Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal College of Nursing and Healthcare professions, Grand Canyon University NRS-493-O500 Professional Capstone and Practicum Dr. Jean M. Collins June 26, 2022 Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal Reflective Journals Summary Week Topic and content Summary Week 1 Culturally sensitive care /Integrity & patient respect in nursing. Nursing and cultural diversity focused on the need for nurses to understand values from different culture to provide the right kind of nursing care to culturally sensitive patients. About integrity and patient respect, I focused on stating that it is essential to be honest with patients and to treat all patients with utmost respect during nursing care. Week 2 New Practice Approaches. Focused on the need for nurses to understand the new changes in healthcare and acquire relevant skills to cope with the changes in healthcare such as new technology. Week 3 Inter-professional collaboration. In the reflection, I addressed the need for nurses to cooperate with other professionals in healthcare to facilitate and promote patient outcomes. Week 4 Health care delivery and clinical systems. This reflection focused on the various types of institutions such as hospitals and diagnostic centers whose main tasks is provision of health care to the society. The institutions play key roles in preventive care and treatment of patients. Week 5 Ethical consideration. In this topic, I addressed the need for adhering to ethics such as integrity, fidelity, non-maleficence and autonomy in healthcare. Week 6 Population Health concerns. In this topic I pointed out some of the health concerns in the US population including excessive alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking, heart diseases and cancer. Week 7 The role of Technology in improving patient outcomes. The topic mainly focused on the benefits of technology in patient outcomes such as facilitating quicker diagnosis, convenience of services, and reduction of cost of care. Week 8 Health Policy. In this topic I focused on how laws and regulations dictate the provision of health care services. I also talked about the need for nurses to understand the relevant guidelines that dictate health care practices. Week 9 Health disparity/Leadership and Economic Models in health care. On the health disparities topic, I focused on the avoidable medical states that affect the marginalized and poor citizens, and how they can be addressed. On leadership and economic models, I focused on how the change in types of health delivery in health care have dictated how health care providers run their facilities to stay competent and profitable. I also captured the aspect of leadership in nursing by stating that health organizations have come up with nursing leadership that focuses on addressing issues that give the organizations and edge in the competitive sector. Week 10 In this week 10, I am going to address nursing leaders and how it integrates with the other topics that I have addressed in the reflective journals. Capstone Change Project Liteerature Review Authors Purpose Type of Source Target Populat ion Major Themes Strengths Weaknesses Gyllenste n et al (2017) To identify the impact of reducing the Qualitati ve study Nurses Importance of reduced working hours for nurses • Rich in the relevant informat ion about • Number of the respondents was low and therefore the information cannot be used to reflect the state of the whole nursing profession. working hours of nurses and assistant nurses in a surgical departmen t the experien ce of the nurses due to the method used in collectin g the study data. Melnyk et al (2021) Determini ng the impacts of work environme nt on the mental health of critical care nurses and how poor Survey Nurses The need to improve working conditions, importance of promoting nurses’ mental health for the benefit of patients, nurses and It was done online hence, minimizing the fear of CCNs participating to avoid victimization. • Was conducted online hence only the views of the nurses who are good at using online platforms participated. • Small number of participants involved in the study makes it hard to generalize the results. mental health can lead to medical errors being committed by critical care nurses health facilities. Reduction of medical errors caused by nurses Havaei et al. (2021) About the impact of workplace s conditions on the mental health of nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic Cross- sectional survey Nurses The impacts of Covid-19 on nurses’ mental health. The need to improve work environment to meet nurses’ needs A province wide study done in Canada and it involved 3776 nurses. • The number of the nurses involved was small hence increasing the margin of bias and also only the actively working nurses were involved, meaning the views of the inactive ones who might have left the profession could not be captured to strengthen the findings. Søvold et al. (2021) Determine the need Researc h Nurses Impacts of poor mental • It used numerou • Failure to consider that there are other factors to prioritize mental health of nurses globally Overvie w health affecting nurses. The need to promote mental health for nurses. Effects of poor nurses’ mental health to patient outcomes s evidence -based studies to analyze and derive conclusi ons. other than workplace factors like family conflicts that can trigger and elevate poor mental health among nurses. Spoorthy et al. (2020) Identify the problems caused by the Covid- 19 pandemic to healthcare workers Review Nurses Effects of Covid-19 to healthcare workers. The mental effects of the pandemic. • The review was done when the pandemi c was almost at its peak and this • Scarcity of the number of sources of information makes it hard to generalize the results.