LEARNING PLAN

NURS 261

NAME: Bindu Sharma

DATE: July 29/14

Area That Requires Development:

Learning Goal # 1

Physical assessment

To be proficient with physical assessment

Strategies and Resources to be Utilized:

Evaluation Criteria:

- Review videos on Blackboard (May to august 2014) and Health

assessment textbooks, Potter and Perry, Jarvis
- Review Potter and Perry (2009)
- Review Jarvis (2009)
- Practice physical assessments in Simulation lab
-Apical pulse

I will be able to complete physical - by the mid -term next semester

assessment efficiently and
effectively

Time Line:

Nursing Skill Videos on Blackboard , http://library.humber.ca

Jarvis, C. (2009). Physical examination & health assessment (1st ed.). (A.J. Browne, J. Macdonald Jenkins, 7 M. Luctkar-Flude (Eds.). Toronto:
Saunders Elsevier.
Potter, P., Perry, A. G. (2009). Canadian fundamentals of nursing (4th ed.). Toronto: Mosby Elsevier

LEARNING PLAN
NAME: Bindu Sharma

DATE: July 29/14

Area That Requires Development:

- Organizing my clinical day

Learning Goal # 2
- to get all my documentation completed on time and take my breaks
To effectively organize my patient care

Organizational skills

Strategies and Resources to be Utilized:

-Time management skills
- Plan for each day in advance
- Start my charting after morning care and continue until the end of
shift
- Observe peers and adapt strategies that demonstrate good
organization
- Seek clinical instructors advise
- Review my plan, note areas for improvement, and modify or
change in the next shift
- Prioritize nursing tasks according to level of importance (e.g.
get a BP baseline, inquire patients pain or comfort level at
beginning of shift, assess respiratory status)
Meditech Manual as per William Osler Healthcare
William Osler Policy and Proccedures

Evaluation Criteria:
- Morning care and medication
completed on time
- Positioning , dressing and
suctioning completed according
to patient requirement
- be ready for conference on time
- My work will be completed
within prescribed times (e.g.,
medications given within hour
required)
-take all my breaks

Time Line:
-by midterm of the next
semester