What is the importance of de-prescribing? How might you assist a patient to taper from a medication safely or transition to a new medication? In this Assignment, you will use the following patient examples to write a 5- to 6-page paper on considerations you have for...
Week 4: Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, and Implementation Science: Interrelationships From your experience as a registered nurse or APRN, how does change occur in a health care setting? How do outdated protocols get updated or the actual root cause of a...
Week 3: Other Theories That Support Nursing Practice The value of interdisciplinary learning is the beauty of drawing on knowledge and strategies from multiple fields. Imagine how ill-prepared a nurse would be who only studied human systems. Patients are naturally...
Week 2: Applying Middle-Range Theories to Nursing Practice As a registered nurse or APRN, no doubt the issue of managing patient pain is one you have dealt with repeatedly. In identifying successful approaches to addressing and alleviating pain, you may have looked to...
Week 1: Philosophy of Nursing Practice Imagine the illustrated “cloud” in this image could represent your thoughts as you consider your nursing practice, your nursing experiences, and the influences that shape your attitudes and beliefs about nursing and health care....
Week 6: The Doctorally Prepared Nurse: Ethical Issues and Advocacy for Social Change Throughout this course, you have considered and reflected on how the DNP-prepared nurse advocates for positive social change, whether that stems from direct patient-level care or more...
