Nursing Excellence Assignment

Nursing Excellence Assignment

Nursing Excellence Assignment

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Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”

References:

Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.
Note: Since it is difficult to edit the APA reference in the Blackboard discussion area, you can copy and paste APA references from your Word document to the Blackboard discussion area. Points will not be deducted because of format changes in spacing.

Peer discussion 1

In this week’s discussion we will be talking about two organizations that help us to keep up Nursing Excellence. Although there are many organizations I chose to talk about The Joint Commission and the World Health Organization. I will discuss the purpose of each of these organizations, and the roles they have in nursing education and practice. I will also discuss how they impact the nursing profession, and how they influence nursing excellence.

The purpose of the Joint Commission is to make sure that the most up to date and safest practices are implemented into healthcare and that the care of the community is always improving to make sure that everyone is getting the best possible care. The World Health Organizations purpose is to be responsible for leadership on a global level, to organize research all over the world. Giving healthcare options in their evidenced based policies, and monitoring health trends all over the world. (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, National League of Nursing, QSEN Institute, The Joint Commission, World Health Organization 2012-2014) Many times the Facility in which I work, provides us with information from the Joint Commission that is shown to be the best possible practice, and how we can implement it into our job. Such as adopting a Quantitative Blood loss for our patient’s after delivering a baby, so we have a better idea of the blood they may be losing at or after delivery.

The impact that the Joint Commission has on nursing practice is that it sets many quality standards for health care organization so that they can provide the safest of quality care to their patient’s. The Joint Commission also evaluates their performances to make sure that there is follow through with the standards of care they have set. (The Joint Commission, 2014) The World Health Organization’s (WHO) impact on Nursing practice is a little different because it is more focused on their Nursing Now campaign that focus’ more on improving the status of nurses and enable nurses to contribute as much as they can in order for WHO to achieve global health care. (World Health Organization, 2018)

The Joint Commission (TJC) plays a large role in nursing education, and in nursing research. TJC provides education to staff for improvement of the way the organization runs, it also is continuing for these organization and then is thoroughly reviewed by TJC. That way they know what is being educated is being followed through with. They provide ongoing support and advice for the organizations and the staff members to help them provide the safest most up to date care. They are heavily involved in making sure that what they are educating is evidenced based care and most up to date, researching everything and helping to implement policies. (The Joint Commission, 2018) The World Health Organization (WHO) plays a role in nursing education by not only trying to get more health care workers before the 21st century but to also give those and the current health care workers, better skills, competencies and clinical experience that they may be lacking. The WHO has so many different research studies that there are too many to even count. They are current on their studies and they are up to date with the health trends from around the world. They play a huge important role in nursing research. (The World Health Organization, n.d.)

The Joint Commission and the World Health Organization, both provide nursing excellence by being resources for health care systems. TJC is a resource for the United States and the WHO is global but they both are resources for many health care systems. They are both non-profit organizations that provide many different accreditations to different organizations. They are both very important to the safety of our patient’s and educating not only staff but also the organizations that they are employed at. I support both organization’s due to the good evidenced-based research that they do, and to the education they provide to everyone.

In conclusion both The Joint Commission and the World Health Organization are working towards the same goals, just with different territories. They both have a large impact on nursing practices, education, research and are excellent resources for multiple health care organizations.

References

American Association of Colleges of Nursing, National League of Nursing, QSEN Institute, The Joint Commission, World Health Organization (2012-2014). What is Nursing Excellence [Lecture notes]. Retrieved from https://blackboard.ohio.edu/bbcswebdav/courses/NRS…

The Joint Commission . (2014). Inspiring Health Care Excellence. Retrieved from https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/General…

The Joint Commission . (2018). Benefits of joint commission accreditation . Retrieved from https://www.jointcommission.org/benefits_of_joint_…

The World Health Organization . (n.d.). Education and Training. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/hrh/education/en/

World Health Organization. (2018). Nursing Now campaign: empowering nurses to improve global health. Retrieved from http://www.emro.who.int/media/news/nursing-now-cam…

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

 

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.