I would have to say that my “ahas” from the past five weeks have to be the way that I learned that everything that I do in my current role, can be enhanced with the things that I have learned so far from starting my role transition into professional nursing. I have learn that it takes clear defined roles in committee to ensure success, I’ve learned that learning others philosophy of nursing helped me to development/ pave the road for my own philosophy of nursing. Over the past weeks I learned that it takes past experiences to help us understand where nursing received its foundations and has grown to be an ever changing dynamic. Over the last several weeks I have observed several co-workers performing their many job functions as research nurses, one thing that I have learned is that the BSN handle patient care issues differently, they are better organized and they used a systematic approach when coordinating patient care issues. Since starting this program, I must say I have gained a drive to want to do my job better, to become a better nurse, to use my critical thinking skills to problem solve different obstacles along the way. My understanding as a whole has changed I rationalize my decisions and prioritize the need of tasks more efficiently.
Knowledge that I have gain would be, how to give constructive feedback in a way that others are able to receive feedback in a positive way. I’ve learned to not only retrieve peer-reviewed articles, but to summarize and analyze them in a way that I never understood before. I learned to organize materials in this course in order of importance, urgent, non- urgent, and also just because something is not urgent on my list, it may urgent for my supervisor or other members of my team. I ‘ve also learned the importance of committee’s and the function that they serve, which is to improve patient care outcome measures and ensure that the department functions at the best achievable level.