NR581NP-19702 Discussions Week 4: Collaboration Café

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Person-Centered Care and Cultural Humility

Preparing the Collaboration Café 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café.  Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge:  Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail:
    1. Define what person-centered care means to you. 
    2. Describe how you will apply the following principles in your future role as an advanced practice nurse.

      • holistic nursing
      • cultural humility
      • self-reflection
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the collaboration café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.

NR581NP-19702 Discussions Week 3: Discussion

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Nursing or Interprofessional Theories

 

Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
    1. Identify and briefly describe one of the nursing or interprofessional theories presented in the lesson that may be used in advanced nursing practice.
    2. Explain the relevance of the theory to your intended practice specialty.
    3. Describe a current healthcare issue, societal need, or practice problem in your intended practice specialty.
    4. Analyze how the chosen theory could be applied to address the problem.
  1. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
    1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
    2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
    3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
    4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
    5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
    1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
  3. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.

NR581NP-19702 Assignments Week 2 Assignment: NP Scope of Practice

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Preparing the Assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General instructions

  1. Download the NR581NP Scope of Practice templateLinks to an external site.. Use of the template is required. A 10% deduction will be applied if the template is not used. See the rubric.
  2. Submit the assignment as a .doc or .docx file to the Week 2 Dropbox. PDF files are not allowed.
  3. Complete the NR581NP Scope of Practice Assignment template.
  4. Follow current APA grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation rules consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
  5. Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice. Use these resources to substantiate the information presented.
  6. Correctly cite and reference information from scholarly sources.
  7. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy.

Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric):

Intended State of Practice

  1. Identify the state in which you intend to practice and the licensure requirements for that state.
  2. Identify the NP scope of practice in the state in which you intend to practice. 
  3. Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice. Provide the link to the source.

Educational and Certification Requirements

  1. Describe the educational requirements for NP licensure in the state in which you intend to practice.
  2. Describe the initial certification requirements for NP licensure in the state in which you intend to practice.
  3. Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice.

Practice Environment

  1. Identify the practice environment (full, reduced, or restricted NP practice) in the state in which you intend to practice.
  2. If the state has reduced or restricted NP practice, specify what supervision or collaborative practice agreements are required. If your state is full practice, write N/A for this question.
    1. Students who intend to practice in California should also include the use of written standard procedures that guide NP practice in the state and physician supervision ratios.
  3. Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice.

Prescribing Regulations

  1. Discuss NP prescriptive authority in the state in which you intend to practice.
  2. Explain regulations related to prescribing controlled substances.
  3. Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice.

Professional Practice

  1. Describe the licensure, certification, and continuing education requirements for ongoing NP practice in the state in which you intend to practice.

Use the board of nursing or the Nurse Practice ActLinks to an external site. for the state where you intend to practice. Provide the link to the candidate handbook for the chosen certification examination.

NR581NP-19702 Discussions Week 2: Collaboration Café

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History of Advanced Nursing Practice Role

Preparing the Collaboration Café 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Review the history of the advanced nursing practice role and answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
    1. Describe factors that supported the development of the advanced nursing practice role. 
    2. Analyze barriers to advanced nursing practice. 
    3. Examine either the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials (AACN) or role-specific competencies related to your advanced practice role (e.g., National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF), National League for Nursing (NLN), American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), or Public Health Foundation (PHF).
    4. Discuss one domain or competency area in which you excel and one in which you have growth opportunities. 
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the collaboration café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.

NR581NP-19702 Discussions Week 1: Discussion

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Success Strategies for Graduate Nursing Education

Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
    1. Discuss two factors that motivated you to enroll in the master’s degree program in nursing (MSN).
    2. Explain how you plan to use your MSN degree in your professional career. Include the state and location where you wish to work.
    3. Identify and describe three Chamberlain resources available to support your success in the MSN program. Include how you plan to use the resources.
    4. Explain how you will manage your current responsibilities while participating in this program. Discuss two self-care strategies you can incorporate to strengthen your resilience.
  1. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
    1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
    2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
    3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
    4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
    5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
    1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
  3. Saturday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by Saturday, 11:59 p.m. MT of this week.
  4. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.

NR582NP-17883 Discussions Week 8: Collaboration Café

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Reflection on Learning

Preparing the Collaboration Café 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
    1. Reflect on your learning experience. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact?  How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice as a master’s prepared nurse?   
    2. Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve Program Outcome 5: Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Extraordinary Nursing). 
    3. Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve ONE of the subcompetencies listed below that are related to the AACN Essentials Competency 10.3: Develop Capacity for Leadership: 

      • 10.3j Provide leadership to advance the nursing profession
      • 10.3k Influence intentional change guided by leadership principles and theories.
      • 10.3l Evaluate the outcomes of intentional change
      • 10.m Evaluate strategies/methods for peer review
      • 10.3n Participate in the evaluation of other members of the care team
      • 10.3o Demonstrate leadership skills in times of uncertainty and crisis
      • 10.3p Advocate for the promotion of social justice and eradication of structural racism and systematic inequity in nursing and society
      • 10.3q Advocate for the nursing profession in a manner that is consistent, positive, relevant, accurate, and distinctive 

*Note: Peer responses should provide options for addressing healthcare problems identified by peers.  

  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the Collaboration Café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.

NR582NP-17883 Discussions Week 7: Collaboration Café

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Policy Analysis Presentation

Preparing the Collaboration Café 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 

Upload the PowerPoint you created for the Week 6 Assignment. If you have difficulty uploading the PowerPoint, reach out to IT first (please obtain a ticket number). If you are still unable to upload, reach out to your instructor for alternate options.

