...providing quality and evidenced based nursing care. Graduates of master’s degree programs in nursing are prepared with requisite nursing skills, which enable them to engage in nursing practices exhibiting practice, ethical and legal challenges. To function effectively, the AACN provides nine distinct essentials for master’s prepared nurses that guide the preparation of nursing graduates for various diverse specialties in healthcare system. These AACN essentials include background for practice from sciences and humanities which explores the idea of a master’s-prepared nurse integrating various educational disciplines for the incessant improvement of nursing care, organizational and systems leadership which recognizes the need of having leadership skills in providing quality nursing care, and quality improvement and safety which recognizes that a master’s-prepared nurse must be coherent in the quality standards. Others include ability to translate and integrate scholarship into practice that establishes the role of a nurse in applying research outcomes during service delivery, informatics, and healthcare technologies that recognizes the role of nurses in using technology and HIT to promote provision of quality and evidenced based nursing care, and the essentials of health policy and advocacy that explores the role of nurses in employing advocacy strategies to influence health care. Interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes is another...
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...Nursing Practicum Goals Introduction As the last course of the RN-BSN is now underway, the author of this paper is ecstatic to be near the end and is genuinely impressed with the material that has been learned of the past year. The nursing practicum and capstone course serves as a closing to an extremely fast paced and exciting program. This is when everything that has been taught up to this point now makes sense and hopefully is shown in discussions, lectures, written assignments, and class participation. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Broward Health North and Nadine Phillips were chosen as the location and preceptor for the capstone project and to successfully develop three professional measurable goals that integrate and reflect the RN-BSN program objectives. Broward Health North Broward Health North is the location in which the nursing capstone hours will be taking place. Broward Health has been providing service to South Florida for over 70 years and encompasses more than 30 healthcare facilities, Broward Health North (BHN) being one of their main hospital locations (browardhealth.org, 2013). BHN is a 409 bed level II trauma hospital located that has been serving the Deerfield Beach area since 1961 (browardhealth.org). The reason this particular location was chosen for the student to complete the capstone project is because the student has been employed at this facility since 2007 and has seen the rapid changes and improvements accomplished at this hospital...
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...Developing an Advocacy Campaign for Diabetes Emmanuel Besong Walden University Policy & Advocacy for Population Health Nursing 6050N DR. Trudy Tappan March 27, 2016 Introduction Population health is defined as the health outcomes and its distribution in a community. Population health includes policies and interventions that affect health outcomes. Diabetes is a population health issue. Data is used to trend diabetes outcome of the diabetic population (healthcatalyst.com, 2013). According to CDC (2014), 9.3% of the population of the United States of America live with diabetes. This percentage amount to 29.1 million people diagnosed or undiagnosed with diabetes. Each year approximately 200000 deaths occur in the United States of America alone. The disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States of America (CDC, 2014). National Data trend estimates that by the year 2050, 1 in every 3 American will have developed diabetes (CDC, 2014). The American Diabetes Association defines Diabetes mellitus as a metabolic disease caused by low insulin secretion or inaction of insulin resulting in hyperglycemia. Long term effect of diabetes mellitus results in failure of many organs, such as eyes, blood vessels, kidneys, nerves, heart disease, stroke, amputations of the legs and feet, and early death. Diabetes Mellitus can be classified type 1 and Type 2. Insulin dependent diabetes is called type 1 diabetes and it is caused by a lack of insulin due to the damage of beta cells...
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...Running head: PERSONAL LEADERSHIP Personal Leadership Development Plan Angelica Doloroso University of Phoenix Nursing 587/Leadership and Management in Nursing and Healthcare Marcia Lyles, MSN, EDD, PhD. January 5, 2006 Personal Leadership Development Plan It has been my experience that health care professionals as well as consumers are becoming more verbal about the inadequacies of the health care system. It is clear that improvement is necessary. There are many roads to improvement of the system, one of which is the proper use of the Advance Nurse Practitioner. With this role properly developed, the Advanced Nurse Practitioner can effect many changes both in and out of the hospital setting. It is for this reason that I chose to advance my practice as a nurse. As an advanced practice clinician, I will be able to make a difference in the community by contributing to the enlargement of the primary care workforce to meet the population’s primary care needs. Within the next five years, I view myself in an advanced practice role, that of a Nurse Practitioner serving the adult population in an outpatient clinical setting. As an advanced practice clinician and leader, my efforts will be directed at ensuring that effective health care is provided to the patients that will result in improved quality and health outcomes. At the local level, I will have a strong influence on my team in my area of clinical practice. This involves identifying the steps required to develop...
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...International—Nairobi DRAFT REPORT Orientation and Advocacy workshop on Preventing and Eliminating Gender Based Violence and the Negative Impacts on Children in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and Somalia & Celebrating the Day of the African Child Dates: 14th to 17th June 2016 Venue: AACC, Nairobi, Kenya Acronyms AACC All African Conference of Churches AU African Union DAC Day of the African Child DPAC Day of Prayer and Action for Children DRC Democratic Republic of Congo ECP End Child Poverty GNRC Global Network of Religions for Children IDEP International Day of Eliminating Poverty SSCC South Sudan Council of Churches Organisations represented 1. End Child Poverty- Arigatou International – Nairobi 2. Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC) 3. National Islamic Council of DRC 4. South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) 5. Refuge Point 6. International Movement of Catholic Students- Burundi (IMCS Pax Romana Africa) 7. Women of Faith Network Burundi ORGANISATION PROFILE - END CHILD POVERTY End Child Poverty is a multi-faith, child centered, global initiative of Arigatou International that mobilises faith-inspired resources to end child poverty by addressing both the structural cause of poverty and the root causes of poverty in the human heart. In our child-centered work and service we seek to integrate positive religious values; we promote faith-inspired initiatives;...
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...Conference on Health promotion. HEALTH PROMOTION Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and it’s determinants, and thereby improve their health. A planned combination of educational, political, regulatory and organizational supports for actions and conditions of living conducive to the health of individuals, groups or communities (Green and kreuter,1999.) It is a core function of public health and contributes to the work of tackling communicable and non communicable diseases and other threats to health. Health promotion therefore involves a multidisciplinary application of skills in psychology,anthropology,economic,political theory, consumer rights/law,communication,media design,epidemiology,management,community mobilization and the application of resaerch,planning and evaluation skills. Who does Health Promotion? Health Promotion is part of the role of a wide range of field staff within health and other services. e.g nurses, doctors, teachers, agricultural workers etc PREREQUISITES FOR HEALTH Improvement in health requires a secure foundation in these basic prerequisites. They are fundamental conditions and resources for health.They are: Peace Shelter Education Food Income A stable eco-system Sustainable resources Social justice and equity ELEMENTS AND COMPONENTS. The Ottawa...
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...The main elements of the job include Designing and delivering a communications strategy that helps to deliver HMG objectives in Ghana and the region, including public advocacy campaigns Writing, commissioning and editing content on HMG and British Council activity for use in a range of media Providing content for the gov.uk website Building relationships with and engaging media and Ghana government publicity machinery Acting as the BHC’s official spokesperson and first point of contact for media enquiries Overseeing all communications tools (eg media releases, web-sites, publications, twitter, facebook etc) and managing the BHC photographer role Daily monitoring of Ghanaian media outlets for content of interest to the UK Supporting the internal communication of FCO and wider UK Government corporate messages Managing relevant projects to develop Ghanaian media capacity The skills/attributes of the successful applicant will include Prioritising in a fast-paced work environment, self-starting, and delivering to deadlines Creativity, imagination and innovation to keep the UK Government’s profile in Ghana fresh, interesting and relevant to the modern bilateral relationship sought by the UK Understanding of how to design and deliver a public advocacy campaign Communication and influencing skills, including excellent...
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...When engaging in policy-practice it is important to understand how social services and social welfare policies are formulated, adopted, implemented, and evaluated. In doing so, social workers then can: Analyze and apply the theories of justice and social justice, apply the historical and contemporary conceptual frameworks of advocacy for social and economic justice, examine the origins of oppression and discrimination within social structures and its impacts on public policy, and examine the personal and professional role in ethical, cultural relevant and social generalist practice across systems of all sizes. In other words, policy practice allows social workers to advocate for individuals within the community by using his/her social work...
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...Planning a Policymaker Visit: Teen Suicide Prevention Teen suicide is our nation’s major public health concern. It is the second leading cause of death and costs the nation greatly. Michigan State and Berrien County follows the same trend as our nation does. The state has a policy for schools to train their teachers as gatekeepers to identify suicide risk factors in their students. Lakeshore public school provides a one semester health education class to grade 7-12 students but it is not geared to suicide prevention. In order to address this concern in my community, I am proposing a policy change to integrate health education curriculum in middle and high school that is specific to suicide prevention. The chosen legislator is the superintendent...
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...with evidence of required continuing education. In the State of Texas, RN’s must have twenty hours of CEU’s every two years for this renewal process. The BON enforces the NPA (Nurse Practice Act) and nursing education, conducting investigations of complaints against nurses and adjudicating complaints ("Licensure Renewal," n.d.). Texas Nurses Association (TNA) is a professional nursing organization with supports and advocates for nurses. The mission statement of the TNA is as follows: “Advancing the nursing profession through leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation” ("Mission," n.d., para. 1). The TNA was founded in 1907 in Fort Worth, Texas. Part of their services include, offer CE credits to nurses for license renewal, offer workshops. Another important factor is to promote workplace advocacy. The TNA gathers information from nurses around the state, regarding their practice environment. As a result of this advocacy, Texas now has one of the strongest NPA’s in the country...
