Professional Development
When someone is identified to be promoted and follows a series of planned activities to prepare them for the role.
What is succession planning?
***Do you have a succession plan?***
This process occurs annually and includes
a self-appraisal, peer feedback, goal setting, and formal discussion
What is the performance appraisal process?
This is a part of the professional practice model and promotes continuous, consistent, efficient and accountable delivery of nursing care. It describes the manner in which care is delivered.
What is the care delivery system?
***What is our care delivery system?***
A model in which nurses are formally organized to make decisions about clinical practice standards, quality improvement, professional development, and research.
What is professional governance? (Although not the same it may be referred to and used interchangeably with shared governance.)
***Describe the professional governance structure for the organization.***
This principle describes what is expected in terms of right and correct and wrong or incorrect in terms of behavior. Examples include justice, beneficence, autonomy etc
What is ethics?
***How do you deal with complex ethical situations?***
An experienced nurse who helps shape a nurses identity by providing information, advice, support and ideas in a typically long-lasting relationship.
What is a mentor?
***Are you a mentor/have you been mentored?***
When we give and receive deliberate input to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement to a peer.
What is peer feedback or peer review?
***Have you used peer review? Share an example of how peer review from another peer has improved your practice in your role.***
A schematic or picture description of how nurses at NYP practice, collaborate, communicate, and develop professionally to provide high quality of care.
What is the professional practice model?
***What are the components of our professional practice model? Give an example of how you apply it in practice.***
This part of the professional governance structure gives nurses an opportunity to make decisions that affect their unit within their scope and make recommendations for improvements and having a say in the future direction of the unit/department.
What is a unit council?
***How is professional governance alive at the unit level? Share an example of what your unit council is working on.***
This ethical _____ occurs when there is conflict with the Code of Ethics or with the nurse's ethical values/when choices need to be made, the answers may not be clear and the options are not ideal.
What is an ethical dilemma in nursing?
***How do you deal with complex ethical situations?***
Attend one of these events if you are looking to grow professionally in nursing. There are education sessions and presentations of the latest research findings in nursing practice from all over.
What is a nursing conference?
*** Do you attend nursing conferences? ***
The portion of the performance review that is an opportunity to share your own perspective on your performance, actions, and choices.
What is self-appraisal or self-evaluation?
***Do you perform a self-appraisal?***
This part of the PPM is the integration of clinical expertise, scientific findings and patient preference to improve outcomes.
What is evidence-based practice?
***How is your practice evidence-based? For research- How have you supported nursing research? Have you been involved in nursing research?***
This term describes when power is given to nurses.
What is nurse authority empowerment?
***How do you work to empower nurses? How do you use input from the nurses to improve the work environment?***
This committee is available to assist nurses, patients, and families, and provide medical ethics consultations in association with Patient Services Administration to address ethical issues arising in patient care.
What is the ethics committee?
***Is there nurse representation on the ethics committee? Are the nurses in your area(s) aware of the committee?***
These are organizations devoted to the professional and personal development of members and to the general advancement of the profession. One example is the ANA.
What are professional nursing organizations?
***How many professional nursing organizations do you belong to? Which ones? Are you active in the organization(s)?***
In your performance appraisal you set these as a part of your commitment to lifelong learning to develop and maintain competence, and enhance nursing practice.
Hint: You need to set at least one annually.
What are professional goals?
***What are your goals for the year and do they align with nursing? the organization?***
Respectful and responsive to the individual patient and family preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient and family values guide all clinical decisions.
Hint: Our Care Delivery System
What is patient- and family-centered care?
***How are you involved in patient- and family-centered care?***
This professional governance committee seeks to use the application of creativity or problem solving that results in a widely adopted strategy, product, or service that meets a need in a new and different way.
What is research, evidence-based practice, and innovation committee?
***How do you encourage, recognize/reward and implement innovation?***
There should be a low threshold for calling one of these. Hint: One example of a reason to call one may include withdrawing life support
What is an ethical consultation?
***How do call an ethics consult? How do you help nurses call an ethics consult?***
Offer certification review courses. Continued reimbursement for nurses who obtain or maintain a professional nursing certification. Certified Nurses Day breakfast and recognition. Certification is a Clinical Ladder requirement.
What are strategies used by the organization to support nurses to become/maintain certification?
*** What are ways that you encourage nurses to become nationally certified?***
This term is used to describe a discussion that is performance driven and designed to improve the professional's on-the-job performance.
Hint: It is not mentoring, but this word is often mistaken for mentoring and used interchangeably.
What is coaching?
***Share an example of how you helped an employee set performance improvement goal(s) and provided effective coaching that led to the employee’s success in improving performance.***
Part of the PPM that promotes interprofessional communication and coordination of patient- and family-centered care. Health professionals work together to overcome fragmentation and traditional disciplinary boundaries to improve educational and service outcomes.
What is collaboration?
***How are you involved with interprofessional collaboration? What multidisciplinary work are you involved with?***
This professional governance committee shares trended data and analyzes it to improve patient care.
What is the Nursing Quality and Safety Committee?
***What trended data do you share with the nurses and other employees?***
This department provides a central grievance mechanism for patients, administrative support for staff, a central location for reporting patient occurrences, and access to the Ethics Committee.
What is Patient Services Administration?
***How well are the nurses in your area familiar with this department?***