Learning outcomes and their classification levels

¶ … Christian worldview to integrate beliefs, values, ethics and service in personal and professional life.

The ways things are perceived is a product of our personal worldviews. All our values and ethics are all products of this worldview. These things we hold dear to our heart influence our behavior and our behavior reflect on our general ways of dealing with people from within and outside our world. On a general perspective, ethics refer to a set of principles that are products of morals which dictate the decisions of a person or group of person. Religious beliefs and values are always a part of everyone's outlook (Fox, 1990). These values cannot be separated from ones life when professionalism is concerned. These, I have come across in my professional life. There have been cases when a certain prescription that is supposed to alleviate the ill-health of one of my patients was rebuffed with fisticuffs. Although astonished as I was, I took time to find out from the patient the reason for such action. I was bamboozled to find out that her action was a product of her values and this really impacted on her general belief.

II. Provides nursing care utilizing professional knowledge and core competencies (critical thinking, communication, assessment and technical skills) derived from a foundation of nursing science, general education and religious studies.

As a trained nurse, I and any other nurse are tutored to exhibit the highest level of competence that is available and acceptable in the nursing practice. The acquired knowledge from the medical school has really prepared me beforehand on the utilization of critical thinking in clinical issues; on how to communicate with the patients as; this is the hallmark of treatment procedure. Before any manner of treatment could be effected, there must be communication between the nurse and the patients and this, I have utilized in making my patients feel free to make me better understand their conditions. My high level of communication enables me to assess their health status and the application of my technical skill in accurately diagnosing their ailments. This further makes it possible to treat the patients accordingly. While dispensing medication on the patients, my religiously trained mind assesses the acceptable form of treatment by the patient in consonance with scientific training I acquired in the nursing school.

III. Demonstrates initiative for continual personal and professional growth and development.

One thing that never stops in life is change. I am an advocate of this concept. The desire and necessity for personal and professional growth in my career is non-negotiable. The very core best practices in nursing is such that mandates it for continual seeking of more knowledge which in turn leads to growth in every facet of ones life, be it personal or professional. One of the best practices in nursing is for one to assemble team member that are very good and also, a hitch free response team (Shirley, 2010). Another of such best practice is to correctly identify the patients. These and many more of these practices have become my norms because of the allowance for personal and professional growth.

IV. Acts as a patient and family educator and advocate to promote optimal health and well being.

Having being trained thoroughly in nursing school has afforded me the required knowledge to know that the patients' concern is paramount in the filed of medicine. In my capacity as an experienced nurse, I have noticed that preventive medicine is far much easier. In order to make this a realization, I have taken the challenge to educate my patients on how to be and remain healthy. They, in turn help me to disseminate the information and this has really helped both my patients and me.