Evaluate the importance of personal and professional lifelong learning

Evaluate the importance of personal and professional lifelong learning

To pursue practice excellence, a nurse must commit to lifelong learning including academic, experiential and emotional growth personally and professionally.

Competency

Evaluate the importance of personal and professional lifelong learning, including the interrelationships of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment.

Instructions

As a BSN prepared Registered Nurse, you are due to renew your license for the first time. You and your manager overhear other nurses complaining about the continuing education requirement. Your manager suggests you create a handout for the staff lounge bulletin board regarding the importance of lifelong learning as it pertains to clinical reasoning and judgment. To help you get started, she suggests you read the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010) so that you will understand “why” it is so important.

Content

Read Section 4 of the IOM report (2010) titled Transforming Education here and respond to the following questions in a Word document.

• Describe an initiative that resulted from the IOM report.
• Discuss the impact of the identified initiative.
• Summarize the interrelationships that exist between lifelong learning, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment.

Format

• Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
• Logical, original and insightful
• Professional organization, style, and mechanics in APA format
• Submit document through Grammarly to correct errors before submission