Quality and Safety in Patient Care

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Summative Discussion Board

Review and reflect on the knowledge and competencies (evidence-based practice, quality and safety, leadership) that you gained during this course.
How will your new nursing knowledge change your future nursing practice?
How will you communicate the value of these competencies to your current position or a position you may seek in the future?
Research a job within the nursing profession (not necessarily in your own community) that you would like to apply for, and discuss your qualifications and competencies that speak to that position in a cover letter to the employer.

Informatics with Patient-Centered Care

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Within the Discussion Board area, write 300500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use 2 scholarly resources, in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Patient-centered care takes into consideration patient preferences, values, and needs. Discuss the following:

Select a cultural or religious group to consider for this discussion. Choose one that you may interact with frequently in your clinical setting.
Using your experience or research, what preferences, values, and needs would you anticipate that the patient and family members may need?
In what ways can you promote the patient and family members to be a source of control?
What interventions will you document in the electronic medical record in the nursing care plan based on your assessment of the patients preferences, values, and needs?
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 150-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Patient-Centered Care

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Within the Discussion Board area, write 300500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use 2 scholarly resources, in addition to your textbook. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. Focus your discussion on the following:

In delivering patient-centered care, nurses also assist the patient and significant others with their own critical thinking skills to achieve health literacy. Consider the following 7 critical thinking skills (University of Michigan, n.d.):

Analyzing
Applying standards
Discriminating
Information seeking
Logical reasoning
Predicting
Transforming knowledge
Complete the following:

Identify the 2 skills that you believe are most often used by patients and their significant others when diagnosed with a critical acute illness.
Provide an example from your clinical practice that would describe your rationale of the behaviors that a patient or significant other may exhibit when using those critical thinking skills.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 150-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.

Reference

University of Michigan. (n.d.). Critical thinking habits of the mind. Retrieved from http://www.umich.edu/~elements/probsolv/strategy/ctmind.htm

Kingdon: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

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a 2- to 3-page paper evaluating the accuracy of the Kingdon model in policymaking. Address the following:

Discuss the three streams Kingdon has identified where problems originate, and provide your opinion on which one most accurately reflects how and why policies come about.

Discuss the assertion that certain kinds of issues receive preferential treatment in problem solution and political streams.

Discuss tactics that policy practitioners use within each of the three streams to increase the odds that a specific issue will be placed on decision agendas.