The purpose of this task is to develop a working knowledge of nursing theory, nursing ethics, and professional accountability and apply these concepts to your professional clinical practice. You will be required to think about real-life scenarios and how they relate to nursing codes in your professional practice.
Requirements:
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A.  Identify a nursing theory that has influenced your values and goals.
1.  Explain how nurses apply the identified theory from part A to implement excellent nursing practices.
2.  Discuss how the identified theory from part A fits your professional practice.
B.  Identify the contributions of two historical nursing figures in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
1.  Compare the differences in contributions of the two historical figures identified in part B.
2.  Describe how the contributions of the two historical figures influence your professional nursing practice.
C.  Explain the functional differences between the State Board of Nursing and the American Nurses Association (ANA).
1.  Define the roles of these two organizations.
2.  Explain how these two organizations influence your nursing practice.
3.  Explain the requirements for professional license renewal in your state.
a.  Discuss the consequences of failure to maintain license requirements in your state.
4.  Compare the differences between registered nursing license requirements in a compact state versus a non-compact state.
D.  Discuss the functional differences between the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see the web links below).
1.  Discuss how the two regulatory agencies influence your professional nursing practice.
a.  Describe your role as a patient advocate in promoting safety when a patient has requested to use an alternative therapy.
E.  Discuss the purposes of the Nurse Practice Act in your state and its impact on your professional practice.
1.  Discuss the scope of practice for a RN in your state.
2.  Discuss how your state defines delegation for the RN.
F.  Apply each of the following roles to your professional practice:
•   a scientist
•   a detective
•   a manager of the healing environment
G.  Identify two provisions from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (see web link below).
1.  Analyze how the two provisions identified in part G influence your professional nursing practice.
2.  Describe a nursing error that may occur in a clinical practice (e.g., clinical setting, skills lab, or simulation).
a.  Explain how the ANA provisions identified in part G can be applied to the error discussed in part G2.
H.  Identify four leadership qualities or traits that represent excellence in nursing.
1.  Discuss the significance of the four leadership qualities identified in part H in the nurse’s role as each of the following:
•   a leader at the bedside
•   within a nursing team or interdisciplinary team
2.  Identify how your work environment impacts the following:
•   nursing leadership
•   decision making
•   professional development
I.  Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
J.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

Project: Promoting Health Care Quality  Section 3:
Quality Measurement and Assessment  Measuring and assessing quality provides a foundation for identifying needs for improvement, developing effective interventions, and then monitoring progress toward desired results.   In the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text, the authors assert that an effort to improve quality “calls for setting outcome and performance targets (goals and expectations) beginning with the end in mind, and then formulating initiatives and actions (processes) that can serve as a bridge to take the organization from its current performance to its desired performance” (p. 182).
Having this “end in mind” can provide justification for dedicating valuable resources toward the effort, and help to lay a clear, concrete path that takes the organization from uncovering gaps between current performance and evidence-based targets to actually achieving those goals.  In this section of the Course Project, you focus on what you would measure—and how you would measure it—relative to your previously identified quality improvement issue. Note: This section of the Course Project will serve as the Portfolio Assignment for this course.
Course Project: Section 3: Quality Measurement and Assessment: write a 3-5 page paper to introduce your quality improvement plan. For more details on this project, see the Week 7 Project area for specifics to include for this paper.     I have attached my paper from week 4 for the continuation of the project.     To prepare: •Review the Learning Resources. Also conduct a search of the literature related to your selected quality improvement issue and complete the Evidence Matrix (provided in this week’s Learning Resources).   •Evaluate the evidence presented in the research literature and the quality standards proposed by various organizations, including the IOM’s six aims for quality improvement.
•Based on this review and your knowledge of the organization that you have selected, determine appropriate measures and indicators of performance related to your identified quality improvement issue.
•Consider how you could gather and use historical evidence of the organization’s performance related to the quality improvement issue. Also consider methods for gathering and assessing current quantitative and qualitative data, including those currently in use by the organization (e.g., chart audit data, staff surveys, quality indicators that are monitored, observations). If possible, examine actual data to assess your selected organization’s performance related to the issue.
•Think about what, specifically, you would like to achieve related to this issue. Establish realistic, evidence-based quality performance targets.
•Analyze gap(s) between the organization’s current performance and the performance targets.
•As you do this, you may wish to create a graphic organizer/alignment chart for your own use that illustrates:   •The measures and indicators that you would evaluate   •Current and historical data related to this quality issue—either actual data or methods for how you would collect and analyze the data   •Methods for collecting and analyzing data in the future (including when you would do this)   •Realistic, evidence-based targets