A1. Professional Mission Statement
My professional mission statement is to build my career as a professional nurse by working towards completion of my BSN, which would provide me with greater opportunities for me to build on my career.
A1a. How the professional mission statement will help guide me throughout my nursing career
The professional mission statement will help guide me through my nursing career, as it will provide me with the basics of what I ought to expect in my bid to building my position as a professional nurse. The expectation is that this will help enhance overall possibilities of ensuring that I am able to achieve my career goals while creating a new front through which to help in providing solutions to challenges in the nursing profession. The professional mission statement will also seek to guide me towards trying to understand what I am expected to do as part of building my career.
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A2. Professional Summary
A2a. How the completed work in my portfolio represent me as a learner and a healthcare professional
The completed work in my portfolio represents me as a learner, as it seeks to highlight overall progression in terms of my ability to apply what I have learnt. I am able to use different approaches in research to help in building my position from a professional perspective. That serves as a clear indication of the fact that indeed this would be of value towards enhancing my capacity to define my position in the nursing profession.
A2b. How the specific artifacts in my portfolio represent my professional strengths
The specific artifacts in my portfolio represent my professional strengths in areas of research, which I have been able to use effectively in completing some of my artifacts. The artifacts suggest that I am in a rather positive position, which allow me to use different research studies as a way through which to complete my artifacts. It is clear that this remains as one of the notable strengths that I would be expected to work on towards building my career in the nursing profession.
A2c. Challenges I encountered during the progression of my program
The main challenge that I encountered during the progression of my program reflects more on trying to replicate what I have learned in my artifacts. That acted as a key challenge considering that it was hard for me to understand what I was expected to do.
A2ci. How I overcame these challenges
I overcame this challenge by focusing my of my attention on the expected outcomes of the artifacts with the aim being towards creating artifacts that would support what I have learned. The adoption of this strategy allows me to build a proactive avenue for advancing what I have learned.
A2d. How my coursework helped me meet each of the nine nursing program outcomes
Effective Communication - My coursework has helped build on my confidence, which I consider as one of the key aspects that allows me to define overall progression in areas of communication. I find it much easier when trying to communicate with patients and other employees due to the confidence that I have gained.
Clinical Reasoning – Evidence-based practice nursing has provided me with a better understanding of key aspects that I am expected to consider in my bid towards ensuring that I deliver on quality care for my patients. I have learned different approaches to use as part of research as part of building overall capacity to deliver on positive results.
Professional Accountability – Through my coursework, I have learned some of the key factors that define accountability from a nursing perspective with the specific focus being towards improving on the quality of care. I have learned the importance of always ensuring that I am accountable based on my professional actions.
Synthesis of Knowledge – My coursework has provided me with basic knowledge on how to use research studies for purposes of increasing my knowledge while ensuring that I am well position towards advancing my position as a nurse.
Compassion for Patients – I have learned that compassion for patients remains as one of the key expectations for nurses, which serves as a determinant for enhanced performance outcomes in delivery of quality care.
Becoming a Leader and Educator – Professional roles and values have played a critical role in ensuring that I am able to gain what is considered as an understanding of the traits and characteristics associated with a nursing leader and educator.
Interprofessional Collaboration – I have been able to gain a clear understanding of what is expected in ensuring that a nurse is able to get help from other professionals with the focus being towards ensuring that they deliver on positive results for individual patients.
Knowledge of Genomics and Genetics – I am now in a rather effective position allowing me to use genomics and genetics as key tools that would help define my position in terms of ensuring that I able to deliver on the best quality of care.
Utilization of Information Technology – I find myself in a rather effective position allowing me to utilize information technology as a key tool that would improve on the quality on care for individual patients.
A2e. How you fulfilled the roles during my program
I fulfilled my role as a scientists through the use of research studies and evidence-based practices in trying to examine differentiated aspects associated with my program. I fulfilled my role as a detective by analyzing the issues that I examined from multiple perspective to find valid solutions. Lastly, I fulfilled my role as a manager of the healing environment by ensuring that I am able to advance the need for cooperation between the different professionals working within the healing environment. My main intention was to ensure that I am able to create a rather proactive position through which to deliver on expected outcomes while enhancing overall progression in nursing.
A2f. How I have grown professionally since the beginning of my program
I truly feel that the program has allowed me to grow from a professional standpoint with the aim being towards ensuring that I become an effective nurse. I am in a rather effective position allowing me to get a clear picture of what is expected of me from a nursing perspective, which plays a critical role in defining overall progression. Additionally, I must take note of the fact that I have been able to build on my professional confidence, which I consider as one of the key factors that defines my professional growth. The ultimate expectation is that this will help build on my capacity in ensuring that I create some form of progression in my future in the nursing environment.
B. Quality and Safety
B1. Reflection on my Professional Definition of Quality and Safety
My professional definition of quality and safety reflects on the best possible health care services while ensuring that the risks are minimized. I have been able to develop this professional definition over the course of the program, as I have worked on a wide array of projects that sought to ensure that I define professional progress. The projects provided me with a clear framework through which to establish what I expect from a professional perspective in ensuring that I improve on my understanding of quality and safety. I tend to believe that the program has been of great value towards ensuring that I am able to create a clear approach through which to define overall progression in my understanding. One specific artifact that I would argue has helped in building my understanding of the concepts is Evidence-Based Practice Task 1. The artifact allowed me to apply the two concepts of quality and safety as part of my understanding of nursing with the sole intention being towards determining overall outcomes in my understanding.
