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NURS 8410 Week 7 Discussion Assignment Application 3: Becoming a Leader in the Translation of Evidence to Practice Reflect on your growth, professionally and personally, since you embarked on your DNP journey. The AACN believes that one of the benefits of a practice doctorate is that it enhances your leadership skills to “strengthen practice and…
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By Day 7 You will submit a journal entry (along with your time log) for Weeks 4-7. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature. Your journal entry should be week-based and sequential so that all journal entries are contained in one file.…
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NURS 8410 Assignment Application 4: Planning for Change, Implementing and Evaluating EBP Projects Planning for Change Change can be difficult—and implementing new practices based on evidence can present challenges. How can you effectively prepare your work environment for change? What factors need to be considered (e.g., financial, legislative, systems)? This week you begin…
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NURS 8410 Discussion: Advocating for New Practice Approaches Through Policy “I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.” —Florence Nightingale Through the policy process, nurses can put their feelings—as well as their experiences and expertise—into actions that create results. In this course, you…
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NURS 8410 Week 7: The Application of New Practice Approaches, Part II “Engagement in the process of policy development is central to creating a health care system that meets the needs of its constituents” (AACN, 2006, p. 13). As a professional nurse, you are well positioned to affect changes in health care through policy.…
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NURS 8410 Week 6 Assignment Application 3: Becoming a Leader in the Translation of Evidence to Practice This week you begin working on Application 3. As a nurse engaged in advanced practice, you have the exciting opportunity to be a leader in translating evidence into practice. For this first section of Application 3, consider…
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NURS 8410 Week 6: The Application of New Practice Approaches, Part I The first several weeks of this course have presented the foundational information necessary for you and your colleagues to develop new practice strategies. Think of the EBP Project issue that you have been addressing in this course. How could you synthesize the evidence…
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NURS 8410 Assignment: Application 2: Laying the Foundation for New Approaches to Practice This week you have been exploring the interrelationship between theory, knowledge, and research and evidence-based practice. As you begin Application 2, which builds on the work completed for Application 1, consider how evidence-based approaches based on theories from disciplines other than nursing…
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NURS 8410 Week 3: Translating Science in Advanced Nursing Practice Health care is an increasingly complex field fueled by the explosion of information available at one’s fingertips. As technology, medical research, and information systems continue to evolve, more emphasis is being placed on incorporating science and effective practices into health care. Nurses are increasingly called…
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NURS 8410 Week 4: New Practice Approaches, Part I As underscored in Week 3, science provides a foundation for nursing practice and practice guidelines—yet, it can be surprising to realize that the latest research evidence is often not applied in practice, or that practice guidelines may not be updated based on new evidence. The…