What is the nature of nursing practice? • What is the social purpose of nursing?

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As the demand for knowledge, technical savvy, compassion, and leadership increases in the field of nursing, it is important to determine what is fundamentally important to you in delivering the best nursing care. By reflecting on your values, morals, and what brought you to the profession originally, you should be able to articulate your own personal philosophy. Develop your own nursing philosophy. Consider the following questions. From your viewpoint: • What is nursing? • What is the nature of human caring? • What is the nature of nursing practice? • What is the social purpose of nursing? Explain how the philosophy you developed relates to your current or interested practice area. Format your philosophy in a way that you feel adequately conveys your ideas. You may find that writing a brief philosophy of nursing helps clarify your beliefs and values. This exercise can be done using the headings of person, environment, health, and nursing or other concepts that come to mind when you consider nursing and why you chose the nursing profession. The thought process of writing a philosophy compels you to recognize beliefs and values you hold true. Once your beliefs are clarified, surveying the definitions of person, environment, health, and nursing in the nursing theoretical works leads you to particular theoretical works to consider. Reviewing the assumptions of the philosophy, model, or theory in comparison with statements in your philosophy helps you identify an association between a theoretical work and your values and beliefs. This process may be undertaken by considering whether the concepts in the theoretical work you have selected focus on ideas similar to the values expressed in your philosophy about the patient, environment, health, and nursing. Certain framework ideas may resonate with your ideas. Chapter 4 may be helpful in this process as Pam Grace discusses values in nursing works. Guidelines for Selecting a Framework for Nursing Practice 1. Consider values and beliefs personally held about nursing. 2. Develop a philosophy statement about persons, environment, health, and nursing. 3. Survey meaning of person, environment, health, and nursing in nursing frameworks. 4. Identify two or three frameworks that resonate best with your values and definitions. 5. Review the assumptions of the frameworks you have selected. 6. Apply the frameworks in your nursing practice (try them in actual practice situations). 7. Compare the frameworks with attention to client focus, nursing action, and client outcome. 8. Review nursing literature written by persons who use the frameworks in their practice. 9. Select a framework and begin to develop its use in your nursing practice.

write your responses to each question as one narrative rather than separating your responses by question number.

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Review the following case study and complete the questions that follow. For this assignment, write your responses to each question as one narrative rather than separating your responses by question number. Include an introduction and a conclusion. Submit your answers using APA format, well-written sentences, and detailed explanations. Your analysis must be scientifically sound, necessary, and sufficient.
You must also include a bibliography of at least 3 sources (with at least one non Internet source). Your textbook may not be included as a source for this assignment. Refer to the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.

Does a correlation exist between your job description and your practice

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For this topic, interview a community-based nurse or nurse practitioner who sees individuals in the home setting. Ask the following questions:
What are your job responsibilities?
Does a correlation exist between your job description and your practice?
Are you involved in policy formulation that affects client services?
Do you belong to a professional organization related to your current job position?

Discuss the impact of stakeholder roles responsibilities and relationships on patient care outcomes

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Scenario:
You are the chief nursing officer in a large academic tertiary care center. You have been told that your
organization has had an increase in nosocomial infections. As the chief nursing officer you want to combat this
problem that is impacting patient care.
Note: To complete the requirements below you may use fictitious data or real data (if the name of the
organization is changed). This task is focused on the process you would take not the specifics of the data since
this is a fictitious scenario.
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.
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.
Respond (suggested length of 5 8 pages) to the requirements below as the chief nursing officer from the
scenario.
A. Discuss evidence based practices for reducing nosocomial infections including one item from each of the
following areas with specific evidence for how the item reduces infections:
products
technology
patient/family
finances
community relations
B. Analyze the impact of nosocomial infections on patient care.
C. Complete a gap analysis in which you do the following:
Note: Refer to the attached Gap Analysis template to assist with parts C through C5.
1. Identify major causes that lead to the transmission of nosocomial infections.
2. Discuss the impact of stakeholder roles responsibilities and relationships on patient care outcomes.
3. Discuss the roles of infection control and education within the organization in the scenario and how they
relate to each other.
4. Describe a strategy to combat the increase of nosocomial infections.
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5. Discuss one goal for reducing nosocomial infections for each of the areas from part A1:
products
technology
patient/family
finances
community relations
6. Discuss possible solutions to the gap anticipating potential challenges and using information from the gap
analysis.
a. Analyze one solution from part C6 to recommend in combatting nosocomial infections.
D. Acknowledge sources using APA formatted in text citations and references for content that is quoted
paraphrased or summarized.
In this task you will consider how your philosophy of nursing aligns with the RN BSN Program Conceptual
Framework.
Note: When using sources to support ideas and elements in an assessment the submission MUST include APA
formatted in text citations with a corresponding reference list for any direct quotes or paraphrasing. It is not
necessary to list sources that were consulted if they have not been quoted or paraphrased in the text of the
assessment.
Note: No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from
outside sources even if cited correctly. For tips on using APA style please refer to the APA Handout web link
included in the APA Guidelines section.