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Submit your final thoughts on the nine AACN Essentials compiled from your Discussion Board posts and discussions with peers and faculty. Incorporate ideas and concepts you learned from your discussions.
For each essential include the following:
· A brief summary explanation of the essential that is cited with at least one scholarly source
· At least one example of how you met the essential during your nursing program
Use APA Style.
Review the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
RUBRIC
These are the discussion posts
Nursing Essential I
Read and Review Nursing Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice.
Post one paragraph addressing the following: How does a solid base in liberal education provide the cornerstone for nurses' practice and education?
· A solid base in liberal education is an essential part of creating a competent nurse. Having a comprehensive education that consists of arts as well as sciences, history, and humanities promote a learning environment rich in social engagement, questioning of norms, as well as abstract thinking (AACN, 2008). By a nurse using these qualities, he or she can offer more fit care because of the ability to think creatively, understand, empathize with patients, and incorporate beyond just the physical management of patients into care and assessments.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential I during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I believe I have met Essential I all through my BSN program through the variety of subjects we had to learn, such as Principles of Leadership and Management, Disaster Management, Mental Health, Introduction to Professional Nursing, Medical Ethics, along with other general education courses. Besides, the courses had in common the chance of learning in a new way that drifts from the learning design of black and white/right or wrong, which is common in science classes. Additionally, they, together with clinical courses, have revealed how important it is to nursing care to have the capability of going beyond what is shown to come up with notions and solve intricate problems that can occur in the clinical setting. In my clinical assessments, I have helped develop resolutions and see other people create solutions to several problematic issues like constant smells and stress decrease for patients on top of creating fun and customized means for educating patients. I believe that this is grounded on having a liberal education.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Nursing Essential II
Why are knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and patient safety necessary to provide high-quality health care?
· Nurses need to comprehend how to administer medicines, perform treatments, ensure patient safety, advocate for patients, delegate tasks, and communicate efficiently. All the skills display the devotion of a nurse to the patients. Nurses should adapt fast to various conditions and function together. Striving and growing to become better likewise helps decrease negative reactions and upsurge better patient results. Conferring to the World Health Organization (2019), a basis of patient safety is constant development grounded on learning from negative instances and errors. Quality enhancement is intended to increase healthcare effectiveness and safety; this is why nurses have to be aware and attentive of their actions, how they can perform better, and being conscious of their colleague’s actions, like monitoring new nurses or doing their given errands. Patient safety, quality improvement, and skills and knowledge in leadership are what all nurses should strive for and be enthusiastic about improving and learning.
How I met Essential II during the BSN program
· I met Essential II by joining the Leadership class and being present at all my clinical rounds. I followed nurses, listened to how they report, watched them dispense numerous blood products, fluids, and medications. Taking part in the SIMS lab helped me become better at communication, priority setting, decision making, and time-management. I had chances of practicing
· these skills and in a replication, which amplified my knowledge and confidence. Getting instant criticism from simulation has aided me in comprehending my weak and strong points to advance my skills and abilities.
References
World Health Organization. (2019, September 13). Patient Safety. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/patient-safety
Nursing Essential III
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why is a professional nursing practice grounded in translating current evidence into practice?
· Professional nursing practice encompasses recognizing practice problems and observing patient outcomes to advance the care given to patients (AACN, 2008). Having the capability of performing this is significant since it prevents mistakes. Researches have revealed that up to 98,000 patients die annually because of preventable medical mistakes (Woods, 2013). Besides, as nurses, a large part of the objective of care is to avert harm and to do this, nurses must see improvement opportunities. Formerly, problems that have arisen in translating the present evidence into practice have been healthcare professionals lacking the skills and knowledge of evidence-based practice, the understanding that it is burdensome, time-consuming, and general organizational cultures not offering a basis for a set of evidence-based practice. This is whereby nurses require to integrate leadership to change their settings to support evidence-based practices and advance their patient care and outcomes.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential III during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I believe I have met Essential III all through my BSN program in both clinical and theory. In theory, we have learned the history, reasonings, and information on evidence-based practice and how it has enhanced healthcare in its enactment. In clinical, I have seen these theories in the practical appliance. One instance of this has been placing urinary catheters as a final resort and storing them in for the least amount of time. There are two patients, one had a urinary catheter for four days, and the other had one for one day and a half. The patient who had the catheter in place for four days developed a hospital obtained urinary tract infection, whereas the other had no problems. One more extremely useful instance is the utilization of hand hygiene to avert cross-contamination from offering care to numerous patients.
