for your assignment, you will use the The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021) document to provide a brief paragraph on how you have met each of the ten domains. Please note that AACN categorizes the RN to BSN degree as “Entry-Level Professional Nursing Education”. You do not have to address each competency/sub-competency, but can use these to help you select examples. Please provide specific examples for each domain. The attached document will help you categorize the knowledge you have gained into these essential functions of the BSN generalist nurse.
Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
Descriiptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary
nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including
a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of
professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care
Descriiptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated
contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic,
individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and
developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge
that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
Domain 3: Population Health
Descriiptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health
prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with
both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health,
industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement
of equitable population health outcomes.
Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
Descriiptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing
knowledge to improve health and transform health care (AACN, 2018).
Domain 5: Quality and Safety
Descriiptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement
science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and
minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and
individual performance.
Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships
Descriiptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients,
families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare
experience, and strengthen outcomes.
Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice
Descriiptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses
effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to
diverse populations.
Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
Descriiptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to
provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals
as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are
used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services
in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
Domain 9: Professionalism
Descriiptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including
accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s
characteristics and values.
Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Descriiptor: Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience,
and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise
and the assertion of leadership.
for your assignment, you will use the The Essentials: Core Competencies for Prof