Assignment: Nursing Leadership Essay Paper

COURSE: NURSING LEADERSHIP

TOPIC: Practice Improvement Formal Paper using Current Nursing Leadership Strengths and Philosophy

I have attached the rubric and a sample of a paper, which is how it should be done. It must be done on my clinical practice place and based on nursing leadership. Must answer all rubric areas. DO NOT pick another place must be my information.

– 5 pages body

– APA Format

– 3 minimum citations/ in-text (within 5 years old)

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ MY IMPORTANT NOTES:

– I do my clinicals at “Hialeah Hospital with Dr. Hinkson”.

– I am shadowing a nurse in a lead position and she is also the director of education.

Link to clinical site website: 

Practice Improvement Formal Paper Odine Jacques Miami Dade College NUR4945C Advance Nursing Concepts Practicum Dr. Espinosa 11/14/21 2 Call Practice Improvement Formal Paper My advanced nursing concepts practicum was at the University of Miami Lennar Medical Foundation. I was assigned to the Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) unit. Lennar Medical Foundation is one of the recognized healthcare facilities in Miami. The facility focuses on different specialized healthcare services such as individualized cardiology, imaging services, neurology, ophthalmology, physical therapy, outpatient surgery, otolaryngology, pain management, sports medicine, primary care, and urology. The healthcare services target all groups of patients in the community. During the practicum, I realized that the healthcare facility serves diverse groups of healthcare consumers in terms of background, behaviors, lifestyle, attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs. For this reason, I believe that the integration of interventions to improve cultural competence is required to reduce the witnessed health disparity across different population groups (Curtis et al., 2019; Zarzycka et al., 2020). The goal of reducing health disparities across different community groups remains a primary target in the healthcare sector in the United States and across the globe.

Cultural competence is considered one of the effective interventions that could be integrated to solve this problem. The reason for this recommendation is that cultural competence is considered as a caring approach that pays attention to the diversity-related characteristics inclined to the culture of different groups in a population (Truong et al., 2014; McCalman et al., 2017). For this reason, cultural competence in healthcare integrates the cultural issues that impact different dimensions of well-being and health care. From my practicum experience, patients who visited the facility came from different backgrounds, and this shaped their perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes. Culture defines healthcare experiences and outcomes among individuals, which cumulatively shape the dimensions of disparity being witnessed. 3 Scholarly evaluations have ascertained how a lack of clarity regarding the approach to optimize cultural competence in healthcare exists. Such an occurrence has contributed to exacerbating patients’ experiences while seeking and consuming healthcare services. Since there is a lack of consensus around how cultural competence is conceptualized and operationalized, the same phenomenon is shifted to the workplace (Curtis et al., 2019; Jongen et al., 2018). Therefore, in most cases, practitioners are unable to effectively integrate cultural diversity while delivering care services to a multicultural population. I realized that Lennar Medical Foundation has integrated the use of targeted programs for practitioners to improve their group-specific knowledge.

At the same time, the organization has programs that seek to foster the effectiveness of universal models of care. However, from my experience, I believe that there is more to be done to reduce disparity in healthcare experience and outcomes in the long run. The first dimension that I realized the facility needs to integrate into its operation is the individuation of care interventions to promote patient well-being and quality outcomes. In this case, providers are expected to make conscious efforts and decisions that focus on people with their respective characteristics and behaviors as opposed to their group identities (Truong et al., 2014; McCalman et al., 2017). Considering a patient as a separate individual from the universal group identity to which they belong allows practitioners to optimize their experiences. Furthermore, the idea of individuation while delivering care services calls for the consideration of a patient’s biases and stereotypes without making them a priority over beneficence. Although patients are to be respected all the time, it does not imply that their stereotypes and biases should interfere with the quality of care to be delivered (Jowsey, 2019). For this reason, I realized that Lennar Medical Foundation needs to transform its approach from a group perspective and 4 identities to an individualized approach to care delivery. The collective effect of such a move could transform the community in the long run and reduce disparity in healthcare characteristics. The second element that I believe could improve culturally competent care at Lennar Medical Foundation is patient advocacy from a cultural perspective. Practitioners such as nurses, physicians, and other paraprofessionals in healthcare are patient advocates. When it comes to culture, it is necessary to reconsider an approach that is beyond the universal framework of care delivery since one size does not fit all (Jongen et al., 2018).

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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