Create a reference for the assigned article using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent. Include DOI if available. 

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NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Template 

Directions:  

  • See the NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Assignment page.
  • Read the NR351 Announcement entitled IMPORTANT: Assigned Article for Weeks 4 & 6 Assignments:  
  • Download in PDF format the assigned article linked in that announcement; save it to your computer for future use.
  • Locate the sentence required for quotation and citation.
  • Locate the sentence required for paraphrasing and citation.
  • Read the entire article.
  • Carefully review the resources and page numbers below to help you with APA format in this assignment.
  • Complete each item below. All lines should be double spaced.
  • Submit the completed template on the assignment page.

 

Complete each item below:

  • Reference for Assigned Article: 

Create a reference for the assigned article (see announcement) using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent. Include DOI if available.

[See pages 316-317 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

Type the reference for the assigned article here beginning on the line below:

Boersma, K., ‘ Freeman, M. (2022). Inspiring Change, 52(4), 51–54. Retrieved July 30, 2022, from www.Nursing2022.com.

 

  • Quotation and Citation: 

Type the assigned quotation from the assigned article (see announcement) using correct APA citation including quotation marks, names of author(s), year, page abbreviation, page number, and parentheses, and punctuation.

[See pages 261-262, 266, and 270-272 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

Type the assigned quotation and citation here beginning on the line below:

“Effective communication during hand offs is essential since miscommunication during this process has been linked to errors and patient harm”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

  • Paraphrased Area and Citation: 

Type appropriately paraphrased version of the assigned sentence (see announcement) using correct APA citation including names of author(s), year, and parentheses, and punctuation.

[See pages 261-262, 266, and 269 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

Type an appropriate paraphrase and citation of the assigned sentence here beginning on the line below:

“To be effective, a handoff tool must include patient-specific information that is clear, concise, patient-focused, and comprehensive”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

To ensure that the receiving nurse understand your report you need to mae sure that your speach is clear,  all pertanent information is provided, and that your conversation pertaint to only your patient.

(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

Assigned Article Summary: 

Summarize the assigned article using 175-200 words. Include all of the main ideas from the assigned article. The Summary must contain the assigned sentence for quotation and citation as noted in the announcement, the assigned sentence for the paraphrased area with citation as noted in the announcement, several additional paraphrased areas, and appropriately formatted citations.  You may also include one more short quotation if you wish.

Type your 175-200 word summary of the assigned article here beginning on the next line:

As healthcare organizations strive to improve patient safety and quality of care, effective nurse handoffs have become a key focus.

Nurse handoffs occur when the responsibility for a patient’s care is transferred from one nurse to another. “Effective communication during handoffs is essential since miscommunication during this process has been linked to errors and patient harm”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

There are many factors to consider when designing and implementing an effective nurse handoff process. “To be effective, a handoff tool must include patient-specific information that is clear, concise, patient-focused,and comprehensive”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

Some of the key considerations include:

– Establishing a common language and framework for nurse handoffs

– Ensuring adequate nurse staffing levels

– Creating a culture of safety and teamwork

– Encouraging open communication and collaboration

– Providing ongoing education and training on nurse handoffs

By taking these factors into account, healthcare organizations can develop nurse handoff processes that improve patient safety and quality of care.

As Florence Nightingale emphasized: “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.””(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

Boersma, K., & Freeman, M. (2022). Inspiring Change, 52(4), 51–54. Retrieved July 30, 2022, from www.Nursing2022.com

 

 

According to Berger (2020) change usually occurs when there is unfavorable situation or a new idea for the future development of a change that should occur within the organization. Your thoughts?

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WEEK 7 responding to the instructor

According to Berger (2020) change usually occurs when there is unfavorable situation or a new idea for the future development of a change that should occur within the organization. Your thoughts?

Write a reflection journal to outline what has been discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes.

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Journal Topic 3 Week 3

Health care delivery and clinical systems

Students are required to submit weekly journal entries throughout the course. These reflective narratives help students identify important learning events that happen throughout the course and the practicum. In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained.

Write a reflection journal (250-300 words) to outline what has been discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week there will be a specific focus to use in your reflection. Integrate leadership and inquiry into the current practice. Make sure to address all areas in your writing. I spend my preceptorship time at a Rehab hospital. We will be working on a flyer to help hand out to patients discharging to home or group home or even out on the streets. These are low income, homeless, mentally ill and domestic violence survivors. I work with a Case Manager RN for these patients.

