Nursing Practice Course Analysis

Proceeding each offering of courses, evaluation occurs and is shared with faculty course members and the Director of the School of Nursing. The evaluation is utilized to improve the teaching and learning strategies to enhance achievement of learning outcomes for subsequent semesters. The curriculum committee’s responsibility is to review the nursing courses for rigor, currency, and integrity and present new recommendations to faculty based on this review. Faculty will consider current changes by a majority vote.

In recent years, there have been increased efforts to improve the state of healthcare in the United States. Despite spending much more than any other high-income countries on healthcare each year, the United States is behind many other countries when it comes to overall health status (Squires & Anderson, 2015). There have been several new policies set forth to improve patient outcomes while also cutting costs. In addition to excess spending, there are also concerns regarding the increased demand for healthcare as the baby boomers continue to age (Song & Ferris, 2018). To address these challenges, officials are working toward utilizing advanced practice nurse practitioners (APRNs) to act as healthcare providers for the growing population of

“Organizations with a positive safety culture are characterized by communications founded on mutual trust, by shared perceptions of the importance of safety and by confidence in the efficacy of preventive measures” (Stavrianopoulos, 2012, pg, 202). Communication and teamwork go hand and hand. An effective teamwork involves effective communication. No communication can lead to possible medical errors, whether the failure to communicate comes from the patient to the nurse or between the health care providers. Evidence based care is another factor which aids in safety. “Healthcare organizations that demonstrate evidence-based best practices, including standardized processes, protocols, checklists, and guidelines, are considered to exhibit a culture of safety” (Stavrianopoulos, 2012, pg, 203). Providing better safety means learning from the past mistakes. By understanding the root of the issue, which would then lead to learning how to improve the situation. Educational training about safety should be available for medical staff to attend and learn if there was to be any doubt in he or she’s mind. Patient centered care is another factor in providing safety. It focuses on the patient and their family. Helping patient’s and family be more active in the care of the health plan can lead to safer and better

4a. Collaborate with nursing to form a patient safety committee to review falls during week 4.

In 1860, Florence Nightingale founded the first modern nursing school to break the stigma of previous nursing views and provide appropriate training to nurses (Finkelman & Kenner, 2016). Since then, the nursing profession has dramatically evolved over the last centuries.

Dignity is an important aspect throughout ones life, but becomes particularly in jeopardy when one becomes elderly. This makes it important to uphold the dignity of elders. In my prospective career as a nurse practioneer, I will have ample amount of opportunities to preserve the dignity of elderly patients. As a nurse practioneer I will be able to achieve this in a variety of ways, by promoting autonomy and maintaining the patients self-dignity.

One of my key goals after graduation is to get into a nurse practitioner (NP) program, and eventually to practice successfully as an NP. The teamwork skills listed will likely be most applicable after school, and the writing skills would help me more generally as I take later classes for my bachelors and later graduate level courses.

With graduation fast approaching, there is much to consider when applying for positions as a nurse practitioner. Having worked for two different hospital networks and a specialty clinic, I have learned over the years what I want most in a job. Although it can be intimidating and awkward, it is imperative, I address the things I desire most during the interviewing process. The top four things are as follows

At my institution we are encouraged to report near miss events in an electronic patient safety form. These events are reported weekly through newsletters .There is also a lessons learned section that focus on how an event can be prevented and what is expected for us to implement. Our unit has daily rounds for each patient. The goal of this meeting is to aid the process of discharging the patient as quickly as possible since our unit is an observation unit. Involved in this meeting is the Doctor, bedside nurse for the patient, charge nurse, care manager and social worker. Each member of this team collaborates to facilitate the safe discharge of the patient. We also have checklist for surgery and tools to assess the need and proper care for indwelling catheters, picc-lines, fall risks etc. These are some of the opportunities that are embedded as part of our practice that contribute to direct patient.

Thank you for considering my appeal to continue in the Nursing program. As much as I feel I should have been able to recover from missing 10 days of studying during my Term B classes, Therapeutic Use of Self and Adult 1; however, this was something I was not able to do despite my best efforts.

The definitions of Advanced Practice Nursing have continued to be developed and defined in a variety of ways over time. The definition of APN had become critically essential more than ever as the significant increase in need of APN and the impact of APN’s part in healthcare environment. The definitions provided by the United States Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) DNP Essentials, the APRN consensus model and Hamric, Hanson, Tracy & O'Grady in textbook have similarities and distinctions.

For example, the AHRQ’s program design of Team STEPPS requires a nurse to voice their concern if they see a potential error in patient care. After the concern is voiced, then the team must stop patient care and address the concern (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2012). Many hospitals after implementing this program have tremendously improved patient safety within their organization. Also, nurses and advanced practice nurses will need to be familiar and comfortable with documenting their patient care electronically in computers due to AHRQ’s initiatives on Health Information Technology, which mandates all hospitals to merge into electronic patient care records (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2012). This process will promote patient centered care by allowing providers to easily transfer patient records between one another.

During the enrolment on my Access to Nursing course, I faced the problem of having difficulty in managing my time schedules. When I decide to go back to education, I never gave a thought of how I will manage my time for work, family, and studying. I did not do any research about the course that I am taking; for instance, how many subjects do I need to take, what time and what day would it be. Instead, I assumed that I can choose and decide the subject I want to take and the day and time to go and attend it to make it fit with my existing schedules

Thank You Fran, for all the extra efforts you made to help me grow, and the challenges you encouraged me to face to help me become a better student in your clinical rotation. I never fall asleep in your lectures because it was amazing to hear you teach with all your knowledge. I will always be thankful to you for being part of my nursing pathway!!

Working as a medical surgical nurse, I believe patient education is one of the most important nursing interventions and interactions a nurse can have with their patients. Understanding this, it is also very important that education is individualized to the patient’s literacy level to achieve maximize results. For this reason, I have chosen an educational handout developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (n.d.), Reasons to Quit Smoking, to complete this assignment. The handout speaks to the patient regarding reasons to quit smoking, including their health, appearance, lifestyle, and loved ones. Smoking cessation is a topic nurses encounter daily and it is one of our facilities’s