WAC PAPER

Name: Colleen Karn

Date: 6/23/2019

Identification of Scenario & Proposal for Integration of Coursework

Identify the leadership scenario you have chosen for the assignment: Choose an item. Sample

Integration of Coursework

For this assignment, you are to integrate knowledge, content, and/or skills learned in your non-clinical nursing and general educational courses. You must use two non-clinical nursing courses, with at least one being an upper division course. You must also use two general education courses, with at least one being an upper division course. (Note, if any of the courses were not taken at Methodist College, you will need to provide a syllabus for the that course with this assignment.) You will use the knowledge, content, and/or skills from your chosen courses to help you make an argument for the benefits of a BSN for a nurse leaders and to help you devise and carry out a solution to the problem in the scenario.

1. Non-Clinical Nursing Course

Course number & title: N211: Standards of Nursing Practice

Course content to be used: I plan to use the ethical principles of non-maleficence and beneficence in my analysis of the scenario. I will use them as part of the rationale for my argument to the nurse manager as to why a change is necessary. I will also base my plan of action so the intended outcome will ensure that the care given to the patients will adhere to the nursing ethical principles.

2. Non-Clinical Nursing Course

Course number & title: N304: Transcultural Nursing

Course content to be used: In N304 we learned what cultures were and how to identify our own biases (positive or negative) in regards to the cultures of our patients. I plan to use this knowledge and skill in several ways. First, I will identify the cultures to which my patients belong (such as intravenous drug users and the LGBTQ community) in order to understand my patients needs and to identify any biases that I or my colleagues might have that are barriers to effective patient care. Then I will include the patients’ cultural needs in my plan of action.

3. General Education Course`

Course number & title: PSY101: Psychological Inquiry & Applications

Course content to be used: In PSY101 we learned about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. I plan to use my knowledge of this when analyzing the needs of the patients that go beyond the mandatory healthcare needs. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs will help me to assess my patients’ needs on a more holistic level. Additionally, I can use this information in my rationale for my plan of action.

4. General Education Course

Course number & title: HUM301: Legacy of Literature

Course content to be used: In HUM301 we learned about othering specific people and populations and the detrimental effects of it. Additionally, we learned about the need to empathize with all people, so we see them as fellow human beings and as equals. Two of the populations that our culture currently others are the LGBTQ community and drug addicts. I plan to use this knowledge of othering and the skill of empathizing with all people to argue that these patients are in even greater need of advocates than the average patient and that the lack of empathy they are receiving could damage these patients who belong to a vulnerable, othered population.