FINAL REFLECTION

FINAL REFLECTION

Consider how the 3 competencies of this course might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below.

Competency 1: Describe the community nurse’s role in identifying and managing child abuse and neglect.

Competency 2: Evaluate community health care needs and the role of nurses in practice settings.

Competency 3: Examine community health strategies used in prevention, emergency preparedness, and disaster management.

QUESTION 1: Think of a situation in which you provided care during an emergency for a friend or family member. How could you apply the type of care you provided to your role as a nurse in your own work environment to better align the needs of your organization with 21st century health care practice? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society –at large, of when an ethical or legal dilemma impacted your organization.

FINAL REFLECTION

Consider how the 3 competencies of this course might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below.

Competency 1: Describe the community nurse’s role in identifying and managing child abuse and neglect.

Competency 2: Evaluate community health care needs and the role of nurses in practice settings.

Competency 3: Examine community health strategies used in prevention, emergency preparedness, and disaster management.

Question 1: Think of a situation in which you provided care during an emergency for a friend or family member. How could you apply the type of care you provided to your role as a nurse in your own work environment to better align the needs of your organization with 21st century health care practice? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society –at large, of when an ethical or legal dilemma impacted your organization.

Question 2: What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course?

FINAL REFLECTION

Consider how the 3 competencies of this course might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below.

Competency 1: Describe the community nurse’s role in identifying and managing child abuse and neglect.

Competency 2: Evaluate community health care needs and the role of nurses in practice settings.

Competency 3: Examine community health strategies used in prevention, emergency preparedness, and disaster management.

Question 1: Think of a situation in which you provided care during an emergency for a friend or family member. How could you apply the type of care you provided to your role as a nurse in your own work environment to better align the needs of your organization with 21st century health care practice? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society –at large, of when an ethical or legal dilemma impacted your organization.

Question 2: What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course?

Final Course Reflection Questions

Review the 3 course competencies. Think about how they might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below. 

• Competency 1: You analyze the ethical, legal, and regulatory aspects of an evidence-based nursing practice issue. You define the problem and outline a proposal to address the issue. You also analyze qualitative and quantitative data to determine the frequency and risk of the identified problem as well as provide its scope and significance.
• Competency 2: You research best practices to identify an effective intervention for a selected problem, gathering evidence to support an effective strategy. The recommended strategy and actions to solve the problem will meet measurable and time-bound goals and outcomes and will include an implementation and evaluation plan.
• Competency 3: You examine the nurse leader’s role and impact on quality improvement in health care and will identify actions that a nurse leader would take to improve communication with stakeholders, train staff, create and manage a budget, establish a change management plan, and establish authority to effect positive change.

Question 1:

• Think of a situation in which the implementation of evidence-based practice could help improve quality in a health care organization. As a nurse leader, how might you influence improved quality in a health care organization? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society at large, of when an ethical or legal dilemma had an impact on your organization.

Question 2:

• What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course?

Final Course Reflection Questions

Review the 3 course competencies. Think about how they might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below. 

• Competency 1: Describe the community nurse’s role in identifying and managing child abuse and neglect.
• Competency 2: Evaluate community health care needs and the role of nurses in practice settings.
• Competency 3: Examine community health strategies used in prevention, emergency preparedness, and disaster management. 

Question 1: There is a natural disaster (wildfire, flood) in your community. Based on your learning in the course, describe your role as a public health nurse in the emergency or disaster setting. Include the assessed needs of the community and the ethical implications of managing the disaster.

Question 2: What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course? 

Final Course Reflection Questions

Review the 3 course competencies. Think about how they might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below. 

·         Competency 1: Analyze the nurse’s role in quality improvement and patient safety. 

·         Competency 2: Examine regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies impact on the quality of health care. 

·         Competency 3: Evaluate factors that influence the quality of patient care and safety and improve health care systems. 

Question 1:  

·         Think of a situation in which using risk and threat analysis, along with quality and patient safety models, could help you adapt to changes in the health care market. How could you utilize health care quality frameworks, such as Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, or Plan-Do-Study-Act, in your own work environment to better align the needs of your organization with patient safety? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society at large, of when changes set forth by regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies influenced an organization. 

Question 2:  

·         What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course? 

Final Course Reflection

Consider how the three competencies of this course might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below.

·         Competency 1: Analyze health policy, politics, and global issues that affect public health nursing.

·         Competency 2: Use health promotion techniques to manage infectious and communicable disease in populations.

·         Competency 3: Apply models and processes to promote public health.

Question 1: 

Think of a state-level health program that impacts your community. How could a cut in funding for that program impact your role as a nurse in your own work environment? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society-at-large, of when politics and policy impacted a health care organization.

Question 2: 

What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course?

Final Course Reflection

Consider how the three competencies of this course might directly apply to your life and work environment when answering the questions below.

·         Competency 1: Describe how health care is organized and financed.

·         Competency 2: Apply health care financial models and fiscal management.

·         Competency 3: Describe the relationship between health policy, legislation, regulation, finance, and practice of health care.

Question 1: Think of a situation in which the Triple Aim framework could help you adapt to changes in the delivery of patient care. How could you use the framework to reduce the per capita cost of health care in your own work environment to better align the needs of your organization with 21st century health care practice? Provide an example, either within your work environment or in society -at -large, of when an ethical or legal dilemma impacted your organization.

Question 2: What specific assignments or learning activities from this course did you find particularly beneficial? What do you feel could have been improved or added to your learning experience in this course?