Week 8 Reflection on Learning and Practice Readiness Discussion
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse, to
consider what you learned in this course and how this knowledge will impact your practice.
Instructions
Reflective inquiry allows for the expansion of self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and
assessment of learning goals. As you reflect on your own readiness for practice as a DNP-prepared nurse,
it is important to consider what you learned in this course.
As you review the course outcomes and your experience in this course, address the following:
1. Analyze and evaluate how your thinking was challenged in this course related to translation
science; summary, analysis, synthesis; and using an evidence-based intervention in a practice
change project to address a practice problem and impact practice outcomes.
2. Considering this new knowledge, examine how this learning prepares you to practice as a DNP-
prepared nurse.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource
Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
1. Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
2. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate
culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
3. Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical
scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
4. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
5. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all
populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
6. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical
disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
7. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve
the nation’s health. (PO 1)
8. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience,
and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
Purpose
The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared nurse, to
consider what you learned in this course and how this knowledge will impact your practice.
Instructions
Reflective inquiry allows for the expansion of self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and
assessment of learning goals. As you reflect on your own readiness for practice as a DNP-prepared nurse,
it is important to consider what you learned in this course.
As you review the course outcomes and your experience in this course, address the following:
1. Analyze and evaluate how your thinking was challenged in this course related to translation
science; summary, analysis, synthesis; and using an evidence-based intervention in a practice
change project to address a practice problem and impact practice outcomes.
2. Considering this new knowledge, examine how this learning prepares you to practice as a DNP-
prepared nurse.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource
Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
Program Competencies
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
1. Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
2. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate
culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
3. Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical
scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
4. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
5. Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all
populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
6. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical
disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
7. Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve
the nation’s health. (PO 1)
8. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience,
and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
