A self-assessment is an opportunity for you to review what you have learned in the nurse practitioner program, evaluate your clinical skills, and develop goals before exiting the NP program. For this assignment, you will complete the Risk Control Self-Assessment Checklist for Nurse Practitioners and identify your areas of strength and weakness. You also will explain how you plan to improve on these weaknesses, as well as how you plan to master clinical skills you have not obtained prior to exiting NP program.
To prepare:
Complete the Risk Control Self-Assessment Checklist for Nurse Practitioners
Consider your strengths and weaknesses
Review types of patients treated and clinical procedures performed
To Complete
Write a 2 page paper that addresses the following:
Identify at least three strengths as a nurse practitioner.
Explain why you consider these strengths and what you can do to maintain them in your practice.
Identify at least three weaknesses as a nurse practitioner.
Explain how you plan to address each weakness.
Examine at least three clinical skills you need to obtain prior to exiting Nurse practitioner program.
Explain how you plan to master the clinical skills before exiting NP program.
Analyze the history of advanced practice nurses and the emerging role of your specialty area, and discuss what contributions you plan to make to advance the nursing profession.
References
Buppert, C. (2015). What is a nurse practitioner? In Nurse practitioner's business practice and legal guide (5th ed.) (1-16, 33). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
CNA, & Nurses Service Organization (2012). Risk control self-assessment checklist for nurse practitioners. Retrieved from http://www.hpso.com/Documents/Risk%20Education/individuals/NP_RM_Checklist_2012.pdf
Ford, L. C. (2015). Reflections on fifty years of change. FAANP Forum, 6(1), 2-3. Retrieved from https://www.aanp.org/images/documents/FAANPForum/2015-3.pdf
Hamric, A. B., Hanson, C. M., Tracy, M. F., & O'Grady, E. T. (2014). International development of advanced practice nursing. In Advanced practice nursing: An integrative approach(5th ed.) (133-143). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders.
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