Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.

In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:

1. New practice approaches

2. Intraprofessional collaboration

3. Health care delivery and clinical systems

4. Ethical considerations in health care

5. Population health concerns

6. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes

7. Health policy

8. Leadership and economic models

9. Health disparities

Students will outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.

While APA style is required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines. 

 How to Write the Introduction 1. Write the hook. The hook must include a metaphor word. What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things. For example, I’m drowning in homework. 2. Use the S.O.A.P.S.Tone acronym to guide you through the middle of the introduction paragraph. 3. Thesis/Claim In one sentence, use strong language to express the purpose of your argument. Use an implicit thesis. Since the first paragraph is a counterargument, start the thesis sentence with that information. Example Thesis: Though not all people agree, it is evident that nursing facilities must treat LPNs better, because these employees are the most needed. How to Write the Conclusion 1. Write the telegraphic sentence. Show your concluding thought in a short sentence. Thus technique helps capture the readers’ attention. 2. Point-by-point method Look at your body paragraphs- counterargument, argument 1, argument 2, and argument 3- and write one sentence for each body paragraph. These sentences should be in a positive tone and they should remind the reader of the paragraph’s purpose. 3. Restate the thesis/claim. Using the explicit thesis statement structure, restate the thesis/claim. 4. Wrap the hook. Refer back to the metaphor word you used in the hook (introduction). Write the final sentence of the essay using a word related to the metaphor word you opened the essay with. • The conclusion should have 7 sentences. • There is no need to cite sources in the introduction and conclusion paragraphs. 

 Pick a sport you would like to coach, a sport you would like to train athletes for, or a sport you would like to work in from a rehabilitation/injury prevention position.  Please create a new message in which you can post your initial post thread.  Describe a common injury found in that sport (do NOT pick an injury that someone else has already chosen–sports may be repeated with different injuries.  INJURIES MAY NOT BE REPEATED.) Put the sport name and injury in the title of your post so your classmates do not repeat it.  In the text box, describe the coaches role in addressing first aid for the injury.  Next, describe the roles of two different sports medicine team professionals who have a responsibility in diagnosing, treating, or preventing the injury.   Your initial post must be a minimum of 250 words long. Due 11/6.

I am choosing Baseball – Rotator Cuff Tear

Provide a 50 word answer to the below answer in apa format with in-text citations and references. The original question is also provided below.

In my current role in my organization, I serve my staff members by being able to listen to their needs and be their advocate for items that they are requiring to help them serve their patients more effectively and efficiently. I provide staff opportunities to participate in evidence-based projects and committees to help them learn new processes, procedures, and to encourage them to seek opportunities to learn. By doing this, it will make them up to date and proficient in process improvements. By listening, having empathy, and helping staff grow personally and professionally, I strive to follow the servant leadership principles. The secular view works on commanding others and making decisions without the input of the followers ( DelHousaye,2016).

Original Question:

How do you serve others in the profession of nursing? Explain how the way you serve others in the profession of nursing could become more closely aligned with the issue of serving as explained by the servant-leadership paradigm. How does the issue of serving differ from the secular view of power?

APA format 2 pages long 3 references  Due Tuesday November 5,2019 at 7pm

Discussion: Using Competency Sets to Critique Lesson Plans

Graduate nursing education advances innovation and strengthens the leadership needed to improve healthcare delivery. Education at this level incorporates the foundational knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to thrive in increasingly complex clinical environments. Nursing education is undergoing major change as the profession conceptualizes master’s education and transitions advanced practice education to the doctoral level via Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs. Calls to reduce healthcare costs, persistent concerns about patient safety and the quality of care, and dramatic increases in diagnostic, therapeutic, and educational technologies all demand new thinking around the nature of graduate nursing education.
—American Association of Colleges in Nursing

Though the above quote focuses specifically on graduate nursing education, Schools of Nursing around the United States are adapting both undergraduate and graduate programs to emphasize a stronger focus on evidence-based nursing competencies. At the departmental level, this process takes much time and collaboration. Curriculum teams comprised of nurse educators, field experts, and instructional design professionals meet with schools of nursing to revamp existing curriculum plans to the competencies needed of today’s and tomorrow’s nursing students.

On a smaller scale, nurse educators are also implementing quick and effective strategies to align their current courses to evolving nursing competencies. By critiquing lessons before, during, and after instruction, nurse educators are able to assess their alignment to competency sets.

In this Discussion, you critique one of your own Lesson Plans to a competency set of your choosing.

To prepare

• Review the article, “Integrating the Institute of Medicine Competencies in a Baccalaureate Curricular Revision: Process and Strategies.” Consider how and why the nursing program adapted its curriculum to emphasize Institute of Medicine competencies.
• Review the competencies presented in this week’s Learning Resources. In addition, reflect on the competencies that you might be familiar with through your own studies and professional background. How do competencies help to guide academic and professional practice?
• Review the Lesson Plans that you have developed in this course. Select one to further investigate for this Discussion.
• Critique your lesson using a competency set. For example, if your Lesson Plan addresses interprofessional collaboration and your intended audience of learners is Master’s students, you might critique your Lesson Plan using QSEN indicators. As you conduct your critique, identify specific competencies addressed in your lesson. Then, consider ways that you might modify your lesson to prompt a deeper understanding of nursing competencies.