Entry to practice competencies- COMPETENCY #80

lhizza · Feb 23, 2016

They give me four categories

1. Professional responsibility and accountability

2. Ethical practice

3. Service to the public

4. Self regulation

And each category their is a lots of choices for assessment planning implementation and evaluation.

Do I need to give also examples from all categories above mentioned? Or do I just only need to choose? Thanks

magnoliya · Feb 23, 2016

what are these categories? can you maybe scan your assignment and send it to me?

best thing would be to give a situation that fits every category

for example give me a situation where you provided service to public. the situation should start with assessment and finish with evaluation

give me another situation where you demonstrated responsibility and accountability. as well, the situation should start with assessment and finish with evaluation

maybe you demonstrated responsibility and accountability while you were providing service to public? in this case you will have one example that covers both categories. you have one example but you will need to give more explanations why your example addresses both categories. as long as you explain, it does not really matter how many examples you give. everything is interrelated in nursing and we can learn many things from the same example.

if the situations that you provide address stages of nursing process, they will address competencies as well. you just need to chose which competencies fit your examples

i would say, because you do not really know, to be on the safe side, you will need to adress all 4 cathegories

lhizza · Feb 23, 2016

Yeah sure I can scan my assignment and send it to you. Would you mind if I ask your email address?

magnoliya · Feb 23, 2016

you can attach it in this forum

lhizza · Feb 23, 2016

Being honest I dont know how i can able to attach my scan task. Lols. Poor me.

dishes, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2016

lhizza, I think CAS is confusing and time consuming for most IENs, if you are interested there is a workshop on how to complete CAS at care4nurses in March.

lhizza · Feb 23, 2016

When in march? We have 45 days deadline to submit and write our CAS. thanks for the information.

magnoliya · Feb 23, 2016

unless the workshop is provided by the same body who actually checks your assignment i would not go.. they will just waste your time and money. and make you more confused. i talked to many highly educated nurses about these assignments and all of them have different opinions of how to do this. In this case, more education does not necessary bring more clarity . because topic itself is not very clear.

like for example why service to the public and ethical practice are two different categories? i would think nurses should provide ethical practice while providing public service or any other service.

just do not overthink it. give good examples from your practice. show them that you understand 4 stages of nursing process, show them that you have critical thinking and it will be ok

these topics are confusing for nursing instructors too. i remember in nursing school it was a nightmare for everybody.

magnoliya · Feb 23, 2016

"insert image" option from the tool bar

dishes, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2016

@IHizza, google care4nurses org under "Are you struggling to compete the competency assessment supplement?" you will see the CAS workshop is March 15, 22, 28th

lhizza · Feb 23, 2016

Omg I am not available on march 15 22 and 28. Are you interested to go there? Or somebody interested to attend the seminar?

dishes, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2016

I am not interested in going to the workshop, it is applicable to IENs who need advice on how to complete CAS and as a working Canadian RN I do not need to do CAS.