Reference:
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Woods, A. D. (February 2013). Implementing evidence into practice, Nursing2013, 43(2), 4-6 doi: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000426539.59569.f2
Nursing Essential IV
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are knowledge and skills in information management and patient care technology critical in the delivery of quality patient care?
· Nursing essential IV expounds on the necessity for both education and skills on patient healthcare technology. Being experienced in technology and keeping up with its application contributes to cost operative care, easy access to evidence-based practice, encourages interprofessional healthcare synchronization, and advances Electronic Health Records (AACN, 2008). At this time, we are in the developing era of technology. As for upcoming nurses, we ought to have the capability of learning and understanding these to offer the best healthcare for patients. Other than that, we have electronic documentation, electronic vital sign machines, electronic medication dispensers, and more to contemplate when offering care.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential IV during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I believe I have met essential IV through for the most part of my clinical involvement. I have had the capability of using both old and new technologies such as glucose monitoring devices, ventilators, electronic medical records, vital sign machines, weighing scales, monitoring systems like transportable telemetry boxes, and many more. Other than that, technology is not something, which I have a lot of experience in the past; nevertheless, through my clinicals practices, I have grown confident in navigating through the technology-driven field.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Read and Review Essential V: Healthcare Policy, Finance, and Regulatory Environments.
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are healthcare policies — including financial and regulatory — that directly and indirectly influence the nature and function of the healthcare system important considerations in professional nursing practice?
· Health care policies are vital in creating a starting point response to “organization, local, national, and global issues of equity, access, affordability, and social justice in healthcare” (AACN, 2008). Having and forming policies assists in guiding and regulating future responses of any form. This is significant for establishing a set of educated action in any situation, which advances the healthcare provided to patients. As nurses, we require to have this basis of acquaintance to determine how we can best support patients to get the problems of social justice, affordability, access, and equity, in healthcare tackled for them. Furthermore, knowing regulatory and financial nature guidelines helps in knowing the most suitable form of support and help we can offer to patients.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential V during the BSN program. Provide specific examples
· I am certain that I have met Essential V throughout my classes via my leadership, public health education, all my clinical classes, as well as an introduction into professional nursing. In public health, my attention was captivated by the health care expenditures and policies and how it had an impact on community health in general. In the introduction to professional nursing and leadership, I learned more regarding my responsibility as a professional nurse concerning the health care rules and how they can both hinder and assist healthcare. Additionally, the clinical setting has been an eye-opener, given that I began seeing the policies being implemented and how nurses educate their patients regarding their health care options, treatment, as well as health in general.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals critical to delivering high-quality and safe patient care?
· Good collaboration and communication between healthcare professionals promote teamwork. Teamwork between healthcare workers in and of itself is linked to both safer patient care, along with a higher quality of care, which in turn creates better patient results (AACN, 2008). Similar to any collaborative attempt, like group projects, this notion can be represented with a group of persons that call jointly address stimuli or a group where individuals divide, research, and then have to attempt to combine different interpretations, thoughts, as well as information. Moreover, patient-centered healthcare encompasses speaking and comprehending a patient's needs, what the medical practitioners contemplate, how to offer nurses healthcare, and discerning how all the other healthcare team members can add to promote the health of a patient. Without cooperation and communication between all of them, the healthcare plan would result in guesswork, delayed and low-quality healthcare, as well as late information and errors.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential VI during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I believe I have met Essential VI through nearly every clinical practice and classes. During class, there has been plenty of prospects of practicing communication and collaboration via group projects. Besides, I joined groups whereby everybody spoke at the commencement of a project, and before presenting, I felt a lack of self-assurance in the discussed information all through these projects. Conversely, I also participated in amazing collaboration where research and answers were thoroughly discussed and felt confident and well prepared. A similar thing has happened in my clinical practicals. Offering care with a nursing assistant and a nurse where we all conversed on the care plan has made me supported.
