Herzing NU476 2019 March All Units Discussions Latest

Unit 1 Discussion
Unit 1 Discussion – Introduction & Effective Communication
Instructions
As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the following:
Your name and a description of your current position (If not employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)
How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?
Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait, family, or action photo)
Family-centered care includes listening to and communicating with patients, caregivers, and families. Address the following
Describe elements essential to establishing effective communication and a therapeutic relationship, which you have integrated into your role as a nurse.
Provide an example from your current practice environment.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Unit 1 Discussion – Introduction & Effective Communication
Instructions
Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:
Note a commonality between yourself and your peers or something about them that you find interesting.
Comment on your peers’ examples of a therapeutic element.
What is your experience with this?
To what extent do you feel family-centered care is incorporated into direct and indirect patient care?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
 
Unit 2 Discussion
Healthcare Policy
Instructions:
Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
Submit the post.
Healthcare is in a state of constant change.  Nurses must be prepared to do more with less, improve the health of populations, and provide affordable care all while creating a world-class patient experience.  Please address the following:
Summarize a local, state, national, or global policy that has impacted healthcare.
How has your practice changed and/or improved as a result of this policy?
Discuss the impact this policy has had on patients and families.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Healthcare Policy
Instructions:
Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers.  Include in your response
 
Do you think that the policy has improved the quality of patient care provided?
What additional i8mpacts could the selected policy have on healthcare?
 
 
Unit 3 Discussion
Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice
Instructions:                    
Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
Submit the post.
The concepts of quality improvement and evidence-based care are essential for the BSN-prepared nurse.  Please address the following:
Provide an example of either a quality improvement or evidence-based practice initiative that you have participated in.
What did the process look like and what was your role in the initiative?
What did you learn from the experience?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response: Unit 3, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice
Instructions:
Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:
Compare and contrast your experience participating in a quality improvement/evidence-based practice initiative with that of your peers.
Why are quality improvement and evidence-based initiative important to the future of nursing?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour
 
 
 
Unit 4 Discussion
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Instructions:
Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
Submit the post.
Summarize your Community Health experiential learning. Address the following:
Relate your project to one of the Healthy People 2020 goals and/or objectives.
Why is health promotion and disease prevention so important in nursing practice?
Do you envision any future opportunities to expand your Community Health project?
Give an overview of your community’s health promotion or disease prevention offerings. Pick one of the Healthy People goals and evaluate your community’s efforts towards this goal.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Instructions:
Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
Submit your peer responses.
Respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response to their overview of their community’s health promotion or disease prevention offerings:
Compare your community’s health promotion/disease prevention activities to those of your peers’ community’s efforts towards that goal.
Pick one of these activities and discuss how you would, ideally, include a nursing role in this community initiative.
 
 
Unit 5 Discussion
Professional Ethics and Values
Instructions:
Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
Submit the post.
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008), professional values and their related behaviors are the foundation for effective nursing practice. Address the following:
Provide two (2) examples from your own clinical practice that demonstrates the professional nursing practice and principles of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and/or social justice.
How do you “live” these principles in your nursing practice?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response: Unit 5, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Professional Ethics and Values
Instructions:
Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers.  Include in your response:
 
Comment on your peers’ practices and discuss one of their examples of these principles that you find difficult to demonstrate (for whatever reason).
Consider and discuss ways to overcome this.
 
 
Unit 6 Discussion
Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy
Instructions:
•              Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
•              Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
•              Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
•              Submit the post.
Professional nurses must demonstrate competence in the use of information technology systems and possess the information literacy skills necessary to gather evidence and provide patient care. Address the following:
•              Provide two (2) examples of how information and healthcare technology has evolved during your nursing practice career.  How does technology impact your interactions with patients and families?
•              What is the role of nurses in supporting the health literacy of our patients?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response: Unit 6, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy
Instructions:
•              Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
•              Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
•              Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers.  Include in your response:
•              Comment on your peers’ discussion of the role of nurses in supporting health literacy.
•              Explain some situations in your experience where you have done this.
•              How did your actions align with your peers’ explanations?
 
 
Unit 7 Discussion
Lifelong Learning and Professional Development
Instructions:
•              Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.
•              Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
•              Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.
•              Submit the post.
Lifelong learning and continuous professional growth are necessary in the current complex healthcare climate.  Address the following in your discussion post:
•              What does lifelong learning mean to you?
•              What are your plans to build upon your nursing knowledge?
•              Where do you see yourself professionally in five (5) years? Ten (10) years?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Peer Response: Unit 7, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Lifelong Learning and Professional Development
Instructions:
•              Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.  Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.
•              Find the posts that you are going to reply to.
•              Submit your peer responses.
Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:
•              What do you think healthcare will look like in the year 2030?
•              How might our role as nurses change or evolve in the next decade?
 
 
Unit 8 Discussion
 Reflection
Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:
Practice using caring, compassionate, culturally competent, and evidence-based practices in the roles of the baccalaureate nurse using the nursing process to provide patient/client-centered care in a variety of healthcare settings.
Use a broad base of techniques to communicate effectively with clients, families, healthcare teams, and communities.
Use critical thinking and decision making, local, state, national, and global policies, legislative concepts, and healthcare economics to affect quality healthcare and the evolving healthcare system.
Integrate knowledge and skills in nursing leadership and management, quality improvement, and patient safety, as required, to provide healthcare.
Integrate knowledge and skills to promote health and prevent disease across the lifespan and the continuum of healthcare environments.
Practice professionalism, including the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.
Formulate a professional ethic that includes lifelong learning and continuous professional development in an ever-evolving healthcare environment.
Think critically at a conceptual level and by using mathematical analysis as well as the scientific method, write and speak effectively, use basic computer applications, and understand human behavior in the context of the greater society in a culturally diverse world.
Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.
For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.
Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions. Responses to these questions are due by Tuesday at noon.