Program Outcome:
To provide evidence-based clinically competent care.
Competent Care:
Through each rotation in the nursing program, I have provided many different types of evidence-based clinically competent care.
In my medical-surgical clinical rotations, I was given the opportunity to provide a substantial amount of thorough and competent nursing care to adults undergoing surgeries and/or disease processes. I practiced evidence-based best care by researching journals related to the patients I was caring for. The following link is a journal from one of my med-surg rotations which includes these experiences as well as summaries of evidence-based research articles I modeled my care after. Med-Surg Journal Below are evaluations I filled out for my own personal performance in the care I provided in my Medical Surgical II course, including a list of patients with varying diagnoses/situations. Clinical Evaluation Clinical Evaluation 2
Evidence-based Research
In the spring semester of my junior year I took Nursing Research and Informatics, which provided me with a better understanding of evidence-based care. It is tremendously important to research best practice, and to apply those concepts to the care you give as a nurse. I plan to use evidence to support the decisions I make throughout my nursing career. The most valuable tool that I learned from this nursing research class, was how to read through and understand a research article, including methods, materials, and statistics. Each component is a significant factor to whether or not the article's content is reliable, and when pulling data from different sources to incorporate into your professional practice, this is an invaluable skill. A link to an excerpt of a paper I wrote in this class, analyzing different research: Research |
Links to my first clinical experience:
For my first clinical experience as a sophomore, I provided competent nursing care to the elderly adult population at Linden Grove Health Care Center in Puyallup, WA. Below is a link to a summary of that experience as well as the instructor's evaluation of my performance.
* Clinical Experience Paper Instructor's Evaluation of clinical experience:
* 1st page * 2nd page * 3rd page
Evidence-Based Practice to come:I plan on taking what I have learned throughout my classes here at PLU to always practice evidence-based care. By studying the most current research, and distinguishing the valid studies from the invalid ones, I will know which research to pull information from. I will take the time to learn where my workplace bases their policies from, to ensure that we are indeed performing best practice in all situations.
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