Reference:
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Essential VII
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and population level important components of baccalaureate generalist nursing practice?
· A distinctive aspect of baccalaureate equipped nurses is education regarding public health nursing. With education, comes comprehension of how population-level health affects individual health and affected. Nurses encourage health at each stage of life in populations, communities, groups, families, and individuals by integrating public health principles into their healthcare, and they are complete including the nursing responsibility (AACN, 2008). Besides, disease prevention at the individual level is demonstrated through the management of illness, screenings, as well as immunizations to avert deteriorating of the condition (AACN, 2008). This can affect the populace by either hindering or helping herd immunity, strolling around with infectious illnesses and screenings can be performed for persons in a community set to reach the population more.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential VII during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I think I have met Essential VII via opportunities for community service. Through the community, I have seen the general health problems, their effects at the individual level, and the population. All through the public health period, I made calls to diverse neighborhoods weekly and assessed how they were fairing on, the type of access to care and food they had, and any health apprehensions. Numerous people spoke on how the latest pandemic affected them exclusively and how they were frightened to interrelate with the world because others did not take similar protections. What stood out was that numerous persons I was were afraid mostly because of not being affording healthcare costs linked with getting the virus.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Post one paragraph addressing the following: Why are professionalism and the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice fundamental to nursing?
· There are numerous motives why the values of social justice, integrity, human dignity, autonomy, and altruism are essential to nursing. Nursing entails promoting health, forming a trust, having compassion that can all be achieved by maintaining the above-mentioned values at the forefront of healthcare. Altruism “is a concern for the welfare and well-being of others” (AACN, 2008, p. 27), that is connected to having empathy, or in this instance concern, for patient results. Additionally, trust and compassion are taken further through integrity, human dignity, and autonomy by respecting an individual to have their choices and rights as a patient, valuing every person as an amalgamation of factors, which form who they are as an individual and by nurses offering honest and true professional practice. Also, social justice supplement experienced healthcare by guaranteeing that the nurse is conscious of all factors, which go into the health of a group or individual. Altogether, values encourage healthier patient results.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential VIII during the BSN program. Provide specific examples.
· I have met Essential VIII in my BSN program via my patient healthcare experience. I have verified my competence by show consideration for autonomy and the self-respect of all patients, but then again with exclusive importance on the patients who have rejected treatment or care. I have displayed integrity and altruism by supporting patients when I fear their care or even health. Finally, I was delved into social justice by engaging myself in public health clinical outreach, together with mental health works.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
Essential Nine
Post and write one paragraph discussing how the baccalaureate-graduate nurse is prepared to practice with patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations across the life span and the continuum of healthcare environments. Include ways the baccalaureate graduate understands and respects care variations and the increased complexity in caring for patients.
· Essential IX converses on the significance of training baccalaureate-graduate nurses to care and interact with patients. We are the human link from the healthcare setting to the populations, communities, groups, families, as well as an individual across the life span (AACN, 2008). This indicates that we utilize all our nursing skills and knowledge and elucidate it in the greatest way possible for any specified situation and population. We integrate our informatics understanding, diversity awareness, lifespan health knowledge, spiritual, cultural, and so much more into contemplation when determining what form of healthcare would be the most advantageous. By combining all this understanding, we decisively think and do better to offer better patient healthcare.
Write a second paragraph describing how you met Essential IX during the BSN program. Provide specific examples
· I believe I have met this essential via each skills lab, lecture, and clinical practice I took part in. Through them, I gained a lot and built upon info I before had to help better form my “nurse brain”. Nurse brain refers to me being able to think and act like a nurse. I had the capability of fully incorporating this knowledge and skill in my clinical setting by effectually communicating to my patients regarding their disease procedures, assuring them when aggressive procedures required to be performed by endorsing their overall health.
Reference:
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008, October 20). The Essentials of
Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
https://www.upstate.edu/con/pdf/bacc-essentials.pdf
