NFDN 2003

Major Competency Area: D

Category: D-4 Client and Family Nursing
Communication & Interpersonal Skills.
Teaching
D-4-1: Demonstrate basic knowledge of teaching and learning principles and techniques.
In Nursing Foundations 2003, I feel that I
especially learned more client and family
teaching. While Ive learned how this
process works over the past Nursing
Foundations courses, I felt our practice and
increased knowledge in NFDN 2003 really
helped me articulate more meaning and
Significant Learning Experience:
information to someone who may not have
Describe ONE significant learning
the same medical knowledge as we student
experience in this course related to a
practical nurses are gaining. Recently, in
CLPNA competency. Provide an example.
my NFDN 2003 lab, we went to the NISC
lab to provide care to STAN. My role in
this exercise was to remove the clients
indwelling foley catheter. I was effectively
able to explain to my patient what I was
doing, why, and future things to be
prepared for and expect following the
procedure.
With experience, I was able to answer my
patients questions (coming from my
instructor, speaking for the patient). I was
confident in my knowledge of the care I
was giving and the background
information of my clients condition in
What You Learned:
having a catheter, which in turn made me
Describe what you learned and how it
confident in performing the skill. I felt
relates to a competency. Explain why it
proud to be able to voice to my client the
was meaningful.
encompassing information to the skill and
was even more elated when I received
praise in the review portion of the NISC
lab scenario from my instructor and fellow
students for how I had communicated and
taught my client effectively and
professionally.
Proficiency Rating:
As of right now, I rate myself under
Use the Proficiency Categories below to Good: understands competency in theory
rate your proficiency in the chosen CLPNA and in scenarios and nursing practice. I
competency. What did you do to achieve
believe my theory and lab lessons on the
this competency?
importance of teaching in client care are
showing me how to perform this critical
competency. The way Im able to learn the
theory behind a skill/competency in class
and apply it to hands-on and critical
thinking in lab practice and scenarios

Nursing Practice:
Describe how you will apply this learning
in your current and future nursing practice?

makes me understanding validated.

I firmly believe that client and family
teaching is highly important in the care my
client will receive and continue to use as
they carry on with their recovery.
Continuing to ensure my knowledge before
entering a situation where Im performing
a skill or need to answer clients questions,
I will always first my confident in my own
abilities and understanding. In working my
way up to the Excellent rating in this
category, I would like to work on my
teaching abilities becoming more seamless.
I will do so by practicing for my CIA,
incorporating more teaching in practice in
lab, performing teaching on family
members, and practicing the
organizational plans with different
scenarios to teach on. In the future I will
always leave my client feeling self-assure
that Ive left them with knowledge on their
situation by having them reiterate back to
me some of the teaching and by
communicating with each other before,
during, and after any procedure/skills
performed as an LPN.