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...Professions Education report (IOM, 2003) forcefully impacted the health care profession we know today by making huge changes in the way we prepare our healthcare staff in both academics and clinical practice settings. These new standards included curriculum revisions focusing on evidence-based research and practice, as well as implementing new training programs for medical professionals currently in practice to reinforce or update their skills. Clinical education was urged to now revolve around The five core competencies listed below. Provide patient-centered care -be respectful of your patient’s values and beliefs, opinions, and expressed needs;be punctual to pain and suffering; deliver continuous care; listen to,educate, clearly inform, with, and educate patients; share decision making and plan of care management; and continue to advocate disease prevention, wellness, and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including a focus on population health. Work in interdisciplinary teams - cooperate with all, collaborate with all, communicate with all , and integrate care in teams to gain your patient’s trust. Employ evidence-based practice - utilize quality research with clinical examples and outcomes and patient opinions and beliefs for better care while involving yourself in the growing and...
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...INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – ORIENTED STRATEGY * Daniel Bell (1985) examined the sociological consequences of information technology. * Bell was an American sociologist, writer, editor, and professor emeritus at Harvard University who was best known for his contributions to post-industrialism. * One of his most influential books was entitled The Coming of Post-Industrial Society. * The three components to a post-industrial society, according to Bell: * a shift from manufacturing to services * the centrality of the new science-based industries * the rise of new technical elites and the advent of a new principle of stratification. * Gloria Schuck and Shoshana Zuboff looked at psychological facets. * Zuboff claims that information technology is widening the divide between senior managers and operational level managers. She also claims that prior to widespread use of computer systems, managers, even at most senior level, engaged in both strategic decisions and routine administration but as computers facilitated, these activities move down the hierarchy. * In 1990, Peter Senge collaborated with Arie de Geus and theorized the importance of the use of information in the success of the organization. * Learning organization is an organization where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration...
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...Advanced Generalist: Reaction Paper In today’s society nursing has grown to fit the healthcare needs of society. We have grown by providing different nursing educational roles that will evolve healthcare as we know it. The advanced generalist education role is a clinical nurse leader. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing defines the clinical nurse leader role (CNL) as a leader in the healthcare system that delivers care across different settings within a Microsystems, using assimilation and application of research-based information to design, implement and evaluate the patients plan of care (Thompson, and Lulham, 2007). The Clinical Nurse Leader is further described as designing and implementing, and evaluating client care by coordination, delegation, and supervision of the care provided by the health care team (Thompson and Lulham, 2007). Thompson and Lulham (2007) states that the healthcare team in which supervision care is provided from the CNL include the license nurses, technicians, and other various health care professionals. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2013) states that clinical nurse leaders are masters prepared nurses that involves risk anticipation for individuals and groups of patients, implementation of evidence based practice initiatives, team leadership, management and collaboration with other health care professional team members, and the use of information system and technologies to improve healthcare. The advance generalist advocates...
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...differences in nursing competencies include education, nursing judgment, and professional identity. The following paragraphs will review and discuss how nursing care or approaches to decision making may differ upon the educational background of a registered nurse. First and foremost, “baccalaureate nursing programs encompass all of the course work taught in associate degree and diploma programs plus a more in-depth treatment of the physical and social sciences, nursing research, public and community health, nursing management, and the humanities” ("Impact of Education," 2014, para. 4). The additional education is sought to enhance and prepare the nurse for wider range in the nurse’s practice. For this reason, “BSN nurses are prized for their skills in critical thinking, leadership, case management, and health promotions, and for their ability to practice across a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings” as stated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing ("Impact of...
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...Director, Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Inclusion Leader, Quest Diagnostics Foundation Reporting to the CHRO, the Director, CSR and GI will set Corporate Social Responsibility vision and oversee and direct CSR, philanthropy and inclusion strategy, policies, performance and reporting in alignment with business strategy. Also accountable to company leadership for the strategic, financial, and compliant management of corporate giving and the Quest Diagnostics Foundation, a 501(c)(3). The Director, CSR and GI will be a strategic thought leader who is also a doer – a coalition builder, teacher, communicator, community activist and a process-oriented manager. This position is responsible for leading and advancing the ongoing development and implementation of diversity and inclusion strategies which are critical to Quest Diagnostics’ business strategy in partnership with executive, business, regional and HR leadership. This position serves as the leader in the development of effective strategies, practices and policies to facilitate a more inclusive environment that benefits Quest Diagnostics and all of its employees.. This position also oversees the comprehensive CSR plan and business case around four strategic priorities: 1) addressing public health challenges, particularly disparities; 2) empowering communities and families to be strong and well; 3) building inclusive cultures and educated leaders for innovation and growth; and 4) protecting the earth and...
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