NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
Value: Complete/Incomplete
Due: Day 7
Grading Category: Complete/Incomplete
Instructions
Over the past several weeks you have examined all nine student learning outcomes (SLOs) that provided an opportunity to reflect upon your achievements in accordance to academic standards. This week you will review and examine The Essentials outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The AACN revised the Essentials outlining the following Domains. The domains and descriptors used in the Essentials are listed below. NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
Selects a minimum of one Domain and describe how the Domain and SLOs facilitated competency in your DNP education and in professional practice in a minimum of 250 words.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate the theoretical bases for nursing as they support organizations in achievement of adaptation and culturally competent care for health care delivery. 2. Synthesize evidence from research and theory to enhance delivery of quality health care. 3. Develop systems supportive of effective communication at the organizational and interdisciplinary level. 4. Generate knowledge through research and/or evidence-based practice to advance the nursing profession. 5. Evaluate ethical, legal, and professional standards of practice. 6. Evaluate the leadership and management roles of the doctoral prepared nurse in creating a quality health care delivery system. 7. Create an environment that maximizes continued learning and development for professional practice. 8. Evaluate the dynamic forces and issues influencing health care delivery in order to initiate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary change that affects the quality of the health care system. 9. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and of educational strategies in influencing health care practitioners toward the design and implementation of effective health care delivery. NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
Essential Domains
Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
Domain 4: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies Descriptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values. NU-740: Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs
Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development Descriptor: Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.
Review the SLOs addressed and consider the essentials and domains revising your word document as needed.
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