NR 501 NP Week 4 Discussion Identify your specialty area of NP practice. Select a nursing theory, borrowed theory, or interdisciplinary theory provided in the lesson plan or one of your own findings. Address the following: • Origin • Meaning and scope • Logical adequacy • Usefulness and simplicity • Generalizability • Testability Finally, provide an example of how the theory could be used to improve or evaluate the quality of practice in your specific setting. What rational...

NR 501 NP Week 8 Compilation of Weekly Reflections

NR 501 WEEK 2 WORK. 1. Think of a surprising or challenging practice situation in which you felt underprepared, unprepared, or uncomfortable. 2. Select an important nursing issue/topic that was inherent to the identified situation. 3. Briefly explain the situation 4. Identify the nursing issue inherent in the identified situation 1. As a method of refection, use Carper's Patterns of Knowing to analyze the situation. In your discussion, address ONE of the following Patterns of Knowing: ...

NR 501 NP Week 5 Application of Theory Assignment Nursing is a complex career that has a foundation rooted in research collected over the decades. Nursing models, frameworks, and theories have provided nurses, past and present, with the information needed to provide their patients with the best possible care. According to Gomes Brandão, Bottura Leite de Barros, Caniçali Primo, Saraiva Bispo, and Pitta Lopes (2019), the quest for best practices in nursing is a central and multidimensional chal...

NR 501 NP Week 7 Discussion Write 1-2 paragraphs reflecting on the relationship between theory and practice. What were the most important concepts you learned in week 7? Why are these concepts important? How will they prepare you for your future role as an NP? In what ways do you feel prepared for your new role? In what ways do you feel unprepared?

NR 501 NP Week 6 Reflection Write 1-2 paragraphs reflecting on theories used as a nurse practitioner. As you contemplate your future NP practice, how do you view your role in using theory in practice? Which of the theories "spoke" to you? What are some barriers you see to implementing theory in practice?

NR 501 NP Week 6 Discussion Locate a scholarly journal article that uses either a health behavior theory or the Praxis Theory of Suffering as the basis for evidence-based research. Choose an article DIFFERENT than those provided in the weekly readings. Summarize the research presented. How was the theory used? How do the research findings either support or refute the use of the theory in practice? How could you use the research in your own practice as an NP?

NR 501 NP Week 5 Reflection Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives. What personal values, if any, were challenged this week? What values can you reaffirm or want to reconsider after this learning?

NR 501 NP Week 5 Discussion Which of the culture and caring theories most resonates with you for your practice as an NP? How does the theory integrate the nursing paradigm? What parts of the theory do you identify with? How does the theory help to meet CLAS standards to advance health equity?