This week, reflect up your personal nursing philosophy as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific theorists you feel you most identify with. How does your personal nursing philosophy, and the work you completed in your program support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice

• Outcome #18: Develop an awareness of patients’ as well as healthcare professionals’ spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect upon and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Showcase your academic work related to this essential and these outcomes in your ePortfolio and directly reference it in your reflection response.

Recommended: Refer back to work you completed for NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice and LDR 432 Principles of Leadership for Healthcare Organizations, as well as other courses to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Your reflection should be 1-1/2 to 2 pages and APA formatted. Reference and cite any sources you use.

Submit your assignment here for grading. When your instructor returns the graded assignment, make any recommended revisions and submit a polished copy to your ePortfolio.  

 

[Please write 1 paragraph for each of the following (total 3 paragraphs) and each paragraph shall be no less than 3 sentences and no more than 10 sentences. 

1. Can a neighbor make important healthcare decisions for a patient? Explain the process with support of your reading material.
2. Discuss one type of defense against a specific liability that may be brought against a nurse. Explain with support of your reading material.
3. Susan work at South Town Hospital. While caring for a patient, she discovered that nurse Haley has caused significant injury to a patient. Discus the case where Haley is or is not covered under the hospital group insurance policy. (Only discus one: is covered or is not covered.). Explain with support of your reading material.

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that currently exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy review. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities. Be specific and provide examples.   

APA manual writing rules and style. 

 This week, you will submit summaries of quantitative and qualitative studies. The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar with published research, research designs, and methodologies. For the assignment, you will select two original or primary research studies: one quantitative research study and one qualitative study related to the field of nursing. You will write an abstract of each study.

• The selected articles should be original research studies.
• Review articles, concept analysis, meta-analysis, meta-synthesis, integrative review, and systemic review should NOT be used.
• Mixed-methods studies should not be used.

Assignment Instructions:

1. Your abstracts should begin with the APA Style reference to the research article that is reviewed
2. Your abstracts should be written in your own words. (The abstracts within the studies your choose will not answer all of the assignment questions.)
3. Your abstracts should be accurate, brief, clear, between 150–250 words, and include only the most essential information. 
4. Use current APA Style to format your paper and to cite your sources.
5. You are required to attach both research studies (the full articles) that you use to write your abstracts.The original research study articles may be copied onto a Word document or saved in a PDF format.

NOTE: Because submission of the original articles is part of the assignment requirements and is necessary for grading, any assignment submitted without the accompanying articles will be considered incomplete. An incomplete assignment will be initially assigned a zero. The student has the opportunity to submit articles to complete the assignment. However, if these are submitted after the due date and time, the late penalty will apply. After five days, submissions will not be accepted per University policy, and the grade will remain a zero.

Address the following questions in each of your abstracts:

1. What type of research is it (quantitative, qualitative)?

2. What was the research question(s) or hypothesis?

3. What is the sample (population), the sample size, and sample attributes (characteristics)?

4. What is the setting (facility type, location, and country) of the study?

5. What were the researcher’s results and findings? (Identify one that clearly measures the dependent variable or objective of the research.)

 

Safety and Transportation 

A community assessment begins with a basic windshield survey where each community subsystem is explored.  Explore the relationship of safety and transportation to determinants of health.

Click on the Enter Sentinel City® and continue your virtual experience by taking a bus tour of Sentinel City®.  Since this is your second tour, feel free to choose any bus speed and/or get off the bus at any time to walk around.  As you take the tour, write down your observations, specifically focusing on the following subsystem: safety and transportation.  Meet with Mayor Hill to discuss the subsystems: Safety and Transportation.  Meet with Officer Cooper in Acer Tech about neighborhood crime rates.  Compile your observations and any demographic information addressing each item listed in the first column of the rubric.  We encourage you to add other relevant characteristics you observe that may not be listed in the first column as you complete this activity. 

Reading and Resources

Harkness & DeMarco (2016) Read Chapters 4 & 5

Visit World Health Organization – Determinants of Health

• Visit Healthy People 2020 Determinants of Health
• Visit Healthy People 2020 Objectives
• Visit Health Disparities

Find the health rankings for the county where your practice learning site is located by visiting: “Health Rankings for Your State & County” 

Watch the Levels of Prevention Video

Additional Instructions:

1. All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
2. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
3. Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
4. Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
5. Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

Submission Option

Paper

• 1 to 2-page paper. Include title and reference pages.