Specific Action In The SMART Goal Of The Nursing Profession

Growth in the nursing profession are occurring at face pace, when it comes to providing safe, effective and efficient patient care. This is to ensure that each patient receives the appropriate care during their stay at a hospital. To ensure patient satisfaction and improve their outcomes, it is imperative that important goals are implemented. As stated by Finkelman, the correct leadership approach is essential to incorporate self-confidence, empathy, change catalyst and visionary leadership (p.10). The nurse leader engages nurses of all levels to strengthen their knowledge, to the recommended standards of the nursing scope practice to achieve a mutual understanding. It is important for nurses to be able to communicate in proper nursing terms,
As as leader, I would like to implement changes in reference to documentation. Therefore, my specific goal is to be knowledgeable in this area first, before I can present this to my staff. There are many ways for me to accomplish this goal, to excel in this skill. I will begin with an extensive research on this topic. I will join the New York Association of Nursing and search for workshops, CE classes and live seminars on documentation. During this process, I would like to learn my own strength and weaknesses. Once I have achieved the learning goal, I will then work on achieving it, and putting it into practice. However, before doing so, I would like to coordinate with the informatics nurse and staff development about incorporating a yearly inservice on documenting for all registered nurses and at the initial date of hire. I would also make sure of useful articles that provide current, full text and peer review literature on my topic of interest. Measure Effectiveness of the Goal In a SMART goal, it is important to make sure that goal is measurable. Measurable simply means what data will be used to make sure the goal is accomplished. Have I progressed in my learning? This can be determined by measuring how well I understood the CE classes, workshops, and live seminars. I will be be able to state the importance of documentation, correct abbreviations, importance of including
This is definitely relevant in the field of nursing because as a leader, my intention is to build growth and confidence in my nursing staff. I know many nurses will appreciate the resource made available to them because proper documentation improves patient care as well as the nursing practice. Time based A SMART goal requires enough time to be able to achieve any goal. It must be a time frame that is not too short or too long but enough time to complete in a timely fashion. I will make sure to give myself eight weeks to research and complete all the required certification to complete my objective to improve documentation within the nurses in the facility for a positive and effective outcome of the patient. Improving Patient’s Outcome Utilizing Proper