NFDN 2005

Assignment 3

Report on Progress of Professional Portfolio

L-1
COMPETENCY
NUMBER , LETTER ,
AND
SUBCATEGORY .

DESCRIBE ONE

SIGNIFICANT
LEARNING
EXPERIENCE IN
THIS COURSE
RELATED TO THE

CLPNA

COMPETENCY .
PROVIDE AN
EXAMPLE .

DESCRIBE WHAT
YOU LEARNED AND
HOW IT RELATES
TO THE
COMPETENCY .
EXPLAIN WHY IT
WAS MEANINGFUL .

USE THE
PROFICIENCY
CATEGORIES TO
RATE YOUR
PROFICIENCY IN
THE CHOSEN

CLPNA

COMPETENCY .
EXPLAIN WHAT
YOU DID TO
ACHIEVE THE
COMPETENCY .

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Knowledge, Assessment, and Care of Pediatric Client/Family

During this course, I learned a lot about childhood diseases and

illnesses. Gastrointestinal disorders really stuck out to me because my
5 week old nephew was taken to emergency due to severe dehydration
that was a characteristic finding of his pyloric stenosis. Being able to
see the signs and symptoms of this specific disorder first hand, gave
me a further knowledge base on how to care for children with
disorders such as these.

I learned just how fast things such as, diarrhea and vomiting can cause
severe dehydration and sickness in the pediatric patients. I also learned
that some assessments are done differently on children, than they are
on adults. An example of this would be taking the pulse of a child
versus an adult; you take adults pulse radially, whereas you typically
take a small childs pulse apically because their radial pulses are still
to weak. This competency explains the importance of critical thinking
and a good knowledge base on pediatric patients. I think everything I
learned in this course was meaningful because it taught me so many
new things that I did not know about children, and also allowed me to
see how important it is to know your skills, assessments, and current
background of common childhood disorders because typically
pediatric patients are to young to verbalize to you what is wrong with
them. We as nurses, need to step up and know just what to do for them
to make them more comfortable, etc.
I would give myself a proficiency rating of good. I do believe I
know this competency in theory and in scenarios. I studied my
textbook, powerpoints, nursing journals online, as well as simply
googled many different disorders to form a more structured
knowledge base for myself. I hope to one day work on a pediatric
floor so that I can experience all the things I have learned in this
course, and understand everything that much more.I believe there is
always more to learn as a practical nurse, but hard work and
dedication has allowed me to learn new skills and grasp a better sense
about the pediatric side of nursing.

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Assignment 3

DESCRIBE HOW YOU

WILL APPLY THIS
LEARNING IN YOUR
CURRENT AND
FUTURE NURSING
PRACTICE.

This specific course was fascinating to me. I hope to work on a

pediatric floor one day. It may only be temportary, for a clinical
placement perhaps, but I would love to experience it regardless. I
believe I could be an asset to many pediatric patients in the future. I
love children, and it has always been a dream of mine to work with
children and help them in every way that I can. I have already learned
so much within this course, but I look forward to learning even more
in my future as a practical nurse.

Student Name: Kayla Spence

Course: NFDN 2005
Date: _May 22nd, 2015 Instructor/Tutor: Kim Harper

Report on Progress of Professional Portfolio

Marking Guide
Name: ____________________________
KEY CONTENT

MARKING GUIDE
POINTS :

0.5

0.25

Excellent

Satisfactory

Minimal

None

COMPETENCY NUMBER
Included the competency number and letter, as well
as the subcategory
SIGNIFICANT

LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Described one significant learning experience in

this course related to a CLPNA competency and
provided an example
WHAT

YOU

LEARNED

Described the significance of the learning

experience related to the competency learned

PROFICIENCY RATING
Rated self-according to Proficiency Categories in
the Learning Guide and identified what was done to
achieve it
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Assignment 3
KEY CONTENT

MARKING GUIDE
POINTS :

0.5

0.25

NURSING PRACTICE

Described how the knowledge and experience will

be applied in current and future nursing practice
TOTAL
Comments:Well done. KH

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o.5

4.5
/5