What is the importance for each competency in the nursing profession?

A. Safe and Quality Nursing Care

- The patient’s safety is a top priority in the nursing profession therefore, providing safe and quality
nursing care is important. Safe and Quality Nursing Care entails making sound decisions for the patient
and their health while considering their uniqueness as an individual, formulating safe and effective
nursing care plans, creating a comfortable and safe environment for the patient where they could work
toward achieving health, having the sense of urgency for anything a patient might need due to their
condition.

B. Communication
- Communication allows the nurse to establish rapport with the patient and build their trust, it is also a
way for them to create a connection which can allow them to work better together toward restoring
health. Moreover, communication is also key for us to educate the patient about their condition as well
as their loved ones so that they can become aware. Other than the nurse-client interaction,
communication is also key for a nurse to be able to work with other health professionals who are more
than capable of helping the life that was placed in their care, it allow them to exchange and share ideas,
express agreements and disagreements and conclude with the best care plan for the patient.

C. Collaboration and Teamwork

- As nurses it is important to develop collaborative skills since in the medical setting, nurses do not work
alone while caring for their patient; they work with other health professionals in order to give the patient
the best quality of care they can give them. Working with others is vital in the field of medicine since this
allows for all aspects of the patient’s health to be explored which is key to gain a deep understanding of
what they truly need to get back on their feet.

D. Health Education
- Health Education is an important competency in the nursing profession as it is through this competency
that the nurse is able to educate and raise the patient’s awareness and understanding of their disease;
thus answering their questions which could possibly alleviate their anxiousness and uncertainties.
Health education also increases the awareness of the people around the patient, and this allows them
to know whether they are vulnerable to the disease and if so, they are able to strategize and mitigate its
consequences before it befalls them.

E. Research
- Research is an unending feat in the medical space. Although we are nurses, we are still humans and
there may be times when we do not know something that might be concerning our patient and thus we
do research to learn about it, to discover and explore it and be supplied with new knowledge. And it
does not stop there, research in nursing could also possible mean being capable of contributing to new
medical knowledge.

F. Quality Improvement
- As a profession that handles lives for a living, to strive to become better is a must. To simply be
satisfied with what it currently there, knowing that there could be something better is just not how a
nurse should work, a nurse should always strive to pursue improvement and betterment and one way to
achieve this is through building experience throughout the profession and realizing and recognizing
what you could have done better and then actually try to do better the next time.
G. Legal Responsibility
- It is very crucial for nurses to recognize that they have a legal responsibility toward the institution they
work with and most especially to the patient placed in their care. Though nurses are given the leeway to
decide what is best for the care of their patient, there are legal laws that still need to be followed in
order to not jeopardize the patient’s security and the institution’s reputation.

H. Ethico-Moral Responsibility
- Respect is a value that allows society that live in peace and harmony. It is one of the main things that
keep a relationship strong and stable. This value is extremely important between the nurse-patient
relationship. It is important for the patient to respect the nurse and his/her job, it is their ethico-moral
responsibility to respect their boundaries, their decisions, their choices for them as it is only for their
betterment but this should go both ways, as nurses, it is our responsibility to respect our patient’s
uniqueness, most especially the decisions they make regarding their health in relation to their culture,
beliefs, opinion, boundaries, and values.

I. Personal and Professional Development

- As humans, while we are lead to believe that we stop growing at 18 or 21 years old, I believe that we
never stop growing and we also ever stop learning and discovering new things around us and within us.
As years go by in our profession, we slowly become better and we grow and this personal development
of ours only happens once we realize our lapses and what is lacking within us, and doing something to
make up for them. This crucial in the nursing profession as this development within ourselves allows us
to take care of our patients better and give them the best quality of care.

J. Management of Resources and Environment

- In the nursing profession, organization is crucial. It is extremely important for a nurse to be clean and
organized with their resources so that they can maximize whatever they have in order to attend the
patient’s needs. This competency is also important in the sense that it equips the nurse to become
capable of still providing safe and quality patient care despite of the resources given to them.

K. Record Management
- Nursing involves a lot of paperwork and charts, similar to the previous competency it is important and
crucial for the patient to be organized and tidy most especially with records and paperwork in order to
avoid any mix up and confusion that might put the patient, the institution and even the nurse in
jeopardy.