Description
Discussion: Career Goals: Strengths and Challenges Related to Nursing Practice Competencies
An advanced practice nurse collaborates and communicates with patients, families, doctors, nurses, and specialists to ensure patients receive the care they need. As they diagnose, treat, manage, and educate patients, they are responsible for ensuring patient safety and maintaining ethical behavior.
Competencies have been developed to help the advanced practice nurse to understand the practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to be successful.
For this Discussion, you will examine advanced nursing practice competencies and reflect on your strengths and challenges related to the competencies. In light of your reflection, you will consider how this course may help you attain your career goals or objectives.
To prepare:
• Review the Learning Resources for this week, specifically the advanced nursing practice competencies. As you review the competencies, reflect on your own strengths and challenges when working with adults across the lifespan.
Assignment
Post a summary of your expectations of this course. Also, include a brief explanation of your strengths and challenges as they relate to nursing practice competencies when working with adults. Describe any career goals or objectives this course may help you accomplish in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) role and explain why. Use your research to support your explanations by providing credible and scholarly sources.
Resources that are required are: -Peer Reviewed journal articles that reflect and discuss the results of a research study
Examples of Peer-Reviewed Journals include:
-American Family Physician
-American Academy of Family Practice
-American Thoracic Society
-National Heart/Lung and Blood Institute (Clinicians tab, not patient tab)
-American Academy of Dermatology……
Do not use sources like:
Up to Date (must use original articles from Up to Date as a resource)
2. Wikipedia
3. – non healthcare professionals section
4. (This will make Dr. Schiller crazy!)
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7. American heart
8. Huffington Post
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10. Medical News
