...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Nursing | | |NUR/598 Version 4 | | |Research Utilization Project | Copyright © 2011, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2001, 2000, 1999 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This is a graduate research course that focuses on the use of a body of nursing knowledge and scientific knowledge in the nursing practice setting. Students develop a proposal to address a problem or concern in the nursing practice, propose an evidence-based solution, develop an implementation and evaluation plan, and describe implementation strategies for the proposed solution. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be...
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...Summary of Research Accomplishments I am a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with an anticipated graduation in August 2018. As a part of my DNP degree requirements, I decided to focus my scholarly project on the graduate clinical education. Majority of advanced practice nursing (APN) programs rely heavily on one-to-one preceptor-student model to provide clinical education. Nationally, there is inadequate number of clinical sites and clinical preceptors. And many APN programs are facing challenge to retain and recruit graduate clinical preceptors especially in the primary care including the DNP program at the UW-Madison. Beside a high demand, preceptors available to precept have to overcome several barriers to provide a high quality clinical education including a lack of any formal training in an educator role....
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...case management, education to patient and family in regards to disease process, treatment, and how to adapt to a healthier lifestyle. As healthcare continues to evolve and become more complex, it is necessary to assure proper education has been achieved. Controversy among the nursing profession has existed for many years regarding what is the acceptable minimum education for nursing practice. The ADN program takes 2-3 years to complete. The ADN programs started due to a need for nurses during a nursing shortage brought on by WWII. The ADN program provided a shorter period of time to acquire the necessary minimal skill to obtain licensure, and practice safe entry level nursing without the emphasis on leadership, nursing theory and critical thinking. The focus of ADN programs has been to prepare the nurse with considerable clinical experience and technical nursing tools needed to provide patient care at the bedside (Cresia & Friberg, 2011). They do not have the education to perform research activities which becomes the basis for the nursing care of today, as evidence-based practice. The BSN program takes about 4 years to complete and is college or university based. Both levels subscribe to the same nursing philosophies and teachings but the BSN expands on those philosophies and teachings to provide a higher level of care. The increased emphasis on theory and communication skills builds collaborative decision...
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...Professional Development of Nursing Professionals Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V September 21, 2014 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in conjunction with The Institute of Medicine (IOM) began an initiative that lasted two-years, beginning in 2008 in an attempt to assess and transform the profession of nursing. The culmination of this report in 2010 left several recommendation on “The future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health”. With nurses being the majority of the healthcare workforce, they are encouraged to lead the charge on changes in the healthcare system. This report discusses the effects of safe, effective and affordable care rendered at the primary level. Nurses can further this initiative by taking their education to the next level, which will allow stronger leadership roles and in turn will lead directly to improved care at the primary level. Transforming Practice Access to healthcare has been rewritten with the implementation of The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). This will allow open access to healthcare for millions; in turn increasing demands on healthcare professionals. In keeping with IOM report, ways in which a practicing nurse can implement changes are varied; in current practice it would begin with education and prevention early in the acute care stay in order to be preemptive in post-acute care period also early in a nurse’s education familiarizing oneself with the patient care needs in under-served communities, which allows...
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...bfitz@chamberlain.edu 614-565-4125 MGMT 591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Robert Salitore June, 16th, 2014 Introduction The organization that will be the topic in my final project paper is Chamberlain College of Nursing. Chamberlain is a single purpose college of nursing under the DeVry Education Group umbrella since 2005. DeVry Education Group (NYSE: DV; member S&P MidCap 400 Index) is a global provider of educational services. For 125 years, Chamberlain College of Nursing has been at the forefront of excellence in nursing education. Chamberlain is increasing access to nursing education nationwide with campuses offering the three-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program and flexible online programs such as the RN to BSN option, Master of Science in Nursing degree program, Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program and Graduate certificates. Due to increased governmental regulation for title IV funding of for profit institutions of higher education, we became under scrutiny for any activities that appeared to be and inducement for students to enroll into our programs. In addition, the organization had to make sweeping changes to how all departments involved with student enrollment were compensated. This...
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...Future of Nursing According to IOM Report GCU Professional Dynamics NRS-430V Professor Michael Jones October 01, 2013 Future of Nursing According to IOM Report Today is a very important day in our country being that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) open enrollment begins. That means affordable healthcare for millions of Americans will be made available as of the New Year. As a nursing professional it is important to be aware of the future of healthcare reform in our country. Nurses make up the largest segment of the nation’s medical workforce and have the opportunity to join forces with other healthcare professionals and promote change in our field. In attempt to prepare for the inevitable growing demand on healthcare workers and the predicted nursing shortage, in 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) partnered to form a committee to assess nursing practices and offer recommendations to transform the current healthcare system through the nursing workforce. The report includes four key messages, 1.Practice, 2. Leadership, 3. Education, and 4.Workforce. This paper is an attempt to discuss the recommendations for change by focusing on Practice, Education and Leadership. Need to Transform Practice “Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training” (Institute of Medicine 2010, p. 4). Nursing scope of practice includes delivering quality care that is patient centered and evidenced based...
