LEARNING PLAN 1

Professional Portfolio Assignment- Part B

Frankie Radcliffe

Practical Nursing, Vancouver Island University

PNUR 112: Health Promotion II

Cindy Davidson

February 6, 2023
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Topic/ Focus area What I know about the What I need to learn How I am going to come
topic more knowledgeable

Cultural safety: I know that cultural I will learn to be aware and This website outlines
Addressing power safety is recognizing handle my own biases of how to overcome bias
Imbalances within the and addressing power different cultures by self using the 5 R’s which are
healthcare system for imbalances within the reflecting on my practice, reflection, respect,
Indigenous people healthcare system. I do thoughts and communicating regard, relevance,
not know much about openly without judgment or resiliency which I have
Learning Objective: Indigenous culture being dismissive of one's read and saved this to my
Demonstrate that I will be other than that they feelings. My main focus will computer order to
aware of power face intergenerational be on the Indigenous continue to re-read:
imbalances with trauma from peoples of the island, as I https://www.the-hospitali
Indigenous people in suppression and live on Indigenous land, the st.org/hospitalist/article/1
healthcare and recognize racism. They also hold Cowichan valley. I will learn 36529/leadership-training
my own shortcomings ceremonies such as about their healing practices /battling-biases-5-rs-cultu
related to cultural safety sweat lodges and (ceremonies, rituals) and ral-humility
related to indigenous healing circles. They cultural barriers they face in
people and alter them in have sacred herbs, one healthcare. I will look into Here is a BCCNM
order to provide safe and of them being tobacco, their history in order to website about Indigenous
unbiased care. which is the most understand the hardships cultural safety which is a
sacred. In order to they faced and how it practice standard for all
have cultural safety applies or hinders providing licensed healthcare
you must have cultural care. providers outlined by
awareness, sensitivity, BCCNM that must be
competency and practiced.
humility. Cultural https://www.bccnm.ca/R
humility is the most N/PracticeStandards/Pag
important aspect of es/CulturalSafetyHumilit
cultural safety as it is y.aspx
life long self reflection
on your actions and There is a webinar about
thoughts. It allows Indigenous two spirit and
you to provide care Indigiqueer peoples and
without judgment. how to support them with
healthcare and
community.
https://www.icscollaborat
ive.com/webinars/two-spi
rit-and-indigiqueer-cultur
al-safety-considerations-f
or-relational-practice-and
-policy
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Topic/ Focus area What I know about the
topic
Self-care Caring for yourself is
Caring for yourself first important because if you
in to ensure you are work for 24 hours and
always fit to practice take another shift you are
putting your patients at
Learning Objective: risk for medication errors,
I will learn to prioritize forgetting to check the
my needs in order to be in breaks, reading the chart
the best mental and wrong etc. It also affects
physical state to care for your mental health which
patients to provide best you can take out on your
practice. patients by emotionally or
physically abusing or
neglecting them. You
must keep your mental
and physical health as
your first priority because
you must be fit to practice
to care for patients
properly.
Everyone’s self care is
different and it is a
learning curve for many.
For myself I find going to
the gym and hiking makes
me feel better mentally
and physically. Last
summer I worked 40 days
straight from anywhere
between 8-12 hours. I was
burnt out and kept
agreeing to take shifts
because I was scared my
boss would be upset with
me. This took a toll on my
mental and physical
health, I hurt my back and
was very down on myself.
3
What I need to learn How am I going to be more
knowledgeable
I need to learn how I “Welcoming
can cope with anxiety Self-Compassion, Finding
and stress in a healthy Support and Self-Care '' is
way to keep myself a video and powerpoint
mentally stable, as well presentation which teaches
as to learn how to say you about self compassion
no when necessary. I and how it integrates with
need to learn how to be selfcare and its importance
assertive and put within nursing.
myself first in order to https://nursing.rutgers.edu/
avoid overworking ce/course-catalog/healing-o
myself or for the safety urselves-while-healing-oth
of my patients. ers/
Learning the critical
reasons behind self This website gives lots of
care, why it's done and tools to help develop a self
helpful tips on how to care regimen and how it
do it, are essential for relates to all aspects of our
my future nursing health as its more than just
career. physical aspects. It gives
the crisis line in case of
emergencies called “life
Line” which is 988.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/
health/topics/caring-for-yo
ur-mental-health
BCCNM states that self
care is a professional
responsibility that must be
upheld, we are responsible
for our physical,
psychological, and
emotional fitness.
https://www.bccnm.ca/RP
N/learning/professional/Pa
ges/fitness_to_practice_sel
fcare.aspx
.
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Topic/ Focus Area What I know about the What I need to learn How am I going to be more
topic knowledgeable

