Click here to ORDER an A++ paper from our Verified MASTERS and DOCTORATE WRITERS:NR 500 Week 8 Assignment\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\nI 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. <\/span><\/p>\nAnother 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?\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- How do you envision using the AACN essentials and information learned in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate your practicum project?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u202f \u202f \u202f \u202fI 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\u2019s 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u202f \u202f \u202f 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.\\<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u202f \u202f \u202f \u202f \u202f \u202f 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)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n