Maintain accountability for personal and professional behaviors to advocate for ethical and legal practice, social justice, and quality improvement in healthcare.
Through the completion of this assignment, I learned the importance of using evidence-based tools to assess and identify the potential for sexual abuse and how to approach these situations with compassion and sensitivity. I also learned about the importance of proper documentation, mandatory reporting, and legal obligations. This assignment highlighted the importance of continuity of care by providing proper education and resources, applying trauma informed care, and cultural competence.
Understands 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.
This assignment helped me understand the stigma and discrimination that surrounds mental health issues and what can be done to mitigate these issues in nursing practice. It also helped me better understand and recognize my own unconscious biases and how that can impact the quality of care that I provide to my patients if these go unrecognized. I also learned about the regulatory factors in place to protect patients struggling with their mental health and how I can serve as a nurse advocate to defend their rights.
Provide safe, holistic, and patient-centered care by integrating evidence, clinical reasoning, interprofessional perspectives, moral and ethical values, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of holistic care.
Through the completion of this assignment, I learned the importance of applying patient-centered care and cultural competence through tailoring care that includes the physical, emotional, and cultural needs of the patient and their family. By taking a broader view and gaining better understanding of a patient's preferences and culture, it becomes easier to plan care accordingly and understand what is important to them and what guides their choices for care. This assignment helped me understand the role that family plays in a patient's care and the importance of collaborating with interdisciplinary team members to provide a holistic approach to nursing care that values the health of the mind, body, and spirit.
Apply leadership concepts and skills to promote the provision of competent, compassionate, cost-effective and safe care in a variety of settings and systems.
Through the completion of this assignment, I learned how to compile research that highlights the background, significance, scope, and implications for practice, combined with my own personal views and experience on an issue, in order to take a stance and advocate for better nursing practice. I met this competency by using the leadership concepts and skills I learned in class and throughout my schooling to promote change in the nursing field in order to provide the best compassionate, competent, and safe care for our patients.
Utilize healthcare technologies, information and communication systems to support safe, efficient, and optimal nursing practice.
This assignment helped me realize how different technology, communication, and information systems can be used to optimize nursing practice and promote positive patient outcomes. Through research, I learned of the different opportunities these systems can provide to optimize interdisciplinary collaboration, recognize and prevent potential for poor patient outcomes, and provide patients with the information and tools to continue their care beyond the hospital setting. I now have a better understanding of these systems and how to best utilize them in my future practice to provide safe, efficient, and timely patient-centered care.
Utilize effective communication, coordination and collaborative strategies with patients and members of the healthcare team to optimize healthcare outcomes.
This outcome was met through my Nursing Care of the Adult II class as it provided me with the tools to integrate evidence, theoretical knowledge, and clinical reasoning in order to plan appropriate patient care and evaluate my interventions. This assignment helped me achieve this out come by refining my ability to analyze assessment data in order to implement and prioritize appropriate interventions and incorporate interdisciplinary care for optimal patient outcomes while providing holistic, patient-centered care.
Utilizes community assets and 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.
This outcome was met through my Population Health course as it emphasized the importance of health promotion, preventative measures, health disparities, and social determinants of health in the field of nursing. This assignment showed me how evidence-based practice can be implemented by collecting, scrutinizing, and utilizing research findings in order to improve the outcomes of patients, the clinical environment, and clinical practice. I achieved this outcome by working through the process myself by identifying a PICO question and gathering evidence in order to improve the client education we provide as nurses, and the outcomes of my patients.
Evidence Based Health Promotion PICO & Abbreviated Literature Review
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.
This assignment helped me synthesize my nursing school experiences to show my competency in providing passionate, effective, and safe care to patients from birth to the final stages of their life. I met this competency through my many nursing clinicals, simulations, and didactic experiences to demonstrate that I am thoroughly prepared to enter the filed of nursing.