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Alberta RN July 2008 Volume 64 No 6 www.nurses.ab.ca
Committed to Competence
As you prepare for your registration renewal, it is also time to prepare to report your continuing competence activities
completed during the 2008 practice year and identify your professional development goals for the 2009 practice year.
The Nursing Practice Standards (NPS)
indicators you selected during last
year’s registration renewal will be
preprinted on your 2009 renewal
form. For each indicator, report on
the implementation of your learning
plan, meeting your learning objective
and the influence this learning has
had on your nursing practice.
If you changed your indicator during
the practice year, record the change
and report on the implementation
of your learning plan for the new
NPS indicator.
Documenting your professional development
plans and reporting your continuing
competence activities at registration
renewal provides the evidence required
to demonstrate that you have engaged
in learning and participated in the
CARNA reflective practice process.
The next step is to identify NPS indicators you would like to focus on for
the 2009 practice year. First, assess your nursing practice using the NPS.
If you are a nurse practitioner (NP), assess your practice using both the
NPS and the NP Competencies. Next, collect feedback about your nursing
practice. Based on your self-assessment and feedback, select at least
Throughout the 2009 practice year, you should further develop and
implement your learning plan. Continue to reflect on your practice and
record any new priorities or other changes. Keep your documents for
five years so that, if requested, you are prepared to provide evidence
of participating in the CARNA Continuing Competence Program.
Here is an example of how to report on the implementation of your learning plan(s):
Indicator
If you changed this indicator during the year, which indicator did you change to?
Learning plan implemented? Learning goal met?
Learning influenced your practice?
✔ Yes No
✔ Yes Partial No ✔ Yes No Unsure
If no, check reason:
If no, check reason:
If yes, how:
Chose too many indicators Did not work in Alberta
Increased knowledge/skill/competence
Did not work in Alberta
Other:
✔ Enhanced critical thinking/
Other:
decision-making
✔ Increased confidence
Enhanced accountability
Improved communication skills
Other:
Indicator
If you changed this indicator during the year, which indicator did you change to? 2.8
Learning plan implemented? Learning goal met?
Learning influenced your practice?
✔ Yes No
Yes ✔ Partial No ✔ Yes No Unsure
If no, check reason:
If no, check reason:
If yes, how:
Chose too many indicators Did not work in Alberta ✔ Increased knowledge/skill/competence
Did not work in Alberta
Other:
✔ Enhanced critical thinking/
Other:
decision-making
Increased confidence
✔ Enhanced accountability
Improved communication skills
Other:
Here is an example of how to report your priority indicator(s) on your registration renewal form:
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4.1
one NPS indicator as your priority focus for the 2009 practice year. NPs
must select at least two indicators; one indicator from the NP Competencies.
Record your self-assessment, priority indicators and begin writing a
learning plan for each indicator you selected.
I have assessed my nursing practice, collected feedback, and initiated
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the development of a learning plan(s) for the following indicator(s):
RNs and CGNs enter minimum one (1) indicator.
NPs enter minimum two (2) indicators, one of which must be a NP Competency indicator.
NP 4.1
For more information about the Continuing Competence Program,
please visit the CARNA website www.nurses.ab.ca or contact the
CARNA office by phone: 780.451.0043/toll-free at 1.800.252.9392
or e-mail: continuingcompetence@nurses.ab.ca.