What factors are influencing you to make this decision on your career choice? What do you see as your outcome of the academic course of study that you are selecting?

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UCSF Prompt:

A comprehensive well-written goal statement essay is an essential component of a successful application. This goal statement is used as a source of information and also as an example of your writing ability. Be as specific as possible and focus on your professional goals and how you envision these goals can be achieved through study at UCSF and in your designated area of specialization. It should be approximately two double-spaced typewritten pages in length, and should include the following information in the subsequent order if possible:

  • Your understanding of the nursing profession
  • Reasons for seeking advanced specialty preparation as part of a nursing program
  • Reasons for choosing the specific specialty area you seek
  • What factors (i.e. career goals, life challenges/personal experiences, professional work to date) are influencing you to make this decision on your career choice?
  • What do you see as your outcome of the academic course of study that you are selecting?
  • Any additional information you believe relevant to the admissions decision.

Be as clear and precise as possible, and include your name at the top. Use your word processing software to compose and edit your goal statement. Then, convert your document to Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Be sure you complete and upload your goal statement PDF well before the deadline. Only complete applications (including goal statements) will be reviewed for admission.

Describe your leadership project, its focus, and the site where it was implemented. How did you discover the need for this project? Discuss how the outcomes of your project will be measured? Is your project one that is sustainable or is it designed to be a single occurrence?

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Practicum experience

Throughout your practicum experience, you have been designing and implementing a project. You will now assess that experience. Prior to beginning this paper, discuss the topics below with your preceptor. Include their feedback as well as your own. In a 1,500-1,750-word document, discuss the following topics:

Describe your leadership project, its focus, and the site where it was implemented. How did you discover the need for this project?
Discuss how the outcomes of your project will be measured? Is your project one that is sustainable or is it designed to be a single occurrence?
Did you encounter any real or potential barriers during your practicum experience related to your project?
Evaluate the success of your project. If you were not able to implement your project, discuss why. What are the next steps for the project?
What were the goals you set for yourself and the AONE competencies you hoped to achieve?
Summarize your project experience related to those goals and AONE competencies.
Use a minimum of two peer-reviewed resources (published within the last 5 years) as evidence to support your views.

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

Draft a PICOT question using the standard quantitative PICOT format. Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following information and describe each part of the PICOT question.

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Week 1 discussion,

Using the area of interest identified in the Week 1 discussion, address the following: Utilize the information from order 751926.
You may utilize the same references.
Draft a PICOT question using the standard quantitative PICOT format.
Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following information and describe each part of the PICOT question in detail:

  • Population
  • Intervention
  • Comparison
  • Outcome
  • Time

In _____(Population) what is the effect of _____(Intervention) in comparison to _______ (Comparison) on _____ (Outcome) to be completed over ____ (Time).

Discuss how your personal background informs your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Include below any educational, cultural, economic, family, or social experiences, challenges or opportunities relevant to your academic journey.

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Applying to Masters in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner program

UCSF is committed to a diverse and inclusive graduate student population. Diversity refers to the variety of experiences and perspectives that arise from differences in race, culture, religion, mental or physical capabilities, heritage, age, gender, sexual orientation and other characteristics. UCSF values diversity because it enhances the educational experience, the workplace and services to the public provided by this campus.

Your personal history statement referring specifically to your experiences and/or commitment to diversity and inclusion is a critically important part of your application.

  • Discuss how your personal background informs your decision to pursue a graduate degree.
  • Include below any educational, cultural, economic, family, or social experiences, challenges or opportunities relevant to your academic journey.

Describe the meaning of nursing professionalism identity. Identify the most important professional identity characteristics/attributes. Explain how you will adapt these characteristics/attributes in the clinical setting.

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Professional Identity of a Graduate Nurse

Creating Your Professional Identity

Competency

Determine the attributes that help form the professional nurses’ identity.
Apply principles of professional identity and professionalism.

Scenario

As a nursing student, you have a vision of your core values and expectations as a professional nurse. In this assignment, create a plan to guide you as you form your professional identity.

Instructions

This formation will include the following:

Describe the meaning of nursing professionalism identity.
Identify the most important professional identity characteristics/attributes.
Explain how you will adapt these characteristics/attributes in the clinical setting.
Reflect on your educational journey and describe how this shaped your professional identity.
Create your goals for continued professional identity formation during your career as a nurse.
Provide stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

Develop three different patient interventions for that one performance measure and how you would specifically implement the intervention and measure the outcomes for that particular performance measure in clinical practice. How would these primary care interventions result in improved patient outcomes and health care cost savings?

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Quality Healthcare: Measuring NP Performance

Requirements:
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) was formed to ensure quality of patient care and measurement of patient outcomes with set standards.

Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a performance measurement tool used by millions of health insurance plans. There are 6 domains of care:

  • Effectiveness of Care.
  • Access/Availability of Care.
  • Experience of Care.
  • Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization.
  • Health Plan Descriptive Information.
  • Measures Collected Using Electronic Clinical Data Systems

You may access the 6 domains of care by clicking this link:

(NCQA, n.d. https://www.ncqa.org/hedis/ (Links to an external site.))

