Love your work and you will NEVER work a day.

Personal Qualities
And professional Proficiencies of a nurse

1.
Interest and willingness to work and learn with individuals/ group in a variety of settings

2.
A warm personality and concern for people

3.
Resourcefulness and creativity as well as a well- balanced emotional condition

4.
Capacity and ability to work cooperatively with others

5.
Initiative to improve self and service

6.
Competence in performing through the use of nursing process

7.
Skill in decision- making, communicating, and relating with others and being research-oriented

8.
Active participation in issues confronting nurses and nursing

CHAPTER 6

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CHOOSING, RETAINING, RESIGNING AND DISMISSAL FROM A POSITION

Self-evaluation
Assess your qualifications.

What is your educational qualification? Does it fit the job you are applying for?

Self-evaluation
Assess your Years of experience and training.

Are these relevant to the position that you are applying for?

What are your experiences and training?

Age ad Physical Condition

Can you work long hours without tiring easily?

Public health positions Staff nurse positions  young Administrative position  Mature in judgment and decision making  Educ. Qulaifications

Emotional Stability

Calm even under stress Easily get along with people Alone or in a crowd?

Goals in Life
Nursing=

earn money?  Satisfaction of serving people?

Do not Lie to yourself

Your own objective and philosophy in life will determine which field you get into!

Love your work and you will NEVER work a day.

Factors in Selecting
a field in nursing

1. Kind of work to be performed

Prepared for the job? Work under stress? Get along with people? Interested in the job you are applying for? Kind of skills needed? Hazardous?

2. Availability of work
Choose a Field of nursing that is crowded? Or with shortage of nurses?

3. Hours of work
Requirements in terms of educ. qualifications? Experience? Training?

5. Opportunities for advancement

Chance of being promoted? Allowed to go to school if you so desire? Allowed to attend meetings and seminars on official time?

6. Method of Entering Examination to enter? Need for someone to recommend you?

7. Earning
Initial salary? Maximum salary? Paid weekly or every fifteen days? Additional pay for overtime work?

8. Fringe Benefits
Days of vacation and sick leaves are given Maternity leaves Education leaves

9. Other benefits
Insurances? Medicare? Retirement benefits?

Work you wish to enter

Self analysis

Important Tips:

Choose wisely and well

Free to choose the field of nursing

Earning money is NOT THAT important

Give one s best ENJOY YOUR WORK Get along with the pt and family members Get along with the members of the health care team

How to locate positions?

It is never good to love things and use people.

Find a job thru:

Friends Magazines Newspapers Placement services

Love your work and you will NEVER work a day

Application may be done in

Writing or interview

Writing an application letter is like SELLING YOURSELF through writing- but in a formal way.

Letter of application
A way of judging the applicant s scholarship ability Employer s take interest in it if it s well-written and arrange for an interview when they see one

If it s rubbish, then it shall be placed into where it belongs.

Useful pointers in making a letter of application

Use a clean, white, unlined paper. Use ink or ball pen in writing. Use proper salutation.

Useful pointers in making a letter of application

Observe proper margin and paragraphing. Write in a courteous manner. Enclose a return postage

CONTENTS OF AN APPLICATION LETTER

1.Source and purpose.  Vacancy  Intent to apply 2. Qualifications  2nd and 3rd paragraph College from where you graduated Experience and training along the field applied

CONTENTS OF AN APPLICATION LETTER

3.Reference.  At least 3 names with consent  Persons must know the applicants well  Ex. Former principals or deans, leading persons in the community, priest or minister, professional nurse or a former instructor

CONTENTS OF AN APPLICATION LETTER

4. A request for a personal interview.  Time  distance

See page 80 of your textbook

Personal Interview
What is an interview? - Face to face conference between two people about something - Two-way process in which both the applicant and the employer discuss conditions of work and other related topics

Personal Interview
For the employer? -chance to assess the applicant s: a. b. c. d. Personality Alertness in answering questions Poise Command of the spoken language

Being in an interview is SELLING YOURSELF just like advertising a new product!

PREPARING FOR AN INTERVIEW

POINTERS
1. Make an appointment by mail or by telephone. 2. Be at the place at the appointed time. 3. Know something about the institution where you will apply so that you can answer questions intelligently.

You have to make a good first impression!

POINTERS
4. Be at your best. 5. Knock before you enter 6. Bring credentials such as your registration card, residence certificate, tax number and your own ball pen.

Dressed to kill.

POINTERS
7. Ask questions about the job. 8. Thank the interviewer for giving you some of his time. 9. Give yourself time to think about the position 10. Write a follow up letter if you did not receive a reply.

RETAINING A POSITION

Please keep me???

How can you be successful in your chosen field?

1. adequate knowledge and preparation for the job. 2. well-developed personality.

How can you be successful in your chosen field?

3. Good interpersonal relationship with your co worker a. b. c. d. e. f. Enthusiastic Golden rule Self-control; tactful Socially compatible ; adhere to social amenities Self- confidence, cheerfulness Offer help

How can you be successful in your chosen field?

4. Proficiency in communication  oral  written

5. Adjust to working conditions and life patterns characteristic of the occupation and that of the community

How can you be successful in your chosen field?

6. Keep abreast with advances

Find joy and contentment in what you are doing!

CAUSES OF FAILURE

Some people fail in their jobs

Incompetence Poor interpersonal relationships Personality defects Inadequate knowledge in social conduct, too little time for recreation ad relaxation

Some people fail in their jobs

Inadequate knowledge in social conduct, too little time for recreation ad relaxation Indifference to the need of professional growth

How to turn your ep c FAILURE into success

Some people fail in their jobs

some ways

but they recover in

Accept your limitations overcome your limitations One must adjust and fit into his position Develop yourself

Remember:
Proficiency

=
Technical

+
human relation skills

There are more average nurses than the gen uses

however

We were told :

Never continue in a job you donht enjoy!

Why do nurses resign from their jobs?

Seek better options  Abroad  Other parts of the country Inability to adjust with work situation Marriage Children Transfer of family to other places

Resign agad?

Hindi ba pwedeng

..

Pointers before resigning

Keep your position for at least 2 years Think over the whole situation SEEK ASSISTANCE IN MAKING DECISIONS

Make a change
reasons for staying

>
Advantages of leaving

If offered a better position

Talk with employer open-door policy

Ang sabi ng Lola:

leave a friendly feeling towards superiors and coworkers !

If offered a better position

A reference from them maybe necessary once you decide to return to the institution.

Ang sabi ng Lola:

I shall return.

If offered a better position

Self analysis may be necessary Reason for transferring Improve yourself for your next job

If offered a better position

GIVE AN ADVANCE NOTICE to give enough time to find

a reliever

Month is enoughfor staff nurse positions 6 months-Nursing education

if you leave ME now

With a clean record Not in the midst of activities in the agency In the most GRACIOUS PROFFESSIONAL MANNER

Writing a letter of RESIGNATION

POinters
Date of resignation State the reason for resigning Express gratitude for kindness and consideration given during the period of employment Attach clearance for money, work, and property responsibilities

DISMISSAL from a position

You re fired!
Seldom happens to nurses Negligence Incompetence, Malpractice Unprofessional behavior Breach of contract

To avoid hearing
You re fired! Prudent in your actions

Dismissal:
a family tragedy

Concepts valued highly by Filipino families

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Dangal Utang na loob Hiya Damdamin panangutan

a. b. c. d. e.

responsibility honor shame Sense of gratitude emotion

Let us together make an application letter and a resignation letter