What is a nurse mentor? Why is a nurse mentor important? What values are important/essential for a mentor? What are the benefits of a nurse mentorship?

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Job responsibilities and plans of the nurse mentor

Structure of work:
1) Title page
2) Table of contents
3) Introduction
4) Outline of the study (main part) (one of the chapters may be based on empirical data analysis).
5) Conclusion
6) List of sources and literature used
7) Attachments (if there are any)

What is a nurse mentor? Why is a nurse mentor important?
What values are important/essential for a mentor (nurse mentor)?
What are the benefits of a nurse mentorship?

What are the expected material, staffing, and capital costs of your proposed initiative over its first five years? What are the projected earnings for your organization or care setting over the first five years of your economic initiative? How does this budget take into account the findings and feedback you received on your business case? What assumptions are you basing your budget on?

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Developing an Implementation Plan

Develop a 6-7-page implementation plan for the initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include a timeline, an organizational impact analysis, and an explanation of the effects of environmental changes on the initiative.

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds upon the work you have completed in previous assessments. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

As a master’s-level health care practitioner, you may be expected to create budgets and implementation plans to ensure that initiatives to take advantage of economic opportunities for the organization are rolled out successfully and can be sustained over multiple years. Additionally, it is important to be able to envision how an initiative could be implemented in different contexts and for different purposes to ensure that the investment remains a viable and positive asset to your organization or care setting.

Instructions

Develop a thorough implementation plan for the economic initiative you proposed in Assessment 1. Your plan must include a budget for material, staffing, and capital costs over the first five years of the initiative, as well as projected earnings. In addition, include:

  • A plan and timeline for rolling out the initiative.
  • An analysis of how the initiative may impact other aspects of the organization or care setting.
  • An explanation how the initiative can remain viable in the face of environmental changes.
  • Sufficient relevant and credible supporting evidence.

Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft implementation plan to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version for this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback.

The requirements for your implementation plan, outlined below, correspond to the scoring guide criteria, so be sure to address each main point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed. In addition, be sure to note the requirements for document format and length and for supporting evidence.

  • Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of your proposed initiative.
    • What are the expected material, staffing, and capital costs of your proposed initiative over its first five years?
    • What are the projected earnings for your organization or care setting over the first five years of your economic initiative?
    • How does this budget take into account the findings and feedback you received on your business case?
    • What assumptions are you basing your budget on?
  • Create an implementation plan for your proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way.
    • Did you create a timeline for the rollout?
    • How will you work with relevant stakeholders to ensure that your economic initiative is implemented successfully and sustained?
    • How will you ensure that the rollout is conducted in an ethical and culturally equitable manner?
    • How will you ensure that the desired quality or service improvements your economic initiative will achieve are on track during and after implementation?
  • Analyze the impact of your proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of your organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated.
    • What other aspects of your organization or care setting may be positively or negatively impacted by the implementation of your proposed initiative?
    • How will these other aspects of your organization or care setting be affected? (For example, increased workload on a testing department, borrowing of staff hours from another part of the care setting, or better communication with the community.)
    • How could you mitigate at least some of the negative effects on other aspects of your organization or care setting?
  • Explain your strategies for ensuring that your proposed initiative can remain a viable asset to the organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
    • What are the environmental risks to your economic initiative?
    • How could your initiative, or aspects of it, still be a viable benefit to your organization or care setting if the environment shifts in unpredictable ways?
    • What strategies would you propose implementing to keep all, or a portion of, your initiative a viable net benefit to your organization or care setting?
  • Justify the relevance and significance of the quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence you used throughout your plan to support your recommendations.
    • How is the evidence relevant to your organization or care setting?
    • How is the evidence relevant to your proposed economic initiative?
    • How does the evidence illustrate a solution that has been successful in the past?
    • How does the evidence illustrate that a recommendation is the best course of action for your situation and organization or care setting?
  • Write concisely and directly, using active voice.
    • Proofread your document before you submit it to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your implementation plan.
  • Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

