W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing

Course Reflection Details

The purpose of this assignment is for you to reflect on your experience and what you have learned and accomplished in the course and on how your learning and accomplishments fulfill program outcomes. Each course may address one or several program outcomes. All program outcomes will not be addressed in a single course.

During the final week of the course, please do the following:

Review the W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing Program Outcomes for the program in which you are enrolled.

you can find your program outcomes on the of the University website.

these are my program outcomes

AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)

DNP Program Learning Outcomes

Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing PracticeDescriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Apply interprofessional knowledge in the advanced nursing care to patients, families, and communities to enact clinical judgement and innovation in nursing practice.

Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.

Evaluate person-centered care to advance nursing care for patients, families, and communities to promote positive health outcomes.

Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor:Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.

Apply epidemiological methods and interprofessional evidence-based practices to improve population health outcomes.

Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

Develop and apply evidence-based nursing care for patients, families, and communities to improve and transform health care.

Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor:Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Ensure the advancement of nursing care to patients, families, and communities by promoting quality and safety.

Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor

Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

Coordinate interprofessional partnerships to deliver advanced nursing care to patients, families, and communities to optimize outcomes.

Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor

Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care to diverse populations

Lead advanced nursing care to patients, families, and communities to obtain equitable outcomes.

Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies Descriptor:Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

Apply and advance technology to enhance the delivery and outcomes of nursing care.

Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursings characteristics and values.

Integrate professionalism in advanced nursing care with patients, families, and communities to reflect the nursing Code of Ethicsand standards of practice.

Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development Descriptor:Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

Cultivate a capacity of personal health, well-being, lifelong learning and leadership to optimize nursing care for patients, families, and communities.

this was my class syllabus

Syllabus for NUR-8100

HEALTH, HEALTHCARE POLICY, AND POLITICS

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, students enhance skills to analyze health policy, develop and implement health policy in institutions and government, and advocate for sound health policies. Health policy content addresses the interplay of access, cost, and quality in healthcare; quality assessment; financing; governance; delivery; and the social justice of policies affecting health. Students will examine this interplay from the patient, nursing workforce, and organization perspectives. Policy and advocacy concepts will be reinforced by examining how they are demonstrated in specific policy initiatives, such as the Affordable Care Act, and the impact they have on the behavior and outcomes of patients, nurses, and healthcare organizations.

COURSE TOPICS

Health policy analysis
Advocacy
Public health
Strategy, economics

COURSE OBJECTIVES

After completing this course, you should be able to:

CO 1 Critically analyze health policy proposals, health policies, and related issues from the perspective of consumers, nursing and other health professions, and community stakeholders.

CO 2 Demonstrate skills in the development and implementation of institutional, local, state, federal, and/or international health policy that shape healthcare financing, regulation, and delivery.

CO 3 Influence policy makers through active participation on committees, boards, or task forces at the institutional, local, state, regional, national, and/or international levels to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.

CO 4 Educate others, including policy makers at all levels, regarding nursing, health policy, social justice, and system level outcomes.

CO 5 Articulate health policy options to improve nursing, healthcare, and health.

COURSE MATERIALS

You will need the following materials to complete your coursework. Some course materials may be free, open source, or available from other providers. You can access free or open-source materials by clicking the links provided below or in the module details documents. To purchase course materials, please visit the.

Required Textbooks

Bardach, E., & Patashnik, E. M. (2020). A practical guide for policy analysis: The eightfold path to more effective problem solving (6th ed.). CQ Press.

ISBN-13: 978-1506368887

Short, N. M. (2022). Milsteads health policy and politics: A nurses guide (7th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

ISBN-13: 978-1284228519

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).

ISBN: 978-1433832161

(Students may already have a copy of this publication manual.)

Recommended Sources:

These sources are optional and not required. They are recommended because they contain information that supplements the assigned readings for the course.

Cairney, P., & Heikkila, T. (2014). . In P. A. Sabatier & C. M. Weible (Eds.). Theories of the policy process (4th ed.). Westview Press.

ISBN-13: 978-0813349275

COURSE STRUCTURE

Health, Healthcare Policy, and Politics is a three credit, online course consisting of six modules and a final project that includes both a paper and videotaped oral presentation. Modules include an overview, topics, learning objectives, study materials, and activities. Module titles are listed below.

Module 1: The Nurse Leader Role in Public Policy
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 1, CO 2, CO 3
Module 2: Understanding and Influencing the Policy-Making Process
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 1, CO 2, CO 3
Module 3: Models of Policy Making
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 1, CO 2, CO 3, CO 5
Module 4: Agenda Setting and Policy Design
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 2, CO 3, CO 5
Module 5: Policy Implementation and Evaluation
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 1, CO 2
Module 6: Advocacy and Communicating Policy Changes and Proposed Responses
Course objectives covered in this module: CO 4, CO 5

Write a 250500 word, APA-formatted course reflection paper (approximately 1 to 2 pages, not including title and references pages). For this assignment, please:

Include an introduction
Select the program outcome(s) met by this course.
For each program outcome, list at least one course activity that helped you meet the outcome, and support your choice with a rationale.
Summarize what you learned in the course.
Explain how what you learned fulfills the program outcome(s) you selected.
Explain how you will apply what you learned to your current or future nursing practice.

Thoughtful completion of the course reflection essay will prepare you to synthesize your reflections in the final capstone course. You will be required to critically reflect on your learning throughout the program and demonstrate the achievement of program learning outcomes.

You may wish to consult Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for guidance on writing style, mechanics, and formatting.

Note: These directions and the grading rubric for this assignment will be used to evaluate and grade your assignment. Please refer to the details of each when preparing your assignment. A grading rubric for this assignment can be found within the assignment submission link in your course site.

WRITE MY PAPER

Course reflection