BSN436 Developing
Nursing Practice
Module 2 Assignment
1
You will find a discussion of Howard Gardner?s list of
Multiple Intelligences (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015, Box 3-2, p. 61) in the
textbook readings this week. Review the
different categories in the text and write a 2-3-page paper (excluding title
page and reference page) that explains how an experienced nurse can use these
categories to nurture critical thinking and clinical judgment skills in a novice
nurse. In this paper discuss:
the importance of understanding multiple intelligences
four of the types of intelligences from Gardner?s list.
Describe how at least two intelligences relate to your way of thinking and give
examples from your nursing practice.
the positive or negative impact of using multiple
intelligences when mentoring nurses (those with experienced and/or novice
nurses). Include specific examples from your nursing practice/experience.
how to improve the mentoring/learning process using the
concepts of multiple intelligences.
BSN436 Developing
Nursing Practice
Module 3 Assignment
2
You will find a discussion of the ?Core Competencies for a
New Vision for Health Professions Education? in your readings this week
(Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015, Box 4-1 p. 86). Review these core competencies
and write a 2-3-page paper (excluding title page and reference page) that
includes:
a discussion of how these core competencies relate to your
particular area of nursing practice.
specific example(s) that describe how your workplace
exemplifies one of the competencies and specific example(s) of how your
workplace can improve meeting another competency.
a chart that visually discusses/shows how you apply the five
core competencies in your particular area of nursing practice that relate to
critical thought and reflective cognitive processes. Be creative! You may add
clipart, photos, multi-media files you have permission to use. Place this chart
as an appendix at the end of the paper, following the reference page.
BSN436 Developing
Nursing Practice
Module 4 Assignment
3
Think back to a critical incident in your workplace that
affected patient safety, had unintended outcomes, or did not contribute to the
well-being of the patient. Reflect on the incident to identify why the
breakdowns in quality and safety occurred.
Refer to Box 5-4, Guidelines for Analyzing CT (Rubenfeld
& Scheffer, 2015, p. 139) in your text to examine an event/incidence, to
synthesize what happened, and how to prevent it in the future.
Write a two to three-page paper (excluding title page and
reference page) that includes:
A description of a critical incident that occurred in your
workplace that had unintended outcomes or did not contribute to the well-being
of the patient.
An analysis of the event using the questions from box 5-4.
Use these questions to analyze the event ? it is not necessary to use all of
them, but the ones that pertain to your event. You can then use the information
from your answers to identify and talk about the incident and what worked well
and what did not.
Your reflection of the incident, what the breakdowns were
and why they occurred.
What steps a leader/manager can take to prevent future
incidents. Or describe how you would create an environment where these
incidences are less likely to happen. For example, what would you do
differently?
BSN436 Developing
Nursing Practice
Module 6 Assignment
4
Choose a population that you believe should use critical
thinking.
Develop a tool, for this specific population, that you can
use to assess or measure the cognitive habits or behaviors that are part of the
critical thinking process that this population uses.
For example ? a novice nurse entering the nursing
profession, an experienced nurse working on a new unit, parents of a child with
a chronic illness, a patient who has a new diagnosis of diabete or heart disease and must learn to
self-manage the disease.
Use Box 2-5 and appendix A to choose which cognitive habits
and behaviors you decide to measure.
The tool should include:
A total of eight questions, each addressing a specific
cognitive habit or behavior.
A rationale for each question ? why that question can
measure that specific cognitive habit or behavior.
Introduce your tool with a discussion of the importance of
cognitive habits or behaviors that encourage critical thinking. Provide a
conclusion to pull the entire assignment together.
Here is an examples of one question you can ask when
assessing the critical thinking skills of minority parents of overweight
children.
Question: How do you feel about your child?s overall health?
Your family?s health?
Rationale: This question is assessing the critical thinking
skill or habit of the mind: contextual perspective. Assessing how the parents
feel about their family?s overall health would give the nurse a view of their
contextual perspective. Parents who are cognizant of their children?s or
overall family?s weight issues, poor eating habits, or lack of exercise can
result in the potential consequences of childhood obesity such as hypertension,
asthma, and diabetes. (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015).
You can also format the tool as a table after you introduce
your paper with an introduction and then finish with a conclusion:
Question
Rationale
How do you feel about your child?s overall health? Your
family?s health?
This question is assessing the critical thinking skill or
habit of the mind: contextual perspective. Assessing how the parents feel about
their family?s overall health would give the nurse a view of their contextual
perspective. Parents who are cognizant of their children?s or overall family?s
weight issues, poor eating habits, or lack of exercise can result in the
potential consequences of childhood obesity such as hypertension, asthma, and
diabetes. (Rubenfeld & Scheffer, 2015).
BSN436 Developing
Nursing Practice
Module 7 Final
Project
Create an audio/visual VoiceThread presentation that will
describe a healthcare education tool for a specific health need of a specific
population that is different than your own.
The presentation should:
identify the population and how it is different than your
own.
discuss the importance of the health need.
identify special learning challenges this population faces.
include a description of the tool to teach the information
and explain how it works.
discuss how the literature supports the use of the
technology you have chosen.
explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking.
explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and
patient outcomes.
Guidelines
1. Choose a
population that is different than your own. For example: if you are a 25 year
old woman, who is a U.S citizen and only speak English, choose an older male
patient who is from another race, culture, or ethnicity and who speaks limited
English).
Identify the population and how it is different than your
own.
Discuss the importance of the health need. For this
population. For example: there is an
increased incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the teen population so there
a need for a tool to address this population?s special needs.
Identify special learning challenges this population faces.
For example: income, sensory impairment, or language.
2. Develop a teaching tool: Incorporate
technology/multimedia into your tool. For example: texts, twitter, blogs,
email, YouTube video, video-conferencing, Skype, computer or cell phone app,
electronic brochures, and electronic booklets.
Include a description of the tool to teach the information.
Explain how the tool works but you do not have to actually create the tool. For
example: your tool may be a web site but you do not have to actually create the
site.
3. Discussion:
Discuss how the literature supports the use of the
technology you have chosen.
Explain how the tool contributes to critical thinking ? what
skills does it develops.
Explain how the tool contributes to nursing practice and
patient outcomes.
Important note:
Develop education materials at the sixth grade reading level to ensure
the general population will understand the information. Use this simple readability index calculator
to check any text that you may incorporate into your teaching materials. Just click on the link, and when it opens,
copy and paste an example from your written text to reveal the reading
level. You can also use Microsoft word
to assess the reading level of your writing by selecting review, spelling and
grammar, readability statistics.
Do not include:
A description of the disease process
What the client can expect from the disease
Extraneous information; For example: if you are creating a
tool for patients who have lung cancer do not include statistics about lunch
cancer unless it is part of your tool.