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Week 8: Your Future! Now that you are very close to completing this major accomplishment in your nursing career, what are your plans for your future? Please share your plans to keep up to date in your chosen specialty and nursing in general. What professional and nursing organizations do you plan to actively participate? Have you considered continuing your education to pursue a graduate degree? The end of our long road to BSN education is here! Being that I started out this new career late, ...

NR 451 Week 7 Discussion, Healthcare Economics What are some benefits of the healthcare reform that has been prompted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)? The Affordable Care Act provides expansions of mental health and substance use disorder coverage, it forces insurers to cover everyone regardless of any pre-existing conditions, it encourages employees to be proactive in their care rather than reactive, and kids stay on their parent’s insurance plan until they are 26 years of age () Why is ...

Week 6: Implementing Change Despite Resistance Change can be difficult to implement. Now that you are almost finished with your change project, if you were to implement your project in your clinical practice, what type of resistance do you expect from staff? List at least three ways that you can lessen the resistance you may encounter to help ensure the success of your project. One of the Standards of Professional Performance according to the ANA (2015) states “the registered nurse utilize...

Week 5: Core Competencies for Nurses . Explore the website for the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative at (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. How can the QSEN competencies for nurses be implemented into your workplace or professional nursing setting? If you are not currently employed as a nurse, consider a previous work setting that would have benefited from implementation of the QSEN competencies. In the beginning nursing classes in my pursuit for...

Week 4: Evaluating Quality Patient Outcomes How can data provide information to evaluate quality patient outcomes? Give an example of data that can reflect poor quality in care. How can quality improvement be a daily task in patient care? Why does continuous quality improvement need to be associated with change? In my facility, valuable data collected is used for the basis of decision making to improve quality, performance, and achieve desirable outcomes. Statistical evidence evaluated along...

Week 3: Feasibility of Your Design Proposal and Importance of Communication . Now that you have identified your capstone change project, it is time to look at its feasibility. • What tangible and intangible resources will be needed to implement your project? • What improved outcomes do you anticipate will occur that could indicate the project produced a successful return on investment (ROI) of these resources? • How will you communicate your plan for change with key decision makers so...

Week 2: The Clinical Question Your capstone change project begins this week when you identify a practice issue that you believe needs to change. The practice issue must pertain to a systematic review that you must choose from a List of Approved Systematic Reviews for the capstone project, whose link may be found in the guidelines for the Week 3 Capstone Project: Milestone 1 assignment page. • Choose a systematic review from the list of approved reviews based on your interests or your practic...

Week 1: Types of Nursing Models and Frameworks of EBP What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? How does the strength of the evidence determine translation into practice? Why is it important to integrate both evidence-based practice and patient and family preferences? What is the nurse's responsibility when EBP and patient and family practice do not match? What are some of the models and frameworks of EBP currently in use? It was not until the late 1950s and 1960...

NR 451 WEEK 8 DISCUSSION, YOUR FUTURE What does the following statement mean to you? In order to meet the challenges of taking care of older & sicker patients, incorporate patient safety & quality of care into practice, & understand economics & its effect on the workforce, nurses must take a leading role in the future of healthcare. As the largest health care workforce, nurses apply their knowledge, skills, & experience to care for the various & changing needs of patients. A large part o...