Course Learning Objectives: 1-6
American Association Colleges of Nursing: DNP Essentials 1-VIII

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for you to reflect on the how you understand yourself, your understanding and approach to health communications. Notice how your thoughts evolved over time throughout the course. Consider:

  1. What have you learned this term? What will you do differently going forward? How will what you have learned impact your practice?
  2. Influences that affect attitudes and communication with the health-care system and optimum health.
  3. How can you use leadership skills to improve patient safety through better communication with your patients?
  4. Your thoughts and feelings related to readings and assignments, or discussion with your classmates.

Step one:

Review course readings and assignments. See suggestions above and complete your reflection. This is for you to develop skill in reflection and to think about how the material applies to you.

Step two:

Using a WORD document, label the file Last Name_First Name_Reflection (example: Luckey_Sonia_Week8_Reflection). Length should be 1-2 pages. While in-text APA formatted references are not required, you may wish to reference materials to help you in the future as you try to remember a source you read or a web page you visited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DNP Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs):
AACN (2006) Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice

  1. Scientific underpinnings for practice

Recognizes the philosophical and scientific underpinnings essential for the complexity of nursing practice at the doctoral level.

  1. Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement and system thinking

Recognizes the competencies essential for improving and sustaining clinical care and health outcomes, eliminating health disparities, and promoting patient safety and excellence in care.

III. Clinical scholarship and analytical methods for evidence-based practice

Recognizes competencies essential for translation of research into practice, evaluation of practice, practice improvement, and the development and utilization of evidence- based practice.

  1. Technology and information for the improvement and transformation of patient-centered health care
    Recognizes competencies essential to manage, evaluate, and utilize information and technology to support and improve patient care and systems.
  2. Health care policy for advocacy in health care

Recognizes the responsibility nurses practicing at the highest level have to influence safety, quality, and efficacy of care, and the essential competencies required to fulfill this responsibility.

  1. Interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes

Recognizes the critical role collaborative teams play in today’s complex health care systems and the competencies essential for doctoral prepared nurses to play a central role on these teams.

VII. Clinical prevention and population health for improving the nation’s health

Recognizes nursing’s longstanding focus on health promotion and disease prevention within the context of current national calls for all health educators to respond to the changing needs of the population and include this content in curricula.

VIII. Advanced Nursing Practice

Recognizes the essential competencies reflective of the distinct, in-depth knowledge and skills that form the basis for nursing practice at the highest level regardless of practice role.