This domain defines the responsibilities of the nurse to provide a practical/professional environment that encourages education of patients, nurses as well as personal development and growth.
Education and Facilitation
Demonstrates commitment to the development of other members in the healthcare team, as well as patients, families, community and society.
Performance Criteria:
- Shares and disseminates professional knowledge and research findings with others. Acts as a resource person for others.
- Contributes to the formal and informal education and professional development of students and colleagues facilitating and where appropriate coordinating learning opportunities.
- Acts as an effective preceptor and/or mentor as assigned, undertaking appropriate preparation and updating to undertake the roles.
- Takes opportunities to learn together with others in order to contribute to health care improvement.
Lifelong Learning
Assumes responsibility for own professional development through lifelong learning to ensure continued competence and performance improvement.
Performance Criteria:
- Undertakes regular self-assessment and reviews own practice through reflection, peer review, competency assessment, critical examination and evaluation.
- Instigates planned updating knowledge and skills for safe, person-centered, evidence-based practice.
- Actively engages in ongoing professional development and performance improvement of self and others.
- Maintains a professional portfolio including evidence of continued competence, professional development and improvement as required for continuing registration in relevant jurisdiction.
Promotion of Health and Patient Education
Will enable and provide information on maintaining and optimizing health and maximizing self-care.
Performance Criteria:
- Takes part in health promotion, patient education and illness prevention initiatives and contributes to their evaluation.
- Applies knowledge of resources available for health promotion and health education.
- Acts to empower the individual, family and community to adopt healthy lifestyles and concord with self-management of ill-health to promote wellbeing.
- Provides relevant health information and patient education to individuals, families and communities to assist in achieving optimal health and rehabilitation.
- Demonstrates understanding of traditional healing practices within an individual’s, family and/or community’s health belief systems and incorporates appropriately and/or provides education if adversely effecting optimum health.
- Recognizes the potential for patient education and teaching for health and wellbeing in nursing interventions.
- Applies knowledge of a variety of teaching and learning strategies with individuals, families and communities to effect and evaluate learning and concordance with treatment and advice.
