Reflect on your understanding of evidence-based practice and applied nursing research by doing the following:
a. Discuss how you are able to evaluate current primary research and apply the concepts to your nursing practice, considering the following:
• relevancy and believability of data
• differences between quality improvement and research
• differences between primary and secondary research and resources and the implications of each in clinical practice
b. Explain how your experience in the program helped you achieve excellence in evidence-based practice.
D. Complete the following within the section “Applied Leadership”:
1. Reflect on your professional definition of applied leadership you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
i. Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part D1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
2. Summarize your Learning Leadership Experience task by doing the following:
a. Discuss the importance of professional collaboration for effective nursing leadership.
E. Complete the following within the section “Community and Population Health”:
1. Reflect on your professional definition of community and population health you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
i. Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part E1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
2. Summarize your Community and Population Health task by doing the following:
a. Discuss what you learned during your Community Health Nursing task.
b. Discuss what you learned that led to your community diagnosis.
c. Discuss how your initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with your population.
3. Discuss the importance of the American Museum of Natural History certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.
