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NR_447 Week 5 Discussion Question, Patient Outcomes (Two Responses) Patient outcomes are a result of an action or actions. As a nurse, we are to educate and guide our patients to favorable outcomes. I have chosen the area of total knee replacement as I have been through this twice in the past 6 months with my mother-in-love (MIL). It is imperative as a professional nurse that we provide education of the procedure and what to expect prior to their hospital admission. Having a pre-operative e...

Week 4: Transformational Nursing Leaders This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO). • CO7 Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3) Review Appendix A, Sections I–V in Finkelman (2016). 1. Select one of the sections and share how your chief nurse executive demonstrates expertise in the...

NR447 Week 3 Discussion Question, Conflict and Collaboration After watching the video and listening to the audio this is a very realistic scenario. My first job as a nurse was doing homecare in a not so safe neighborhood, its very scary and makes one apprehensive about going to work every day. 1 .Explain the conflict resolution skills displayed by the leader in the scenario.On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate those of the leader. On a scale of 1-10 I would rate the leader a 7. She ...

NR 447 Week 2 Discussion Question, AACN Essentials Self-Assessment and Patient-Centered Care After you have completed your self-assessment, answer the following questions: 1. If you are willing, please share your total score on the AACN Essentials Self-Assessment. If you do not wish to share your score, give a general description of your current KSA levels. 2. Candidly identify and share with your classmates areas where knowledge, skills or abilities (KSAs) are lacking? 3. Describe the relat...

NR 447 Week 1 Discussion Question, The Affordable Care Act Healthcare reform is a term that is ever present in our practice settings and will not disappear any time soon. 1. Share with the class implementation of the Affordable Care Act in your organization. (If you are not working as a nurse, think about what was happening when you were a prelicensure student). 2. How did your fellow healthcare workers react to implementation of the ACA? 3. How were citizens in your community impacted? T...

NR 451 COURSE DISCUSSION WITH ANSWERS WEEK 1 TO 8

Week 8: Your Future! Now that you are very close to completing this major accomplishment in your nursing career, what are your plans for your future? Please share your plans to keep up to date in your chosen specialty and nursing in general. What professional and nursing organizations do you plan to actively participate? Have you considered continuing your education to pursue a graduate degree? The end of our long road to BSN education is here! Being that I started out this new career late, ...

NR 451 Week 7 Discussion, Healthcare Economics What are some benefits of the healthcare reform that has been prompted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? The Affordable Care Act provides expansions of mental health and substance use disorder coverage, it forces insurers to cover everyone regardless of any pre-existing conditions, it encourages employees to be proactive in their care rather than reactive, and kids stay on their parent’s insurance plan until they are 26 years of age () Why is ...

NR 451 WEEK 7 DISCUSSION, HEALTH FEDERAL BILLS IN CONGRESS After looking over a few health-related bills, I chose H.R. 315: Improving Access to Maternity Care Act to focus on and discuss. This bill was introduced January 5, 2017, passed in the House January 9, 2017 and is currently pending in the Senate. If this bill becomes a law, it will allocate more healthcare professionals for maternity care to areas with shortages. It finds facilities that participate in the National Health Service Corp...

Week 6: Implementing Change Despite Resistance Change can be difficult to implement. Now that you are almost finished with your change project, if you were to implement your project in your clinical practice, what type of resistance do you expect from staff? List at least three ways that you can lessen the resistance you may encounter to help ensure the success of your project. One of the Standards of Professional Performance according to the ANA (2015) states “the registered nurse utilize...

Week 5: Core Competencies for Nurses . Explore the website for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative at (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. How can the QSEN competencies for nurses be implemented into your workplace or professional nursing setting? If you are not currently employed as a nurse, consider a previous work setting that would have benefited from implementation of the QSEN competencies. In the beginning nursing classes in my pursuit for...

Week 4: Evaluating Quality Patient Outcomes How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data that can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change? In my facility, valuable data collected is used for the basis of decision making to improve quality, performance, and achieve desirable outcomes. Statistical evidence evaluated along...

Week 3: Feasibility of Your Design Proposal and Importance of Communication . Now that you have identified your capstone change project, it is time to look at its feasibility. • What tangible and intangible resources will be needed to implement your project? • What improved outcomes do you anticipate will occur that could indicate the project produced a successful return on investment (ROI) of these resources? • How will you communicate your plan for change with key decision makers so...

Week 2: The Clinical Question Your capstone change project begins this week when you identify a practice issue that you believe needs to change. The practice issue must pertain to a systematic review that you must choose from a List of Approved Systematic Reviews for the capstone project, whose link may be found in the guidelines for the Week 3 Capstone Project: Milestone 1 assignment page. • Choose a systematic review from the list of approved reviews based on your interests or your practic...

Week 1: Types of Nursing Models and Frameworks of EBP What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? How does the strength of the evidence determine translation into practice? Why is it important to integrate both evidence-based practice and patient and family preferences? What is the nurse's responsibility when EBP and patient and family practice do not match? What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? It was not until the late 1950s and 1960...

Week 8 TD: What Did You Learn? Reflecting on this course, consider and answer the following questions: How do you envision using the AACN essentials and information learned in this course to identify, guide, and evaluate your MSN project? How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice? This course along with the AACN (2011) Essentials of Master’s Education has helped to identify personally on how to use knowledge, research, and skills towards my...

NR 500 Week 7 Discussion Topic, Healthful Environments (Two Versions) Good afternoon Instructor and class, According to the ANA, incivility is one or more negative actions that may or may not have a negative intent behind them but are consistent with negative results and bullying is harmful or unwanted repeated actions that humiliate or offend another person causing them distress. In nursing this can be very serious and can have negative implications on work environment and patient ca...

Week 6: Systems-Structure and Function Many of you have experience in complex adaptive systems whether you realize it or not. Thinking about your future practice specialty area, identify an issue or concern common to your future practice setting. (Note: This can be the same practice issue identified in Week 5.) In your initial response, please identify your specialty track, as well as the issue or concern. Discuss how this issue or concern impacts the system at the micro, meso, and macro levels...

NR-500 Week 5 Discussion Topic, Evidence-Based Practice After reviewing lesson 5 in this week, it is noted that evidenced-based practice (EBP) is derived from the values of patient, expert experiences, research and literature (CCN, lesson 5, 2019). In nursing practice, the goal is to provide the highest quality of patient care and enhanced patient safety (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Stillwell, & Williamson, 2010). I am pursuing Master of Science in nursing with a specialty track of Family Nurse P...