Report on Progress of Professional Portfolio

IDENTIFY K-2-4 Demonstrate knowledge and ability to provide pre-operative

COMPETENCY care to client prior to emergency or elective caesarean section
NUMBER, LETTER including: ensure consent is signed, continual monitoring and care,
& SUBCATEGORY infusion therapy, teaching and coaching and catheterization.

DESCRIBE ONE Throughout my nursing education, I realize that patient education is

SIGNIFICANT one of the most vital components of nursing care. Nurses are at the
LEARNING forefront of client-care, therefore professional success is directly
EXPERIENCE IN related to providing our clients with the information and tools to
THIS COURSE identify potential risks and complications. Having undergone 2
RELATED TO THE emergency caesarians, I realize that I wasnt nearly as informed as I
CLPNA should have been regarding appropriate home care following the
COMPETENCY. birth of my children. I was younger granted, but I was also nervous
PROVIDE AN and felt like I was a stranger to the process rather than an active
EXAMPLE participant in one of the greatest experiences of my life.

DESCRIBE WHAT This is meaningful because most post-operative caesarians

YOU LEARNED AND complications occur following discharge of the patient. New
HOW IT RELATES mothers need to be aware of potential bleeding complications,
TO THE interventions related to constipation and signs and symptoms of
COMPETENCY. infection and or blood clots. Its therefore, imperative that new
EXPLAIN WHY IT mothers and their newborns are armed with the pertinent
WAS MEANINGFUL. information to ensure optimal health.
USE THE I would rate my proficiency as good because there is always room
PROFICIENCY for improvement. I feel as though my subjective experiences and
CATEGORIES TO current education enables me to confidently provide new mothers
RATE YOUR with the risk identifiers and interventions associated with post-
PROFICIENCY IN operative complications during their hospital stay and upon
THE CHOSEN
discharge. I feel fortunate that I did not have any complications
CLPNA
COMPETENCY. following my deliveries because if I had, I wouldnt have been
EXPLAIN WHAT mentally and physically prepared to either identify the problem and
WAS DONE TO seek appropriate medical attention. For that reason, the strive to
ACHIEVE THE teach others is profoundly important to me.
COMPETENCY.
DESCRIBE HOW As previously mentioned, my personal and soon to be professional
YOU WILL APPLY experiences will be great contributors to my role as a nurse. I can
THIS LEARNING IN relate to the scared and nervous mother, because I was one and as a
YOUR CURRENT nurse I am afforded the opportunity to ease new mothers into their
AND FUTURE newly devised roles by providing them with the tools and skills to
NURSING effectively identify potential problems pre-and post-surgery.
PRACTICE

Student Name: Jocelyn Glidden

Course: NFDN 2005

Date: December 7th, 2016

Instructor/Tutor: Tracy Ross