  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the Collaboration Café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  
  3. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.   

NR582NP-17883 Assignments Week 6: Policy Analysis

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Preparing the Assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

General Instructions  

Research healthcare issues that have been identified in your local community. Note: you may use the information you discussed in this week’s Collaboration Café. Create a PowerPoint Presentation and address the following requirements:

  1. Review Wilensky, S. E., & Teitelbaum, J. B. (2023). Essentials of health policy and law (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Chapter 14: The Art of Structuring and Writing a Health Policy Analysis 
  2. Download the Week 6 Policy Analysis PowerPoint templateLinks to an external site.. Use of this template is required. If the template is not used, a 10% deduction will be applied. See the rubric. Save the template and include your name in the file name.  
  3. Complete the required Week 6 Policy Analysis PowerPoint. 
  4. Follow APA rules for grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation consistent with formal, scholarly writing. 
  5. Use PowerPoint’s Notes Page view feature to include speaker notes. Speaker notes should be included for all slides except the title and reference slides. Use complete sentences.  
  6. Include in-text citations in APA format when applicable. 
  7. Submit the presentation as a .ppt or .pptx file to the Week 6 Dropbox. PDF files are not accepted, as speaker notes are not visible.    
  8. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy.  

Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric):

  1. Title Slide (1 slide) 
    1. Include your name and session. 
  2. Introduction (1 slide)  
    1. Identify the purpose of the presentation.  
  3. Problem Statement (1 slide) 
    1. Define the problem you will address in your analysis in a succinct, 1-2 sentence statement. 
    2. Write the problem statement in the form of a question. You may reuse the problem you identified for this week’s collaboration café.  
  4. Background (1-3 slides)  
    1. Provide factual information to define the problem.  
    2. Include general information about the topic.  
    3. Describe why the topic is important.  
    4. Explain why the topic needs to be addressed now.  
    5. Provide in-text citations from a scholarly source.  
  5. Landscape (1-3 slides)  
    1. Identify relevant stakeholders.  
    2. Explain stakeholder concerns related to the problem.  
    3. Identify key factors that must be considered when analyzing the problem.  
    4. Discuss the relevance of each key factor.  
    5. Provide in-text citations from a scholarly source.  
  6. Options (1-3 slides)  
    1. Identify at least three evidence-based options to address the problem.  
    2. Discuss the pros and cons of each option.  
    3. Provide in-text citations from a scholarly source for each evidence-based option. 
  7. Recommendation (1-3 slides)  
    1. Identify the best option to address the problem.  
    2. Explain why your recommendation is the best solution.  
    3. Discuss mitigating strategies for any cons identified for the selected option.  
    4. Provide in-text citations from a scholarly source. 
  8. Conclusion (1 slide) 
    1. Provide a summary of the presentation.  
  9. References 
    1. Provide complete reference in APA format, may use bullets. Hanging indents are not required. 

Presentation Format 

  1. The presentation should total 7-15 slides (excluding title and reference slides).   
  2. Color schemes, font style, and size are consistent on each slide. 
  3. Graphics and images (if used) are professional and appropriate. 
  4. Speaker notes are provided for each slide (except the title and reference slides).  
  5. Information included in speaker notes is presented in complete sentences, supports slide contents, and has appropriate citations.

NR582NP-17883 Discussions Week 6: Collaboration Café

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Policy

Preparing the Collaboration Café 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

General instructions:

Research healthcare issues that have been identified in your local community. Select one problem for which you will complete a healthcare policy analysis. 

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
    1. Identify and define the local problem you will address in your analysis.  
    2. Include background information about the problem.  
    3. Describe why the topic is important. 
    4. Explain why the topic needs to be addressed now.  

*Note: Peer responses should provide options for addressing healthcare problems identified by peers.  

  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice: 
    1. Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Respond to a second peer post.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the Collaboration Café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.  
  3. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.

NR582NP-17883 Discussions Week 5: Discussion

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Implementing Change

Preparing the Discussion

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

General instructions:

Review the scenario and address the questions below. 

You are a nurse practitioner employed in a busy primary care office with responsibilities for managing the office staff, including the medical assistants who aid in client care as well as filing, answering calls from clients, processing laboratory results, and taking prescription renewal requests from clients and pharmacies. The office is part of a larger hospital system. One of the medical assistants has worked in the practice for 10 years and is very proficient at her job. She knows almost every client in the practice and has an excellent rapport with all the providers.  

During an office visit, a client requested a refill for an amoxicillin prescription. When examining the empty bottle, you noted that the date on the bottle was 1 week ago. You also noted your name printed on the label as the prescriber though you did not see the client last week. The client explained that she called last week concerned about her cough and spoke to the medical assistant, who assured her that a prescription would be sent to the pharmacy for the concern. You do not recall having discussed this client with the medical assistant; the other providers in the practice deny speaking to or consulting about the client.  

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge:  Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
    1. Based on the situation above, what are the ethical and legal implications for the practice at the micro-, meso-, and macro-level of the system? 
    2. What changes do you recommend to prevent further episodes of the problem behavior? What coaching and feedback skills can be used to discuss the event with the medical assistant? 
    3. Which change model would you use to implement the identified change and why: Lewin’s Theory of Planned Change, Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA), or Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change?  
    4. Identify and discuss one barrier to implementing the change process. Identify and discuss one factor that facilitated the change process. 
  1. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
    1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
    2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
    3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
    4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
    5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
  1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
    1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
    2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
  1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
  2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
  3. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.

Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.