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Reflection on Modules 3 and 4

Priority Setting Frameworks:

The “Priority Setting Frameworks” module taught me about aspects that help in prioritizing certain actions and focusing on the patient’s needs. There are 7 frameworks that set priorities for nurses. They include Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the nursing process, ABC’s, safety and risk reductions, least restrictive-least invasive, survival potential, and acute versus chronic, urgent versus non-urgent, and unstable versus stable findings. A certain framework will be used for each clinical client situation. The nurse will choose the framework that is most applicable to the situation at hand.

This module taught me some pertinent information that I will need to incorporate into my future nursing culture. It will help me to characterize information that I have about each client into certain categories. These categories will help me determine what should be assessed first for each client. Doing this will provide the most adequate care for my patients by assessing the most important aspects. For me, the Hierarchy of Needs is extremely important. Of course, as nurses we must help to maintain our client’s health, however, in order to restore health, an individual must obtain all the five human needs. This goes beyond just providing care to patients which I think is extremely important.

Knowledge and Clinical Judgement:

This module talks about different learning styles that individuals could have. There are three types of learners that are discussed: visual, auditory, and tactile. Visual learners learn best from strategies that involve sight. These types of patients would prefer pictures, diagrams, graphs, Powerpoints, and charts as part of their patient education. Auditory learners learn best by hearing. Patient education would include reciting notes, engaging in group discussions, listening to recorded information or instructions out loud. Tactile learners learn through physically touching and doing. This would be done with the patient physically doing it. Understanding what type learner your patient is is extremely important.

Learning that there are different learning styles that are unique to each patient was very helpful. Understanding which learning style your patient learns best with is essential as a nurse. Nurses are the ones of the health care team that does majority of the patient education. Patient education is one of the priorities in patient care. Incorporating the patient into their own care will improve likelihood for the involvement of patient in interventions that may increase their chances for positive outcomes. Deciding how to teach your patient based on their learning style will help in increasing effectiveness of patient education. Nurses are extremely busy so incorporating different types of learning into my nursing culture will help in saving time while still being efficient.

Nursing Module 1: Testing and Remediation

This module helped me learn how be successful in preparing and taking tests and the NCLEX. Taking apart the questions helps to apply critical reading skills. The first part is considered the “stem” which consists of the scenario, the question, the person of focus, and any key words. It is important to identify these objectives after reading each question. The other part of the tests consists of the options which is the answers that are chosen from to determine the correct choice. The two types of options include the distractors and the keys. Distractors are basically fillers while the keys are choices that could potentially be correct. The dissection of the “stem” and elimination of certain options can be applied to any type of question that the test has to offer. Learning the different ways to narrow down answers by eliminating distractors after dissecting the “stem” of the problem, will help in passing the NCLEX. The NCLEX will help to determine if I have the knowledge and skills to become an entry-level nurse once I earn a bachelor’s in the science of nursing.

There are NCLEX tips also offered in this module. One that really stuck out to me is to remediate. Remediating is a main concept that is acknowledged throughout this module. Remediation for a test includes identifying strengths and weaknesses. This is an important part of test taking because it can help narrow down what needs to be focused on while studying. However, remediation can also be incorporated into a nursing culture. Nurses make mistakes sometimes and that is how we learn from it. Society can sometimes put an extremely high standard on nurses and expect perfection. To avoid burnout, nurses must understand that it is near impossible to reach this standard and that having weaknesses are okay. Remediation will identify these weaknesses and allow improvement throughout a career.

Nursing Module 2: Nursing Concept:

  The “Nursing Concepts” module identifies the “ATI Helix of Success”. It consists of ten horizontal bars that represent concepts that supports the vertical strands of knowledge and clinical judgement. The ten concepts are client-centered care, interdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, informatics, safety, client education, professionalism, leadership, and priority setting. There are multiple stages of nursing: beginning as a novice nurse, and hopefully reaching the professional nurse stage. Each stage will add on more clinical experience and knowledge to broaden the concepts of my “helix”. This helix does a great job in portraying how well-rounded nurses think. There are some parts of nursing that simply cannot be taught, including empathy in client-centered care or integrity in leadership. These concepts can be built on through clinical experiences that affect you as a person. It is important, as a nurse, to understand that there needs to be a balance in all these concepts in order to fulfill the ideal knowledge and clinical judgement necessary.

  As I go through nursing school, there will be information added to each of these concepts. New information added to each concept will allow me to be able to think more like a nurse. The idea of the helix allowed me to understand that nursing is all about learning. Even nurses in their professional stage will have information that can be added to their helix. The combination of all the helix concepts will help me excel as a nurse. With that being said, it is essential that, no matter which stage of nursing I am at, that I am always open to learning. Open mindedness is key in a nursing culture as it allows more knowledge, feelings, and experiences to be added into your own “helix”, creating a versatile nurse.