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Reflection Discussion Prompt: Reflecting on Course of Pathophysiology Outcomes and Professional Growth

Overview: This course has provided you with the opportunity to strengthen your nursing practice by integrating nursing science with leadership strategies to deliver high-quality care across diverse healthcare settings. For this discussion, reflect on how this course has helped you achieve the following outcomes:

1. Integrate nursing and related sciences into the delivery of care to clients across diverse healthcare settings.

2. Create effective interdisciplinary organizational and systems leadership in the care of the client in diverse healthcare settings.

Instructions:

1. Reflect on Outcome 1:

o Discuss how the course content, assignments, or activities helped you integrate nursing and related sciences (e.g., evidence-based practice, pathophysiology, or health informatics) into client care.

o Provide a specific example of how this knowledge can be applied to diverse healthcare settings, such as acute care, community health, or primary care.

2. Reflect on Outcome 2:

o Describe how this course enhanced your understanding of interdisciplinary organizational and systems leadership.

o Share an example of how you can apply this leadership knowledge to improve collaboration, care coordination, and patient outcomes in diverse healthcare environments.

3. Link to Practice:

o Explain how these outcomes align with your current or future nursing role.

o Discuss any new insights or changes in perspective regarding client care and leadership in healthcare systems.

4. Support Your Reflection:

o Include at least one scholarly source to support your reflection. Use APA format for in-text citations and the reference list. 

The course has been very informative. I have gained in-depth information about pathophysiology, evidence-based practice, and health informatics. By learning pathophysiology, I have advanced my knowledge of disease processes and how diseases progress and affect body functions. For any healthcare professional, an elaborate knowledge of pathophysiology helps aid the diagnosis and treatment of different health conditions. Besides primary care, the knowledge gained about pathophysiology can also be applied to community health. It can be used to develop interventions for the prevention of diseases. As the causes and risk factors of the disease are known, it is possible to create and implement effective prevention programs, reducing the incidence rates of disease and building healthier populations across diverse communities.

The course has enhanced my understanding of collaboration across healthcare. I have learned that through transformational leadership, collaboration, care coordination, and positive patient outcomes are achievable. Transformational leadership empowers and motivates team members to provide high-quality, patient-centered care. It addresses the gaps across the continuum of care, improving efficiency. I can apply this leadership knowledge to promote the implementation of healthcare systems such as Electronic Health Records. These systems improve the flow of information across departments, enhancing cooperation across multidisciplinary healthcare professionals. As the flow of information is enhanced, there are reduced risks of errors, thus improving patient safety. 

In my current nursing role, I provide primary care to patients. The course outcomes align with my role. I have advanced my knowledge about disease processes, which will improve my understanding of the clinical manifestations of diseases, their potential implications, and disease processes. According to Galicia-Garcia et al. (2020), pathophysiology is integral in the management of chronic diseases such as hypertension. Based on the research evidence, I am more confident in my ability to identify factors that contribute to disease development, implement individualized treatments, and assess how a disease progresses and responds to therapeutic interventions.

Reference

Galicia-Garcia, U., Benito-Vicente, A., Jebari, S., Larrea-Sebal, A., Siddiqi, H., Uribe, K. B., Ostolaza, H., & Martín, C. (2020). Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(17), 6275. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21176275 

• Discuss examples of internal and external factors that impact an organization and its ability to change
• Describe the characteristics of S.M.A.R.T. goals

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources

• Discuss examples of internal and external factors that impact an organization and its ability to change
• Describe the characteristics of S.M.A.R.T. goals
•  Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources. 

1. Upload your Dissemination of Evidence Video Presentation to the discussion board.
2. Use supportive evidence from the assigned reading in the course textbook to share one way that you as a nurse scholar can disseminate your work to enhance clinical practice.
3. Use supportive evidence from the assigned reading in the course textbook to discuss two best practices for disseminating the evidence using your selected method.
4. After completing your initial post, select two peers’ video presentations for review. Support your response by citing and referencing the assigned textbook.

Scholarly Assingment

For this assignment, you will write on the pharmacological management of a disease. It should include a review of the:

• Select a disease process that is of interest to you.
• Pathophysiology of the disease state.
• Review of the pharmacological agents used for treatment and important information related to advanced practice nurse.
• clearly write a title for this topic: For examples, “Pharmacological Effects of Anti-Hypertensive Medications in the Management of Hypertension”.

Submission Instructions:

• clear and concise with proper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
• current APA and 5-7 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
• Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles within your work

RUBRIC INCLUDED

Treatments for Musculoskeletal & Neurological/Psychological Disorders

Based on Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources and experience, please answer the following questions:

1. Describe the diagnostic criteria of osteoarthritis versus rheumatoid arthritis
2. Discuss types of headaches and their treatment 
3. Discuss types of seizures and treatment
4. Discuss Parkinson’s disease, its causes, symptoms, and treatment
5. Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources within the past 5 yrs.
  • Each question must be answered individually as in bullet points.
• course textbook Arcangelo, P. V., Peterson, M. A., Wilbur, V., & Reinhold, A. J. (2017)

Treatments for Genitourinary Tract Disorders

Based on Module 6: Lecture Materials & Resources and experience, please answer the following questions:

1. Describe urinary tract infection, causes, symptoms and treatment
2. Discuss treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia
3. Describe overactive bladder, causes, symptoms and treatment 
4. Treatment options and recommendations for different STIs (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis)
5. Submission Instructions:

• Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in the current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources within the past 5 yrs.
  • Each question must be answered individually as in bullet points.

  course textbook Arcangelo, P. V., Peterson, M. A., Wilbur, V., & Reinhold, A. J. (2017)