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NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 1 Discussion

 Introduction & Effective Communication

Instructions

As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the following:

Your name and a description of your current position (If not employed, what are your expectations when you complete your program?)

How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?

Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait, family, or action photo)

Family-centered care includes listening to and communicating with patients, caregivers, and families. Address the following

Describe elements essential to establishing effective communication and a therapeutic relationship, which you have integrated into your role as a nurse.

Provide an example from your current practice environment.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Peer Response:

Unit 1 Discussion - Introduction & Effective Communication

Instructions

Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

Note a commonality between yourself and your peers or something about them that you find interesting.

Comment on your peers' examples of a therapeutic element.

What is your experience with this?

To what extent do you feel family-centered care is incorporated into direct and indirect patient care?

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 2 Discussion

Healthcare Policy

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

Healthcare is in a state of constant change. Nurses must be prepared to do more with less, improve the health of populations, and provide affordable care all while creating a world-class patient experience. Please address the following:

Summarize a local, state, national, or global policy that has impacted healthcare.

How has your practice changed and/or improved as a result of this policy?

Discuss the impact this policy has had on patients and families.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Healthcare Policy

Peer Response:

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response

Do you think that the policy has improved the quality of patient care provided?

What additional i8mpacts could the selected policy have on healthcare?

 

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 3 Discussion

Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

The concepts of quality improvement and evidence-based care are essential for the BSN-prepared nurse. Please address the following:

Provide an example of either a quality improvement or evidence-based practice initiative that you have participated in.

What did the process look like and what was your role in the initiative?

What did you learn from the experience?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 3, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Practice

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

Compare and contrast your experience participating in a quality improvement/evidence-based practice initiative with that of your peers.

Why are quality improvement and evidence-based initiative important to the future of nursing?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 4 Discussion

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

Summarize your Community Health experiential learning. Address the following

Relate your project to one of the Healthy People 2020 goals and/or objectives.

Why is health promotion and disease prevention so important in nursing practice?

Do you envision any future opportunities to expand your Community Health project?

Give an overview of your community's health promotion or disease prevention offerings. Pick one of the Healthy People goals and evaluate your community's efforts towards this goal.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 4, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response to their overview of their community's health promotion or disease prevention offerings:

Compare your community's health promotion/disease prevention activities to those of your peers' community's efforts towards that goal.

Pick one of these activities and discuss how you would, ideally, include a nursing role in this community initiative.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 5 Discussion

Professional Ethics and Values

Instructions:

Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

Submit the post.

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2008), professional values and their related behaviors are the foundation for effective nursing practice. Address the following:

Provide two (2) examples from your own clinical practice that demonstrates the professional nursing practice and principles of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and/or social justice.

How do you "live" these principles in your nursing practice?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 5, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Professional Ethics and Values

Instructions:

Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

Comment on your peers' practices and discuss one of their examples of these principles that you find difficult to demonstrate (for whatever reason).

Consider and discuss ways to overcome this.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 6 Discussion

Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy

Instructions:

• Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

• Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

• Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

• Submit the post.

Professional nurses must demonstrate competence in the use of information technology systems and possess the information literacy skills necessary to gather evidence and provide patient care. Address the following:

• Provide two (2) examples of how information and healthcare technology has evolved during your nursing practice career. How does technology impact your interactions with patients and families?

• What is the role of nurses in supporting the health literacy of our patients?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 6, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Information Technology Systems and Information Literacy

Instructions:

• Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

• Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

• Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

• Comment on your peers' discussion of the role of nurses in supporting health literacy.

• Explain some situations in your experience where you have done this.

• How did your actions align with your peers' explanations?

 

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 7 Discussion

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

Instructions:

• Always construct your response in a word processing program like Word.

• Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors.

• Make the corrections and save the file to your computer.

• Submit the post.

Lifelong learning and continuous professional growth are necessary in the current complex healthcare climate. Address the following in your discussion post:

• What does lifelong learning mean to you?

• What are your plans to build upon your nursing knowledge?

• Where do you see yourself professionally in five (5) years? Ten (10) years?

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Peer Response: Unit 7, Due Sunday by 11:59 pm CT

Lifelong Learning and Professional Development

Instructions:

• Always construct your responses in a word processing program like Word. Check for grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Make the corrections and save the files to your computer.

• Find the posts that you are going to reply to.

• Submit your peer responses.

Please respond to a minimum of two (2) peers. Include in your response:

• What do you think healthcare will look like in the year 2030?

• How might our role as nurses change or evolve in the next decade?

 

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 8 Discussion

Reflection

Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:

Practice using caring, compassionate, culturally competent, and evidence-based practices in the roles of the baccalaureate nurse using the nursing process to provide patient/client-centered care in a variety of healthcare settings.

Use a broad base of techniques to communicate effectively with clients, families, healthcare teams, and communities.

Use critical thinking and decision making, local, state, national, and global policies, legislative concepts, and healthcare economics to affect quality healthcare and the evolving healthcare system.

Integrate knowledge and skills in nursing leadership and management, quality improvement, and patient safety, as required, to provide healthcare.

Integrate knowledge and skills to promote health and prevent disease across the lifespan and the continuum of healthcare environments.

Practice professionalism, including the inherent values of altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, and social justice.

Formulate a professional ethic that includes lifelong learning and continuous professional development in an ever-evolving healthcare environment.

