COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING CLINICAL REFLECTION GUIDELINES
a. What interdisciplinary staff members are present at your clinical site?
b. What are their roles and responsibilities and how do the members interact to provide health care to the community?
c. Does the literature support the presence of these disciplines as a form of best practice? Explain. (Cite references)
Reflect back over the term. What one thing did you learn in the course that you were able to apply in your work during the term? What one thing are you most looking forward to applying to your career in the future. What future trends may influence how nurses use evidence to improve the quality of patient care?
A reminder of the course objectives may help you reflect on this term:
1. Explain the purpose of nursing research in an evidence-based practice environment.
2. Differentiate qualitative and quantitative research in terms of philosophy, methodology, and outcome.
3. Critically analyze various types of research methods, designs, for scientific merit.
4. Investigate the literature to gain knowledge related to a select problem in education, administration or practice.
5. Evaluate the reliability, validity, and typical outcomes of instruments commonly used for nursing research.
6. Explore ethical principles as they relate to research and evidence-based practice
7. Design a research proposal that incorporates scholarly inquiry applicable to a select problem in nursing practice, education or administration.
Outstanding/distinguished. Accurately addresses posed issues or questions. Discussion postings are timely, allowing others to respond, are thoughtful and astutely analytic or original; connect to previous or current content or real life situations; fully develop ideas, connections, or applications; and virtually free of grammatical errors or typos. The post will facilitate learning for yourself and your fellow students. This corresponds to an A.
Readings and Assignments:
(1). ) Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012). Ebersole & Hess’ toward health aging: human needs and nursing response(8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier
Chapter 16 – Care Across the Continuum
(a). Read the case study at the end of the chapter.
(b). Discuss what you, the care provider, see as positives and negatives related to his hospitalization and subsequent discharge to long-term care.
(c). What care management processes could have improved the acute care outcomes. Were there any other options than discharge to long-term care?
(d). What role could the provider have taken to help the family in positively affecting the transition from home to long-term care for Ray?
Outstanding/distinguished. Accurately addresses posed issues or questions. Discussion postings are timely, allowing others to respond, are thoughtful and astutely analytic or original; connect to previous or current content or real life situations; fully develop ideas, connections, or applications; and virtually free of grammatical errors or typos. The post will facilitate learning for yourself and your fellow students. This corresponds to an A.
Readings and Assignments:
(1). ) Touhy, T. & Jett, K. (2012). Ebersole & Hess’ toward health aging: human needs and nursing response(8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier
Chapter 16 – Care Across the Continuum
(a). Read the case study at the end of the chapter.
(b). Discuss what you, the care provider, see as positives and negatives related to his hospitalization and subsequent discharge to long-term care.
(c). What care management processes could have improved the acute care outcomes. Were there any other options than discharge to long-term care?
(d). What role could the provider have taken to help the family in positively affecting the transition from home to long-term care for Ray?
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