Course Nursing and the Aging Family Reflection
The BSN Essentials (AACN, 2008) outline a number of healthcare policy and advocacy competencies for
the BSN-prepared nurse. Reflect on the NUR4286 course readings, discussion threads, and applications
you have completed across this course and write a reflective essay regarding the extent to which you feel
you are now prepared to:
- “Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral, psychological, spiritual,
socioeconomic, and environmental assessments of health and illness parameters in patients,
using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches. - Recognize the relationship of genetics and genomics to health, prevention, screening, diagnostics,
prognostics, selection of treatment, and monitoring of treatment effectiveness,
using a constructed pedigree from collected family history information as well as standardized symbols
and terminology.
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and development, pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management,
and nursing management across the health illness continuum, across the lifespan, and in all
healthcare settings. - Communicate effectively with all members of the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient’s
support network. - Deliver compassionate, patient centered, evidence-based care that respects patient and family
preferences. - Implement patient and family care around resolution of end of life and palliative care issues, such as
symptom management, support of rituals, and respect for patient and family preferences. - Provide appropriate patient teaching that reflects developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient
preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient engagement in their care. - Implement evidence-based nursing interventions as appropriate for
managing the acute and chronic care of patients and promoting health across the lifespan. - Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of psychobiological interventions.
- Facilitate patient centered transitions of care, including discharge planning and ensuring the caregiver’s
knowledge of care requirements to promote safe care. - Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes to safe and high-quality patient outcomes within
healthcare microsystems. - Create a safe care environment that results in high quality patient outcomes.
- Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes.
- Demonstrate clinical judgment and accountability for patient outcomes
when delegating to and supervising other members of the healthcare team. - Manage care to maximize health, independence, and quality of life for a group of individuals that
approximates a beginning practitioner’s workload - Demonstrate the application of psychomotor skills for the efficient, safe, and compassionate delivery of
patient care. - Develop a beginning understanding of complementary and alternative modalities and their role in health
care. - Develop an awareness of patients as well as healthcare professionals’ spiritual beliefs and values
and how those beliefs and values impact health care. - Manage the interaction of multiple functional problems affecting patients across the lifespan,
including common geriatric syndromes. - Understand one’s role and participation in emergency preparedness and disaster response with an
awareness of environmental factors and the risks they pose to self and patients - Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a therapeutic nurse patient relationship.
- Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of the world and its effect on
the healthcare system as related to nursing practice.” (pp. 31-32).
Reference:
American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN]. (2008). The essentials of baccalaureate education
for professional nursing practice. Washington, DC: Author.
DIRECTIONS AND GRADING CRITERIA
Category Points % Description
(Introduction
– see note
under
requirement
4 above)
8 8 Introduces the purpose of the reflection and addresses BSN Essentials
(AACN, 2008) pertinent to healthcare policy and advocacy.
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Reflection
80 80 Include a self-assessment regarding learning that you believe
represents your skills, knowledge, and integrative abilities to meet the
pertinent BSN Essential and sub-competencies (AACN, 2008) as a
result of active learning throughout this course. Be sure to use
examples from selected readings, threaded discussions, and/or
applications to support your assertions to address each of the following
sub-competencies:
(a) “Conduct comprehensive and focused physical, behavioral,
psychological, spiritual, socioeconomic, and environmental
assessments of health and illness parameters in patients,
using developmentally and culturally appropriate approaches.
(b) Recognize the relationship of genetics and genomics to health,
prevention, screening, diagnostics, prognostics, selection of
treatment, and monitoring of treatment effectiveness,
using a constructed pedigree from collected family history
information as well as standardized symbols and terminology.
(c) Implement holistic, patient centered care that reflects an
understanding of human growth and development,
pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical management,
and nursing management across the health illness continuum,
across the lifespan, and in all healthcare settings.
(d) Communicate effectively with all members of
the healthcare team, including the patient and the patient’s
support network.
(e) Deliver compassionate, patient centered, evidencebased care that respects patient and family preferences.
(f) Implement patient and family care around resolution of end of
life and palliative care issues, such as symptom management,
support of rituals, and respect for patient and family
preferences.
(g) Provide appropriate patient teaching that reflects
developmental stage, age, culture, spirituality, patient
preferences, and health literacy considerations to foster patient
engagement in their care.
(h) Implement evidence-based nursing interventions as
appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of
patients and promoting health across the lifespan.
(i) Monitor client outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of
psychobiological interventions.
(j) Facilitate patient centered transitions of
care, including discharge planning and ensuring the caregiver’s
knowledge of care requirements to promote safe care.
(k) Provide nursing care based on evidence that contributes
to safe and high-quality patient outcomes within
healthcare microsystems.
(l) Create a safe care environment that results in high quality
patient outcomes.
(m) Revise the plan of care based on an ongoing evaluation of
patient outcomes.
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(n) Demonstrate clinical judgment and accountability for patient
outcomes when delegating to and supervising other members
of the healthcare team.
(o) Develop a beginning understanding of complementary
and alternative modalities and their role in health care.
(p) Develop an awareness of patients as well as
healthcare professionals’ spiritual beliefs and values
and how those beliefs and values impact health care.
(q) Manage the interaction of multiple functional problems
affecting patients across the lifespan, including common
geriatric syndromes.
(r) Understand one’s role and participation in emergency
preparedness and disaster response with an awareness of
environmental factors and the risks they pose to self
and patients
(s) Engage in caring and healing techniques that promote a
therapeutic nurse patient relationship.
(t) Demonstrate tolerance for the ambiguity and unpredictability of
the world and its effect on the healthcare system as related to
nursing practice.” (pp. 31-32).
Conclusion 4 4 An effective conclusion identifies the main ideas and major conclusions
from the body of your essay. Minor details are left out. Summarize the
benefits of the pertinent BSN Essential and sub-competencies (AACN,
2008) pertaining to scholarship for evidence-based practice.
Clarity of writing
