DNP 810 Topic 8 Reflective Journal GCU
DNP 810 Topic 8 Reflective Journal GCU
DNP 810 Topic 8 Reflective Journal GCU
Reflective practice is one of the ways in which nurses and nurse practitioners improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of care they offer to those in need. Reflective practice enables the nurses to examine their encounters, goals that were achieved, things that could be done to achieve better outcomes, and ways of doing better should similar experience arise. One way of promoting reflective practice in nursing is the use of reflective journals. Reflective journals enable the nurses to keep an account of their daily experiences and identify their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities that must be explored for them to achieve their personal and professional goals. Therefore, this paper is a reflective journal of my clinical experiences in this semester.
The experience that I got this semester has been highly important in promoting my personal and professional development. The semester has exposed me to a number of issues such as new practice approaches, healthcare delivery, intra-professional collaboration, ethical considerations in healthcare, technology use in health, health policy, economic models, and leadership, and addressing population concerns. Throughout these experiences, I have gained valuable knowledge and skills that are important in building my ability to address myriad of issues that health organizations face in the modern world (Buttaro et al., 2019). The experiences have also enabled me to understand my areas of strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities that I need to explore to achieve my personal and professional goals.
I have discovered a number of issues that relate to my professional practice from the experience I got from the activities of the semester. One of them is the significance of evidence-based practice in nursing. I discovered that the ability of nurses to provide care that optimizes the health outcomes of care depends largely on the use of evidence-based practices. Nurses should make their decisions using best available evidence obtained from clinical studies. I have learned that evidence-based practice promotes the provision of safe, efficient, cost-effective and high quality care to patients and vulnerable populations. I have also discovered the critical role that technology plays in the provision of nursing care. Unlike in the past, technology is highly utilized in the provision of care in nursing in the current world. The need for technology use in the provision of nursing care is attributed to its benefits that include minimization of safety issues and reduction of operational costs in health (Buttaro et al., 2019).
The experiences I got from the activities of this semester have also led to my discovery of the importance of intra-and inter-professional collaboration in nursing practice. Intra-professional collaboration largely focuses on nurses from different specialties and professional experiences working together in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. Inter-professional collaboration on the other hand incorporates the roles of other healthcare providers in the provision of care to the patients (Buttaro et al., 2019). I have learned that intra and inter-professional collaboration results in enhanced outcomes of care such as patient satisfaction with care, reduced hospital stay and cost of care, and communication between healthcare providers.
Learners are required to maintain a Reflective Journal integrating leadership and inquiry into current practice.
In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained in the current course addressing a variable
combination of the following: new practice approaches, intraprofessional collaboration, health care delivery and clinical systems, ethical considerations in health care, population health concerns, the role of technology in improving health care outcomes, health policy, leadership and economic models, and/or health disparities. Outline what you discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, what additional resources and abilities could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally how you met the competencies aligned to this course.
Submit your Reflective Journal to both the instructor and the Typhon Tracking System under the corresponding course section. Learners must submit this deliverable in Typhon and LoudCloud. Failure to submit in both locations can result in an “Incomplete” for the course.
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.