Mentoring I know very little about Things I need to know Here is a 1 hour webinar I
The importance of mentoring. I do know in order to become a watched about mentorship in
mentoring in nursing it is an important good mentor are: active nursing. It says the 6 steps in
aspect of nursing as it listening; how to order to create a peer nursing
Learning objective: can develop bad or identify someone’s group. Students talk about
I will learn to be a role good habits which goals and the reality of there experiences as being a
model and mentor to shape the path of your what can be done to mentor and mentee.
others in order to ensure career. Mentoring can achieve those goals, and http://cnei-icie.casn.ca/our-p
best practice. As well as help build confidence, being encouraging rograms/past-webinars-cours
outline the importance skills, and competency whilst being able to es/creating-a-nursing-peer-m
of mentoring in the whether you are a new give constructive entorship-program-benefits-t
workplace whether it be nurse or advancing in criticism in an o-students-health-and-wellbe
peers, students, and your career. You have insightful way. I will be ing/
colleagues. to have a certain a mentee first during
attitude in order to be a my preceptorship. From This fact sheet outlines the
good mentor: there I can learn key principles and roles of
nonjudgmental, strategies that I like and mentors like guiding and
patient, and the ability what I do not like about supportive of students and
to see when my mentor's style. the roles of the mentees like
constructive criticism Learning the being receptive to feedback
is necessary and give it importance of and reflection of their
to your mentee. mentoring in nursing practice.
will be my main focus. https://www.nanb.nb.ca/wp-c
ontent/uploads/2022/11/NA
NB-FactSheet-Mentoring-Ju
ne21-E.pdf

“What makes a good

mentor” is the main thing I
focused on in this article
which are: positivity,
tolerance, patience, insight,
clarity, commitment.
https://www.waldenu.edu/on
line-masters-programs/maste
r-of-science-in-nursing/resou
rce/five-benefits-of-mentors
hip-in-nursing
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References

British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives: ​Caring for yourself. (n.d.). BCCNM.

Retrieved February 6, 2023, from

https://www.bccnm.ca/RPN/learning/professional/Pages/fitness_to_practice_selfcare.asp

British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives: Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural

Humility, and Anti-Racism. (n.d.). BCCNM. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from

https://www.bccnm.ca/RN/PracticeStandards/Pages/CulturalSafetyHumility.aspx

Hickman, D. (2021, December 19). Battling biases with the 5 Rs of cultural humility.(n.d). The

Hospitalist. Retrieved, February 6, 2023, from

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/136529/leadership-training/battling-bias

es-5-rs-cultural-humility

Indigenous Cultural Safety: National Indigenous Cultural Safety Learning Series. (n.d.).

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https://www.icscollaborative.com/webinars/two-spirit-and-indigiqueer-cultural-safety-co

nsiderations-for-relational-practice-and-policy

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Caring for Your Mental Health. (n.d.). National

Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Retrieved February 6, 2023, from

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/caring-for-your-mental-health

Nurses Association of New Brunswick. (2021, June 12). Fact Sheet: Mentoring. Nanb.Nb.Ca.

Retrieved February 6, 2023, from https://www.nanb.nb.ca/?s=Fact+Sheet+Mentoring

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Rutgers School of Nursing. (2020, December 21). Healing Ourselves While Healing Others:

Nursing During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Retrieved February 6, 2023, from

https://nursing.rutgers.edu/ce/course-catalog/healing-ourselves-while-healing-others/

The Canadian Nurse Educator Institute (CNEI). Creating a Nursing Peer Mentorship Program:

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