NURS499 Week 6 | Clinical Medicine in Health Care - University at Albany

NUR 499: Clinical Requirement Grading: Pass/Fail Assignment: Interview a Nurse Leader: Due Week 6 Learning Objectives This assignment utilizes all six of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies:

• Patient-Centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
• Evidence Based Practice: Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Quality Improvement: Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
• Informatics: Use information and technology (IT) to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.

Student assignment:

• The student will interview a nurse leader (nurse manager, nurse leader, nurse administrator, or nurse educator) during their capstone/preceptorship experience. Provide the name, credentials and workplace of the nurse leader as well as an email address.
• The student will write a synopsis of the answers provided in a paper.
• The paper should be 4 -5 pages in length and typed using size 12 font and double-spaced.
• The student is to observe rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation and demonstrate a good writing

style and flow as established by the APA Style Manual 7th ed.

Directions:

The student is to interview the nurse leader using the following questions so that the student can describe the processes which occur in the clinical setting related to the QSEN competencies.

• To what extent do nursing staff of this unit/organization support patient-centered care of individuals and families whose values differ than their own? Are there any barriers? How can it be improved?
• Describe the nursing and inter-professional teams that operate on this unit/department/organization.
• Provide an example of a nursing practice that has been changed in the last year based on current best evidence.
• Provide an example of how a negative outcome that occurred within the last year was used to change practice and improved patient outcomes.
• How are national safety guidelines implemented on this unit?
• Have there been any challenges with the Electronic Medical Records used? If so, provide the two main issues identified with the Electronic Medical Records?

Evaluation Description Grading Criteria: P/F

• Complete answers to the above questions
• APA, grammar, and spelling