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from  Week 8: Reflection on Achievement of Outcomes (Orig Post due Wednesday, Responses due Sunday)

Aug 28, 2019 9:49PM

Raven Jinks

Reflecting back over the past eight weeks has prepared me in meeting the course outcomes such as integrating professional values through scholarship in health care, recognizing the organizational and systems leadership skills that are critical for the promotion of high quality and safe patient care, in addition to the many nurse practitioner (NP) core leadership competencies that are needed to become successful leaders.  Program outcome #4 focused on sustaining a high professional identity. It aims at enhancing the integration of professional values through scholarships and services that are offered in healthcare. The discussion topics that was covered in class helped meet this outcome, which was on organizational behavior and advanced practice nursing. Professional identity is something that has been perceived to have a strong pre-occupation in nursing for many years. It makes significant contributions in enhancing the provision of quality healthcare (Bell, Campbell, & Goldberg, 2015). The case studies highlighted discussions the roles of APNs, but also highlighted the different tasks that APNs may encounter and how to handle them in a professional manner. Also, the one assignment that I felt was most beneficial was the professional development paper that was done to help focus on the transition to expert nurse, which covered the Benner’s Theory of Novice Nurse to Expert. The topics also prepared me to meet the MSN Essential II, which focused on organizational and systems leadership. The case studies gave us the chance to discover what leadership skills are needed when tackling conflict in the workplace and what evidence-based strategies were effective for resolution of workplace conflict. Furthermore, the NP core competencies enabled me determine what it entails for NPs to become successful leaders in their practice areas.

References Bell, E., Campbell, S., & Goldberg, L. R. (2015). Nursing identity and patient-centredness in scholarly health services research: a computational text analysis of PubMed abstracts 1986–2013. BMC Health Services Research, 15, 3. http://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0660-8