Outcome 1:
Professional Accountability: Maintain Accountability for personal and professional behaviors to advocate for ethical and legal practice, social justice, and quality improvement in health care.
I was able to meet this requirement in my Nursing Care of the Adult II course, with the Special Considerations in Emergency Care assignment. For this assignment, I found evidenced based practice tools to screen for intimate partner violence. Additionally, I was able to identify ways that nurses could advocate both ethically and legally for patient's that experienced intimate partner violence. Lastly, I spoke on why and how nurses should advocate social justice for patients who are victims of intimate partner violence.
Outcome 2:
Understanding the Healthcare Context: Understand the impact of health care policy, finance, and regulatory factors that influence healthcare quality, safety, and optimal care for diverse populations in evolving healthcare settings.
For my Behavioral Health Nursing course, I did my PSLO assignment on children's mental health. For this assignment, I analyzed how policy and regulatory factors influenced healthcare, and I also looked at the financial impact and implications of mental healthcare. I then looked at how this relates to the safety of children, and how this can inform how we as nurses provide care.
Outcome 3:
Holistic and Patient-Centered Care: Provide safe, holistic, and patient-centered care by integrating evidence, clinical reasoning interprofessional perspectives, moral, and ethic values, and patient preferences is planning, implementing, and evaluation outcomes of holistic care.
For my Aging, Chronicity, and Palliative Care course, I did an assignment on end of life care. For this assignment, I highlighted the importance of providing patient-centered care, in which the patient's health needs are prioritized through clinical reasoning and judgement. Additionally, I looked at how to approach patient health in a holistic manner in order to promote patient safety and enhance their overall well-being. I highlighted the interdisciplinary team that would be needed in order to provide end of life care, while considering patient preference.
Outcome 4:
Leadership: Apply leadership concepts and skills to promote the provision of competent, compassionate, cost-effective and safe care in a variety of settings and systems.
For my Leadership in Nursing course, we had an assignment in which we had to split into two groups and debate whether or not to implement a new unified electronic health record (EHR) as hospital leadership. We had to examine how a new EHR system could potentially improve patient care by providing safe and competent care, while be cost effective in the long run. Additionally, we examined how a unified system would allow a patient's care team to coordinate care across various departments.
Outcome 5:
Technology & Informatics: Utilize healthcare technologies, information and communication systems to support safe, efficient, and optimal nursing practice.
For my Nursing Informatics course, I showed how nurse's can use technology, such as the electronic health record (EHR) system to provide safe and efficient patient care. I specifically highlighted the ability to chart in real time and the security features, such as encryption, as ways that technology helps to improve patient care.
Outcome 6:
Optimizing Healthcare Outcomes: Utilize effective communication, coordination and collaborative strategies with patients and members of the healthcare team to optimize healthcare outcomes.
For my Aging, Chronicity, and Palliative Care PSLO assignment, I examined the case of a terminally ill Chinese man, and determined whether he would be better suited for palliative or hospice care. Then, I looked at how different members of the interdisciplinary team could collaborate with each other, and with the patient, to enhance this patient's end of life care. I also examined verbal and non-verbal strategies the care team could implement to communicate with the patient and his family in a culturally competent manner, as to provide the best end of life care for the patient.
Outcome 7:
Health Promotion/Illness Prevention: Utilizes community assets, collaborates with community stakeholders to empower communities and populations for long-term health promotion and/or illness and injury prevention, and identifies methods to evaluate effectiveness of interventions.
In my Population Health course, I did a health promotion plan assignment for a local Minneapolis neighborhood. I first identified a specific group to help within this neighborhood, then I created a plan to prevent and reduce hypertension long-term. I identified community resources and stakeholders, so that I could execute my health promotion plan successfully.
Outcome 8:
Baccalaureate Generalist: Synthesize knowledge from the liberal arts and science with nursing knowledge to provide compassionate, competent, and creative nursing care to diverse populations across the lifespan.
For the Keith RN PTSD case study, my group and I worked to examine the case of a war veteran by first analyzing the clinical data presented to us. We then integrated scientific principles to identify how to diagnose and treat PTSD. We then analyzed literature on PTSD to further understand what this experience is like and what the current research on the matter was. This also helped us to identify the psychosocial care priorities for patient's dealing with PTSD, and how we as nurses could address this in a compassionate and empathetic manner. The multifaceted nature of this illness, required us to tailor our interventions to meet the unique needs of our patient.