This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1:
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Independently formulate a management plan addressing health promotion, disease prevention and health protection for patients and families across the lifespan using evidence-based guidelines. (PO 5)
CO 2: Collaborate with interdisciplinary team members to improve the quality of healthcare. (PO 5)
CO 3: Appraise personal and professional growth toward achieving mastery of the NONPF competencies and the Essentials for Master’s Education in Nursing. (PO 5)
CO 4: Demonstrate a command of essential knowledge needed for safe, quality primary care practice as a family nurse practitioner. (PO 5)
CO 5: Demonstrate competencies essential of the family nurse practitioner role as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care. (PO 5)
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the Grading Rubric).
Reflection on Learning
Describe how learning in this course helped you to meet Program Outcome 5: Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice (Extraordinary Nursing).
Describe how course assignments or activities will help you achieve ONE of the advanced-level nursing education competencies from AACN Essentials Domain 9 listed below. Click each section below to view the competencies
9.1 Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.
9.1h Analyze current policies and practices in the context of an ethical framework.
9.1i Model ethical behaviors in practice and leadership roles.
9.1j Suggest solutions when unethical behaviors are observed.
9.1k Assume accountability for working to resolve ethical dilemmas.
9.2 Employ participatory approach to nursing care.
9.2h Foster opportunities for intentional presence in practice.
9.2i Identify innovative and evidence-based practices that promote person-centered care.
9.2j Advocate for practices that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
9.2k Model professional expectations for therapeutic relationships.
9.2l Facilitate communication that promotes a participatory approach.
9.3 Demonstrate accountability to the individual, society, and the profession.
9.3i Advocate for nursing’s professional responsibility for ensuring optimal care.
9.3j Demonstrate leadership skills when participating in professional activities and/or organizations.
9.3k Address actual or potential hazards and/or errors.
9.3l Foster a practice environment that promotes accountability for care outcomes.
9.3m Advocate for policies/practices that promote social justice and health equity.
9.3n Foster strategies that promote a culture of civility across a variety of settings.
9.3o Lead in the development of opportunities for professional and interprofessional activities.
9.4 Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
9.4d Advocate for polices that enable nurses to practice to the full extent of their education.
9.4e Assess the interaction between regulatory agency requirements and quality, fiscal, and valuebased indicators.
9.4f Evaluate the effect of legal and regulatory policies on nursing practice and healthcare outcomes.
9.4g Analyze efforts to change legal and regulatory policies that improve nursing practice and health outcomes.
9.4h Participate in the implementation of policies and regulations to improve the professional practice environment and healthcare outcomes.
9.5 Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.
9.5f Articulate nursing’s unique professional identity to other interprofessional team members and the public.
9.5g Evaluate practice environment to ensure that nursing core values are demonstrated.
9.5h Identify opportunities to lead with moral courage to influence team decision-making.
9.5i Engage in professional organizations that reflect nursing’s values and identity.
9.6 Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity.
9.6d Model respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion for all team members.
9.6e Critique one’s personal and professional practices in the context of nursing’s core values.
9.6f Analyze the impact of structural and cultural influences on nursing’s professional identity.
9.6g Ensure that care provided by self and others is reflective of nursing’s core values.
9.6h Structure the practice environment to facilitate care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
9.6i Ensure self and others are accountable in upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles related to health.
Describe how course assignments or activities will help you achieve ONE NONPF Independent Practice Competency listed below.
NP 2.1g: Engage in shared decision-making with consideration of determinants of health.
NP 2.6 Demonstrate accountability for care delivery.
NP 2.6k: Provide healthcare services within scope of practice boundaries, which include health promotion, disease prevention, anticipatory guidance, counseling, disease management, palliative, and end-of-life care
NP 2.6l: Collaborate with the interprofessional team to formulate a plan of care.
NP 2.9k: Implement evidence-based guidelines and strategies that enable effective transitions of care and care coordination.
NP 3.5 Demonstrate advocacy strategies.
NP 4.2 Integrate best evidence into NP practice.
NP 9.6 Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity
NP 10.2n: Uphold standards of the NP profession
NP 10.3v: Engage in advocacy efforts to address health disparities, social justice, and equity to improve healthcare outcomes
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.