Assignment: Social and Environmental Data

NOW F OR AN ORIGINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT:Assignment: Social and Environmental Data

Use epidemiological, social, and environmental data in drawing inferences regarding the health status of patient populations and interventions to promote and preserve health and healthy lifestyles.

7. Use knowledge of illness and disease management to provide evidence-based care

to populations, perform risk assessments, and design plans or programs of care. 8. Incorporate core scientific and ethical principles in identifying potential and

actual ethical issues arising from practice, including the use of technologies, and in assisting patients and other healthcare providers to address such issues.

9. Apply advanced knowledge of the effects of global environmental, individual and

population characteristics to the design, implementation, and evaluation of care.

10. Employ knowledge and skills in economics, business principles, and systems in the design, delivery, and evaluation of care.

11. Apply theories and evidence-based knowledge in leading, as appropriate, the

healthcare team to design, coordinate, and evaluate the delivery of care. 12. Apply learning, and teaching principles to the design, implementation, and

evaluation of health education programs for individuals or groups in a variety of settings.

13. Establish therapeutic relationships to negotiate patient-centered, culturally

appropriate, evidence-based goals and modalities of care. 14. Design strategies that promote lifelong learning of self and peers and that

incorporate professional nursing standards and accountability for practice. 15. Integrate an evolving personal philosophy of nursing and healthcare into one’s

nursing practice.

Sample Content

• Principles of leadership, including horizontal and vertical leadership • Effective use of self • Advocacy for patients, families, and the discipline • Conceptual analysis of the master’s-prepared nurse’s role(s) • Principles of lateral integration of care • Clinical Outcomes Management, including the measurement and analysis of patient

outcomes • Epidemiology • Biostatistics • Health promotion and disease reduction/ prevention management for patients and

clinical populations • Risk assessment • Health literacy • Principles of mentoring, coaching and counseling • Principles of adult learning • Evidence-based practice:

o Clinical decision making and judgment o Critical thinking o Problem Identification o Outcome measurement

• Care environment management • Team coordination, including delegation, coaching, interdisciplinary care, group

process • Negotiation, understanding group dynamics, conflict resolution • Healthcare reimbursement and reform and how it impacts practice • Resource allocation • Use of healthcare technologies to improve patient care delivery and outcomes • Healthcare finance and socioeconomic principles • Principles of quality management/risk reduction/patient safety • Informatics principles and use of standardized language to document care and