Purpose
This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).
CO1: Applies principles of nursing, theories, and the care philosophies to self, colleagues, individuals, families, aggregates and communities throughout the healthcare system. (PO#1)
Discussion
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
- Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice. How was your compassion demonstrated? What other ways do you wish you would have expressed caring?
- How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.
References: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
American Nursing Association [ANA]. (2015). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Publishing.
Please complete this self-assessment for NR451 as part of the Week 1 Journal Reflections and follow instructions there. This will be an item placed into your Chamberlain College of Nursing Portfolio.
| Topic | Never/
Strongly Disagree |
Disagree | Neither Agree nor Disagree | Agree | Always/
Strongly Agree |
| I am aware of my strengths and challenges as a nurse: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I am aware of my strengths and challenges as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I communicate and collaborate well with colleagues in the workplace: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I communicate and collaborate well with colleagues as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I take time to care for myself in the workplace/at home: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I take time to care for myself as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I master change processes well and am flexible in the workplace/at home: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I master change processes well and am flexible as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I take responsibility for my own learning in the workplace: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I take responsibility for my own learning as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I am competent with using new information and applying it to my practice setting as a nurse: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I am competent with using new information and applying it to my practice setting as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I feel empowered to succeed as a nurse: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I feel empowered to succeed as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I have skills and knowledge to transform nursing practice as a nurse: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| I have skills and knowledge to transform nursing practice as a student: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Type your answers below:
How do I demonstrate care for colleagues/peers?
Is this the same way I show care for patients? (Why? or Why not?)
How have instructors at Chamberlain show they care for me?
The one area in which I feel most vulnerable as a BSN graduate is?
NR451 iCARE Self-Assessment I DP/CJM 4/2/2018; update 6/2018