B2. Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Certificate
The importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate can be seen from the fact that it works towards ensuring that a nurse is well versed with information on how to improve on areas such as quality and safety. The certificate serves as a guarantee that indeed the quality of health services offered would match overall expectations from individual patients involved with the nurses.
C. Evidence-Based Practice
C1. Reflection on my Professional Definition of Evidence-Based Practice
My professional definition of evidence-based practice revolves around the idea of having to make decisions using a wide array of factors that include patient characteristics and preference among others. The program has assisted me in developing my professional definition, as it has provided me with basic on what I ought to expect in my decision to use the different factors allowing me to make quality decisions. The program has also enhanced my understanding on some of the key areas that I ought to consider. Specifically, the artifact ‘Evidence-Based Practice Task 1’ was very useful towards build in professional definition, as it allowed me to use what I have learned practically. In this artifact, I was able to learn some of the key factors that ought to be considered when building what would be considered as a professional image.
C2. Reflection on my Understanding of Evidence-Based Practice
My understanding of evidence-based practice is driven by the need to establish a clear front through which to maximize on my ability to use current primary research as part of improving my nursing practice. The expectation is that this seeks to create a rather proactive position through which to ensure that I am able to understand what is expected of me from a professional perspective. Additionally, the application of evidence-based practice allows me the opportunity of having to enhance overall progress as a way of trying to improve on the quality of care. The ultimate result is that this has played a critical role towards ensuring that I am in a positive position that would define my progress.
I have been able to achieve excellence in areas that include evaluation of research studies for relevancy and believability of data, understanding the difference between quality improvement and research, and understanding the difference between primary and secondary research. My experience in the program provided me with a clear understanding of the differentiated frameworks with the specific focus being towards maximizing on progress through the application of current research. The ultimate outcome is that I have been able to build on my progression with the intention being towards maximizing on positive performance. Ultimately, this has played a critical role towards ensuring that I am well aware of what I am expected to do in a bid to advancing evidence-based practice. The long-term effect of this is that it has been of great value towards promoting an overall understanding of performance while establishing a clear framework that support overall progression.
D. Applied Leadership
D1. Reflection on my Professional Definition of Applied Leadership
My professional definition of applied leadership reflects more on the idea that an individual would be expected to work in a health environment that is supported by multiple professionals. Consequently, this means that one would expected to create a leadership framework that is effective for the interprofessional team. In my program, I was able to work with a wide array of professionals that played a critical role towards building my understanding of what I am expected to do as a professional leader in nursing. Ultimately, this serves as one of the key factors that may have helped towards building on my progression in applied leadership as part of improving my position in nursing.
I must say that the actual ability to work within an interprofessional team enhanced my communication abilities, which I consider as being valuable in defining overall progress in my position as a nurse. I tend to view communication as one of the key aspects that I was able to improve significantly during the entire period, which played a critical role towards ensuring that I am able to improve on the way I interact with other professionals and patients. Specifically, the artifact on Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership played a critical role towards building on general performance. The ultimate result is that this defined overall progression in my position as a nurse with the aim being towards ensuring that I am able to define progress. I tend to consider the artifact as being important considering that it sought to build on what I would define as an overall shift in my understanding of leadership.
D2. Summary of my Leadership Learning Experience
The importance of professional collaboration can be seen from the fact that it paves the way for an advanced position in delivery of quality outcomes in nursing leadership. By promotion professional collaboration, as nursing leader is well positioned towards creating a proactive approach that would ensure that the quality of services offered improves. Additionally, this would also mean that the professionals would be in a better position through which to ensure that they create a front through which to improve on the general services offered to the patients. Professional collaboration means that a nurse would be able to embraced applied leadership while seeking to support what would be considered as a general perception regarding overall progress in nursing.
E. Community and Population Health
E1. Reflection on my Professional Definition of Community and Population Health
My professional definition of community and population health reflects more on the idea that health outcomes are evaluated from a community perspective to determine overall progression in terms of expected improvements. The program assisted me in developing the professional definition, as it created an avenue through which to ensure that I am in a positive position that would define progress. The artifact on Professional Roles and Values Task 2 was of great value towards ensuring that I am able to advance on my professional definition in trying to understand community and population health.
E2. Summary of my Community and Population Health Task
During my Community Health Nursing task, I learned that indeed health can be improved within a given community setting depending on the health approaches adopted. I also learned that it was important for people within a given community to embrace health as one of the measures of quality. What I learned led to my community diagnosis, as it become far much easier to reflect on some of the key factors that define health from a community perspective. After working with my population, my initial focus and diagnosis changed, as I developed a better understanding of a wide array of areas that I was expected to consider as part the diagnosis of my community.
E3. Importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Certificate
The importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) certificate is that it will help provide me with a better understanding of genetics, genomics, and genethics, which are some of the key factors of consideration in defining my future role as a professional nurse.
