Week 5
The Advanced Practice Nurse as a Mentor
DISCUSSION
PURPOSE
The purpose of this discussion is to evaluate the leadership skills and competencies needed to be an effective mentor or preceptor to promote interprofessional collaboration.
INSTRUCTIONS
Reflect on the lesson and readings this week and respond to the following:
- Identify a nurse or nurses you know who may be valuable mentors for you and support your development and growth as a DNP-prepared nurse.
- Evaluate leadership characteristics the nurse or nurses possess that you would want to emulate if you were asked to be a mentor or preceptor for a novice nurse practitioner.
- Examine your role and responsibility as a future DNP-prepared nurse in mentoring or precepting the next generation of nurses.
Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:
- Link (webpage): DNP Discussion GuidelinesLinks to an external site.
PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
This discussion enables the student to meet the following program outcomes:
- Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
- Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
- Analyzes health care policies to advocate for equitable health care and social justice to all populations and those at risk due to social determinants of health. (POs 2, 9)
- Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
- Translates a synthesis of research and population data to support preventative care and improve the nation’s health. (PO 1)
- Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)
COURSE OUTCOMES
This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- Apply leadership practices that support interprofessional collaborative practice and team effectiveness. (PCs 2, 4, 5, 6, 8; POs 2, 4, 6, 8)
- Apply ethical leadership to the role of the advanced practice nurse. (PCs 7, 8; POs 1, 4)
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