Lifelong learning assignment 25%
The Lifelong learning assignment is an assessment for your learning. The goal is to prepare you
for seeking and maintaining employment as a Licensed Practical Nurse in Alberta. Part A invites
you to consider your present value to the workplace and Part B invites you to plan your nursing
career.
Learning Outcomes:
1 Apply the Conceptual Framework to the scope of practice in the
licensed practical nurse workplace
2 Evaluate the challenges facing licensed practical nurses as part of
an inter-professional, interdisciplinary health care team
3
Evaluate how trends like economic cycles, changing
demographics, or changing technology affect the Licensed
Practical Nurse
4 Analyze situations where the licensed practical nurse must address
issues of ethics and jurisprudence
5 Analyze the inter-relationship of the licensed practical nurse roles
as advocate, leader, and manager
6 Plan lifelong learning strategies to incorporate the CLPNA
Continuing Competency Program into professional practice
Part A: (10%) Personal Brand: What do you bring to the workplace?
Using the form provided please answer the following five questions as if you were answering the
questions in a job interview. Please use complete sentences. Please use less than 3 sentences.
1) Social Media:
If we were to search your name on the internet, what would we find?
2) Relation to nursing theorists:
Please describe a nursing theorist and describe how nursing theory informs your practice?
Provide 5 examples from your clinical practice.
3) Reflecting on your education in the Bow Valley College Practical Nurse program what
are 5 epiphanies that you had during the program?
4) Using the STAR model give an example of a time that you successfully worked in a team
situation in your class, lab or clinical experience at Bow Valley College
S – situation: circumstances & problem you faced
T – task: why you needed to do it & challenges
A – action: what you did
R – result: what happened as a result of your efforts
S – skills: what skills you used in the process