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...industry, primarily within the nursing sector. Registered Nurses (more commonly known as RNs) complete an Associate degree nursing program (ASN) or higher (BSN, MSN, ND, DNSc, or DNP). Every healthcare experience involves the knowledge, support, and comfort of an RN – they are a large, diverse group who are integral to and in the delivery of healthcare. In fact, the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) Job Satisfaction 2010 survey indicates that nursing is the only “profession offering genuine opportunity for meaningful work.” The Employment Projections 2010-2020 profile suggests that there are 3.5 million licensed RNs working in various settings across the United States - which effectively means that RNs represents the single largest group of healthcare professionals in the United States; Wanted Analytics reported in December 2012 of 121,000 newly placed classified advertisements seeking RNs to fill positions in various settings to include schools, hospitals, long-term care facilities, companies, and staffing firms during the months of October and November 2012; and the National Institute of Medicine confirms that between 2005 and 2012 the nursing sector experienced average annual growth of twenty-three percent (23%), and further predicts that the sector will add an additional 283,000 positions by the end of calendar year 2015. Despite rosy and extremely optimistic employment prospects, the US is in the midst of a nursing shortage as illustrated by the...
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...percentages of patients admitted, reported falling of at least once during an inpatient hospital stay period” (Oliver, Healey, & Haines, 2010). The author works at a city hospital located in Gilbert, Arizona and encounters a great amount of orthopedic patients along with other general surgery patients. All patients that are on that floor are at a risk of falls during the first 48 hours after surgery due to anesthesia that is still in the system and pain medication that is scheduled to help ease the patient during the post-surgical time frame. One of the side effects of anesthesia exiting the body is nausea and vomiting which can make the patient feel dizzy and lightheaded, thus making them a great risk for falls. This has been the reason that the topic was chosen; to attempt to improve this issue in the hospital setting and to provide a system in which all hospital staff collaborate to help increase the quality of patient care. The location that is being observed is the post-surgical/orthopedic floor where the author is currently working. A description of risks and concerns are provided and patient outcomes depend on implementing the proposed interventions. The two solutions that are presented are hourly rounding and the importance of an improved nurse call light button and education on proper usage. Each intervention is supported by evidence-based practice peer-reviewed journal articles. The proposal will show the improvements of patient safety and increased patient compliance to hospital...
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...Health Nurses’ Evaluation of Pre-Operative Teaching and Post-Operative Outcomes Ruth E. Harvath Liberty University The Journal of Nursing Education. Abstract A non-experimental, descriptive, quantitative, pilot study was conducted to explore the home health nurses’ perceptions about their patient’s pre-operative and post operative outcomes. Patient education is a major concern among healthcare providers in the surgical and home health settings. Patients’ have distinct levels of understanding, learning styles, and comprehension of materials in which need to be addressed in preparing a patient for surgery. Research has shown that complications can be prevented by efficient pre-operative education. It is suggested that patients and caregivers are given evidence based pre-operative education that meets the needs of the individual patient. The findings from this pilot study suggested that the perceptions of the home health nurses’ were that patient education should be designed to embrace patients at all levels of learning. Keywords: pre-operative, surgical, education, post-operative, outcomes, complication Home Health Nurses’ Evaluation of Pre-Operative Teaching and Post-Operative Outcome Introduction The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the effectiveness of pre-operative education from a post-operative standpoint from home health nurses’ perspectives when caring for post-operative patients Individualized evidence based pre-operative...
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... Now that I have completed my Registered Nursing (RN) degree, and am working as a new grad nurse, I am venturing into the future with my Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree. Some people ask me “why do you bother getting your BSN?” This is a question I have considered myself over the past year, and now I am back in school, I realize the benefits to further education are enormous. Nursing link website states “in today’s nursing world, more is expected from a nurse than following doctor’s orders and starting IVs.” (Forster, 2008, para. 4) It continues to report that we as nurses must be able to “make critical decisions about a patient’s care, to question the doctor if orders seem inappropriate and to help the patient through, sometimes, difficult life-changing decisions.” One can only develop these skills with a broad based education, one that includes “critical thinking, and exposure to many different people, though process, and cultural and social norms.” Therefore BSN programs offer more education aimed at developing such necessary skills. (Forster, 2008, para. 4) This paper will discus such benefits in obtaining a BSN degree in further detail; by comparing the differences in competencies between nurses based on their degree level, the use of patient care situation describing differences in approach to nursing care based of formal education in nursing, and the overall benefits and advantages of higher education for nursing practice. Interestingly enough, several studies...
