Students are required to submit weekly reflective narratives throughout the course that will culminate in a final, course-long reflective journal due in Topic 10. The narratives help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week students should also explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).

In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. Journal entries should address one or more of the areas stated below.  In the Topic 10 graded submission, each of the areas below should be addressed as part of the summary submission.

New practice approaches

Interprofessional collaboration

1. Health care delivery and clinical systems
2. Ethical considerations in health care
3. Practices of culturally sensitive care
4. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
5. Population health concerns
6. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
7. Health policy
8. Leadership and economic models
9. Health disparities;

Also this is week one objectives:

The first step in developing an evidence-based, practice change proposal is to identify an issue or problem that is significant to nursing practice. In this topic, students will examine a health care clinical problem or an organizational issue and its implications to nursing practice.

Objectives:

1. Create a plan for successful completion of the course.
2. Integrate reflective practice in the form of a reflective journal.
3. Demonstrate interprofessional collaboration during the creation of the capstone project change proposal