NR 599 Week 6 Midweek Comprehension Questions

NR 599 Week 6 Midweek Comprehension Questions

NR 599 Week 6 Midweek Comprehension Questions

As mentioned in this lesson, numerous telecommunications-ready tools are already available to assist nurses in delivering care and improving patients’ health outcomes. New and innovative tools are rapidly making it to the marketplace, making current tools dated and sometimes obsolete. Continue to reflect upon the point-of-care tools you may be familiar with using in your role as a Registered Nurse and how your responsibilities will change with your future role as an APN. How will you stay current? Provide a brief response (100 words or less)

Knowing how to find credible information from credible, peer reviewed sources is important. I feel that we get a strong foundation doing this through our Bachelors, and then our Masters program. We then apply this information to care delivery in order to improve patient care for our future practice. We should continue to build on these foundations throughout our career as we grow as Advanced Practice Providers. 

Thanks for your post. Health literacy refers to the skills that enable one to search, understand, assess, and apply health concepts or facts to make informed decisions, minimize health risks, and increase patients’ quality of life. Arguably, these skills are integral and foundational to information literacy.  Additional examples of information literacy specific to APN practice include conducting evidence-based research, participating in critical thinking processes, and engaging in problem-solving and decision-making during clinical practice. Continue to reflect on this.

The APNs’ knowledge of health literacy, their experiences with health literacy strategies, and their intention to use them affect their patient-provider interactions and the overall healthcare delivery systems (Cafiero, 2013). 

Reference

CAFIERO. (2013). Nurse Practitioners’ Knowledge, Experience, and Intention to Use Health Literacy Strategies in Clinical Practice: Promoting Health Literacy Research to Advance the Field. Journal of Health Communication, 18, 70–81.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.

Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.

One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.

I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.

In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.

Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).

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Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

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I used the Epocrates Essential app as a reference guide as an ER nurse. It has been helpful in many ways. For example, it identifies pills in an overdose patient. The mobile app combines communication and computing features, allowing easy access and use at the point of care. Another example is the mhealth app had a record of recent laboratory results.  This was beneficial to know with a patent with a GI bleed to compare laboratory results. In addition, this helps facilitate communication among healthcare professionals.  

The transition from registered nurse to nurse practitioner is a significant career role transition.  The responsibilities will be essential as advancements in digital technology continue to increase patient care options.  Understanding security requirements and protecting patients’ personal information must be a top priority.  APNs may need to provide care with an interactive video visit keeping in mind privacy. Telehealth is a safe and convenient alternative to care to in-person visits. This is beneficial for older adults who have limited mobility.  APNs need to be aware the patient’s home needs access to the internet and technology to conduct a video telehealth visit. Stay current is, attending education meetings and conferences and keeping open communication with other APNs. 

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).

Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.

As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.

It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.

Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.

Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?

Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.

Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.

If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.

I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.

As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:

Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.

Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.