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...another job as a medication assistant at Austin Community College (ACC). This job allows me to collaborate with a nursing instructor by educating level one nursing students in a hospital setting in medication administration safety, basic nursing skills, critical thinking skills, evidence-based practice, core measures, and providing effective and holistic nursing care. My goals as a nurse is to build a trusting relationship with my patients and promote the patient’s sense of control in order to attain quality, holistic health. These goals are very similar with my ACC students. As I assist in teaching them how to reach their potential as a future nurse, I want us to trust each other, and I want them to be autonomous in researching answers themselves to provide quality care. My nursing care before this class was more focused on evidence-based practice since I did not consciously incorporate theory into my bedside practice. This personal framework paper will review my personal values, beliefs, and nursing philosophy in relation to my bedside nursing practice and medication assistant position. I will describe Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain’s Modeling and Role Modeling Theory (MRMT) and how it applies to the nursing metaparadigm and my nursing practice. I will further compare and contrast the theory of Modeling and Role Modeling to my philosophy and approach to nursing, and describe a situation in which my framework could have been applied. Philosophy Empiricism is a philosophy...
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... The nursing as a profession has grown tremendously since the days of Florence Nightingale. Although nursing has developed to be such a broad spectrum of specialties, the core nursing values that focus on the patient and service to the patient have only been strengthened as nursing holds core truths to be the basis of the profession. Nursing as a profession has grown in response to the needs at hand. In 1983 the National Commission on Nursing Implementation Project (NCNIP), completed a three year project to provide leadership for the nursing’s future (AACN-AONE, 1993, sec. I, Background). The main goal of the project was to create competency based statements of practice for ADN and BSN nurses. This resulted in differentiated competencies. The ADN prepared nurse provides direct client care to those with common and well-defined nursing diagnosis, practices within a structured setting where policies procedures and protocols provide provisions for healthcare, uses basic therapeutic communication skills with clients, coordinates client focused needs and care with other health team members, recognizes client needs for information and teaching plans, acknowledges that research influences nursing practice, assists in data collection procedures, maintains accountability for own practice and aspects of care delegated to peers and licensed practical nurses or unlicensed assistive personnel, plans and implement nursing care consistent with the overall admission to post discharge...
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...BSN Versus ADN Veronica Suarez Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V March 6, 2015 High demands of nursing and more nursing schools existing are creating more competition for job opportunities that has evolved into hospitals raising the bar on nurses’ knowledge. Living here in Miami makes job searching a difficult task unless if you know someone who knows someone or you have all of the qualifications for the job which lately it’s including have a BSN, as opposed to many years ago where having an associates degree was sufficient. The hospital I just got hired at to do an emergency department residency program is not a magnet hospital but due to healthcare foundations and the hospital itself trying to become a magnet hospital they required me to either have my bachelors degree or at least be enrolled in one. I understand and respect this approach of the hospital because I do know that nurses with a BSN bring more to the hospital practice setting in the sense of their prized critical thinking skills, health promotion, and leadership skills. For example, being in the ER and having a patient that has been admitted with a possible ischemic stroke requires fast critical thinking skills in assessing the patient and following the hospitals protocols for this type of patient such as conducting a CAT scan and drawing labs to be able to diagnose if the patient is having a stroke or not so if need be give Activase as soon as possible since time...
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...include the entire citation in APA format. The article you select cannot be from any of the course materials or supplemental readings. (Note: It is a violation of copyright law to post the entire text of an article to an online discussion board. Post only the citation information so that it can be referenced by others. Use correct APA format for citations.) Question 2= Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty lists several principles for selecting learning activities. Select one of the principles and explain why it would be important to you in your selected area of education (academic, staff, or patient). Week 2: Question 1= Review “Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education,” located on the American Psychological Association website at http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/fair-code.aspx. What are your thoughts after reading the document? Did you realize it existed? How does the code apply to nursing education? The Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education is over 10 years old. Is it still relevant today? Why? If not, how should it be revised? Use correct APA format when citing. Question 2= What would be a reasonable evaluation strategy for patient education? Week 3: Question 1= Chapter 20 in Teaching in Nursing: A Guide for Faculty discusses the use of technology in nursing education. In addition to the technology...
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...Educational Preparation Elizabeth Wells Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V September 6, 2014 The nursing profession is continuously changing and so are the expectations of today’s nurses. With demands for quality patient care on the rise, so will the standard that nurses advance their education. There are three different avenues in becoming a registered nurse: diploma programs and associate degree programs ranging from 2-3 years to complete, and baccalaureate degree programs taking 4 years. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), baccalaureate-nursing programs include all associate degree curriculums plus a more in-depth focus on physical assessments, social science, research, public and community health, humanities, and nursing leadership (AACN, n.d.). This advancement in education has expanded nurse’s scope of practice, broadened their awareness of cultural, social and economic considerations, and enhanced their critical thinking skills. Thus resulting in better nurses, and better care. This statement seems relatively simple, but ask a seasoned nurse with their associate’s degree for 20 years, if returning to school would increase their quality of care and level of competencies and you may offend them. Ongoing studies and research have shown that quality patient care, lower mortality rates, lower medication errors, and positive patient outcomes were direct results from nurses educated at the baccalaureate and graduate degree levels (AACN...
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