Assignment: Stages of Clinical Competence

Assignment: Stages of Clinical Competence

Question Description
Select any three of Benner’s Seven Domains of Nursing Practice listed below to describe a recent experience that relates to the domain you selected:
Helping Role
Teaching/Coaching
Diagnostic/Monitoring
Management of Rapidly Changing Situations
Administering and Monitoring Interventions
Monitors and Ensures the Quality of Practice
Organizational and Work Role Competencies
Note: Benner’s Generic Domains of Practice can be adapted for use in all areas of nursing.

Describe an experience for each Domain of Nursing Practice you selected.
Identify your competence level using Benner’s Levels of Proficiency (i.e., novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, or expert practitioner);
To help you describe your experiences, review the exemplars for each domain of practice provided in chapters 4 -10 (Benner, 2001);
In describing the three experiences, use the appropriate criteria to outline the description of your experience, and to validate your level of competence. For example, criteria for the level of Expert Practitioner includes extensive experience, instantaneous grasp of most salient features of a situation, and professional instincts that lead to intuitive decision making and judgment. Expert Practitioners anticipate the unexpected, will still use analytical skills to process info in new situations, perform fluidly and effortlessly, and are respected by physicians.
Explain why your behaviors demonstrate the level or stage of competence you defined. If your behaviors are not at the Expert Level, describe what you would need to do to advance to the next level.
Use the Benner Competency Assessment APA template for this paper.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

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The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.