Think critically at a conceptual level and by using mathematical analysis as well as the scientific method, write and speak effectively, use basic computer applications, and understand human behavior in the context of the greater society in a culturally diverse world.

Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.

For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.

Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.

Provide evidence (citations and references) to support your statements and opinions. Responses to these questions are due by Tuesday at noon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 1 Assignment

Identification of Capstone Paper Topic

Instructions

Objective: Throughout this program, you have examined a variety of leadership and change theories used in nursing practice, discovered ways to utilize research to provide safe, evidence-based patient care, and learned about the differences between an associate degree and a baccalaureate degree.

The purpose of this final Capstone project is to demonstrate your ability to apply the concepts learned throughout this degree program.

Steps

Identify a health problem, need, or opportunity for growth in your current practice environment, community, or another clinical area that you feel may be improved

Topics may include but are not limited to falls reduction, new policy or procedure, best practice initiative, communication protocol, new equipment/tool, development of a new process improvement strategy, hand washing, bedside rounding, prevention initiative, etc.

Additional information or details about this step

Provide an overview of the issue or problem and why you feel it is important.

Identify the stakeholders.

Briefly discuss the economic, social and ethical concerns and implications associated with the practice change.

This paper must be 3-4 pages long.

APA format is required – including title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page.

Must include at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly sources. All sources for this project must be less than 5 years old.

Your final Capstone Paper will be submitted in Unit 6.

Estimated time to complete: 4 - 6 hours

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 2 Assignment

SWOT Analysis

Instructions

Create a SWOT analysis of the organization where you have identified a health problem, need, or opportunity for growth.

Use the unit information to create a SWOT table.

Then in narrative form, discuss the following:

What are the organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?

Based upon the SWOT analysis, draw conclusions about how you would take advantage of the strengths and opportunities, and how you might mitigate the weaknesses and threats to make your proposed change a success.

This paper must be 3-4 pages long.

APA format is required - including title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page.

Must include at least two (2) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 3 Assignment

Literature Review

Instructions

Conduct a literature review for your selected health problem, need, or opportunity for growth.

Analyze the evidence. Does it support your proposed initiative?

Is more research necessary?

What is the evidence telling you?

Apply the evidence to develop a solution to your practice problem or need.

APA format is required - including title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page.

The paper must include at least six (6) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources.

Paper should be at least 4 - 5 pages (not including the title and reference pages).

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 4 Assignment

Leadership Theory

Instructions

Research and select a leadership theory.

Describe how this leadership style will underpin your identified health problem, need, or opportunity for growth.

Compare and contrast your selected theory with at least one other theory.

Describe how you would apply this theory to your proposed change if you were the project manager.

Apply the evidence to develop a solution to your practice problem or need.

APA format is required - including title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page.

The paper must include at least two (2) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources.

Paper should be at least 4 - 5 pages.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 5 Assignment

Change Theory

Instructions

Research and select a change theory.

Describe how this change theory will help to underpin your identified health problem, need, or opportunity for growth.

Describe how you would apply this change theory to your proposed change if you were the project manager.

Be specific and outline the steps you would take to institute change, including a proposed timeline.

APA format is required - including title page, introduction, conclusion, and reference page.

The paper must include at least two (2) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources.

Paper should be at least 4 - 5 pages.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 6 Assignment

Final Capstone Paper

Instructions

For this paper, you will put it all together. Integrate all previous assignments with revisions. Not including previous instructor-suggested changes will result in a lowered grade. Include:

An opening explaining the purpose of the paper

An introduction to your chosen problem (unit 1 paper).

A SWOT analysis (unit 2 paper)

A literature review (unit 3 paper)

Leadership theory used to promote your change (unit 4 paper)

Change theory applied to your change (unit 5 paper)

New: add a proposal to evaluate the results of the change, explain what you believe the change will do and how it will impact the organization.

Do not just cut and paste your previous papers. Use smooth transitions, edit out each paper’s opening and closing, use the topics as APA headings, and edit as needed to make this paper flow smoothly.

APA format is required, with a cover page and reference page.

The paper must include at least ten (10) peer-reviewed, scholarly sources (may use references from previous capstone assessments). All supporting literature is to be published within 3-5 years and obtained from evidence-based, peer reviewed journals.

Paper should be at least 10 - 15 pages long.

Submit to ePortfolio under tab #1. The paper will receive a zero if not submitted to eportfolio.

 

NU476 Nursing Capstone

Unit 7 Assignment

Final PPT Project

Instructions

In this assignment, you are given the opportunity to practice and demonstrate your speaking skills, as you will create a PPT using your voice. You will put all the puzzle pieces together to create the Capstone Project Presentation (PPT).

The PPT needs to include your voice. You may do a voice over PPT presentation or use Screen Cast-o-Matic for your presentation. Here is the link to the free version: https://screencast-o-matic.com/home. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Provide a 10-15 slide Voice enhanced PPT based on your final Capstone paper.

Your presentation should include at least 10-15 slides and contain the following items:

At least 5 references and citations in APA format

Introduction, identification of the problem

SWOT analysis as applied to your problem

Literature review of your problem

Leadership theory as applied to your problem

Change theory as you would apply change to your problem

Evaluation of your proposed change

Conclusion

References slide

Please submit your completed PPT to :

This assignment submission link

ePortfolio, under tab #2. This project will receive a zero if not uploaded to eportfolio.

Estimated time to complete: