Within the Discussion Board area, write 500-1000 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Your primary response is the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. You are required to use two scholarly resources from peer-reviewed journals no more than 3-5 years old, in addition to your course textbooks. Be substantive and clear, and use examples from the literature to reinforce your ideas.

For the past 100 years, nursing education has been the focus of numerous reports (e.g. the Flexner Report, the Institute of Medicine, the QSEN Initiative, the Carnegie Report) and academic organizations (e.g. AACN, NLN) have issued position statements and/or developed guidelines regarding where nursing education should take place and what its focus should be. Please answer the following:

Relative to the current trends in nursing education, how would you construct a curriculum that is innovative and relevant, able to fully engage learners and facilitate student growth, reflect evidence-based practices, and reflects are a collaborative experience?

Consider the following in your response:

• The primary diver for the development of professional knowledge and how that is embedded in the standards of patient care.
• The identification of competencies.
• The benefits and drawbacks of competency-based v. traditional curricula in nursing programs.

Select the specific theoretical framework that you will use with your project(  leadership is your pick)  Describe how the theory that you chose aligns with your capstone project. Include the following information:

Describe the key features of the selected theoretical framework/model. What are its major components?

• Identify specific research approaches appropriate for use with the theoretical model or framework and how it fits with your intended project.
  • Does the model lend itself to quantitative or qualitative methods or both?
  • What kind of quantitative/qualitative methods would be most appropriate? (Focus groups, interviews, pre/post-tests, record review, survey, etc.)
• Describe how the theoretical framework might be used to evaluate the program/project and critique how well the model fits the program or project.
  • What aspects of the model works well and what aspects do not?
  • Why?

Expectations

• Capt stone project: nurse retention 
• Length: 2-3 pages  not including references
• Citations: Scholarly reference(s) from within the last 5 years.
• Format: APA 7th ed.
• Use the title “Theoretical Model Framework.”

try to use mainly US sources. 

Interview with a Culturally Competent Healthcare Professional

Healthcare Professional Interview:

Interview with a culturally competent Registered Nurse, Nursing Leader, or Advanced Practice Nurse. BSN students must select a nursing professional with a BSN or higher degree in nursing practice. The interview must address the following topics:

• The practitioner’s philosophy regarding cultural diversity. (10 points)
• Their strategies for providing culturally congruent healthcare. (10 points)
• How do they address the uniqueness of cultural health practices? (Provide examples). (10 points)
• How do they address issues such as cultural bias, language barriers, and client conflict? (10 points)
• The challenges and benefits of addressing healthcare disparities. (Provide examples). (10 points)

This is an all-or-none assignment. Please ensure that all of the concepts listed above are included in your interview. The interview should be at least one page in length and uploaded. Please pay close attention to spelling and grammar.

  

Describe two cognitive techniques and two behavioral techniques. In what types of situations would you choose each?

Two scholarly sources references are required.

Initial Post relevance to the topic of discussion, applicability, and insight. 

  

Quality of Written Communication Appropriateness of   audience and words choice is specific, purposeful, dynamic, and varied.   Grammar, spelling, punctuation. 

  

Inclusion of APNA standards essentials explored in the discussion as     well as the role-specific competencies as applicable

(Use articles that are below 5 years)

Introduction

The health care industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a shared vision and team goals (Mulvale et al., 2016). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.

You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency

· Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.

· Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.

· Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.

· Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

· Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

· Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.

· Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.

· Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Reference

Mulvale, G., Embrett, M., & Shaghayegh, D. R. (2016). 'Gearing up' to improve interprofessional collaboration in primary care: A systematic review and conceptual framework. 
BMC Family Practice, 
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Professional Context

This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.

Scenario

Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.

Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee's organization.

Instructions

For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.

The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.

Using the 
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]
 Download Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

· Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

· Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.

· Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

· Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.

· Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

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Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2–4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.

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Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.

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APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.

Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The 
Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.

Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.