Practicum Professional Development Objectives: Progress Appraisal
WEEK ONE DISCUSSION
Professional Aspirations and Using the Practicum Experience to Promote Change.
Professional change is a piecemeal development that requires adequate preparation both academically and through the practicum experience. The first step is to start out as a nursing informaticist. Although one might be having a head full of knowledge, practical experience is important as it equips you with the skills needed for your profession. My aspiration is to start somewhere as a nursing informaticist, achieve clinical competence, learn how to sharpen my clinical judgment and make informed decisions, and also gain confidence in technical aspects of the patient care. Thus, my practicum experience will be undertaken in an organization that has a formal residency and offers an internship program for graduates to speed the process along.
Further, upon completing several years of practice as a nursing informaticist, I would want to learn more about a particular area of the field. This will enable me to become a specialist in the field. To be precise, I would want to be a nurse leader-manager and take over a position such as chief nursing information officer (CNIO). Here, continuing education programs and seminars, alongside on-the-job training, are key to obtain specialized experience (Wilkinson, Nutley & Davies, 2011). Once I become a specialist, the next aspiration is to become certified with American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) to obtain specialty certifications. With this, it’s now possible to climb the advanced practice ladder where I will take full charge managing communication data and information to the patients. A nursing informatics professional combines skills in health science and information technology to help healthcare facilities to store, retrieved and effectively use data to improve the quality of care (Murphy, 2011). In my practicum experience, I would like to focus on the basic understanding of patient data, critical analysis of the data to improve efficiency and also learn about existing systems in the field of nursing informatics.
Objectives for Professional Growth
Nursing profession requires particular objectives to help in its growth. I intend using the Practicum Experience to ensure getting much knowledge and skills regarding the health information technology (HIT) that is of great performance in the current nursing experience. One purpose will be to ensure that there is enough practice with clarification on how to embrace the new technology within the nursing career that will promote how services are delivered to the patients. Cipriano and Murphy (2011) noted that technology can revolutionize the health care system. However, the revolution cannot be realized without a clear understanding of the organization's needs. One objective includes having ethically responsive nursing leadership who can advocate the influencing of the policy decisions with the aim to improve the health care that is timely, effective, efficient as well as equitable for the entire society. To achieve that objective, a number of steps need to be followed. One step for effective collaboration involves demonstrating comprehensive professional knowledge regarding the best practices in both the disease prevention and health promotion. The next step is being engaged in assimilating the detailed knowledge within the Practicum to gain many skills relating to safety, equality, and mechanism applied in securing quality. More so, there is the step of actively dedicating to the collaboration team that ensures the best practices are used when delivering the health care services (McKimm & Swanwick 2009).
In providing an efficient nursing leadership, I ought to get involved in various leaderships seminars within the Practicum Experience Forums as directed by the preceptor. I ought to demonstrate an understanding of the ethical principles that are competent including the nursing practice values. The experience needs to improve the profession will require that I translate the moral values learned to the activities that I am assigned to oversee or lead. The other step is aimed at understanding the diversity in the healthcare. It will help in designing and implementing cultural diversities within the organization. According to McKimm & Swanwick (2009), the objectives should be results-focused. Obtaining leadership in nursing is seen to be of great importance since it helps in achieving the set goals promptly. More so, collaboration within the health care is noted to enhance strategic development while delivering and promoting patient-centered results. Such measurable objectives are essential for the nursing profession (Warm & Thomas, 2011).
References
Cipriano, P. F., & Murphy, J. (2011). The future of nursing and health IT: The quality elixir. Nursing Economic$, 29(5), 286–289.
McKimm, J., & Swanwick, T. (2009). Setting learning objectives. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 70(7), 406–409.
Murphy, J. (2011). The nursing informatics workforce: Who are they and what do they do? Nursing Economic$, 29(3), 150–153.
Warm, D., & Thomas, B. (2011). A review of the effectiveness of the clinical informaticists’ role. Nursing Standard, 25(44), 35–38.
Wilkinson, J. E., Nutley, S. M., & Davies, H. T. O. (2011). An exploration of the roles of nurse managers in evidence-based practice implementation. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 8(4), 236–246.
