AMANDA SMITH

Assignment: Final Reflection and StrengthsFinder Assessment

This course was designed to develop skills that will help you be an effective online student and to also help you build a multidisciplinary approach to health. For this Assignment, you reflect on becoming a scholar-practitioner, social change agent, and part of a multidisciplinary field. After reviewing your Learning Resources for this course and completing the StrengthsFinder Assessment, consider the issue you addressed in Week 1 and examine how it can be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective.

As part of this Assignment, you will incorporate the Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment results that is attached. Reflect upon them and respond to the following questions in your paper.

The Assignment (3 pages)

· Explain how your understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of the course content has changed or been validated.

· Explain how the issue you discussed in Week 1 (below in red) of the course can be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective.

· Expand on your insights utilizing the Learning Resources.

· Expand on your insights utilizing your StrengthsFinder Assessment results

Include proper APA citations and references (see Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for assistance).

WEEK 1

Health care is a huge industry with a wide range of services. Some healthcare organizations provide multiple health services while others provide a specific service. Anyhow, there are many issues in the industry that cut across all healthcare institutions. In my field of study, I am interested in evidence-based practice (EBP) which is a term used to describe the utilization of best current evidence to facilitate decision making in healthcare delivery (Lott & Hughes, 2020). EBP consist of three main components, that is individual clinical expertise, best current evidence, and patient values and needs. Individual clinical expertise refers to the professional and personal skills of a caregiver in a healthcare setting. Best current evidence is the information obtained through research that medical professions use to make decisions during care delivery. Patient values and needs are the patient issues that nurses and other medical staff need to consider during care delivery.

Different factors motivated me to get involved in this issue. One of the factors is the need to provide quality patient care. It is imperative to note that patient care is the most important aspect of nursing. Nonetheless, the use of traditional nursing methods makes it difficult for nursing personnel to provide the best care to patients. Adoption of evidence-based practices in health care institutions can have an enormous positive impact on the quality of patient care. Another factor that motivated me to get involved in this issue is the challenge of implementing EBP in health organizations. The main issue that affects the adoption of EBP in health facilities is resistance from nursing professionals (Albarqouni et al., 2019). Medical staff resists these practices because they do not want to abandon traditional nursing practices.  I believe EBPs are effective and all healthcare organizations should adopt them.

Currently, I am studying to become a nurse practitioner (NP) and the program is related to the issue. Some of the roles of an NP include the provision of patient care, diagnosis, treatment, and management of common diseases. The issue of EBP relates to the program since all duties of NP entail patient care. The use of best current evidence in health care is important because it ensures that patients are provided with quality health care. Once I finish the program and join a healthcare organization, I will use my professional and personal skills to advocate for the adoption of EBP.

I would like to accomplish the following goals in my field of study;

· To provide quality patient care: Through EBP, I will implement strategies to provide quality care to patients.

· To advocate for the adoption of EBP: EBPs are effective and advocating for their adoption can lead to improved patient care.

· To encourage health administrators to launch EBP training programs: Training nurses about EBP can facilitate faster adoption of these practices.

 

References

Lott, T. F., & Hughes, R. (2020). The Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice Mentorship Program. Retrieved from https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/bitstream/handle/10755/18765/LottAbstractInfo.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

Albarqouni, L., Hoffmann, T., & Glasziou, P. (2019). EBP Content and Measures. Challenges and Solutions for Educating Clinicians in Contemporary Evidence-Based Practice, 18, 91.