Focused Learning Activity for Developing a Professional Identity in Nursing

Overview

Students will integrate professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes central to developing a professional identity in nursing.

How to Use

Focused Learning Activity (FLA)

1. Competency: Employ a participatory approach in nursing care.

2. KSAs

a. Knowledge

1. Define empathy in a patient care context

2. Recognize that nurses and health professionals are important influences in conveying and expressing empathy to patients and families

3. Articulate the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion as expressed in today’s healthcare environment

4. Describe the differences between cultural sensitivity and cultural humility in a patient care context

b. Skills

1. Practice describing the difference between cultural sensitivity and cultural humility with a peer student

2. Practice active listening skills to use when expressing empathy with the patient and family

3. Practice communication with peers as you convey a value of diversity, equity, and inclusion

4. Communicate and document your expression of empathy on the documentation form

5. Communicate and document how you advocated for practices that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion on the documentation form

6. Document how you demonstrated cultural sensitivity and cultural humility in a practice situation on the documentation form

c. Attitudes

1. Acknowledge the innate value of each human being in patient and family encounters

2. Value the therapeutic use of self that comes from communicating a well-understood participatory approach to nursing

3. Resources needed for this assignment:

a. a patient assignment

b. a computer or electronic device to use as a guide for conversation

c. a computer or electronic device to record experience/evidence of demonstrating/meeting the three sub-competencies

d. a documentation form (attached)

4. Total time on task - 1 hour

5. Student instruction for assignment

a. obtain a patient assignment; choose a patient that can talk with the student

b. review definitions of empathy, diversity, equity and inclusion, cultural sensitivity, and cultural humility

c. schedule a practice session with a peer student to review/practice communicating empathy, diversity, equity and inclusion, and cultural sensitivity and cultural humility to patients and/or family

d. schedule a practice session with a peer student to review/practice how the student will advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in patient care.

e. document your actions and assessment of approaching patients/families/organizations with these topics.

Posted: October 13, 2022

Submitted by:

Domain 9 Tool Kit Working Group

Nelda Godfrey, PhD, The University of Kansas
Darlene Del Prato, PhD, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Amy Hite, DNP, Pittsburg State University
Susan Strouse, PhD, Grand Valley State University
Susan Solecki, DrPH, Drexel University

Domain 9: Professionalism