Competencies Measured

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

  • Competency 1: Analyze the effects of financial and economic factors (such as cost-benefit, supply and demand, return on investment, and risks) in a health care system on patient care, services offered, and organizational structures and operation.
    • Create a budget for expected costs and earnings over the first five years of a proposed initiative.
    • Analyze the impact of a proposed initiative, once implemented, on other aspects of an organization or care setting and ways in which negative impacts could be mitigated.
  • Competency 2: Develop ethical and culturally equitable solutions to economic problems within a health care organization in an effort to improve the quality of care and services offered.
    • Create an implementation plan for a proposed initiative that enables achievement of quality or service improvements in an ethical and culturally equitable way.
  • Competency 3: Justify the qualitative and quantitative information used to guide economic decision making to stakeholders and colleagues.
    • Justify the relevance and significance of quantitative and qualitative economic, financial, and scholarly evidence used throughout an implementation plan to support recommendations.
  • Competency 4: Develop ethical and culturally equitable economic strategies to address dynamic environmental forces and ensure the future security of an organization’s resources and its ability to provide quality care.
    • Explain strategies for ensuring that a proposed economic initiative can remain a viable asset to an organization or care setting in the face of dynamic environmental forces.
  • Competency 5: Produce clear, coherent, and professional written work, in accordance with Capella writing standards.
    • Write concisely and directly using active voice.
    • Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.

 

Discuss the importance of HIPAA. Discuss consequences of HIPAA violations. Provide one example of and the financial impact of a HIPPA violation.

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HIPPA

In a 3-4 page APA-format paper (Title and reference pages do not count in page numbering):
Discuss the importance of HIPAA.
Discuss consequences of HIPAA violations.
Provide one example of and the financial impact of a HIPPA violation (an example is leaving your computer open with patient information to see)

Analyse the role of the registered nursing within professional and legal requirements across a range of settings.  Critically reflect on your personal development in line with the requirements of The Code including the ability to manage risk whilst ensuring high quality of care and good health outcomes.   Apply local and national frameworks, legislation, and regulations confidently and flexibly to a variety of contexts

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Transitioning to Being a Registrant (NS60204X)

Summative Assessment Guidelines

Module learning Outcomes

 

1.    Analyse the role of the registered nursing within professional and legal requirements across a range of settings.

 

2.    Critically reflect on your personal development in line with the requirements of The Code including the ability to manage risk whilst ensuring high quality of care and good health outcomes.

 

3.    Apply local and national frameworks, legislation, and regulations confidently and flexibly to a variety of contexts

 

 

You are required to write a reflective account based upon your SWOT analysis of your strengths and limitations with regards to your personal and professional development needs in the role of a professional registrant in contemporary healthcare. You may focus on your role in a particular care setting or keep this to your role as a future registrant more generally.

The reflective commentary and action plan for your ongoing development and support must demonstrate achievement of the Module Learning Outcomes and make clear links to NMC Code (2018).

 

Introduction (150 words)

State the aims of the reflective commentary.

Provide a rationale for your choice of a relevant reflective model which you will use to frame your reflective commentary.

Include an outline of the relevance of SWOT analysis as a tool to identify personal and professional development needs in the role of a professional registrant.

The SWOT analysis must be included as an appendix.

 

Part 1: Reflective Commentary (800 words)

Use the stages of the chosen reflective framework to structure the commentary and critical reflection (MLO 1, 2 & 3).

In your reflection apply critical understanding your role as a future registrant in practising in the context of professional, regulatory and legal frameworks within national health policy (MLO 1, 2 & 3).

In your reflection provide critical and analytical discussion on what resources, support and feedback you will require to ensure delivery of person-centred, safe and effective evidenced based care in a range of healthcare settings. (MLO 1, 2 & 3)

 

Part 2: Action Plan (400 words)

Discuss your action plan using SMART goals to prioritise your development needs in transitioning to registrant to meet the requirements of The Code and to practice effectively within national health policies, regulatory and legal frameworks (MLO 2 & 3).

This may be included as an appendix.

 

Conclusion (150 words)

Summarise the main points in your reflective commentary and action plan for personal and professional development.

Include recommendations for ongoing reflective practice and, personal and professional development.

 

What is the level and frequency of moral distress in the participants in the study? Was there a relationship between age, gender, years of work experience, education, role, and the level and frequency of moral distress? 

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Moral Distress

Clinical Questions 1: What is the level and frequency of moral distress in the participants in the study?

 

Clinical Question 2: Was there a relationship between age, gender, years of work experience, education, role, and the level and frequency of moral distress?

 

Clinical Question 3.  Was there a statistically significant difference between the two groups on moral distress?

 

Clinical Question 4.  What is the utility and effectiveness of the decision tree for HCWs in a nursing rehabilitation facility for mitigating moral distress as evaluated by a 6-weeks post implementation qualitative survey?

What will be important to do in this final week to pass your project onto a new PM or team? What qualities would you look for in a new PM for your project? What have you built into your project to ensure that the project will achieve the practice change you proposed?

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Davis Week 6

REQUIREMENTS

  1. For your scholarly/narrative section write a 1-2 page paper addressing the following scenario: You are told that you are being moved from your current project to a new assignment and you have one week to transfer your work to a new PM.
    1. What will be important to do in this final week to pass your project onto a new PM or team?
    2. What qualities would you look for in a new PM for your project?
    3. What have you built into your project to ensure that the project will achieve the practice change you proposed?
    4. Although this is a theoretical scenario, it is expected that your writing is evidence-based as demonstrated by inclusion of scholarly sources to support your thoughts.
  2. Attach your completed lessons learned and project completion templates to your scholarly section as appendices.
  3. Complete the completion document and lessons learned form.
  4. Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the most current APA edition.

Discusses the cultural background of the gun violance (in thre u.s) and any relevant history pertaining to the population.

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Gun violence

Discusses the cultural background of the gun violence (in the u.s) and any relevant history pertaining to the population.

Choose an intervention, skill, or technique being taught in this course. What does this intervention, skill or technique accomplish, measure, improve, address or affect? Why is it needed? What problem does it address?

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Evidence based practice

Instructions:

Choose an intervention, skill, or technique being taught in this course.
What does this intervention, skill or technique accomplish, measure, improve, address or affect? Why is it needed? What problem does it address? (25 pts)

Select one evidence based peer reviewed journal article that applies to your intervention/skill. Articles must be published within the past 5 years (CINAHL, EBSCO). Additional older sources may be used for historical data, but the evidence-based peer reviewed journal sources must be within the past five years.

Explain the study – the purpose of the study, the participants, the results, how it affects/impacts nursing care in the US today (30 pts)
Determine which National Patient Safety Goal 2020 is addressed by the skill/intervention selected and explain how the skill/intervention meets the requirements.

Website:  https://www.jointcommission.org/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/ ( 20 pts) (Links to an external site.)

Critically appraise the evidence (25 pts)
What were the results of the study?
Do the results appear to be valid, as close to the truth as possible? Will the results help in caring for patients?
Summarize the outcome of the intervention and application in nursing today

What theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies could help support or justify your approach to the intervention plan? What evidence from the literature or best practice supports the intervention plan components you identified? What, if any, potential is there for technology to help in the development or implementation of the intervention plan components?

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Intervention plan design

Develop a 4-6 page holistic intervention plan design to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting.

You will also be required to submit your completed practicum hours using CORE ELMS. You must submit a minimum of 20 confirmed hours with each assessment deliverable to receive a grade for the entire assessment.

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

Your application of the PICOT approach to developing your problem statement and the research that you conducted and synthesized in your literature review are the foundation and framework that you will need to successfully build your intervention plan. This plan will lay out specific components of the intervention you are planning to address the need you have identified for the target population and setting. You will justify your approach to the intervention plan by integrating appropriate theoretical foundations. You will also analyze and address the needs of stakeholders, requirements of regulatory bodies, and ethical and legal considerations. It is important to have a sound intervention plan design in place before trying to work on the details of implementation and evaluation.

Preparations

Read Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design [DOC]. This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete this assessment.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies could help support or justify your approach to the intervention plan?
What evidence from the literature or best practice supports the intervention plan components you identified?
What, if any, potential is there for technology to help in the development or implementation of the intervention plan components?
What is the impact of stakeholders, health care policy, or regulations?\
Are there any ethical or legal considerations related to the development or implementation of the intervention plan components that need to be kept in mind? If so, what are they?
Instructions

Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.

You intervention plan design will be the second section of your final project submission. The goal for this is to design a holistic plan that should be able to improve the quality of outcomes for your target population and setting. Provide enough detail so that the faculty member assessing your intervention plan design will be able to provide substantive feedback that you will be able to incorporate into the other project components in this course, as well as into the final draft of your project.

At minimum, be sure to address the bullet points below, as they correspond to the grading criteria. You may also want to read the scoring guide and Guiding Questions: Intervention Plan Design document (linked above) to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. In addition to the bullet points below, provide a brief introduction that refreshes the reader’s memory about your problem statement and the setting and context for this intervention plan.

Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Intervention Plan Components and not Part 1: Intervention Plan Components.

Part 1: Intervention Plan Components
Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Part 2: Theoretical Foundations
Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.

Part 3: Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Part 4: Ethical and Legal Implications
Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.
Address Generally Throughout
Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention.

Practicum Hours Submission

You have been tracking your completed practicum hours each week using the CORE ELMS. By placing the hours into CORE ELMS, you will ensure you are accumulating all hours that are needed to meet the requirements for your specialization and degree.

Submit your CORE ELMS practicum hours tracking log showing a minimum of 20 confirmed hours per assessment. Reminder: Only confirmed hours will be considered for grading.

You will not receive a grade for this assessment without a practicum hours log showing a minimum of 20 confirmed hours for the time period of this assessment. Your faculty will review your hours to date and will contact you if he or she has any questions or concerns.

Additional Requirements
Length of submission: 4–6 double-spaced pages.
Number of resources: 5–10 resources. (You may use resources previously cited in your literature review to contribute to this number. Your final project will require 12–18 unique resources.)
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Header formatting follows current APA levels.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured

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

Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan.
Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan.

Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.
Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need.

Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the development of intervention plan components.

Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost.
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices.
Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice, organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan.

Note: You will also be assessed on two additional criteria unaligned to a course competency:

Communicate intervention plan in a professional way that helps the audience to understand the proposed intervention and the implications of the plan that must be taken into account.
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these additional requirements.

Evaluate self and situational awareness of decisions and actions to deliver constructive feedback to change behaviour. Evaluate a range of effective communication formats and styles as an effective confident and collaborative communicator. Apply complex knowledge of the human sciences applied to commonly encountered health conditions and relevant high-quality nursing interventions relevant to chosen field.

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Coach a Junior in a given scenario

Your Assessment Brief

You have been asked as part of a job interview to prepare a 5-slide PowerPoint presentation about the potential use of coaching as an approach that could be employed when working with a junior who makes an error (see your field scenario below). Your presentation must be supported with a robust evidence base, which you must cite throughout. The references used in your presentation are to be provided on slide 5 using the Harvard Referencing format.

Your Overarching Scenario

A first-year student nurse shows a lack of knowledge about the management of a patient’s condition.

 

Field Specific Scenario

Adult

Gladys has been admitted to a medical ward with congestive cardiac failure and is on restricted fluids (1500mls per day).

A 1st year student nurse has refilled the 1 litre water jug at Gladys’s bedside.

Mental Health

Sonia is on a mental health acute admission ward due to depression.

A 1st year student nurse says, ‘Sonia is very attention seeking, I think we should ignore her.’

Child and Young Person

Thomas aged 12 attends the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) he is reporting neck pain and pins and needles in his legs following a fall from a height.

A 1st year student nurse asks the boy to take a seat in the waiting area

 Learning Disabilities

Robert is a 32-year-old man with Down’s Syndrome. He is being treated for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disorder (GERD) in the community. He experiences the symptoms of reflux after eating a meal

A 1st year student nurse has recommended that he lays down to ease the symptoms.

 

Learning Outcomes:

Subject-specific Knowledge, Understanding & Application

LO b) Evaluate self and situational awareness of decisions and actions to deliver constructive feedback to change behaviour.

LO c) Evaluate a range of effective communication formats and styles as an effective confident and collaborative communicator.

LO d) Apply complex knowledge of the human sciences applied to commonly encountered health conditions and relevant high-quality nursing interventions relevant to chosen field.