Advocating for Positive Health Outcomes Through Advanced Nursing Practice

Reflection on Learning
Assignment
Purpose
Reflective inquiry allows for expansion in self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals. The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student an opportunity to reflect on learning in the course related to course outcomes, program outcomes, and competencies.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Interpret subjective and objective data to develop appropriate diagnoses and evidence-based management plans for patients and families with complex psychiatric mental health diagnoses across the lifespan (PO 5)
CO 2: Formulate appropriate evidence-based management plans of complex psychiatric mental health patients across the lifespan that align with the patient and family goals and perspectives of mental health and wellness (PO 5)
CO 3: Make recommendations based on pharmacologic assessment in the management of complex mental health patients addressing polypharmacy, drug interactions and other adverse events (PO 5)
CO 4: Examine appropriate use of seclusion and restraints in the management of acutely ill psychiatric mental health patients across the lifespan (PO 1)
CO 5: Employ appropriate health promotion and disease prevention strategies in the management of the complex healthcare needs of the psychiatric mental health patient (POs 2,5)
CO 6: Apply ethical and legal principles to the healthcare needs and management of acutely ill, and complex psychiatric mental health patients across the lifespan (PO 1)
Total Points Possible
This assignment is worth 30 points.
Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Describe how learning in this course helped you to meet Program Outcome 5: Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Extraordinary Nursing) Provide at least two specific examples.
Select one of the competencies from American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials Domain 6 listed below and describe how learning in this course helped you to meet the advanced-level nursing education competency. Provide at least two specific examples.
6.1 Communicate in a manner that facilitates a partnership approach to quality care delivery.
6.2 Perform effectively in different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics.
6.3 Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address healthcare needs.
6.4 Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.
Select one of the competencies from the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Ethics CompetencyLinks to an external site. listed below and describe how learning in this course helped you to meet the competency. Provide at least two specific examples.
Integrates ethical principles in decision making.
Evaluates the ethical consequences of decisions.
Applies ethically sound solutions to complex issues related to individuals, populations and systems of care.
Submit the assignment using correct grammar mechanics and APA style standards.
Writing is free of grammar, syntax, spelling, and punctuation errors.
A title page is included in APA format.
Document is double-spaced.
A reference page is included if references were cited. If a reference page is included, use APA format.