Identify a nurse leader you can relate to. Summarise the characteristics, behaviours, and leadership approaches that you consider making him/her an effective leader. Underpin your reflection with relevant theory.

Preparing for professional practice
Consider the team working you have experienced in a chosen placement area. Create an action plan for the ward manager which identifies how they could promote positive team culture and improve teamwork. Underpin action points with theoretical evidence.

Identify a nurse leader you can relate to. Summarise the characteristics, behaviours, and leadership approaches that you consider making him/her an effective leader. Underpin your reflection with relevant theory.

Devise a service improvement tool for use in a specified practice area. Provide a commentary outlining the rationale for where, why, and how it should be used.

Reflect upon developing your leadership skills throughout year 3, drawing on theory to inform your reflection. Consider how the completion of patches 1 to 3 has influenced your development as a leader. Identify where you need to develop further as you move to Registered Nurse practice and plan to achieve this by providing a table of SMART objectives.

 

Write the effect you would like to influence in the box on the right side of the paper . In each of the 5 categories generate a list of causes and sub causes until each cause is specific enough to test a change and measure its effects.

Reflecting on your clinical experience thus far and the EBP approaches you have learned in class, choose one thing you would like to see changed in your clinical site: a patient outcome, flow issue, communication issue etc. Read through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement instructions to create a Cause and Effect Analysis which is posted on Blackboard. This also includes a fill able PDF for use to create the Fish bone diagram.

Write the effect you would like to influence in the box on the right side of the paper .
In each of the 5 categories generate a list of causes and sub causes until each cause is specific enough to test a change and measure its effects.

Identify where you think a test of change should start and why .

Explain the findings from articles or other sources of evidence as it relates to the identified health care issue.

Your initial goal is to define the population, intervention, comparison, and outcome. In some cases, a time frame is relevant and you should include that as well, when writing a question you can research related to your issue of interest. After you define your question, research it, and organize your initial findings, select the two sources of evidence that seem the most relevant to your question and analyze them in more depth. Specifically, interpret each source’s specific findings and best practices related to your issues, as well explain how the evidence would help you plan and make decisions related to your question.

If you need some structure to organize your initial thoughts and research, the PICOT Question and Research Template document Questions” page in the Capella library’s Evidence Based Practice guide) might be helpful.

In your submission, make sure you address the following grading criteria:

Define a practice issue to be explored via a PICO(T) approach. Create a PICO(T)-formatted research question
Identify sources of evidence that could be potentially effective in answering a PICO(T) question.
Explain the findings from articles or other sources of evidence as it relates to the identified health care issue.
Explain the relevance of the findings from chosen sources of evidence to making decision related to a PICO(T) question.
Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional with correct grammar and spelling using the current APA style.

Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.

Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address a safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration. ;
Create a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
Identify existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Professional Context
Nursing practice is governed by health care policies and procedures as well as state and national regulations developed to prevent problems. It is critical for nurses to participate in gathering and analyzing data to determine causes of patient safety issues, in solving problems, and in implementing quality improvements.

Describe a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis, that could benefit from an evidence-based approach.

Determining the Credibility of Evidence Resources

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final capstone course.

Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

Competency 2: Analyze the relevance and potential effectiveness of evidence when making a decision.
Explain criteria that should be considered when determining credibility of resources such as journal articles and websites.
Analyze the credibility and relevance of evidence and resources within the context of a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis.
Competency 3: Apply an evidence-based practice model to address a practice issue.
Identify an evidence-based practice model  and explain the importance of incorporating credible evidence into an EBP model used to address a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis/health care issue.
Competency 4: Plan care based on the best available evidence.
Describe a quality or safety issue, or a chosen diagnosis, that could benefit from an evidence-based approach.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication strategies to lead practice changes based on evidence.
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Utilise academic skills to successfully demonstrate an understanding of evidence based practice and the concept of research in nursing.

