NSG302 Professional Contemporary Nursing Role And Practice
Week 1 Assignment
Baccalaureate Self-Reflection
Complete the Baccalaureate Self-Reflection worksheet. Do NOT create your own template. Use the one provided.
Cite at least two scholarly articles to support your self-assessment and include them in your references at the end of your template. Copy and paste the “Baccalaureate Self-Reflection” grading rubric on the final page or your assignment.
Resources
Center for Writing Excellence
Reference and Citation Generator
Grammar and Writing Guides
Learning Team Toolkit
University of Phoenix Material
Baccalaureate Self-Reflection
Review the guiding entities from the Guiding Baccalaureate Education activity and reflect on the expectations for a BSN-prepared nurse. Whether you’ve been in practice for years or are just starting your career as a nurse, learning should never stop. As you remember from the School of Nursing Philosophical Framework, lifetime learning is one of the tenets of becoming a nurse leader.
Identify competencies and essentials you need to develop. Select
• two competencies from QSEN Pre-licensure KSAs,
• two essentials from the AACN The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education,
Complete the table.
1. In the second column, identify the competency or essential you need to address.
2. In the third column, identify specific knowledge, skills, or attitudes (KSAs) you need to develop, and cite your source.
a. QSEN citation hint: Per the QSEN Competencies web page, the competencies were taken from another source, which is cited in footnote 2. The page number in the example below was taken from the primary source.
3. In the fourth column, describe how you will develop yourself and give yourself a timeframe.
4. In the fifth column, explain why this improvement is important to your development as a nurse.
Guiding Entity Competency/Essential Needed KSAs Improvement Plan Importance
Example:
QSEN Pre-licensure KSAs Example:
Evidence-based practice Example:
Knowledge: “Describe reliable sources for locating evidence reports and clinical practice guidelines” (Cronenwett et al., 2007, p. 124). Example:
I will learn how to evaluate sources using the University Library’s Evaluate Sources tutorial at https://library.phoenix.edu/evaluating_sources/ in 14 days or less. Example:
In order to base practice decisions in evidence, I have to first understand how to find good, credible information.
QSEN Pre-licensure KSAs
QSEN Pre-licensure KSAs
The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education
The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education
References
Cronenwett, L., Sherwood, G., Barnsteiner J., Disch, J., Johnson, J., Mitchell, P., … Warren, J. (2007). Quality and safety education for nurses. Nursing Outlook, 55(3)122-131. doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2007.02.006
NSG302 Professional Contemporary Nursing Role And Practice
Week 2 Assignment
Critical Thinking Case Study
Assignment Content
Read the following case study.
You are a staff nurse working in an intensive care unit and assigned to care for a 75-year-old man who had coronary artery bypass graft surgery four days ago. The patient has a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbated by heavy smoking. His postoperative course has been difficult, and he has suffered a number of setbacks. Staff members, despite their diligent efforts, have not been able to wean him off the ventilator since the surgery. He has required frequent suctioning throughout the shift, and he is being evaluated for the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Today, when returning from lunch, you observed that an experienced nurse was suctioning your patient. His secretions were thick, and you observed that the nurse was instilling saline into the patient’s endotracheal tube as she was suctioning him. The patient turned red and began coughing, and it was obvious he was in distress.
You asked the nurse why she was instilling saline into his endotracheal tube. She replied that this was being done to loosen the secretions. You told her this was no longer an acceptable practice. She stated that she many years of critical care experience and she didn’t care what anyone said, that the only way you could loosen the patient’s secretions would be to instill saline. She also said that would be the last time she would do something for one of your patients while you were at lunch.
Determine a plan of care for the patient using the nursing process. Use at least two nursing diagnoses and include their associated goals, interventions, and outcomes that you expect to see for each diagnosis.
Define each step of the nursing process and align each step to critical thinking and clinical decision-making processes. This can be accomplished by using bubbl.us and developing multi-directional links in your concept map to demonstrate the interrelationships that exist among the various concepts.
Format your care plan as a concept map using visual presentation software from the College of Education Technology Resource Library
Click Web Tools. (I am requesting that you use bubbl.us to develop your concept map)
Click Collaboration & Productivity.
