Self-Awareness and Self-Assessment

Self-Assessment

• Self-assessment is the evaluation of one's work and progress.
• Self-awareness, according to Boyle (2005), is understanding your own beliefs, thoughts, motivations, and recognizing how they affect others.
• Self-awareness helps students recognize strengths and weaknesses.
• It promotes responsibility and independence.
• Self-assessment is a tool used to evaluate learning quality and prepare for problem solving and life-long learning.

Key Areas of Self-Awareness

• Personality traits
• Personal values
• Habits
• Emotions
• Psychological needs

5 Pillars of Self-Awareness

• Emotional Intelligence:
  • Recognize and diagnose your own emotions
  • Control your emotions
  • Recognize and diagnose the emotions displayed by others
• Core Self-Evaluation:
  • Self-Esteem: The extent to which people see themselves as capable, successful, and worthy.
  • Locus of Control: Beliefs about the extent to which people can control their own experiences.
    • Internal Locus: "I was the cause of the success or failure for the change."
    • External Locus: "Something else caused the success or failure."
• Values:
  • Cultural Values: Patterns of values shared among people in various countries.
  • Personal Values: What people tend to value in their decisions, both standards of conduct and desired end goals.
• Learning Style: An individual's inclination to perceive, interpret, and respond to information in a certain way.
• Meaning: Defined by a person's engaged interaction, interpretation and understanding of the situation.

How to Create Self-Awareness

• Seek feedback from others
• Reflect on one's own feelings and behaviors
• Take self-scoring assessments
• Self-analysis requires asking yourself:
  • Do you like where you are and what you have become?
  • Have you ever wished life was different?
  • Can your relationship improve?
  • Are you producing the results you want?

Self-Analysis: Identify

• Areas you normally excel in
• Areas you normally face difficulties
• People, events, and things you like the most and those you dislike
• People, events that bring you happiness/sadness
• The nature and extent of openness you have with others

Theory of Nursing: Benner

• Described nursing as "enabling conditions of connection & concern," emphasizing a strong emotional environment in the nurse-client relationship.
• Nursing encompasses the study of the lived experience of health, illness, disease and the relationship among these three elements.

3 Key Elements of Benner's Theory

• Person: People do not come defined into the world but are defined in the course of living their lives.
• Health: Described as not just the absence of disease and illness.
  • Illness: The human experience of dysfunction and loss.
  • Disease: What can be assessed at a physical level.
• Well-being: The human experience of wholeness and health.

5 Levels of Nursing Experience (Benner)

• Novice: Beginners, taught general rules and perform tasks with limited and inflexible behavior. They follow instructions.
• Advance Beginner: Those with some experience who recognize recurring patterns allowing them to start formulating principles based on those experiences.
• Competent: Nurses with 2-3 years of experience who have learned the rules and procedures. Their actions are based on deliberate planning.
• Proficient: Nurses who perceive and interpret situations to respond appropriately. They have developed situational awareness.
• Expert: Experienced nurses who no longer rely on principles or rules to manage situations. they perform fluidly, flexibly, and with high proficiency.

Patient Care Delivery Systems

• Nursing Process in the Delivery of Nursing Care Services: Used to provide quality patient care over time.
• Creates a plan of care based on the patient's needs and health goals.
• Patient Classification System (PCS): Categorizes patients based on needs.
  • Criteria for Classification: Factors such as acuity, complexity of care, and anticipated outcomes.

Advantages of Patient Care Delivery Systems

• Efficient use of various skill levels.
• Promotes collaboration within the healthcare team.

Disadvantages of Patient Care Delivery Systems

• Fragmented care if communication is poor.
• Requires strong leadership skills.

Patient Care Delivery System Types

• Functional Nursing: Staff are assigned specific tasks rather than individual patients.
• Team Nursing: A team leader oversees a small group of healthcare workers who care for a group of patients.
• Patient Centered Care: Focuses on meeting the holistic needs of the patient by involving them in care decisions.
• Interprofessional Collaboration: Teams of various healthcare professionals working together for comprehensive care.
• Telehealth Nursing: Uses technology to provide care remotely for patients.

Types of Business Writing

• Instructional: Provides guidance through the steps to complete a task. Examples include user manuals and memos that outline task completion methods.
• Informational: Delivers information to the reader. This could include memos, reports, or newsletters.
• Persuasive: Attempts to convince the reader to take a specific action or adopt a particular point of view.