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NR 507 Week 7: Reflection Assignment
NR 507 Week 7: Reflection Assignment
Reflect back over the past 8 weeks and describe how the achievement of the course outcomes in this course have prepared you to meet the MSN program outcome #1, MSN Essential I, and Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies # 1 Scientific Foundation Competencies
Program Outcome #1: Provide high quality, safe, patient-centered care grounded in holistic health principles. (holistic health & patient-centered care)
MSN Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities:
Recognizes that the master’s prepared nurse integrates scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvement of nursing care across diverse settings.
Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies # 1 Scientific Foundation Competencies
- Critically analyzes data and evidence for improving advanced nursing practice.
- Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.
- Translates research and other forms of knowledge to improve practice processes and outcomes.
- Develops new practice approaches based on the integration of research, theory, and practice knowledge.
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Title: NR 507 Week 7: Reflection Assignment
Collapse SubdiscussionMwiche Williams
Aug 20, 2018Aug 20 at 1:38pm
Hello, Dr. Arredondo and Class
I would like to start by saying this course has been very demanding yet, an enhancing course. The course needed prudent time management so as to complete assignments, readings, quizzes and exams. The advanced pathophysiology course has prepared me to function in an advanced practice role by offering a detailed understanding of the pathophysiological processes, allowing me to predict clinical symptoms, choose evaluative studies, begin appropriate treatments, and plan for possible complications (CCN, 2018). Insights into the underlying disease process will enable the nurse practitioner for incorporation of current and groundbreaking interventions. Relevant screening and diagnostic testing approaches will also be incorporated.
Program outcome
The MSN course program outcomes included delivering high standard, safe patient centered- care by forging a caring atmosphere and taking part in long lasting personal and professional development and advocating for positive health outcomes in virtue of evidenced-based synergetic advanced nursing practice (CCN, 2018). Course outcomes require exploring pathophysiology processes, investigating the approach in which homeostatic, adaptive and compensative physiologic processes may be sustained or altered through specific interventions, risk factors, and approaches of diagnosis and therapy of health problems in chosen populations and analogous research conclusions to management of patients with multifaceted pathophysiologic dysfunction (CCN, 2018). The course outcomes allow the advance practice nurse to utilize pathophysiology to support clinical decision making concerning diagnosis and therapy of acute and chronic presentations frequently managed by nurse practitioners (CCN, 2018).
MSN Essential
Essential IV: Interpreting and incorporating scholarship into practice (AACN, 2011). The master’s prepared nurse should apply research findings within the practice environment, solve issues, work as a change advocate and promulgates results (AACN, 2011). The case study assignments we did in this class allowed me to employ evidence, clinical discernment and interpreting methods to enhance related outcomes for patient groups (AACN, 2011). The advanced practice nurse must be able to articulate to a diversity of audiences, the evidence-base for practice determinations, in addition to the reliability of sources of evidence and the pertinence to the practice problem encountered (AACN, 2011).
Nurse Practitioner Competencies
Nurse practitioners have an extensive range of knowledge and expertise, which they bring into play in their appraisals and decision making to begin application of interventions to patients (Stanford, 2016). Their work is all evidence-based (Stanford, 2016). Competencies may be seen as a mixture of practical and academic knowledge that enhances performance or the capability to carry out a specific role (Stanford, 2016). The word advance practice is suggestive and oftentimes conferred in the context of a degree of practice with autonomy supported through skillful knowledge basis and clinical expertise through expanded and extended roles (Stanford, 2016). As advanced practice nurses we should utilize information in this course and use this information to evaluate patients, make diagnosis, order and translate diagnostic exams and conduct treatment plans in addition to prescribing medications as learnt from this course.
Mwiche-
References
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2011).The essentials of master’s education in nursing. Retrieved from. www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/42/Publications/MastersEssentials11.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Chamberlain College of Nursing. (2018). NR-507-62413. Program outcomes [Online lesson] Downers Grove, IL: DeVry Education Group.
Stanford, P. E. (2016). How can a competency framework for advanced practice support care? .British Journal Of Nursing, 25(20), 1117-1122.
Aug 20, 2018Aug 20 at 6pm
Mwiche,
You correctly identified and addressed the pre-determined program outcomes, MSN essentials, and NP core competencies, but unfortunately, I do not see that you provided two or more examples of how you achieved or had exposure to these outcomes or competencies.
Dr. Arredondo
Collapse SubdiscussionNakisha Williams
Aug 20, 2018Aug 20 at 4:55pm
Hello Professor and Class!
Program Outcome #1: Provide high quality, safe, patient-centered care grounded in holistic health principles. (holistic health & patient-centered care)
- This class has helped me to achieve program outcome #1 by focusing on the different ways in which the patient should be part of their own care. By this I mean that in each case study that we worked with, we were asked the ways that we would educate the patient about their illness. Patient education is extremely important so that the patient feels that they are being treated like an actual person instead of just some body that we are trying to fix. By speaking with them and talking things through with them, the patient becomes the most important thing, not the illness.
MSN Essential 1: Background for Practice from Science and Humanities:
- Through all of the research that we did in this class for the various case studies and the project that we did, we were encouraged to gather resources from a number of different backgrounds. For example, in my project on Rheumatoid Arthritis, I used sources for nurses, sources that focused on the public health aspect, sources that focused on the psychological aspect of the illness, etc. I did not just look at and use sources directed at nurses. This research showed me that there are many different resources that can help me help the patient in a number of different ways.
Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies #1 Scientific Foundation Competencies: 1. Critically analyzes data and evidence for improving advanced nursing practice
- I decided to focus on the first core competency for this discussion. Reading through the case studies that we had each week taught me to look for the most important evidence within a patient history. Sometimes they are going to tell us things that we don’t necessarily need to know and it is up to us to decide what is important for a diagnosis and what is not. With that being said, we need to critically analyze this evidence and apply it to a number of different resources to make sure that we are correctly diagnosing our patients.
Thank you guys for an awesome class!
Aug 20, 2018Aug 20 at 6pm
Nakisha,
You correctly identified and addressed the pre-determined program outcomes, MSN essentials, and NP core competencies, but unfortunately, I do not see that you provided two or more examples of how you achieved or had exposure to these outcomes or competencies.
Dr. Arredondo
Collapse SubdiscussionFride Edith Wandji
Aug 22, 2018Aug 22 at 11:45am
Hello Professor and Class,
I can truly say this class has challenged me over the past eight weeks to become a more effective nurse and a better student.
Program Outcome #1: Provide high quality, safe, patient-centered care grounded in holistic health principles. (holistic health & patient-centered care)
I have learned numerous ways to provide quality, patient centered care based in holistic health principles through the Grand Rounds sessions. These presentations consist of discussing medical problems and treatment methods that benefit the patient on a holistic level. In particular, the Grand Rounds session, “Hypothyroidism,” was extremely helpful in providing information for my week 6 PowerPoint presentation on hypothyroidism. The American Thyroid Association 2017 Pregnancy Guidelines compared to the 2011 Guidelines were noted in the presentation. The presentation made specific mention to the management of hypothyroidism during pregnancy and included recommendations regarding the interpretation of hypothyroidism tests during pregnancy, iodine nutrition, thyroid autoantibodies, complications during delivery, lactation concerns, and fetal and neonatal considerations to include thyrotoxicosis in pregnancy.
Through the weekly readings, I have augmented my understanding of evidence-based research and how it shapes and determines cost-effective and sustainable evidence-based outcomes that promote constructive behavioral changes in high-risk patient populations. The Week 4 reading lesson “Alterations in Renal Function” included information about disease causation. While I knew that urinary calculi (stones) are a common cause of functional urinary obstruction, I learned obstructions must be addressed quickly to prevent backflow of urine into the kidney before the condition results in permanent renal dysfunction. I can discuss with patients who have stones or are at risk for stones the best ways change their diet to balance their urine pH levels since the pH of the urine increases the likelihood of stone formation. I learned a good prevention or screening method is to teach patients the ideal pH levels for urine and what tests they can take to test the pH of their urine and saliva. Low pH increases one’s risk of developing uric acid stones and a high pH increases one’s risk of developing calcium phosphate stones. One of the goals of holistic care is to help patients understand the underlying cause (s) for their diseases and how this plays a role in how diseases are diagnosed and treated. In terms of providing evidence-based holistic care, I have learned that before I apply an intervention, I must decide if it should be directed at the person, agent, or environment. This leads to better patient outcomes and more effective nursing practices.
MSN Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanities:
Throughout my graduate course studies, I have learned the importance of integrating scientific findings from various fields of nursing in my writings and in my practice. Healthcare research constantly generates large amounts of results regarding revised treatment methods for nurses and care management for patients. The lessons reiterate that if implemented in practice, scientific findings can help save lives and improve patients’ recovery times and quality of life. For example, the consideration of how culture affects one’s access to and acceptance of healthcare initiatives teaches me that nurses must carefully and thoughtfully analyze sociodemographic trends if they want to make an effective impact on culturally diverse patient populations. Reversing negative health outcomes for vulnerable populations begins with studying scientific findings appropriate to culturally diverse groups and taking the responsibility to acquire cultural competency skills. The weekly discussion posts helped to hone my skills in integrating and applying scientific medical findings. For example, when we learned about cystic fibrosis (CF) in Week 2, I learned the CDC estimates more than 10 million Americans are carriers of a faulty CF gene, but have no idea they are carriers (NCBI & NHLBI, 2018). Cystic fibrosis affects males and females from all racial and ethnic groups; however, the disease is most common among Caucasians, Latinos, and Pueblo and Zuni American Indians (NCBI & NHLBI, 2018). With this information, I can encourage my patients in their childbearing years who fall under the at-risk population category to get screened for the CF gene if they plan on having children.
Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies # 1 Scientific Foundation Competencies
I have demonstrated my competency in analyzing, integrating, translating, and developing my understanding of scientific foundation competencies through the papers, weekly discussions, and presentations required in this class. One type of assignment in particular stands-out to me. The weekly faculty question required us to present evidence-based methods to the class and interpret the research question, methodology, results, and conclusions from what we had read and link it to another adverse health condition. This taught me the importance of critically analyzing the information in the article and translating the research. I understand now that the faculty question was meant to teach me the etiology of increased risk to develop another disease or condition when a patient is already being treated for a specific condition or disease is multifactorial and connected to traditional and patient specific symptoms. Furthermore, when gathering the data and information for my Week 6 speech and PowerPoint presentation, I was able to integrate what I had learned about culture and disease progression to determine the best way to approach women who suffer from post-partum about hypothyroidism.
In conclusion, I believe I still need to work on developing new approaches to nursing practice regarding specific diseases and serving various patient populations. To do this not only takes confidence but knowledge and understanding. I will feel more confident about doing this after I graduate and have practiced as an FNP for a few years.
References
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), & U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM). (2018). Cystic fibrosis (CF): Symptoms. Retrieved from PubMed Health website:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0022783/ (Links to an external site.)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). (2018). Cystic Fibrosis. Retrieved from https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health-topics/cystic-fibrosis (Links to an external site.)
Grand Rounds session. (August 2018). Hypothyroidism.