Format your alignment of the nursing process with the critical thinking process and clinical decision-making process in a document, table, or other visual representation approved by your instructor. This can all be done within your bubbl.us concept map. Your concept map image should be copied and pasted into a Microsoft Word document with a title page, concept map image, reference page. Attach the week two grading rubric on the last page of your MS Word document.
Submit your assignment.
Assignment adapted from Leading and Managing in Nursing (Ch. 21), by Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, 2015, St Louis, MI: Elsevier. Copyright 2015 by Elsevier. Adapted with permission.
NSG302 Professional Contemporary Nursing Role And Practice
Week 3 Assignment
Building Tribes
Using the case study from Week 2, identify the interdisciplinary care providers you need to include to ensure your patient receives the best treatment.
Outline how you will coordinate, engage, and transition your patient to other providers.
Format your assignment as one of the following:
18- to 20-slide presentation (Excludes title page and reference page slide)
3- to 4-minute podcast (please mention your sources and research within your podcast)
15- to 20-minute video presentation
860-word paper (APA format). Please stay within the word count by +/- 10%.
another format approved by your instructor (please ask beforehand)
Copy and paste the week three (Interdisciplinary Care Providers) grading rubric at the end of your assignment.
Cite at least two scholarly articles as a basis for your interdisciplinary recommendations.
NSG302 Professional Contemporary Nursing Role And Practice
Week 4 Assignment
PICO Question
Recall the Case Study from week 2:
You are a staff nurse working in an intensive care unit and assigned to care for a 75-year-old man who had coronary artery bypass graft surgery four days ago. The patient has a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbated by heavy smoking. His postoperative course has been difficult, and he has suffered a number of setbacks.
Staff members, despite their diligent efforts, have not been able to wean him off the ventilator since the surgery. He has required frequent suctioning throughout the shift, and he is being evaluated for the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Today, when returning from lunch, you observed that an experienced nurse was suctioning your patient. His secretions were thick, and you observed that the nurse was instilling saline into the patient’s endotracheal tube as she was suctioning him.
The patient turned red and began coughing, and it was obvious he was in distress. You asked the nurse why she was instilling saline into his endotracheal tube. She replied that this was being done to loosen the secretions.
You told her this was no longer an acceptable practice. She stated that she many years of critical care experience and she didn’t care what anyone said, that the only way you could loosen the patient’s secretions would be to instill saline. She also said that would be the last time she would do something for one of your patients while you were at lunch.
Outline the strategies you will use to search for evidence related to best practices for suctioning and whether the instillation of saline while suctioning is an acceptable technique.
Search for evidence related to best practices and provide a summary of all evidence.
Develop a PICO question for the instillation of saline during endotracheal suctioning.
Consider how you could apply PICO to problems in the workplace to influence things in clinical practice.
Submit your search strategies, search results, and PICO question and application to clinical practice as one of the following:
18- to 20-slide presentation (Excluding Title and Reference Slide. Please include speaker notes)
860-word paper (APA Format and within word count by +/- 10%)
Copy and paste the PICO Question grading rubric at the end of your assignment.
NSG302 Professional Contemporary Nursing Role And Practice
Week 5 Assignment
Report on Progress
Assignment Content
You have been tasked by your CNO to provide a report and present to the board of directors about how your organization is transforming based on Health and Medicine Division (HMD) recommendations in high-profile reports.
Review the HMD reports.
Determine which recommendations directly affect how nurses provide care at the bedside.
Research quality indicators at the organization where you practice, one in your community, or one of interest.
Cite evidence from the organization’s quality measures that demonstrate they are carrying out the HMD’s vision.
Provide specific examples from the organization in the form of changes in care, governance, training, communication, and partnerships.
Write a 260-word executive summary and create a 10- to 12-slide presentation (excluding title and reference slide. Include speaker notes on each slide) about your findings with detailed speaker notes. ** Please include the executive summary in the SPEAKER NOTES of the PowerPoint Presentation. The Executive Summary needs to be clearly identified in the SPEAKER NOTES so it is easily seen and recognized. Rather than spread out the Executive Summary on several speaker notes, I would suggest that you set up a slide with the title -Executive Summary- and include the actual summary in the speaker notes of that slide
