To analyze own performance on the integrated comprehensive assessments and reflect on areas of opportunity and strategies to promote NCLEX-RN success and transition into practice. The student will apply the priority concept (topic) to evidence-based professional practice upon which nurses have the ability to resolve or have a positive impact. There is a focus on the healthcare disparities of the individual, as well as ethical and legal implications to professional practice. The student will discuss how an interdisciplinary approach promotes quality improvement for the patient and evidence-based professional practice, driving positive outcomes.
In this paper, the student will provide a detailed description of the relationship between the category from the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint, the priority concept (topic), and professional practice.
1) Write a 4-6 page paper (not including the title page or reference page) using APA format 2) Include the following sections
a. Introduction- 20 points/8%
• Offer a detailed description of the statement of purpose for the paper.
• Identify a priority concept (topic) from the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends:
Longitudinal Performance Table drawn from one (1) of the four (4) main categories of the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint:
Assurance of a safe and effective care environment
Health promotion and maintenance of health
Preservation of the patient population’s psychosocial integrity Preservation of the patient population’s physiological integrity
• Provide a detailed description of the relationship between the category from the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint and the priority concept (topic).
b. Importance – 20 points/8%
• Describe the importance of the priority concept (topic) to professional practice
• Describe the health of the patient population.
• Include the potential negative effect to professional practice if the priority concept (topic) is
unresolved.
• Include the potential negative effect to the patient population if the priority concept (topic) is
unresolved.
c. Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions- 70 points/28%
• Identify patient populations that may be negatively influenced by the priority concept (topic) if unresolved. • Identify healthcare resources to support evidence-based professional practice related to the priority
concept (topic).
• Summarize potential priority concept (topic) healthcare disparities and inequalities related to diverse
populations.
• Propose an evidence-based solution for the priority concept (topic) related to healthcare disparities. • Identify three (3) evidence-based practice interventions.
• Prioritize the identified evidence-based practice interventions and provide rationale.
• Discuss two (2) patient education considerations related to the priority concept (topic).
d. Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges- 40 points/16%
• Identify at least one (1) ethical and one (1) legal implication for addressing the priority concept (topic) in
professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) strategy in the prevention of an ethical dilemma related to the priority concept (topic)
in professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) strategy in the prevention of legal consequences related to the priority concept (topic)
in professional practice.
• Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of preventing the priority concept (topic) in
professional practice.
• Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of resolving the priority concept (topic) in
professional practice.
e. Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach – 20 points/8%
• Identify all the parties who will be involved in the implementation of the priority concept (topic) interventions.
• Discuss the role of each member in the intervention implementation for the priority concept (topic).
• Identify a minimum of two (2) members of a discipline outside of nursing.
• Discuss the benefit of including the identified interdisciplinary member from disciplines outside nursing to
promote evidence-based professional practice.
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f. Quality Improvement– 20 points/8%
• Provide at least one (1) benefit in patient outcomes from addressing the priority concept (topic) within the
clinical environment.
• Provide at least one (1) benefit to the nursing profession that will result from addressing this priority
concept (topic) in clinical professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to promote improved patient outcomes in the clinical
environment.
• Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to increase professional nurse knowledge promoting improved
clinical professional practice.
g. Conclusion – 20 points/8%
• Provide a thorough recap of the purpose to promote increased evidence-based professional practice knowledge related to the priority concept (topic) deficiency.
• Summarize resources identified to support improved evidence-based professional practice related to the priority concept (topic).
• Include a complete statement describing why addressing the priority concept (topic) matters and to whom.
h. APA Style and Organization– 20 points/8%
• References are submitted with the paper.
• Uses current APA format and is free of errors.
• Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
• At least three (3) scholarly, peer-reviewed, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook,
are provided. Each section should have a cited source to support the information provided.
