Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety It is important for nurses to have proper skills and the right knowledge when on the field. Nurses are looked upon as leaders and an advocate. Being a leader isn’t someone who assign task and boss people around, but an individual who can inspire and guide others to make a positive change. Being a competent nurse is important for our patient’s overall quality of care. (Jennings, n.d). Understanding the procedures and knowing who our patient is and where they come from can help improve the overall quality of care. Offering treatments and interventions tailored for each of our patient shows cultural competence and will make our patient feel that much more comfortable. Being a leader means nurses are able to delegate a task properly to the correct personnel within their scope of practice while having knowledge allow nurses to think critically and formulate a better plan of care for the patient. Essential II is Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety. What I did to reflect this was during one of my Med surg rotation. I was fairly new to giving medications, especially injections. I was scared that I might hurt my patient, but knew that I must do and practice to get better so I can prevent a future complication from happening. Learning and practicing is the best way to prevent making mistakes. Everytime I see my nurse, I would ask him if there’s anything I can do so I can keep practicing. I was really new when it came to nursing but I felt like nothing beats experience than to actually experience it first-hand. I think this shows proper knowledge and skills because I’m getting out of my comfort zone and taking the initiative to ask my nurse to let me to things. 1. 2. Read and Review Nursing Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety. Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety necessary to provide high–quality health care? Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential II during the BSN program. Provide specific examples. Be sure to use in-text citations and cite scholarly reference(s) in APA format. Throughout the week, discuss the different ways that you and your peers met this essential. Compare the different learning experiences you had, and share how they might influence your future practice. Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice Professional nursing practices are so grounded with current EBP because Evidenced based practice not only improve the patient’s quality of care, but also keep our patients and nurses safe when performing these practices. EBP provides nurses with scientific research to make critical decisions. With EBP, nurses are able to stay current with new proctors for patient care. Essential III is scholarship for evidence based practice. What I did to meet this criteria was during my med surg rotation. One of my nurses was setting up a sterile field with sterile gloves on, from the text book and ATI, we were taught that we should always keep our hands above the waist and should not reach over the sterile field. I noticed my nurse did things differently than what the book and ATI had instructed to do so I questioned it and made sure I wasn’t mistaken. 1. 2. Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why is professional nursing practice grounded in the translation of current evidence into practice? Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential III during the BSN program. Provide specific examples. Be sure to use in-text citations and cite scholarly reference(s) in APA format. Throughout the week, discuss the different ways that you and your peers met this essential. Compare the different learning experiences you had, and share how they might influence your future practice. …