Herzing NU476 All Units Discussions Latest 2019 March Question # 00598794 Course Code : NU476 Subject: Health Care Due on: 03/05/2019 Posted On: 03/05/2019 09:17 AM Tutorials: 1 Rating: 4.5/5

Unit 1 Discussion

Unit 1 Discussion – Introduction & Effective
Communication

Instructions

As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and
your peers, please post the following:

Your name and a description of your current position (If not
employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)

How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?

Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait, family, or action
photo)

Family-centered care includes listening to and communicating
with patients, caregivers, and families. Address the following

Describe elements essential to establishing effective
communication and a therapeutic relationship, which you have integrated into
your role as a nurse.

Provide an example from your current practice environment.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Unit 1 Discussion – Introduction & Effective
Communication

Instructions

Always construct your responses in a word processing program
like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the
corrections and save the file to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in
your response:

Note a commonality between yourself and your peers or
something about them that you find interesting.

Comment on your peers’ examples of a therapeutic element.

What is your experience with this?

To what extent do you feel family-centered care is
incorporated into direct and indirect patient care?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

Unit 2
Discussion

Healthcare Policy

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program
like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

Healthcare is in a state of constant change. Nurses must be prepared to do more with less,
improve the health of populations, and provide affordable care all while
creating a world-class patient experience.
Please address the following:

Summarize a local, state, national, or global policy that
has impacted healthcare.

How has your practice changed and/or improved as a result of
this policy?

Discuss the impact this policy has had on patients and
families.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Healthcare Policy

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program
like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to
your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response

Do you think that the policy has improved the quality of
patient care provided?

What additional i8mpacts could the selected policy have on
healthcare?

Unit 3 Discussion

Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program
like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

The concepts of quality improvement and evidence-based care
are essential for the BSN-prepared nurse. Please address the following:

Provide an example of either a quality improvement or
evidence-based practice initiative that you have participated in.

What did the process look like and what was your role in the
initiative?

What did you learn from the experience?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 3, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program
like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to
your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in
your response:

Compare and contrast your experience participating in a
quality improvement/evidence-based practice initiative with that of your peers.

Why are quality improvement and evidence-based initiative
important to the future of nursing?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour

Unit 4
Discussion

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program
like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

Summarize your Community Health experiential learning.
Address the following:

Relate your project to one of the Healthy People 2020 goals
and/or objectives.

Why is health promotion and disease prevention so important
in nursing practice?

Do you envision any future opportunities to expand your
Community Health project?

Give an overview of your community’s health promotion or
disease prevention offerings. Pick one of the Healthy People goals and evaluate
your community’s efforts towards this goal.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program
like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to
your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your
response to their overview of their community’s health promotion or disease
prevention offerings:

Compare your community’s health promotion/disease prevention
activities to those of your peers’ community’s efforts towards that goal.

Pick one of these activities and discuss how you would,
ideally, include a nursing role in this community initiative.

Unit 5
Discussion

Professional Ethics and Values

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program
like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
(2008), professional values and their related behaviors are the foundation for
effective nursing practice. Address the following:

Provide two (2) examples from your own clinical practice
that demonstrates the professional nursing practice and principles of altruism,
autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and/or social justice.

How do you “live” these principles in your nursing
practice?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 5, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Professional Ethics and Values

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program
like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to
your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

Comment on your peers’ practices and discuss one of their
examples of these principles that you find difficult to demonstrate (for
whatever reason).

Consider and discuss ways to overcome this.

Unit 6
Discussion

Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy

Instructions:

• Always
construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

• Check
for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

• Make the
corrections and save the file to your computer.

• Submit
the post.

Professional nurses must demonstrate competence in the use
of information technology systems and possess the information literacy skills
necessary to gather evidence and provide patient care. Address the following:

• Provide
two (2) examples of how information and healthcare technology has evolved
during your nursing practice career. How
does technology impact your interactions with patients and families?

• What is
the role of nurses in supporting the health literacy of our patients?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 6, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy

Instructions:

• Always
construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for
grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

• Find the
posts that you are going to reply to.

• Submit
your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

• Comment
on your peers’ discussion of the role of nurses in supporting health literacy.

• Explain
some situations in your experience where you have done this.

• How did
your actions align with your peers’ explanations?

Unit 7
Discussion

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

Instructions:

• Always
construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

• Check
for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

• Make the
corrections and save the file to your computer.

• Submit
the post.

Lifelong learning and continuous professional growth are
necessary in the current complex healthcare climate. Address the following in your discussion
post:

• What
does lifelong learning mean to you?

• What are
your plans to build upon your nursing knowledge?

• Where do
you see yourself professionally in five (5) years? Ten (10) years?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with
citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please
review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that
your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 7, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

Instructions:

• Always
construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for
grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.
Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

• Find the
posts that you are going to reply to.

• Submit
your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in
your response:

• What do
you think healthcare will look like in the year 2030?

• How
might our role as nurses change or evolve in the next decade?

Unit 8
Discussion

Reflection

Please respond to the following questions based upon these
course objectives:

Practice using caring, compassionate, culturally competent,
and evidence-based practices in the roles of the baccalaureate nurse using the
nursing process to provide patient/client-centered care in a variety of healthcare
settings.

Use a broad base of techniques to communicate effectively
with clients, families, healthcare teams, and communities.

Use critical thinking and decision making, local, state,
national, and global policies, legislative concepts, and healthcare economics
to affect quality healthcare and the evolving healthcare system.

Integrate knowledge and skills in nursing leadership and
management, quality improvement, and patient safety, as required, to provide
healthcare.

Integrate knowledge and skills to promote health and prevent
disease across the lifespan and the continuum of healthcare environments.

Practice professionalism, including the inherent values of
altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.

Formulate a professional ethic that includes lifelong
learning and continuous professional development in an ever-evolving healthcare
environment.

Think critically at a conceptual level and by using
mathematical analysis as well as the scientific method, write and speak
effectively, use basic computer applications, and understand human behavior in
the context of the greater society in a culturally diverse world.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples
and full explanations.

For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of
how the course supported each objective.

Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon
the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your
statements and opinions. Responses to these questions are due by Tuesday at
noon.