Category: Nursing

Self-Directed Learning Plan (SDLP)

The Self-Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and learning steps through the MSN program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals.

The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional objectives and to help you organize your Kaplan MSN learning experience to suit your career objectives.

The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives.Knowing your strengths and areas to develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals.We encourage you to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the MSN program. If you feel a strength or development area is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas.

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Strengths to Leverage

Step 1:The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points.Identify 3-5 of your key strengths (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic.Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession.

Step 2:At the beginning of each course in your MSN program, answer the following question either using this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below) Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that a strength is your analytical ability.

Step 3: Answer the following questions either using this template or a narrative format.Did you learn what you expected to learn? (See Column 3 below) Was there information or insights that helped you that you didn’t expect to learn at the outset of the course?What changes or additions, if any, will you make to your SDLP based on learning in this course?

Areas to Develop

Step 1:We all have strengths, but we also have areas on which we need to improve.As related to your career goal, identify 3-5 areas to develop (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic.Think about how you can improve in these areas so that you can achieve your professional goals and become a leader in your profession.

Step 2:What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you to develop in the identified area? (See Column 2 below)

Step 3:Answer the following questions either using this template.Did you learn what you expected to learn? (See Column 3 below) Was there information or insights that helped you that you didn’t expect to learn at the outset of the course?What changes or additions, if any, will you make to your SDLP based on learning in this course?

Self-Directed Learning Plan (SDLP)
Reflection

What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you achieve your academic and professional goals? (Your reflection should be at least one well developed paragraph.)

Self-Directed Learning Plan

What purpose does an understanding of the history of health care delivery serve? Which factor or factors have been predominant in shaping U.S. health care? What have been their effects.

create a thread in response to the provided prompt. Each thread must be at least 500 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. Each thread and reply must include at least 2 peer-reviewed source citations, in current APA format. Each thread will also require integration of at least 1 biblical principle.

what are some of the risks and opportunities under the health care reform act?

Barriers to Healthcare for Women and Minorities

Poverty and lack of education are two big barriers to healthcare for women and minorities. Low levels of education are associated with low life expectancies and high mortality rates. People living in poverty often lack education about when, why, and where to access healthcare. There have been various legislative activities in the US to improve public health.

On the basis of your understanding of the access to healthcare facilities and impacts of barriers to healthcare access, answer the following questions:

Explain at least three public health campaigns targeting access to healthcare for women and/or minorities. Describe at least two aspects of their advertising strategies that have addressed income and education.

Abortion has been the subject of numerous legislative activities in the United States. How have various legislations affected low-income and minority women?

Describe the legal battle over birth control devices in the United States. Include how access to healthcare has been affected by the legal decisions.

Describe the legal barriers to healthcare access for low-income immigrant minorities.

Review the articles, “Ethnic and gender disparities in needed adolescent mental health care”, and “Overlooked and underserved: Improving the health of men of color”. Explain what it means to be “overlooked” by the healthcare system.

Discuss at least two examples that illustrate why minorities are often overlooked in the healthcare system. Do you agree or disagree with these reasons, why or why not?

Despite the fact that school-based psychological counseling is available to all students, Thomas et al., report that ethnic disparities in mental healthcare access and utilization still persist. Explain why this disparity exists. What can be done to decrease mental health access and utilization barriers for low-income and minority students?

What strategies does former U.S. Surgeon General, David Satcher, M.D., discuss that will decrease the potential for minorities to be overlooked by the healthcare system?

The basic story of Florence Nightingale is familiar to most nurses. This week we learned more about Nightingale’s life and work. Select at least one piece of the Nightingale legacy that was new to you and tell us how this changed your understanding of this great woman and her contributions to nursing.

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Introduction (1 paragraph)

Explain why you chose to do your internship in the area(s) you chose. (3 – 5 sentences)

Clinical Experience ( 6 – 8 paragraphs)

The following items provide some ideas to reflect upon when describing your clinical experience

Explain why or how you achieve the competencies associated with your clinical experience.

Describe your perception about the opportunity to explore the particular area of respiratory care. Was this enough time? Why or why not?

Based on your experience and observations, do you see yourself practicing in the specific area of respiratory care? Why or why not?

Describe what you found most challenging or exciting about the area of respiratory care specialty?

Describe the drawbacks to practicing in this respiratory care area?

Describe the pros and cons of working in the particular respiratory care environment?

Describe the nature of the work? (Interesting, difficult, boring, and etc.)

Describe what you enjoy the most? The least?