Describe the four metaparadigms: patient, nurse, health and environment. Cite the sources you use. Choose a middle – range theory that finds practical application to your current area of clinical nursing practice, briefly describe the theory, and explain why you find this theory appropriate for your area of clinical practice

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Basic metaparadigms of the nursing domain

Theories are derived from conceptual models and are comprised of concepts and propositions. The only concepts that are common to all nursing theories, in some shape or form, are patient, nurse, health, and environment. These are sometimes referred to as the basic metaparadigms of the nursing domain.

Describe the four metaparadigms: patient, nurse, health and environment. Cite the sources you use.
Choose a middle – range theory that finds practical application to your current area of clinical nursing practice, briefly describe the theory, and explain why you find this theory appropriate for your area of clinical practice

Write a 4-5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

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Nurse Informaticist activity

Write a 4-5 page evidence-based proposal to support the need for a nurse informaticist in an organization who would focus on improving health care outcomes.

Introduction
As you begin to prepare this assessment, you are encouraged to complete the Team Perspectives of the Nurse Informaticist activity. Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as you explore the nurse informaticist’s role from the different perspectives of the health care team. Completing activities is also a way to demonstrate engagement.

Nurses at the baccalaureate level in all practice areas are involved in nursing informatics through interaction with information management and patient care technologies. Nurses must not only demonstrate knowledge of and skills in health information and patient care technologies, but also how to use these tools at the bedside and organizational levels. Moreover, nurses need to recognize how information gathered from various health information sources can impact decision making at the national and state regulatory levels.

Scenario
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state’s nurses association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization.

You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who ask you to prepare a 4–5 page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting.​ This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position.

One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justify means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization.

Preparation
To successfully prepare for this assessment, you will need to complete these preparatory activities:

Review assessment resources and activities.
Conduct independent research on the nursing knowledge and skills necessary to interact with health information and patient care technology.
Focus your research on current resources available through peer-reviewed articles, professional websites, government websites, professional blogs, wikis, job boards, and so on.
Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and authoritative sources.
Interview peers in your network who are considered information technology experts.
Ask them about how information technology advances are impacting patient care at the bedside, at the organizational level, and beyond.

Proposal Format
The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the following headings in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading:

Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist
What is nursing informatics?
What is the role of the nurse informaticist?
Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations
What is the experience of other health care organizations with nurse informaticists?
How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team?
IMPACT OF FULL NURSE ENGAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
How does fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact:

Patient care?
Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)?
In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources.

Workflow?
Costs and return on investment?
Opportunities and Challenges
What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role?
How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology?
Summary of Recommendations
What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember?
This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation.

Additional Requirements
Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old.
APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus.

Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.
Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist.
Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care.
Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization.

Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information.
Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality).

Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.
Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Identify and describe a leadership style in nursing. Research and discuss leadership issues in nursing that correlate with the selected leadership style. What practical strategies would you incorporate into your personal practice to develop your leadership potential?

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Leadership

1) Identify and describe a leadership style in nursing (authoritarian, Laissez-fair, democratic, transformational, and transactional).
2) Research and discuss leadership issues in nursing that correlate with the selected leadership style.
3) What practical strategies would you incorporate into your personal practice to develop your leadership potential?
4) Use a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed research articles to support your paper. Sources must be current (within the last 5 years).

Select a clinical problem at least five articles and demonstrate evidence-based care of the clinical problem.

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Literary review

Select a clinical problem at least five articles and demonstrate evidence-based care of the clinical problem; MS word doc or pdf for nursing research class will be checked for plagiarism.

Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population from a specific culture in your area. Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People topic areas.

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African American struggling with diabetes.

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment.
1) Identify a health problem or need for health promotion for a particular stage in the life span of a population from a specific culture in your area.

2) Choose one of the Leading Health Indicator (LHI) priorities from Healthy People.
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/leading-health-indicators

3) Research a topic related to health and wellness associated with one of the Healthy People topic areas.

5) You will develop an educational health promotion project addressing the population/culture in your area.
a. Introduction and Conclusion
• Introduction establishes the purpose of the paper and describes why topic is important to health promotion in the target population in your area.
• Introduction stimulates the reader’s interest.
• Conclusion includes the main ideas from the body of the paper.
• Conclusion includes the major support points from the body of the paper.

b. Relate Topic to Target Population
• Describes the topic and target cultural population.
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Explains how the project relates to the selected Healthy People topic area.
• Applies health promotion concepts.

c. Summary of Articles
• A minimum of three (3) scholarly articles, from the last 5 years, are used as sources.
• Articles meet criteria of being from scholarly journals and include health promotion and wellness content.
• At least one article is related to the chosen cultural group.
• Summaries all key points and findings from the articles.

Health Promotion Paper Guidelines
• Includes statistics to support significance of the topic.
• Discusses how information from the articles is used in the Health Promotion Project, including specific examples.

d. Health Promotion Discussion –
• Describes approaches to educate the target population about the topic.
• The approaches are appropriate for the cultural target population.
• Identifies specific ways to promote lifestyle changes within the target population.
• Applies health promotion strategies.

• Use current APA format and is free of errors.
• Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
• Paper is 3-4 pages, excluding title and reference pages.
• Information is organized around required components and flows in a logical sequence.

Do RN’s who practice a Christian faith demonstrate more empathy towards patients with chronic diseases than RN’s who state they do not practice the Christian faith?

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EBP and PICO Formation

Points Possible: 12 points Due: Thursday, 11:59 p.m. EST/EDT.
Consider this question, “Do RN’s who practice a Christian faith demonstrate more empathy towards patients with chronic diseases than RN’s who state they do not practice the Christian faith?”

In narrative format, identify the independent variable and the dependent variable. If the researcher used this question as part of a questionnaire, would this question yield qualitative data or quantitative data? Provide support for the choice made. Identify the PICO components.

Then, create two new EBP questions. (Unrelated to above.) State the two questions in PICO format and identify all the components (the P= 1=C=0=).

Create a reference for the assigned article using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent. Include DOI if available. 

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NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Template 

Directions:  

  • See the NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Assignment page.
  • Read the NR351 Announcement entitled IMPORTANT: Assigned Article for Weeks 4 & 6 Assignments:  
  • Download in PDF format the assigned article linked in that announcement; save it to your computer for future use.
  • Locate the sentence required for quotation and citation.
  • Locate the sentence required for paraphrasing and citation.
  • Read the entire article.
  • Carefully review the resources and page numbers below to help you with APA format in this assignment.
  • Complete each item below. All lines should be double spaced.
  • Submit the completed template on the assignment page.

 

Complete each item below:

  • Reference for Assigned Article: 

Create a reference for the assigned article (see announcement) using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent. Include DOI if available.

[See pages 316-317 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

 

Type the reference for the assigned article here beginning on

the line below:

 

Boersma, K., ‘ Freeman, M. (2022). Inspiring Change, 52(4), 51–54. Retrieved July 30, 2022, from www.Nursing2022.com.

 

  • Quotation and Citation: 

Type the assigned quotation from the assigned article (see announcement) using correct APA citation including quotation marks, names of author(s), year, page abbreviation, page number, and parentheses, and punctuation.

[See pages 261-262, 266, and 270-272 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

 

Type the assigned quotation and citation here beginning on the line below:

 

“Effective communication during hand offs is essential since miscommunication

during this process has been linked to errors and patient

harm”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

  • Paraphrased Area and Citation: 

Type appropriately paraphrased version of the assigned sentence (see announcement) using correct APA citation including names of author(s), year, and parentheses, and punctuation.

[See pages 261-262, 266, and 269 in APA 7th Edition Manual]

 

Type an appropriate paraphrase and citation of the assigned sentence here beginning on the line below:

 

“To be effective, a handoff tool must include patient-specific information that is clear, concise, patient-focused, and comprehensive”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

To ensure that the receiving nurse understand your report you need to mae sure that your speach is clear,  all pertanent information is provided, and that your conversation pertaint to only your patient.

(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

 

 

  • Assigned Article Summary: 

Summarize the assigned article using 175-200 words. Include all of the main ideas from the assigned article. The Summary must contain the assigned sentence for quotation and citation as noted in the announcement, the assigned sentence for the paraphrased area with citation as noted in the announcement, several additional paraphrased areas, and appropriately formatted citations.  You may also include one more short quotation if you wish.

 

Type your 175-200 word summary of the assigned article here beginning on the next line:

 

As healthcare organizations strive to improve patient safety and quality of care, effective nurse handoffs have become a key focus.

Nurse handoffs occur when the responsibility for a patient’s care is transferred from one nurse to another. “Effective communication during handoffs is essential since miscommunication during this process has been linked to errors and patient harm”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

There are many factors to consider when designing and implementing an effective nurse handoff process. “To be effective, a handoff tool must include patient-specific information that is clear, concise, patient-focused,and comprehensive”(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

Some of the key considerations include:

– Establishing a common language and framework for nurse handoffs

– Ensuring adequate nurse staffing levels

– Creating a culture of safety and teamwork

– Encouraging open communication and collaboration

– Providing ongoing education and training on nurse handoffs

By taking these factors into account, healthcare organizations can develop nurse handoff processes that improve patient safety and quality of care.

As Florence Nightingale emphasized: “The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.””(Boersma & Freeman, 2022).

 

Boersma, K., & Freeman, M. (2022). Inspiring Change, 52(4), 51–54. Retrieved July 30, 2022, from www.Nursing2022.com