NRS490 GCU Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

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NRS490

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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into a final, course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. This course-long journal assignment will be due in Topic 10.

In each week's entry, you should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. Your entry should address a variable combination of the following, dependent on the specific practice immersion clinical experiences you encountered that week:

  1. New practice approaches
  2. Intraprofessional collaboration
  3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
  4. Ethical considerations in health care
  5. Population health concerns
  6. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
  7. Health policy
  8. Leadership and economic models
  9. Health disparities

In the Topic 10 submission, each of the areas should be addressed in one or more of the weekly entries.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how they met competencies and course objectives.

Scholarly Activities

Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to post one scholarly activity while you are in the BSN program, which should be documented by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

In Topic 10, you will submit a summary report of your scholarly activity. You may use the "Scholarly Activity Summary" resource to help guide this assignment.

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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal: Obesity among Adolescents in
the United States
Introduction
Week 1: New Practice Approaches
Week 2: Intraprofessional collaboration
Week 3: Health care delivery and clinical systems
Week 4: Ethical considerations in health care
Week 5: Population health concerns
Week 6: The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
Week 7: Health policy
Week 8: Leadership and economic models
Week 9: Health disparities
Week 10: Scholarly Activity Summary
➢ Overview
➢ Problem
➢ Solution
➢ Opportunities
➢ Program Competencies Addressed
Conclusion


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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal: Obesity among Adolescents in
the United States
Introduction
Obesity among adolescents in the United States is continuing to draw attention in the
health docket and the society in general. Nurses, in particular, come into contact with the
affected adolescent where they encounter many challenges in trying to assist the patients recover
or respond to the forms of treatment for the condition. As a result, nurses are seen to operate in
an environment full of challenges and complexities. The practical knowledge and experience that
I have gained throughout the course has enabled me to beat the difficulties and the healthcare
setting in order to deliver standard services to the obese adolescents in the community. My
exposure to the obese environment even while pursuing the nursing course has equipped me with
required professional and leadership skills. Course learning and practical experience have been at
the forefront of improving my capability of exercising leadership skills and help in the delivery
of services to the vulnerable populations. This reflective journal outlines my discoveries
regarding the professional nursing practice alongside the strengths, weaknesses, abilities and
competencies gained during the course. This reflection also comprise of a summary of a
scholarly activity that contributed to knowledge gain, skills and experience in the course.
Week 1: New practice approaches
The last few decades have witnessed major changes in the field of nursing. This week’s
learning has equipped me with the ability to adjust to the new changes so as to retain my
relevancy in provision of excellent services to obese patients (Anderson, 2012). The Home
Health Agency in particular has built on my practicum dynamic skills because I have had a
change to interact and directly encounter the changing aspect of the nursing practice. The

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consistent application of evidence based practice in week 1 learning has equipped me with
abilities to successfully address obesity in adolescents and its related conditions such as heart
attack and diabetes. The Week 1 learning has enabled to embrace the principles of quality health
care delivery which appears to be a prevalent problem in the United States’ healthcare industry.
New approaches in the nursing docked have emphasize on the evaluation of records to ensure
safety and to affirm that new practices in the nursing practice will assure patients of their safety.
Throughout the first week of the course, I have come to understand that the nursing field is full
of practices that recommend the application of empirical studies. As a student pursuing a degree
in the nursing field, I understood that evidence based practice is one was of enhancing
professional transparency in the nursing field.
Week 2: Interprofessional collaboration
In the second week learning, I understood that tasks within the healthcare system are
found to be too complex and cumbersome for a single profession to accomplish. This implies
that a single healthcare problem may require the input of spec...


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