Accountability is central to patient care for a nurse seeking to be an effective practitioner. The Codes and Standards that have been set forth by the nursing professional body demands that the practitioner be personally accountable for his or her actions, and omissions when handling patients are the basic tenets of accountability. This paper will provide a comparative personal reflection against the set standards of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Personally, I have a firm in my capabilities as an individual and as a nurse performing the duties expected from me. In the four sections used for evaluation of personal and professional accountability, my score will be reflected in the region that encompasses competent experience and skill. Under the first section titled personal growth and development, which encompass education advancement, continuing education, career planning and annual self-assessment and action plans, I must insist with authority that I on the right path to achieving expert practice. This implies that in the present, I am continuing my education in nursing, and the present activity that I am doing constitute self-assessment, though it is not an annual personal self-assessment.
The second assessment category entails the practices that are crucial to the nursing standards and scope. My experience and conduct are sufficient to earn me a high rating in this area. I have covered enough grounds and strides under the third category of assessment, professional association involvement, within the banner of personal of professional accountability. I have already made an application to the state’s nursing professional body. I have always held that the professional body will provide a crucial link to my transformation into the complete professional, otherwise known as the expert practitioner in this assessment form. On the fourth assessment category on certification, I have belief that I will in the due course of my career development amass enough certification in a specialty that I will consider in the future, otherwise my personal ratings is just on novice experience and skill.
The score on the second phase of assessment will be the full mark that is four out of four, and for the past years I have been in the institution I have learned a lot as a nurse student. I have developed new skills and can score favorably under all the four assessment criteria in this section. The first criterion includes understanding of the role that one is supposed to play in their job. The roles are usually stated in the job description, and the candidate must understand them clearly. As a nurse, I have a good knowledge of all that is needed from me, and this is evidenced from the time I was involved in student practice. During the time, I constantly delivered to the patients’ treatment and care expected from me at the time. A personal score would be full marks on this assessment section. In the future, I want to undertake further commitment and achieve higher accreditation within the discipline of nursing rising to the highest levels of academic development. In fact, I want to commit to a single line of research in the future. Further, I want to achieve a number of certification and professional acknowledgments in nursing.
In any profession, the aim for the top has always been the dream of any professional, and in nursing, the rising to top meaning attaining the level of nurse manager. To attain this level there are several facts that might come into play, and these include being the consummate professional, always acting with confidence, knowledge advancement, honesty, leadership, privacy respect, and have the passion always to seek more knowledge. I will also give the highest rating in this section, as I have full confidence in my pursuit for the best in the future. Under the personal journey skills, my score for each section would be the full marks, and that is a three out of the possible four. The personal journey disciplines in this form are assessment under three criteria, which include shared leadership and council management, action learning, and reflective practice. Honestly, I am on the path to achieving sufficient skills in council management though now I am learning from various mentors on the best way to developing the skills. Equally, I am in the process of developing the exquisite skills in action learning, but through the same said mentors, I will develop sufficient skills in problem-solving techniques. Nonetheless, I have a firm belief that in the present, I have polished my skills on reflective practice, and I can state with confidence that I have a deep knowledge of active practice as a leadership behavior. Finally, under the reflective practice reference behaviors and tenants a personal score shall be the full marks. Holding the truth, appreciating ambiguity, diversity in achieving totality, holding perspectives without judgment, discovery of potential, thirst for more knowledge, knowledge of things in life, nurturing the intellectual and personal self, and the desire to commit to oneself are vital to self-development (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2006).
Reference
American Association of Critical Care Nurses. (2006). Introduction to the Nurse Manager Inventory Tool. Web.