\n The Four Dimensions of Nursing Practice are as follows:\n <\/p>\n
\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nursing Practice (Practice, Ethics, Resource Utilization);\n <\/p>\n
\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professional Role-Leadership (Education\/Career Development, Performance);\n <\/p>\n
\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Collaboration (Collegiality, Collaboration) and\n <\/p>\n
\n \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scientific Inquiry (Quality of Care, Research).\u00a0 NOTE:\n <\/p>\n
\n Leadership is not one of the dimensions, but leadership principles are expected to be woven throughout the established categories.\n <\/p>\n
\n Each of the criteria should be addressed by you citing examples (at least one) to support the qualifications standards.\n <\/p>\n
\n One example may suffice to support all criteria under a single Dimension, but all criteria must be met\u2026NOT just the Dimension.\u00a0 As a template for your response, the following guidance is offered:\n <\/p>\n
\n What was done? – ACTION\n <\/p>\n
\n For Whom? – POPULATION\n <\/p>\n
\n What difference did it make? – OUTCOME\n <\/p>\n
\n When? \u2013 SUSTAINABILITY\n <\/p>\n
\n Criteria\n <\/p>\n
\n Nurse I\n <\/p>\n
\n Nurse II\n <\/p>\n
\n Nurse III\n <\/p>\n
\n Nursing Practice\n <\/p>\n
\n PRACTICE\n <\/p>\n
\n Demo Independence;\n <\/p>\n
\n No charge activities required\n <\/p>\n
\n Demo Leadership;\n <\/p>\n
\n Charge Nurse\/Unit Level\n <\/p>\n
\n Leadership at Service, Service Line, or Medical Center Level; looking for organized processes or systems\n <\/p>\n
\n ETHICS\n <\/p>\n
\n Assumes responsibility for Individual judgments\/actions\n <\/p>\n
\n Serves as resource in indentifying ethical issues\n <\/p>\n
\n Leadership in anticipating risks, resolving ethical issues and dilemmas, analyzing trends, and taking appropriate action\n <\/p>\n
\n RESOURCE UTILIZATION\n <\/p>\n
\n Effectively plans\/directs flow of patient care and nursing resources\n <\/p>\n
\n Identifies potential problems involving resources or pt safety and takes action to avert (Team\/Unit)\n <\/p>\n
\n Manages and analyzes resources, evaluates options and takes actions that impact organization outcomes beyond the unit\/practice area.\n <\/p>\n
\n Professional Role\n <\/p>\n
\n EDUCATION\/CAREER DEVELOPMENT\n <\/p>\n
\n Seeks knowledge for indiv competency (indiv educ plan\/reads health care literature)\n <\/p>\n
\n Participates in educational activities to enhance role performance at the unit\/team level\n <\/p>\n
\n Implements educational plan to meet changing needs of program\/ service\n <\/p>\n
\n PERFORMANCE\n <\/p>\n
\n Incorporates feedback into personal development (self-assessment)\n <\/p>\n
\n Self-evaluation and evaluation of others\n <\/p>\n
\n Self-evaluation and evaluation of program or service effectiveness (recommending\/implementing changes)\n <\/p>\n
\n Collaboration\n <\/p>\n
\n COLLEGIALITY\n <\/p>\n
\n Attends\/participates in staff meetings and in-services.\n <\/p>\n
\n Educates colleagues, preceptor and mentoring roles\n <\/p>\n
\n Coaches in team building:\u00a0 active involvement in group accomplishments; sharing expertise outside of the facility.\n <\/p>\n
\n COLLABORATION\n <\/p>\n
\n Team participation, interpersonal skills, develops collaborative plans of care\n <\/p>\n
\n Uses group process to identify, analyze, and resolve care problems\n <\/p>\n
\n Leadership and decision-making role in use of group process for interdisciplinary problem-solving beyond unit\/practice setting.\n <\/p>\n
\n Scientific Inquiry\n <\/p>\n
\n QUALITY OF CARE\n <\/p>\n
\n Use QI findings to guide OWN practice (NOT the RN providing quality care)\n <\/p>\n
\n Participates in QI activities (data collection, analysis, recommendations, etc)\u00a0 at the Unit level\n <\/p>\n
\n Initiates\/Leads QI activities at the program, service, and\/or facility level\n <\/p>\n
\n RESEARCH\n <\/p>\n
\n Awareness of research; uses to validate\/change own practice\n <\/p>\n
\n Uses research to validate or change Work group\/Team practice\n <\/p>\n
\n Demonstrates leadership in collaboration with others in research activities, across programs\/services, to validate & improve practice.\n <\/p>\n
\n in a tabular form \/bulletin.\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Four Dimensions of Nursing Practice are as follows: \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nursing Practice (Practice, Ethics, Resource Utilization); \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professional Role-Leadership (Education\/Career Development, Performance); \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Collaboration (Collegiality, Collaboration) and \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scientific Inquiry (Quality of Care, Research).\u00a0 NOTE: Leadership is not one of the dimensions, but leadership principles are expected to be woven throughout the established categories. Each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244654,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244450\/revisions\/244654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}