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A Reflection Paper on National Nursing Core Standards
we must reflect on our function as a future nurse. We realize the undeniable fact that we, nurses
play a crucial role in the delivery of health care services. The very lives of people are at stake and
so one must practice competently. As Axley (2008) noted, :”competency is clearly more than the
mere attainment of skills as it also involves qualities such as attitudes, motives, personal
includes safety of patients, high standard of patient care application of core knowledge, and
internal motivation for continued care. Furthermore, the absence of competency contributes to
serious medical errors, poor patient outcomes, and inability to make sound decisions.
core competency standards for nursing practice as follows; safe and quality nursing care,
Philippines Colleges of Nursing 2009). The creation of this core of standards for nursing practice
served as a unifying framework for nursing education, regulation and practice in the Philippines.
Thus, true professional nursing competence requires accumulation of knowledge and skills. It also
entails understanding cultural diversity and how it affects the kind of care that we must provide.
think and act. It helps us to become even better. These competence standards may be idealistic
but it is certainly realistic and attainable if only we, nurses give one of their time reflecting on their
own practice and in trying to assimilate through actions these competency standards.