NR 501 DeVry Week 6 Discussion
NR 501 DeVry Week 6 Discussion
NR 501 DeVry Week 6 Discussion
Impact of Nursing Theory Upon Healthcare Organization (graded)
Below are a few examples of items you may want to discuss.
You may want to initiate the discussion by identifying a specific situation (i.e. early discharge of a patient before sufficient education about ostomy care has been completed) and ask for interventions (based from a specific theory) that could have been beneficial in preventing the identified situation.
Expand discussion of theory and management away from institutionalized healthcare to community settings including Third World countries.
Expand discussion by applying a middle range nursing theory to this situation.
Course Outcome 2. Propose strategies for use of relevant theories that nurse leaders can employ in selected healthcare or educational organizations considering legal and ethical principles. (PO #2, 6)
Course Outcome 3. Communicate the analysis of and proposed strategies for the use of a theory in nursing practice. (PO #3)
See you in the threaded discussions.
Please answer the following question:
Discuss how a specific middle-range nursing theory has been or could be applied by nurse leaders or nurse managers to effectively deal with an administrative issue (i.e., staffing, use of supplies, staff performance issues). Include an example from the literature or your own experience to illustrate your points.
You described that you want to develop strong patient-caregiver relationships,
so I feel that you are making the right choice. These patients will be part of your
long-term clientele, so when you are making decisions based on their health status,
you will be well aware of not only their health history, but of social, environmental,
and financial factors that attribute to their health.
Since you expressed interest in primary care and nursing education, I feel that
this puts you in an interesting position to become a nursing leader. Primary care will
allow you to understand the influence of laws, public policy, and epidemiology on the
health of your patients. It is important that you are aware of health policy because it
will affect the care that your patients receive, as well as insurance premiums,
medication affordability, and more. As a nurse educator, your job will be to teach the
foundations of nursing to students who will develop their own self-concept as a nurse
and hopefully seek out leadership roles. The profession needs nursing leaders to
influence policymakers to create laws that improve healthcare working conditions and
protect staff and patient safety. The AGPCNP competencies include a section on
policy. These competencies explain that professional nurses should advocate for
healthcare laws that dismantle barriers to care, understand the policymaking process
and the factors that influence laws, and evaluate the effects that health policies have
not just on a single area, but across the globe. Ultimately, the nurse practitioner
should promote improved delivery of services to the patient to improve safety and
health outcomes (Adult-Gerontology NP Competencies Work Group, 2016). I hope
you give this some thought as nursing education really needs to include policy
development! We need nurses invested in leadership and transformation of the field.
Great post!
Clint R.
References
Adult-Gerontology NP Competencies Work Group. (2016). Adult-
gerontology actue care and primary care NP competencies.
The National organization of nurse practitioner faculties. Retrieved
November 4, 2021,
from https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nonpf.org/resource/resmgr/
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American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (2020, June 17). Are
you considering a career as an adult-gerontology primary
care nurse practitioner? Retrieved November 4, 2021,