Description
Week 8
Reflection on Learning and Practice Readiness
DISCUSSION
PURPOSE
The purpose of this discussion is to reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared APN and consider what you learned in this course and how this knowledge will impact your practice.
INSTRUCTIONS
Each week, you have been reminded that reflective inquiry allows for expansion of self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals. As you reflect on your own readiness to practice as a DNP-prepared APN, it is important to consider what you learned in this course.
As you review the course outcomes and your experience in this course, address the following:
Analyze and evaluate how your thinking was challenged in this course related to leadership as an APN.
Considering this new knowledge, examine how this learning prepares you to practice as a DNP-prepared APN leader.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:
Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
COURSE OUTCOMES
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Identify advanced practice leadership competencies. (PCs 2, 4, 5; POs 2, 6)
Apply various strategies to improve access to quality, cost-effective healthcare. (PCs 5, 7, 8; POs 1, 4, 9)
Utilize translation science to affect evidence-based practice change to impact quality and safety of patient care. (PCs 1, 3; POs 3, 5)
Translate research into clinical practice to provide optimal wellness and disease prevention throughout the patient population. (PCs 1, 3, 5, 7, 8; POs 1, 3, 4, 9)
Critically appraise research as it applies to evidence-based practice to provide the most current and effective care to patient populations. (PCs 1, 3, 5, 8; POs 3, 4, 9)
