in administering holistic care to patients.

 

Collegiality: Educates colleagues and/or students either in formally in-service or informally as a resource person.  Serves as a preceptor and/or mentor.
Example: Engaging in orientation programs for newly recruited nurses. Based on the knowledge of evidence-based practice, I have strived to relay such knowledge to fellow staff members in a required capacity as a preceptor. This has led to improved patient care.

 

 

Quality of Care: At the unit level participates in quality improvement activities that result in improved outcomes.

 

Example: Documentation of patient events. I focused on the importance of appropriate documentation of patient events as well as schedule for administering medication. This had the effect of reducing errors in the institution.

Research:  Uses a body of research to validate or change group practice:

1. Identifies clinical problem

2. Reads & evaluates research based literature related to problem.

3. Incorporates knowledge from literature into critical thinking/problem solving

4. Uses knowledge to validate or change practice at the unit, team or group level.

Example: Research on issue of medication errors. There is a wide body of knowledge on this matter, which I read from peer-reviewed research with the intention of incorporating recommendations. A crucial recommendation is the use of electronic health records to reduce possible errors when administering medication.