Was the experience different from what you expected it to be?

Describe the most valuable skills you gained during your specialty rotation? These can be patient, interpersonal, professional or combinaiton.

Surprise or Aha Moments (6 paragraphs)

Describe the “aha” moments and your reaction.

Describe the most surprising aspect of the specialty rotation

Professionalism (4 – 6 paragraphs)

What are your observations of the hospital as an organization, the department of respiratory care, the respiratory therapists, and the patients, the nurses, the doctors, the interaction among and between these groups?(provide examples)

What have you learned about the professional responsibility of respiratory therapist?

Did you feel there was a gap in the theory and the practice of respiratory care?

Did you feel the respiratory therapists you worked with/observed were effective, professional/knowledgeable/excited about the career?

What is your evaluation of the effectiveness of the respiratory care department?

Comparison (3 – 6 paragraph)

Compare your classroom/clinical experience with the practical aspects of the specialty rotation.

Conclusion (2 paragraph)

Write a summary or conclusion for this paper.

Analyze the fundamental financial and budgeting responsibilities of a group practice manager. Suggest the most important competency that a practice manager must demonstrate in order to effectively manage the practice’s financial accounts. Support your rationale. Compare and contrast the main different types of budgets that practice managers use. As a practice manager, determine two (2) types of budgets that you think would be most effective for managing the practice’s income and expenses. Justify your response

Planning for Data Collection

Data collection is an important part of both quantitative and qualitative research. Although the actual approach to gathering information may vary, for either research design, researchers need to plan in advance how the data will be gathered, reported, and stored, and they need to ensure that their methods are both reliable and valid. As nurses review research when considering a new evidence-based practice, it is important to be familiar with sound collection practices in order to ascertain the credibility of the data presented.

Consider the following scenario:

Nurses and other health care professionals are often interested in assessing patient satisfaction with health care services. Imagine that you are a nurse working in a suburban primary care setting that serves 10,000 patients annually. Your organization is very interested in understanding the patient’s point of view to help determine areas of care that can be improved. With this focus in mind, consider how you would create a survey to assess patient satisfaction with the services your organization provides. You may wish to consider variables such as the ease of accessing care, patient wait time, friendliness of the staff, or the likelihood that a patient would recommend your organization to others.

For this Discussion, you generate questions and an overall plan for data collection that would be appropriate for a patient satisfaction survey in relation to the above scenario.

To prepare:

Consider the guidelines for generating questions presented in this week’s Learning Resources.

Review the scenario and formulate at least five questions that you could use to evaluate patient satisfaction.

Reflect on the different methods or instruments that can be used for gathering data described in Chapter 13 and Chapter 22 of the course text. Which methods or instruments would work well for the scenario?

Determine an appropriate sample size for the scenario.

By Day 3

Post the questions that you created for gathering information about patient satisfaction based on the above scenario. Explain which method or instrument you would use to gather data. Describe the sample size appropriate for the population and how you would select participants. Provide a rationale for your choices, and explain how you can ensure high standard of reliability and validity.

Hypertension continues to be a major US health problem; it is underdiagnosed, undertreated, and even when treated, often poorly controlled; over one-third of patients on antihypertensive medications have uncontrolled disease. Poor hypertension control has been attributed to provider factors, such as clinical inertia in prescribing adequate medications and patient factors, including poor adherence to medications and lifestyle management. Few interventions to improve hypertension control have had resounding, sustained effects. Thus, finding ways to improve hypertension self-management remains a significant challenge.

Choose a specific health care organization that has been in existence since the 1980s (e.g., a for-profit hospital by name; nonprofit hospital by name; governmental clinic; military or VA health care facility by name; private health care clinic by name; ambulatory surgery center by name; diagnostic imaging center by name; nursing home by name; assisted living facility by name). Describe the organization and the basic health care services it provides.

Part 2

Analyze how this organization has changed since the 1980s as a result of economic and political forces (i.e., ethical and legal). You should identify a minimum of 3 significant changes from the 1980s to today that should include considerations for technology, personnel and professionals involved, patient demographics, supply and demand imbalance, and so on.

Part 3

In summary, evaluate how these changes have impacted the organization’s efficacy (negatively and positively) from the administrator’s viewpoint. Then, proffer the influence of these changes on the U.S. health system overall (negative and positive).

Your paper should be 3 to 4 pages excluding the cover page, abstract page, and reference page (common assessment). Be sure to support your work with at least 3 academic or professional peer-reviewed sources published within the past 5 years.