Answer the questions as a scenario. Use PAO for each question. Problem, Action and outcome.
1. Practice: Practice/Ethics/Resource Utilization
Describe your experience related to:
• Providing care to clients in a professional practice setting.
• Applying the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation) to systems or processes at the unit/team/work group, and program/service level to improve care. Indicate your experience guiding and directing others who provide care.
• Making decisions and taking actions in an ethical manner, including your responsibility/accountability for nursing judgments and action.
• Safeguarding client privacy and confidentiality. Providing care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner, respecting the values and belief of members of all cultures.
• Identifying potential problems involving resources and/or safety. Describe how you managed the situation and the outcome.
2. Professional Development: (Education/Career Development/Performance)
Describe your experience related to:
• Attending educational programs to improve clinical knowledge and enhance role performance of self and others
• Assessing educational needs to implement program or service practice changes
• Evaluating the performance of yourself and others
• Using professional standards of care and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities
Applicant Experience:
3. Collaboration: (Collaboration/Collegiality)
Describe your experience related to:
• Collaborating with others to identify, analyze, and resolve problems affecting care using the group process.
• Serving as a preceptor and/or mentor
• Establishing professional relationships with peers and seeking out colleagues for mutual information exchange.
• Making sustained contributions to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others by sharing your expertise within and/or outside the health care facility
Applicant Experience:
4. Scientific Inquiry: (Quality of Care and Research)
Describe your experience related to:
• Systematically evaluating and improving the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice and health care delivery
• Identifying a problem area in nursing practice.
• Initiating/participating in quality improvement that result in improved outcomes at the unit and program level
• Using research to validate and/or change work group practice
• Collaborating with others in research activities to improve care
Applicant Experience:
