In what ways does your philosophy of nursing guide your nursing practice? Provide at least one clear and specific example of a situation in which your nursing philosophy guided your nursing practice.

Philosophy of Nursing Scholarly Paper

As you begin to articulate your own philosophy of nursing, consider the following questions:

What is your definition of nursing?

What do you believe is the primary goal of nursing?

What key values are embedded in your philosophy of nursing? For what reason(s) are these values important to you?

Would you describe nursing as an art? Would you describe nursing as a science? Both an art and a science? Explain your choice.

In what ways does your philosophy of nursing guide your nursing practice? Provide at least one clear and specific example of a situation in which your nursing philosophy guided your nursing practice.

What is the relationship between your philosophy of nursing and the practice standards and codes of ethics/ethical guidelines for nursing practice as outlined by the Canadian Nurses Association and/or the regulatory body for nursing in your jurisdiction (e.g. CARNA, CNO, etc…)?

Is there a relationship between your philosophy of nursing and one particular nursing theory? Explain the relationship between your philosophy of nursing and one particular nursing theory.

Paper should be six to eight pages in length, excluding the title page and references list

Identify a clear and ongoing reassessment strategy. State how the identified nursing leadership theory/concept will be utilized in developing a reevaluation plan with the stakeholders.

Quality Improvement Project – Part II

For this paper, you will continue to work on your Quality Improvement Intervention/Proposal. This is Part II. You will develop an evidence-based implementation and evaluation plan for your identified patient care issue. You may use information from the literature review you performed in NURS 410 provided that the sources are less than five years old.

You may use the research that you conducted in NURS 410, or perform new research.

You will develop an implementation and evaluation plan for your identified patient care needs.

The research findings should come from peer-reviewed scientific journals.

When completing the resources, stakeholders, and evaluation plan, you will need to refer back to the studies that you found when you did your research for part one. You may also need to do additional research to find the information that you need for the paper.

As you are working on your Quality Improvement project, keep in mind that your plan needs to come from the evidence in the literature. Some of the information may seem very straightforward and does not need a reference; however, there may be some information that was found in the articles that you searched that may contain some unexpected considerations that may be helpful to you when you develop your intervention.

If your findings from the literature do not contain any evidence on how their interventions were implemented, you may need to search for some additional literature. If needed, you can always contact our librarians for assistance.

Stakeholders and Change Theory

Identifies the stakeholders needed to implement the plan including their roles

Addresses the management structure/process issues

State how a change theory could be utilized when interacting with the stakeholders

Resources Needed to Implement Plan

Identifies the resources needed to implement the plan

If resources are not available, makes recommendations for needed resources

Outlines the budgetary needs, including the type of budget, to implement the plan

Evaluation Plan

Describe a clear and concise method of monitoring the outcomes of the quality improvement plan (based on findings from the literature).

Identify a clear and ongoing reassessment strategy.

State how the identified nursing leadership theory/concept will be utilized in developing a reevaluation plan with the stakeholders.

Outline a timeline for the reevaluation of the plan.

Include all in-text citations and references in APA format. Use appropriate grammar, spelling, and mechanics when creating the submission.

Identify a bill that relates to health care, a social issue, or nursing practice. Develop a poster presentation, infographic, FAQ document, or pamphlet which outlines how a bill is introduced and passed.

Tracing a Piece of Legislation

In order to influence policy, you have to understand how a bill is started, moves through the legislative system, and final enacted. In this assignment, you will trace a piece of legislation from the introduction to how it impacts health care or nursing practice. Develop a 2-page assignment.

Step 1: Identify a bill that relates to health care, a social issue, or nursing practice.

Step 2: Develop a poster presentation, infographic, FAQ document, or pamphlet which outlines how a bill is introduced and passed by including answers the following questions:

State the legislation.
Who introduced/sponsored the bill?
Why did the person introduce it?
Where was it introduced?
Who helped to draft the legislation?
Was nursing involved?
Which committees were involved?
Was it authorized?
Was it appropriated?
Did it make it out of committee?
Was it enacted?
What is the impact on health care or nursing practice?

Based on your research, identify an organization that provides health promotion or health care services to your at-risk population, or that facilitates access to those services.

Asset Based Assessment and Interview

Complete an asset-based assessment using this template: Practicum Step 3 Asset Based Assessment Worksheet(1).docx Download Practicum Step 3 Asset Based Assessment Worksheet(1).docx

Based on your research, identify an organization that provides health promotion or health care services to your at-risk population, or that facilitates access to those services.

Describe the services provided, and the impact on the population

Arrange to interview someone at that organization in person or by phone.

Develop 6-8 interview questions related to the organization’s services and programs, including plans for the future.

Conduct the interview, and based on the comfort of the interviewee, either audiotape or write a transcript summary of the interview

Identify the pros and cons of the ethical incident– or what the opponents or proponents have to say about the incident and why.

Preparation of the Presentation

1. Find an article that discusses an ethical incident involving a nurse. The article must be about an RN. http://www.nursinglaw.com/

2. Identify the pros and cons of the ethical incident– or what the opponents or proponents have to say about the incident and why.

3. Apply the ABCDE model of the decision making process to the ethical issue.

4. Analyze the ethical incident using the four principles of ethical decision making (beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice and autonomy). Figure out which of the four principles comes to bear as primary of the situation. Rank the order of the remaining 3 principles and explain your reasoning for the order. Present the analysis, evaluation, and explanation of each the principles and how they relate to the case.

5. Discuss the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and how those provisions relate to this case.

6. Find 2 Evidenced-based Practice articles that are relevant to the article and incorporate these in your presentation and be sure to cite your references.

7. Conclusion- what happened to the nurse in this incident.

Describe the process of how they were carried out, the outcomes, why they were successful, or not successful, and the “lessons learned”. Describe what makes these early projects so important?

Health Informatics

1. Introduction
Give an overview of your paper and what you plan accomplish by writing this paper.

2. History of Health Informatics
Give an overview of the history of informatics. Your report should state the facts concisely, describe the context and background. You should provide detailed information including the below topics:
• Early medical records systems
• Very early decision support
Describe the process of how they were carried out, the outcomes, why they were successful, or not successful, and the “lessons learned”. Describe what makes these early projects so important?

3. Current issues
Identify ONE real-world project from one of the categories below: your report should include a brief history of the project/topic, what support it has, any evaluation that has been carried out, an assessment of the importance of the project, and the future direction of the project.
• An integrated hospital records system
• A project which uses routinely-collected data to increase knowledge
• The role of IT in any specialist area of medicine
• A clinical procedure which wouldn’t be possible without IT (other than Computed Tomography)
• Computer-controlled pain management

4. Future Prospects for Medical Informatics
Identify a project-in-progress that fits one of the categories below: your report should describe what the project is trying to achieve, how it is going to do it, what are likely to be the obstacles to that achievement and how far it is in the process.
• 24 hour access to patient / client information – what will assist its achievement?
• Any website which empowers patients/clients
• A support group for any disease, e.g. diabetes, or asthma
• Citizens involvement in their own record keeping
• Virtual reality education about health matters (either for a patient or as professional staff training)
• The convergence of health and social welfare information (e.g. here)

5. Conclusions
Your report should draw on available published information and course notes to consider the impact of or need for a strategy.

6. Reference Page
You must use proper APA citation in your reference page.

What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be successful? How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive success?

Pressure ulcers – Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.

Objective
Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example:
Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.

Questions and Predictions
For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.
For example:
How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload?
At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease.

Change Theories and Leadership Strategies
For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
What is the theory or strategy?
How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan?
Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Team Collaboration Strategy
In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “who, what, where, and when” approach for each team member.
For example:
Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for a single quarter.
Project Manager B will apply the double-loop feedback model on all new product projects for a quarter.
Vice President A will review the workloads of project managers using the double-loop feedback model every Thursday for one quarter.
After you have roughly outlined the roles and responsibilities of team members, you will explain one or more collaborative approaches that will enable the team to work efficiently to achieve the plan’s objective. As with the change theories and leadership strategies, you may draw on the research you conducted for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. However, you are being asked to give a more in-depth explanation of the collaboration approaches and look at how they will help the theoretical interdisciplinary team in your plan proposal.
Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:
What is the collaboration approach?
What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be successful?
How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive success?
Make sure to frame this explanation in terms of the subject of the plan proposal; that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Required Organizational Resources
For this section, you will be making rough estimates of the resources needed for your plan proposal to be successful. This section does not have to be exact but the estimates should be realistic for the chosen organization.
Items you should include or address in this section:
What are the staffing needs for your plan proposal?
What equipment or supplies are needed for your plan proposal?
Does the organization already have these?
If so, what is the cost associated with using these resources?
If not, what is the cost of acquiring these resources?
What access (to patients, departments, and so forth) is needed?
Are there any costs associated with these?
What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal?
Staff time, resource use, resource acquisition, and access charged?
Remember to include a specific dollar amount in your request.
After you have detailed your budget, make sure that you explain any impacts on organizational resources that could happen if your plan is not undertaken and successful. In other words, if the issue you are try to solve through your plan proposal persists or gets worse, what will be the potential costs to the organization?

Compare and contrast the communication skills required to care for people with health problems and their families in complex, challenging and sensitive health care situations.

[Revision] Complex care assessing and planning case study assignment

1. Demonstrate the ability to accurately gather and process all information from the assessment process to identify needs for planning individualised nursing care.

2. Use evidence based assessment tools and accurately interpret their findings and take appropriate actions when planning care.

3. Compare and contrast the communication skills required to care for people with health problems and their families in complex, challenging and sensitive health care situations.

4. Examine the principles of courage, transparency and professional duty of candour within the demands of professional practice for individuals with complex healthcare needs and their families.

Identify any positive or negative aspects of the care provided by the RN and how did you feel about it. Relate how your own personal experiences influence your reaction to the clinical rotation.

Reflective paper for clinical observations, Dialysis

– Identify any positive or negative aspects of the care provided by the RN and how did you feel about it.

-Relate how your own personal experiences influence your reaction to the clinical rotation.

-Identify how differences in culture impact that patient’s care and how they react to their illness.

-Discuss your own personal feeling about you observed and effects of the illness on the clients and families.

-Evaluate the ethics of situations that you have observed in view of advanced technology and advanced directives (DNR, DNI, health care proxy etc).

What might the barriers to implementation be? Would a QI project be required to effect change and what would the role of the nurse be in this?

Assignment: An Evidence Based Nursing review

This assignment is based on the content and group work of workshops 3 and 4. Using an EBN question of your choice, you will complete the EBN cycle together as a group, summarising your work in a padlet presentation to the whole tutorial group at the end of workshop 4 (note: the presentation does not form part of the assessment).

Following the workshops, you will then work individually to write up your EBN review into a report. The report should include:

Introduction
Summary of EBN Review to include
PICO or PEO
Search strategy
Search Outcome
Critical Appraisal of evidence
Discussion of evidence
Clinical bottom line
Strategy for Implementation of findings
Reflection on learning

Suggested layout of report

Introduction
Provide some context for your assignment related to both EBN and the clinical context of the question you have chosen.

Summary of EBN Review
Your EBN review should be approximately one A4 page and could be laid out in a style similar to a BestBets review. For an example view the BestBets website (https://bestbets.org/database/browse-bets.php)

Strategy for Implementation of Findings
Based on your own conclusion and answer to the question, outline your plans for dissemination and implementation and what the next steps would be. This will be related to how strong or weak the evidence was to support a change in practice. What might the barriers to implementation be? Would a QI project be required to effect change and what would the role of the nurse be in this?

Reflection on Learning
This was your first EBN review. Reflect on your learning, what went well, what would you do differently? How will you develop your learning from here?