Emotional Intelligence in Nursing

LO 1 Demonstrate the ability to utilise research evidence to underpin practice
LO 2 Display the ability to discuss a contemporary nursing related topic.
LO 3 Understand the function and purpose of reflective practice
LO 4 Utilise academic skills to successfully demonstrate an understanding of evidence based practice and the concept of research in nursing.
LO 5 Identify the key concepts in nursing

Task requirements
Emotional Intelligence in Nursing
From your research, choose one peer reviewed journal article, preferably a primary research paper dated within the last 10 years on your chosen topic from above and then:
Write a summary of the chosen article:
in no more than 250 words and in your own words outline the key points of the article. What is the article about?
Provide the full reference for the article using the Harvard style outlined in Cite them Right https://www.citethemrightonline.com/
Please place this as an appendix at the end of your assignment after your reference list.

 

 

Identify roles explain why; then discuss the role that best suited your profile/talents.

leadership and management in health care

• You do not have to consider your reflection on a week-to-week basis! It would be better to critically evaluate a few ‘incidents’/’issues’ and provide a deep reflection rather than a
scattergun approach with multiple snippets
• Identify roles explain why; then discuss the role that best suited your profile/talents. Reflect on whether these skills were effectively utilised by the Project Croup. If they were what did this contribute to the Project Work/Presentation and vice versa
• Reflect of the L + M of the person chosen to lead the group; discuss theory L+M style and whether this was effective or not. Remember to explain whether this was effective or ineffective
• Consider what new learning/experiences you have gained from the Project Work and
feed forward how you can take, and utilise these in, your practice as a student
Critically evaluate your learning about L+M across health and social care services
• State clearly which one you have chosen and why

• For Service user and carer involvement you should explain the need to involve SUCI and make sure you discuss the embedding of SUCI in various documents

Create a reference for the assigned article using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent.

NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Template

See the NR351 Week 4 Professional Paper Worksheet Assignment page.
Read the NR351 Announcement entitled IMPORTANT: Assigned Article for Weeks 4 & 6
Download in PDF format the assigned article linked in that announcement; save it to your computer for future use.
Locate the sentence required for quotation and citation.
Locate the sentence required for paraphrasing and citation.
Read the entire article.
Carefully review the resources and page numbers below to help you with APA format in this assignment.
Complete each item below. All lines should be double spaced.
Submit the completed template on the assignment page.

Complete each item below:

Reference for Assigned Article:
Create a reference for the assigned article using correct APA format including: author(s), year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, page numbers, italics, parentheses, punctuation, double line spacing, and hanging indent. Include DOI if available.

Type the reference for the assigned article here beginning on the line below:

Quotation and Citation:
Type the assigned quotation from the assigned article using correct APA citation including quotation marks, names of author(s), year, page abbreviation, page number, and parentheses, and punctuation.

Develop a tool for collecting data , find three subject matter experts and have them evaluate your data collection tool through interviews. Include your interview

Subject Matter Experts and Data Collection

Choose a research topic that interests you. This can be any topic you would like to research either qualitatively or quantitatively. An example might be effectiveness of a tool for monitoring home administration of medications, however, you can choose any topic you like. Develop a tool for collecting data , find three subject matter experts and have them evaluate your data collection tool through interviews. Include your interview questions and the summaries of the responses to those questions including the subject matter experts’ assessment of the effectiveness of the tool, any recommendations for change in the tool and describe how the tool will change based on the recommendations.However, your paper is not in the correct APA 7th Edition format. Do you have the required 2020 APA 7th Edition Manual? For example, in the new 7th Edition, a Running head is no longer necessary.

Because advanced practice nursing is evidence-based practice in-text citations and references must be published within the last 5-years. You included in-text citations and references from 2001 and 2008. I accepted the 2016 reference since we are not 6 to 9 months into 2022.

Do you have the required 2020 APA 7th Edition Manual?

Data collection process and the positive and negative aspects of the process.

Choose a research article and discuss the data collection process and the positive and negative aspects of the process.

However, your paper is not in the correct APA 7th Edition format. Do you have the required 2020 APA 7th Edition Manual? For example, in the new 7th Edition, a Running head is no longer necessary.

Because advanced practice nursing is evidence-based practice in-text citations and references must be published within the last 5-years. You included in-text citations and references from 2001 and 2008. I accepted the 2016 reference since we are not 6 to 9 months into 2022.