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NR 500 Week 8: What Did You Learn
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NR 500 Week 8 What Did You Learn
Reflecting on this course, consider and answer the following questions: How do you envision using the AACN essentials and information learned in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate your practicum project? How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice?
A Sample Answer For the Assignment: NR 500 Week 8: What Did You Learn
Title: NR 500 Week 8: What Did You Learn
- NR 500 has been an excellent introductory course on the path towards a master’s of science in nursing degree. By taking time to review scholarly literature and formulate my own opinions through deeper thinking and review of proven research, I have developed an excitement for the future of my nursing practice and the profession I share with each of you. While there is much work yet to be done, the foundation laid in this course will help bridge the new concepts that will be learned in future courses and ultimately my role in advanced practice nursing. Graduate nursing education plays a key role in health care reform and transformation. Use of evidence-based practice, informatics, patient driven, and patient centered care is the core of an MSN education (Finkelman, 2012.) It is the utilization of these acquired skills and knowledge after the MSN is attained that truly displays its value while bringing about positive change to healthcare. As I approach my practicum project, I will utilize the knowledge of translating scholarship into practice through evidence-based practice to recognize, perform, and measure an outcome that will improve nursing practice and correlate with my chosen specialty track of nurse education. One example might be to further resolve the practice problems associated with surgical site infections by advancing nurse education to prevent these infections through scholarly literature and proven preventative outcomes. Based on American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) Essential IV of Master’s Education for Advanced Practice Nursing, graduate nurses must have the necessary skills to bring evidence-based practice forward to improve the care decisions, apply research to practice, resolve problems, and work as change agents for improvement in nursing practice (AACN, 2011).
As I look towards my future nursing practice as a nurse educator, I desire to bring the concepts learned in this course and translate them into real practice. Promoting holistic caring provided through collaborative, interdisciplinary teamwork will be a focus of mine. Utilization of resources through modern informatics systems and continued review of scholarly literature will be resources I use to assist novice nurses in their paths towards knowledge. I would also like to role model civil behavior and educate others in the nursing profession on the dangers of incivility in the work and academic settings. There is much to discover on this path towards advanced practice, however the groundwork has been laid in this course. Utilization of the concepts and essentials learned will aid in my future nursing endeavors.
Reference
American Associations of Colleges of Nursing. (2011). The essentials of master’s education in nursing. Retrieved from http://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/MastersEssentials11.pdf
Finkelman, A. (2012). The movement to improve care, the institute of medicine quality reports and implications for the advanced practice registered nurse. Nursing Clinics, 47(2), 251-260. doi:10.1016/j.cnur.2012.02.006
I am so glad you got so much out of this course. What ideas do you have for your practicum project? Is it something around holistic care of the patient? We would love to know your ideas.
I am still giving some thought to the practicum project. As I progress in my courses, I believe that will help me narrow down to the right choice. Concepts for improvement for patient care and safety like furthering education of the surgical safety check list and the time out process is one that comes to mind. The safety checklist is more times than not initiated by the RN in the perioperative setting. Since this is a nurse driven approach towards patient safety, keeping the knowledge and importance of it through continued education would be something that I as a future nurse educator could implement as a practicum project. Another thought I am having for a project idea is neonatal thermoregulation in the surgical setting. Neonates undergoing surgery, often for emergent needs, are at great risk for hypothermia. Furthering nursing education on ways that have been proven to reduce this heat loss in the OR setting might be a good approach toward furthering evidence-based practice. I am leaning towards completing my practicums for my nurse educator training in the NICU setting. Is my thinking on the right track in regards to master’s practicum project ideas?
These are great ideas! Thank you for sharing. I wish you the best as you progress in the program!
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- How do you envision using the AACN essentials and information learned in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate your practicum project?
