Report on Progress of Professional Portfolio

IDENTIFY COMPETENCY NUMBER,

LETTER AND SUBCATEGORY

DESCRIBE ONE

SIGNIFICANT

LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN THIS

COURSE RELATED TO THE CLPNA
COMPETENCY. PROVIDE AN
EXAMPLE.

DESCRIBE WHAT YOU LEARNED AND

HOW IT RELATES TO THE
COMPETENCY. EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS
MEANINGFUL.

USES THE PROFICIENCY

CATEGORIES TO RATE THEIR
PROFICIENCY IN THE CHOSEN

CLPNA

COMPETENCY.

EXPLAIN

WHAT WAS DONE TO ACHIEVE THE

COMPETENCY.

G-2-1 Demonstrate knowledge and ability to

provide health teaching and coaching
associated with pre and postoperative care.
One significant learning experience that I
learned from this course is that health teaching
is an essential part of pre and postoperative
care. In addition, including health teaching in
nursing interventions provides health benefits
through education for clients to recover from
their surgery and prevent the development of
complications associated with post-operative
surgeries. I was able to apply this skill when
we were assigned to complete a research
regarding previous and current surgical issues
in the hospital care setting. Based on my
research, the previous issue was that nurses
were not able to incorporate early ambulation
for post surgical clients specifically on clients
that had a total knee replacement. The recent
article found that this previous practice results
in the development of certain complications
like deep vein thrombosis and long recovery.
Through researching the current best practice, I
found that the utmost nursing intervention was
to encourage and teach patients the benefits of
early mobilization. Through this teaching,
patients will benefit from decreasing
incidences of developing DVT and improve
their ability to regain muscle strength by early
mobilization.
I learned that gaining knowledge and ability to
successfully incorporate health teaching to post
surgical clients can help them recover and
decrease the incidence of developing
complications. I also learned that it is
important to evaluate the outcome of patient
education so that I would be able to know if the
outcome has reached my client goal. In
addition, this learning was meaningful because
I was able to gain knowledge and confidence
on providing the best health education for my
future post-operative clients.
From the proficiency category, I would rate
myself on the category of good: understands
competency in theory and in scenarios and
nursing practice. To achieve the CLPNA
competency, I dedicated an ample time to do
my research of previous and current issues of
surgical clients in the health care setting.
Through my research, I was able to identify the
best practice from comparing it to the previous
practice. In doing this assignment, I was able to
relate my health teaching based on my research

that supports early ambulation for post surgical

clients. I also achieved this competency by
being a motivated student. I attended my
theory classes and ask my professor for
clarifications regarding my client health
teaching. I came prepared for the post surgical
procedures lab skill by watching the videos,
reading my textbooks and doing the exercises
in my lab manual. I actively participated during
health teaching of post surgical clients and
exercised my already gained knowledge from
my current research.
DESCRIBE HOW YOU WILL APPLY
THIS LEARNING IN YOUR CURRENT
AND FUTURE NURSING PRACTICE

I will apply this learning skill throughout my

practical nursing course. During my current
practice, I will continue to actively participate
in the lab by providing health education for my
post surgical clients. I will do this by practicing
more nursing care scenarios in lab and at home
so that I will be able to apply my knowledge on
health teaching. In my future practice, I will
gradually update my knowledge on current best
practices by being informed and up to date on
my skills. I will do this by gaining an active
participation in the CLPNA. Through this, I
will be able to provide my future postoperative clients the most current health
teaching.