INSTRUCTIONS
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections:
- Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
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- Reflect on your learning experience. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact? How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice as a master’s prepared nurse?
- Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve Program Outcome 5: Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Extraordinary Nursing).
- Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve ONE of the subcompetencies listed below that are related to the AACN Essentials Competency 10.3: Develop Capacity for Leadership:
- 10.3j Provide leadership to advance the nursing profession
- 10.3k Influence intentional change guided by leadership principles and theories.
- 10.3l Evaluate the outcomes of intentional change
- 10.m Evaluate strategies/methods for peer review
- 10.3n Participate in the evaluation of other members of the care team
- 10.3o Demonstrate leadership skills in times of uncertainty and crisis
- 10.3p Advocate for the promotion of social justice and eradication of structural racism and systematic inequity in nursing and society
- 10.3q Advocate for the nursing profession in a manner that is consistent, positive, relevant, accurate, and distinctive.
ANSWER
The course was enlightening and the concepts were demonstrative of the aspects of leadership in advanced nursing practice. Among the concepts that I learned in the course, the ideas on leading change and change management theories stood out. Change in nursing is inevitable and having the skills to manage and drive change is essential for an advanced practice nurse. Ensuring that every person participates in the change and creates effective strategies to ensure the organization transitions through the change process is vital for success and that is why I found the concepts to be essential. I will use the concepts that I learned in the course to improve my leadership and management capabilities. Specifically, I will likely take up leadership roles and the concepts learned in this course like leadership skills, managing teams, and … To access full answer, use the purchase button below to proceed.