As an APN, productivity will be an important measurement for the practice to determine reimbursement and salary. Fee-for-service practices will require a set number of patients per day to maintain productivity. A capitated practice will require the APN to have a large panel of patients but also will focus on controlling costs. This can be accomplished through effective primary care that is accessible, convenient for the patients and has a method of measuring quality of care.

Write a formal paper in APA format with title page, introduction, the three required elements below, conclusion and reference page.

You are now employed as an NP in primary care. Choose one performance measure from one of the six domains of care, i.e. Adult BMI Assessment, Prenatal and Postpartum care, etc.

Develop three different patient interventions for that one performance measure and how you would specifically implement the intervention and measure the outcomes for that particular performance measure in clinical practice.

How would these primary care interventions result in improved patient outcomes and health care cost savings?

How can these interventions result in improved NP patient ratings?

Was there a clear statement of the aim of the research? What was it? if there was not, does that impact the study? Is a qualitative methodology appropriate?

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Qualitative Study Myocardial infarction

Using the study, – Adherence after myocardial infarction: A qualitative study which is Appendix E in your text, in your text, answer the following.

  • Was there a clear statement of the aim of the research? What was it? if there was not, does that impact the study?
  • Is a qualitative methodology appropriate? State your rationale for your answer.
  • Was the research design appropriate to address the aims of the research?
  • Why is it appropriate or inappropriate? Was the recruitment strategy appropriate to the aims of the research? Explain.
  • Was the data collected in a way that addressed the research issue? Explain.
  • Has the relationship between researcher and participants been adequately considered? Explain Have ethical issues been taken into consideration? Explain
  • Was the data analysis sufficiently rigorous? Explain
  • Is there a clear statement of findings? Explain
  • How valuable is the research?

 

Explain a position with regard to health outcomes for a specific issue in a target population. Explain the role of the interprofessional team in facilitating improvements for a specific issue in a target population. Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that could support a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.

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Sickle Cell Anemia in the Black Community

CHOSEN TOPIC IS SICKLE CELL ANEMIA IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
Develop a 4-6 page position about a specific health care issue as it relates to a target vulnerable population. Include an analysis of existing evidence and position papers to help support your position. Your analysis should also present and respond to one or more opposing viewpoints.

Pretend you are a member of an interprofessional team that is attempting to improve the quality of health care and the outcomes in a vulnerable population. For the first step in your team’s work, you have decided to conduct an analysis of current position papers that address the issue and population you are considering.

In your analysis you will note the team’s initial views on the issue in the population as well as the views across a variety of relevant position papers. You have been tasked with finding the most current standard of care or evidenced-based practice and evaluating both the pros and cons of the issue. For the opposing viewpoints, it is important to discuss how the team could respond to encourage support. This paper will be presented to a committee of relevant stakeholders from your care setting and the community. If it receives enough support, you will be asked to create a new policy that could be enacted to improve the outcomes related to your chosen issue and target population.

For this assessment you will develop a position summary and an analysis of relevant position papers on a health care issue in a chosen population. The bullet points below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your submission addresses all of them. You may also want to read the Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Analysis of Position Papers for Vulnerable Populations [DOC] to better understand how each grading criterion will be assessed.

Explain a position with regard to health outcomes for a specific issue in a target population.
Explain the role of the interprofessional team in facilitating improvements for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that could support a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Evaluate the evidence and positions of others that are contrary to a team’s approach to improving the quality and outcomes of care for a specific issue in a target population.
Communicate an initial viewpoint regarding a specific issue in a target population and a synthesis of existing positions in a logically structured and concise manner, writing content clearly with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Identify and describe each type of organizational structure. Create an organizational chart for each organizational structure discussed above and describe which one applies to the clinical site or your work environment.

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Organizational structure

Identify and describe each type of organizational structure (functional, service line, matrix and flat)

Create an organizational chart for each organizational structure discussed above and describe which one applies to the clinical site or your work environment.

Develop simple mission statements that could be supported by each type of structure and present a rationale for their selection of the type of structure.

 

Identify an information and communication technology that you envision being used in the future. What is the technology and how will it be used? Describe the impact to client care associated with the technology? How will it improve quality of care? Strengthen patient safety?

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Postcard from the future

Write according from a Canadian standpoint if possible. Thank you

For this assignment, we ask that you consider your nursing practice at a point in the future – say 5 or 10 years from now. What would the practice environment look like at that time in terms of information and communication technologies? Which of the information and communication technologies that you have explored in this course would you like to see in practice at that time and why?

In this short paper you should:

Identify an information and communication technology that you envision being used in the future. What is the technology and how will it be used?

Describe the impact to client care associated with the technology? How will it improve quality of care? Strengthen patient safety?

Discuss actions required for the successful integration of this technology into nursing practice. What education or training is required to use the technology correctly?