Alignment
Alignment ensures our goals, our actions, our plans, and our strategies align with the goals, culture, values, and mission of our organization. Understanding how alignment works enables us to ensure the plans we enact align with the competencies and domains outlined by organization.
In this Assignment, you will have the opportunity to practice aligning competencies and domains to knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Resources
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
WEEKLY RESOURCES
To prepare:
· Review the Nursology table on pages 102–104 in Bemker and Whitehead (2024)
· Review the AONL Core Competencies
· Review AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies
The Assignment (Template)
Complete the table provided by aligning an AONL Domain and Competency and an AACN Domain and Competency with Dr. Fawcett’s Nursology Model knowledge, attitude, or skill. Be sure to identify each AONL and AACN selection and indicate if it best aligns with knowledge, attitude, or skill.
NURS 8513: Alignment Table Template
Student Name:
Directions: Review the table on pages 102-104 in Bemker & Whitehead (2024), the AONL Core Competencies and the AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing found in module learning resources.
Complete the table below by aligning an AONL Domain and Competency and an AACN Domain and Competency with Dr. Fawcett’s Nurseology Model knowledge, attitude and/or skill. In each column, identify the AONL and AACN selection and indicate if it best aligns with a Nurseology K, A, or S.
Knowledge
Attitudes
Skills
AONL Domain and Competency
AACN’s The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education domains and competencies.
K1 Identifies leadership skills
essential to the practice of nursing
A1 Recognizes the role of the nurse as leader
S1 Integrates leadership skills of systems thinking, communication, and facilitating change in meeting patient care needs
K2 Understands critical thinking and problem-solving processes
A2 Values critical thinking processes in the management of
client care situations
S2a Uses systematic approaches in problem solving
S2b Demonstrates purposeful, informed, outcome-oriented thinking
K3a Understands human behavior, individual and group performance
K3b Identifies the roles and skills of the health care team
A3a Recognizes the centrality of a interprofessional team approach to patient care
A3b Values the diversity and inclusion of perspectives and
expertise of each member of the health care team
S3a Demonstrates ability to effectively participate within health care teams
S3b Promotes a productive culture by valuing individuals
and their contributions
S3c Models effective communication and promotes cooperative behaviors
S3d Demonstrates tolerance for different viewpoints
K4 Understands the need to
monitor one’s own feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and use this information to guide thinking and actions
A4a Recognizes that personal attitudes, beliefs and experiences
influence one’s leadership style
A4b Recognizes the limits of one’s own role and competence and, where necessary, consults with other health professionals
with the appropriate competencies
A4c Values fairness and open mindedness
A4d Values an environment encouraging creative thinking and innovations
A4e Values courage as a leadership skill
S4a Clarifies biases, inclinations, strengths, and self-limitations
S4b Adapts to stressful situations
S4c Seeks appropriate mentors
S4d Acts as an effective role model and resource for students and support staff
S4e Demonstrates ability to stand up for beliefs and does not avoid challenges
K5 Explains the importance,
necessity, and process of change
A5a Recognizes one’s own reaction to change and strives to remain open to new ideas and approaches
A5b Values new ideas and interventions to improve patient care
S5a Implements change to improve patient care
S5b Anticipates consequences, plans ahead, and changes approaches to improve outcomes
S5c Participates in the change process to improve patient care, the work environment, and patient and staff satisfaction
K6 Understands the principles of accountability and delegation
A6a Accepts accountability and responsibility for one’s own professional judgment and actions
A6b Accepts accountability for nursing care delegated to others
A6c Recognizes the value of delegation
S6 Delegates selected nursing activities to unlicensed personnel to maintain or improve the patient’s health and wellbeing, or promote comfort
K7 Understands the complexity of the health care delivery system including how patient care services are organized and financed, and
how reimbursement is structured
A7a Recognizes the impact of sociocultural, economic, legal, and political factors Influencing health care delivery and practice
A7b Values the roles of provider groups across the continuum of
care
S7a Acts as a champion for health care consumers and quality outcomes
S7b Understands and articulates
individual organization’s financial drivers
S7c Demonstrates an understanding the complexity involved in decision making
in Health care relating to population management across the continuum of care
K8 Understand how health care issues are identified, how health care policy is both developed and changed
A8 Recognizes how the health care process can be influenced
through the efforts of nurses and other health care professionals, as well as lay and special advocacy groups
S8 Participates as a nursing professional in political processes and grassroots legislative efforts to influence health care policy
K9 Understands the need to
withstand, recover or grow in the face of stressors and changing demands
A9 Recognizes the need to think about the future instead of the
past
S9a Seeks opportunities for improvement and ongoing learning
S9b Demonstrates ability to work with ambiguity and tension
S9c Focuses energy to achieve goals and outcomes
K10 Articulates the impact of one’s own leadership style in committing individuals to action
A10 Recognizes the value of leadership to empower others and
enhance collaboration and shared decision making
S10 Uses group discussion, agreement and consensus building to enhance collaboration and shared decision making
Retrieved from https://www.mass.edu/nahi/documents/NOFRNCompetencies_updated_March2016.pdf