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My Learning Needs
1. I want to gain additional knowledge about what I can do as a health care professional to
prevent substance abuse for people within the community.
2. I want to gain more experience interacting and working as a health care professional with
individuals in the pediatric age group.
Learning Goal #1: Medication practice standard
To identify causes behind substance abuse of controlled drugs and use interventions to
prevent substance abuse within my health care facility. I will do this within 3 months of
working as a Registered Practical Nurse.
Activities and Timeframes
I will review the College of Nurses of Ontarios Practice Guideline: Medication within
one week of this goal.
Using nursing journals such as Canadian Nurse, I will identify articles about substance
abuse and the use of controlled substances in a health care setting and reflect on what I
have learned from these articles. I will do this within one month of setting this goal.
If available within my community, I will attend community educational sessions about
controlled drugs and safe administration of these drugs under the controlled acts. I will do
this within two months of setting this goal.
Within 3 months, I will use the knowledge I have learned through literature and extra
education about the causes of substance abuse and intervene in situations involving
substance abuse with potential patients I will provide care for.
Learning Goal #2: Therapeutic Nurse-Client Relationship standard
I will learn about pediatric mental illness and easily identify methods for optimal
communication with children. I will complete this goal within 3 months working as a
Registered Practical Nurse.
Activities and Timeframes
I will review the College of Nurses of Ontarios Practice Guideline: Therapeutic NurseClient Relationship within one week of setting this goal.
As part of adhering this practice guideline, I will learn the appropriate measures to take
under the policies of my work environment involving abusive behaviour, and witnessing
abuse in the workplace. I will do this within a month of setting this goal.
Reading literature such as The Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing by Potter & Perry, I
will learn methods of communicating with children, and approaches that are useful when
conducting physical examinations on children to improve my nursing diagnoses. I will
complete this goal within a month of setting it.
I will volunteer to work in a health care environment in which general admission of
patients varies from all ages including pediatrics such as general surgery, emergency, or
in a clinic to develop more hands on skills in aiding childrens medical needs. I will do
this in three months of working at a health care facility.