Assignment 5 Using 800-1,000 words, discuss methods to evaluate the effectiveness of your proposed solution and variables to be assessed when evaluating project outcomes. Example: If you are proposing a new staffing matrix that is intended to reduce nurse turnover, improve nursing staff satisfaction, and positively impact overall delivery of care, you may decide the […]

Trends and Issues in Health Care – Every Nurse Is a Leader Rate yourself using the results from the “Nurse Manager Skills Inventory”: Write a reflection of 750-1,000 words in which you identify your strengths and weaknesses related to the four content areas below: 1. Personal and professional accountability 2. Career planning 3. Personal journey […]

Choose one legislator on the state or federal level who is also a nurse, and discuss the importance of their role as advocate for improving health care delivery. What specific bill(s) have they sponsored or supported that has/have influenced health care?

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Continuing Nursing Education This is a CLC assignment. In your CLC group, create a PowerPoint presentation of 10-15 slides in which you compare the pros and cons of continuing nursing education related to the following: 1. Impact on competency. 2. Impact on knowledge and attitudes. 3. Relationship to professional certification. […]

What is the difference between a DNP and a PhD in Nursing? Which of these would you choose to pursue if you decide to continue your education to the doctoral level?

Trends and Issues in Health Care – Continued Professional Development Discuss current research that links patient safety outcomes to ADN and BSN nurses. Based on some real-life experiences, do you agree or disagree with this research?

In a reflection of 450-600 words, explain how you see yourself fitting into the following IOM Future of Nursing recommendations: 1. Recommendation 4: Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020. 2. Recommendation 5: Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020. 3. Recommendation 6: Ensure that nurses […]

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March, 2010. Identify the impact of this legislation on your nursing practice by choosing two key nursing provisions outlined in the American Nurses Association “Key Provisions Related to Nursing” summary. Discuss how these two provisions […]

What is the impact to the nursing profession and to the public related to the projected nursing shortage? Discuss at least one way that the nursing profession is working toward a resolution of this problem.

TRENDS AND ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE In a formal paper of 1,000-1,250 words discuss the work of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Committee Initiative on the Future of Nursing and the Institute of Medicine research that led to the IOM report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” Identify the importance of the IOM “Future […]