I envision using the information I learned in this course along with the AACN essentials key to identify, guide, and evaluate my practicum project essential for a successful outcome. From my perspective, the most essential professional competency for a master’s prepared nurse in the 21st century is to “Provide high quality, safe, patient-centered care grounded in holistic health principles. (CCN 2016). It is the RN who is training to set the standard. As licensed professionals we must be as proficient as we can be in nursing skills training to instill in others the correct policies or guidelines to follow consistently to provide the highest quality of care possible. This fluency or proficiency can only be achieved through further education. The MSN is the groundwork to enable us to perform in these leadership roles.
As we read through the ANA scope and standards it is made clear that graduate level nurses must have additional criteria to meet to be considered advanced. Each of these competencies and standards emphasize particularly areas of proficiency that are needed for leadership roles.\
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- How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice?
In my future nursing practice, I feel responsible to highlight on the importance of nursing participation regarding making decisions and changing or enforcing policies. Staff participation empowers staff. When people are heard they feel empowered, and when people feel empowered people take ownership of their actions and expect more from themselves and peers working around them.
In my future nursing practice, I will also be supportive of furthering education and advocating for nursing school curriculums to address the importance of incivility and diverse ways or approaches on how to handle these situations. The expectation should start at nursing school.
I have learned that to provide a healthier working environment in my future nursing practice that as a leader I am also responsible to provide for leadership and all nursing staff further workshops on communication and techniques we can learn to better support each other and relay to each other ideas that although may be different at times we can come together to negotiate a happy medium. Administrators
must be taking on active role. (Coursey 2013)
Thank you,
Monica Pascutto
References:
Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2016). Chamberlain college of nursing masters of science in nursing conceptual framework. Retrieved from https://www.chamberlain.edu/docs/default-source/academics-admissions/catalog.pdfLinks to an external site.
Coursey, J. H., Rodriguez, R. E., Dieckmann, L. S., & Austin, P. N. (2013). Successful implementation of policies addressing lateral violence. AORN Journal, 97(1), 101-109. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2012.09.010
l will use the AACN essentials and information learned by application of evidence based practices, use quality improvement methods, outcomes measurement, systems knowledge, and leadership skills in my practicum. If I obtain the competencies outlined in these Master’s Essentials, i will possess the advanced knowledge in the discipline and leadership skills needed to improve health outcomes in a number of current and emerging roles. I envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice. Ensure accountability for quality care and patient safety for diverse populations. Utilize technological information systems to evaluate outcomes of care, healthcare delivery, and quality improvement. Work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to meet complex healthcare needs of diverse individuals and populations. Demonstrate advanced levels of clinical judgment, systems thinking, and accountability in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence based care to improve patient outcomes.
I have also learned much about my specialty tract and what it is involved and my role as an FNP. That nurses who acquire more nursing degree are more likely to improve in clinical judgments, better ability to make decisions, challenge poor practice with good leadership skills with advancement in clinical practice role. (Clark, Casey, & Morris, 2015). What it means to care, Caring is influenced by the nurse’s knowledge, skills, and attitudes formed through lifelong learning and experiences. I have also learned how to be self-aware in other to recognize when I am showing bias and how to handle and prevent it from happening again. I have learned what it takes to be a good leader and the qualities of a good leader. I have learned so much of evidence based. The importance of evidence-based practice in nursing practice, the use of PICO, and how to search for evidence-based practice topics. The second life scavenger hunt was very interactive. I did learn a lot on incivility, how it affects individuals, workplace, and the effect in nursing practice. I have improved on formatting APA paper.
Clark, L., Casey, D., & Morris, S. (2015). The value of Master’s degrees for registered nurses. British Journal Of Nursing, 24(6), 328-334. doi:10.12968/bjon.2015.24.6.328.
Grading Rubric
Performance Category | 100% or highest level of performance
100% 16 points |
Very good or high level of performance
88% 14 points |
Acceptable level of performance
81% 13 points |
Inadequate demonstration of expectations
68% 11 points |
Deficient level of performance
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Scholarliness
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Interactive Dialogue
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Due Date Requirements | Demonstrated all of the following:
A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT. |
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A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT. |