NR 351 (NR 351)

NR351 Week 4 Discussion 1, Nursing Roles in Quality Improvement This is a graded discussion: 50 points possible due Jan 28 Week 4: Nursing Roles in Quality Improvement How do nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at your workplace? How do you report errors and near misses? What changes would you suggest be made on your unit or facility to improve a nonpunitive culture of safety? --- Deborah Augustyniak Yesterday Jan 20 at 6:31pm Class, you may begin posting in this TD on Sund...

Week 3: Integration of Evidence-Based Practice Into Professional Nursing Practice This is a graded discussion: 50 points possible - due May 20 As the professional nurse, you realize that your nursing care area often sees patients with the same particularly challenging nursing care issue (not medical care issue). Include all of the following in your answer to this discussion. • Identify the nursing care issue or problem and justify why it is a nursing care issue in need of implementation o...

NR 351 Week 3 Discussion, Collaborative Strategies with Other Professions This week's graded discussion topic relates to the following Course Outcomes (COs). • CO2 Demonstrate leadership strategies that promote safety and improve quality in nursing practice and increase collaboration with other disciplines when planning patient-centered care within systems-based practice. (PO 2) • CO4 Integrate critical thinking and judgment in professional decision-making in collaboration with faculty ...

NR351 iCARE Self-Assessment I Please complete this self-assessment for NR351 Week 2 Discussion and follow instructions there. This will be the first item placed into your Chamberlain College of Nursing Portfolio. Topic Never/ Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither Agree nor Disagree Agree Always/ Strongly Agree I am aware of my strengths and challenges as a nurse: 1 2 3 4 5 I am aware of my strengths and challenges as a student: 1 2 3 4 5 I communicate and collaborate well with colleag...

NR351 Week 2 Discussion 1, Inter-professional Collaboration Strategies This is a graded discussion: 50 points possible due Jan 14 Week 2: Interprofessional Collaboration Strategies In today's changing healthcare environment, it is more important than ever for professional nurses to be skilled in collaborating with professionals from other healthcare disciplines. What communication strategies can professional nurses use to specifically promote collaboration with other healthcare discipline...

NR351 Week 8 Discussion, ACCN BSN Essentials and Your Future Practice Erin Kramer 8:22am Feb 21 at 8:22am The AACN BSN essential that I selected is Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Care and Patient Safety. This essential I think encompasses all the things needed to further a career nursing, separate from bedside nursing. It is all about high quality patient care, where leadership is needed; along with ethical and critical decision, this essential includes util...

NR_351 Week 7 Discussion, Application of Nursing Theory to Practice This is a graded discussion: 50 points possible due Feb 18 Week 7: Application of Nursing Theory to Practice You are a professional nurse caring for Mr. R, a 58-year-old patient who recently underwent surgery for colon cancer that resulted in a temporary colostomy. Select one of the nursing theories from our textbook and address the following: How you would provide professional nursing care for Mr. R. using the theory y...

NR351 Week 6 Discussion, Best Leaders The best leader I have ever known was initially one of my preceptors during my orientation period directly after graduation as an RN. She was a fabulous educator. Not once in that orientation period was I made to feel inferior as a new graduate. The skills that she demonstrated to me, allowed me to develop my nursing skills with her guidance. By definition in our text, “people who influence others”, she was most definitely a leader (Hood, 2018, p. 443)...

NR351 Week 6 Discussion, Use of Informatics in Professional Nursing This is a graded discussion: 50 points possible due Feb 11 Week 6: Use of Informatics in Professional Nursing How do you use informatics and technology in your nursing practice? How do you see that use changing in the future? What ethical issues have arisen or might arise from use of technology and informatics in professional nursing? -- Response 1: 2/7/18 Professor and classmate, According to “nursing informatics...

NR_351 Week 5 Discussion, Using Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Patient Care A nursing issue I am selecting to voice about, is medication error (problem). Medication errors happen all around the world, but they can be preventable. Some medication errors are reported, but many others are not. Medication errors don’t always cause death and might be a contributing factor to why some nurses don’t feel the need to report them. Medication errors can happen at any point in the course. It can...