NR451 Discussions Latest 2022 July (Full)

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Week 1 Discussion

Our Care Culture

Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.

Address each of these items:            

Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.

How was your compassion demonstrated?

How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?

Reflect on the iCARE Self-Assessment and share an insight related to this discussion.

Please complete the iCARE Self-Assessment (Links to an external site.) and download for your own use and information. The self-assessment is not a graded item.

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Week 2 Discussion

Communication and Influence-the Power of Evidence

Effective communication is a staple of our healthcare culture.  Working with patients, peers, and interprofessional teams requires that nurses manage information and evidence toward influencing safe and positive patient outcomes.

Please address the following:

Describe caring attributes of the culture where you currently practice.

Which attributes stand out as having significant influence on patients, nurses, and other healthcare professionals?

How do you see effective communication relating to patient outcomes in this setting?

What is the evidence for this?

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Week 3 Discussion

Resilience and Change

Change is part of our daily healthcare environment. Clinical nursing judgments based on quality and safety, as well as protocols and standards, reflect our patient-centered care values.

What steps could you take to develop more resilience in your practice setting?

How might you communicate a change in practice to patients and nursing peers?

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Week 4 Discussion

Advocacy and Cultural Competence

Go to the link https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas/standards (Links to an external site.).

View the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards (CLAS) categories aimed at equity and quality care (HHS, n.d.). Notice how these standards overlap with many of the expectations and standards in professional nursing practice!

In what ways are you and your peers using these standards in your areas of nursing practice?

Discuss one nursing action you might incorporate to improve cultural competence in your organization.

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Week 5 Discussion

Interprofessional Collaboration

Planning for our patients during times of transitions (for example: hospital to home, home to rehabilitation facility) involves collaboration with a number of healthcare professionals. Please address the following questions:

How does your facility promote interprofessional collaboration during times of patient transitions?

What is the role of the nurse in patient transitions?

What gaps can you identify in this process related to quality of care? (If you are not currently in practice, please use a previous role or clinical experience in your answers.)

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Week 6 Discussion

Transformational Leadership

Transformational leaders influence those around them and therefore have the potential to alter the culture of a unit or organization. Effective nurse leaders consider continuing education and development an essential part of professional nursing. Please address the following topics:

What professional nursing organizations are you interested in or currently participate in?

What nursing certifications or continuing education (graduate degree) might fit into your future plans?

Regarding your own transformational leadership skills, what aspect of the TEACH values discussed in the lesson do you think would most benefit your work environment if adopted? As a transformational leader, what action could you take to incorporate this chosen TEACH value into the work environment?

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Week 7 Discussion

CDC Wonder

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Informatics and Surveillance website contains a number of resources nurses could innovatively incorporate in care delivery. The CDC Wonder site could be utilized by nurses in a number of ways. https://wonder.cdc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)

For this discussion you will:

Identify one of the resources at the CDC Wonder site above and describe how a nurse might use this information in practice.

How might nurses utilizing telehealth benefit from these resources?

Address what you find innovative about the link.

Feel free to share some of your nursing innovation ideas!

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Week 8 Discussion

Your Nursing Destiny

Now that each one of you is very close to completing this major accomplishment in your nursing career, please share ways you might contribute to service in your own organization and community, as well as thinking about the world as your community. Include one area from our Recommendations list in the lesson (Foundational Concepts) regarding the expanding roles of nurses. Please address the following:

Describe ways in which your nursing practice might contribute to service within your organization and your community.

How do you think your nursing areas of interest and future professional development might impact healthcare globally?

Include your thoughts on one area from our Recommendation list in the lesson (Foundational Concepts) regarding the expanding roles of nurses.