Domain 10
Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Descriptor
Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster:
Personal health
Resilience
Well-being
Lifelong learning
Nursing expertise
Leadership assertion
Contextual Statement
Competency in personal, professional, and leadership development encompasses three key areas:
Development of the nurse as an individual who is resilient, agile, and capable of adapting to ambiguity and change.
Development of the nurse as a professional responsible for lifelong learning and ongoing self-reflection.
Development of the nurse as a leader proficient in asserting control, influence, and power in both professional and personal contexts, including patient advocacy and leadership within the healthcare industry.
Objectives of Development
Development in these dimensions requires:
Commitment to personal growth
Expansion of professional knowledge and expertise
Determined leadership practice in diverse contexts
Goals of Competencies
Promote:
Diversity and retention in the nursing profession
Self-awareness
Avoidance of stress-induced emotional and mental exhaustion
Re-direction of energy from negative perceptions to positive influence through leadership opportunities.
Entry-Level Professional Nursing Education
Competency Areas
10.1 Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and well-being.
10.1a: Demonstrate healthy self-care behaviors that promote wellness and resiliency.
10.1b: Manage conflict between personal and professional responsibilities.
10.1c: Contribute to an environment that promotes self-care, personal health, and well-being.
10.1d: Evaluate the workplace environment to determine the level of health and well-being.
10.2 Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.
10.2a: Engage in guided and spontaneous reflection of one’s practice.
10.2b: Integrate comprehensive feedback to improve performance.
10.2c: Commit to personal and professional development.
10.2d: Expand personal knowledge to inform clinical judgment.
10.2e: Identify role models and mentors to support professional growth.
10.2f: Participate in ongoing activities that embrace principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination.
10.2g: Demonstrate cognitive flexibility in managing change within complex environments.
10.2h: Mentor others in the development of their professional growth and accountability.
10.2i: Foster activities that support a culture of lifelong learning.
10.2j: Expand leadership skills through professional service.
10.2k: Evaluate strategies and methods for peer review.
Advanced-Level Nursing Education
10.3 Develop capacity for leadership.
10.3a: Compare and contrast leadership principles and theories.
10.3b: Formulate a personal leadership style.
10.3c: Demonstrate leadership behaviors in professional situations.
10.3d: Demonstrate self-efficacy consistent with one’s professional development.
10.3e: Use appropriate resources when dealing with ambiguity.
10.3f: Modify one’s own leadership behaviors based on guided self-reflection.
10.3g: Demonstrate self-awareness of one’s own implicit biases and their relationship to one’s culture and environment.
10.3h: Communicate a consistent image of the nurse as a leader.
10.3i: Recognize the importance of nursing’s contributions as leaders in practice and policy issues.
10.3j: Provide leadership to advance the nursing profession.
10.3k: Influence intentional change guided by leadership principles and theories.
10.3l: Evaluate the outcomes of intentional change.
10.3m: Evaluate strategies/methods for peer review.
10.3n: Participate in the evaluation of other members of the care team.
10.3o: Demonstrate leadership skills in times of uncertainty and crisis.
10.3p: Advocate for the promotion of social justice and eradication of structural racism and systematic inequity in nursing and society.
10.3q: Advocate for the nursing profession in a consistent, positive, relevant, accurate, and distinctive manner.
10.3r: Emphasize the nursing role as an essential participant in systemic healthcare changes to benefit individuals and communities.