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This week, reflect on your perception of healthcare delivery models and the nurse’s role in public health programs as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific healthcare delivery models you support, and compare and contrast public health programs you are familiar with. How does your academic work support evidence of meeting the following?

Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice

• Outcome #2: Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of the research process and models for applying evidence to clinical practice.
• Outcome #5: Participate in the process of retrieval, appraisal, and synthesis of evidence in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team to improve patient outcomes.
• Outcome #6: Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing, and evaluating outcomes of care.
• Outcome #7: Collaborate in the collection, documentation, and dissemination of evidence.

Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.

Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect on and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. 

Recommended: Refer to work you completed for NURS 561 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and NURS 350 Research in Nursing, as well as other courses, to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.

Your reflection should be 1-1/2  and APA formatted. Cite at least 1 reference .

ExploreHealthCareers.org has a partial listing of potential allied health careers. Medical Administrative Assistants, entry level Medical Billing and Coding, Medical Assistant, Electronic Health Records Specialist are all entry level positions. In 1-2 pages reflect on where you might like your career to go.

Include the following aspects in the assignment:

Ø  Convey two careers listed in either the link above or other links pertaining allied health careers.

Ø  Expand on the job outlook, responsibilities, and education requirements.

Ø  Demonstrate what skills you personally have that would make you successful in the field of Allied Health.

Ø  Explore your short and long-term goals in reference to Allied Health.

Identify two GCU Library scholarly databases that will help you find the best research articles to support your capstone project change proposal. Discuss why these two databases are better than Google Scholar or a general Internet search. (Grand Canyon University)( use any scholarly databases)

 Debate topic: Nursing curriculum needs an overhaul: Redesigning a nursing curriculum VS. Nursing education is providing the ultimate educational experience for nursing students and no adjustment is required

Given that you will be graduating very shortly, reflect back on your academic journey. Consider the courses that you took for your general education requirements and your nursing courses. Please answer the following questions:

1. What courses did you enjoy and why?
2. What courses did you not enjoy and why? Did the course meet the QSEN requirements?
3. What would you change regarding the nursing curriculum? What courses would you remove and/or add? Remember all courses added must adhere to the QSEN competencies and meet approval of the WSBON.
4. Has Covid impacted nursing education for the better in any way or has it provided a significant barrier to learning?

Come to class prepared to discuss these questions. Be prepared to discuss your rationales for any changes you would implement.

Please upload your answers to the above questions into Canvas.

Here is the link for the QSEN Institute to reveiw the QSEN competencies for pre-liscensure nursing education

https://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/ (Links to an external site.)

Here is a link for the WBON self evaluation for approval of nursing curriculum. If you have suggestions for curriculum changes, use this tool to review if a suggestioned revision would meet the approval of the WSBON

https://dsps.wi.gov/Documents/fm3028.pdf

Here are a few articles that may be helpful on this topic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4796347/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209885/ (Links to an external site.)

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-Will-COVID-19-Reshape-Nursing-Education-Globally

The following case study is worth 50 points. Complete the case study and submit it to the drop box. You can either type your answers directly into the study or you can write them, take a picture and upload it that way.

Case Study 3 [Document]

• Select two Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies that you believe will have the most impact on your future professional nursing practice. Why are these the most important ones for you?
• Identify one AACN BSN Essential that will be most important in improving quality in your future nursing practice. Explain why you selected that essential and how your practice will be improved by it

Word cloud generators have become popular tools for meetings and team-building events. Groups or teams are asked to use these applications to input words they feel best describe their team or their role. A “word cloud” is generated by the application that makes prominent the most-used terms, offering an image of the common thinking among participants of that role.

What types of words would you use to build a nursing word cloud? Empathetic, organized, hard-working, or advocate would all certainly apply. Would you add policy-maker to your list? Do you think it would be a very prominent component of the word cloud?

Nursing has become one of the largest professions in the world, and as such, nurses have the potential to influence policy and politics on a global scale. When nurses influence the politics that improve the delivery of healthcare, they are ultimately advocating for their patients. Hence, policy-making has become an increasingly popular term among nurses as they recognize a moral and professional obligation to be engaged in healthcare legislation.

To Prepare:

• Revisit the Congress.gov website provided in the Resources and consider the role of RNs and APRNs in policy-making. Here is the resources ( American Nurses Association (ANA). (n.d.). Advocacy. Retrieved September 20, 2018, from https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/advocacy/ 
• Reflect on potential opportunities that may exist for RNs and APRNs to participate in the policy-making process.

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy-making. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities to participate in policy-making. Be specific and provide examples.

 ( 1 page for Discussion 2. APA format. 3 refences within past 5 years.) 

please read each assignment carefully and complete!

Attached is a word document that should be used as a template for this assignment. What is written on it is only an example, but use the same headings and format.

Provide one nursing care plan for the older adult that targets prevention and health promotion.

The patient is a 67 year old Caucasian woman named Susan Rusek that has a medical diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome after worsening of acute respiratory failure. The nursing diagnosis for this patient is impaired gas exchange related to diffusion defect as evidenced by abnormal arterial blood gases.The patient was brought to the emergency department after experiencing severe shortness of breath and labored and unusually rapid breathing.

Develop an abstract, a medical history, a medical assessment, a care plan with nursing interventions and a treatment goal.

5 pages.

APA style

3 references required

Read attached information and power point two slid with instruction. Fill in the slides based on the information provided. citation and further explanation on the foot note .