Core Competencies for Nurses in the 21st century

Part 1
QSEB set objectives with the goal to meet the challenge of readying future nurses that will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to incessantly enhancing the quality and safety of the healthcare systems. QSEN competencies comprise of patient-oriented care, quality, safety, informatics, collaboration and teamwork, and evidence-centered practice (QSEN, 2014). These competencies can be carried out in the professional nursing setting. With respect to patient centered care, the professional nurse should guarantee patient education and experience. This can be through asking them about themselves to be comfortable with the processes and also explaining to them in simple terms about their procedures to ensure they have a better grasp. As for teamwork collaboration, this includes working in tandem with other teams to facilitate better patient care and also ascertain various care coordinators and personnel that are distinctive to the needs of the patient and the medical team. The third competency is patient-centered care. The professional nurse is expected to ask medical questions, finding information to answer it, critically evaluate the information, and incorporate the evaluated evidence with individual clinical expertise and preferences of the patient.
Quality improvement is another core competency. The professional nurse is expected to make an assessment of the health care services within the facility and work towards the enhancement of such processes by which the services are rendered to clients in the health care setting. Safety and informatics are the other core competencies. The professional nurse is duty bound to minimize the risk of harm faced by patients and also medical doctors to make sure that the system is effective and also improve performance of an individual. Lastly, with the increase in technology in the present day, the professional nurse is expected to not only be up to par with such information and technology, but also be able to incorporate it and communicate it to decrease the level of mistakes and also facilitate decision making.
Part 2
The QSEN competencies influence my individual practice of nursing in different ways. They act as a guidance of how I am supposed to conduct myself as a nurse within the health care setting. The competencies help me as a health care professional to be able to meet the needs of the patient, enhance the medical processes for better health care and advancing nursing systems and undertakings. In my own practice, as a health care provider, I constantly have numerous encounters with patients. I am constantly in an endeavor of understanding how to provide effective care so as to ensure that the patient is satisfied with the health care I provide and also enhance their health. Secondly, I learn the increased significance of coming up with individualized treatment plans for patients through cooperation and collaborations with other personnel such as the physician, pharmacist, and dietician. I also understand the significance of enhancing the quality of care that is rendered to patients. For instance, this includes perceiving the importance of enhancing different aspects such as health process improvement and understanding health care problems. Appraising the prevailing practices and comparing them with pertinent better practices is an ideal way of ascertaining prospects for improvement. In informatics, the automation of certain health care procedures facilitate the reduction of errors, making decisions, and in the management of knowledge and information.
There are different ways in which this information can be shared with colleagues. This can be done practically through actions and activities to guarantee increased understanding. In addition, the information can also be shared through nursing journals, periodicals and articles that provide extensive elucidations of the competencies and their applicability within the health care setting (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2016).






References
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2016). 2015 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report and 5th anniversary update on the National Quality Strategy, pp. 1-27. (https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr15/2015nhqdr.pdf
QSEN. (2017). QSEN Competencies. Retrieved from: http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/