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Assignment:
1. What strengths can you gain from volunteering at a disability agency as a first-year nursing student? What are the weaknesses you may experience?
2. How do these connect to the following competencies:
- lifelong learning (demonstrating understanding of the service provider and articulating knowledge of the population being served)
- quality improvement (give examples)
- professional caring (responding to others with unconditional positive regard, dignity, respect and compassion)
- therapeutic communication (applying therapeutic skills, establishing appropriate professional boundaries with patients)
- self-awareness (recognizing own experiences, values, beliefs, and biases as they relate to the client)
- interprofessional collaboration (demonstrating respectful collaborative communication with colleagues, faculty, and clients, identifying and solving problem strategies in collaboration with peers, faculty and agency personnel, accepting guidance and feedback from service agency staff, other volunteers and faculty)
3. How can you improve these?
4. What can this experience bring to being a future nurse?