NR667: Narrative Analysis: MSN-FNP Program / NR667: FNP Capstone Practicum & Intensive

NR667: Narrative Analysis: MSN-FNP Program / NR667: FNP Capstone Practicum & Intensive. Before the completion of the program, a narrative analysis is to be completed by summarizing and demonstrating how Chamberlain University's Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track has prepared its graduates. In this analysis, an evaluation is completed to assess how each program outcome correlated with the assignments from each class. In this review, I will summarize the evaluation of my own professional growth and development as a graduate student in the cognitive, psycho motor, and affective domains as it pertains to this program. I will also summarize the evaluation of my own professional growth and development as it pertains to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) MSN Essentials for Graduate Education and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Competencies. Lastly, I will reflect how my own cultural competencies have been transformed. How Each Artifact Meets MSN-FNP Program Outcomes There are five program outcomes in the Chamberlain College of Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner program. These program outcomes are expected to be met by all students and they include: 1. Provide high quality, safe patient centered care grounded in holistic health principles, 2. Create a caring environment for achieving quality health outcomes, 3. Engage in lifelong personal and professional growth through reflective practice and appreciation of cultural diversity, 4. Integrate professional values through scholarship and service in health care, and 5. Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice (Chamberlain University, 2021). 3 AACNS MSN Essentials The American Association of Colleges of Nursing developed nine Essentials of master’s Education as a guide for the graduate nurse to work in various health care settings (AACN, 2021). The nine essentials are 1. background for practice from science and humanities, 2. organizational and systems leadership, 3. quality improvement and safety, 4. translating and integrating scholarship into practice, 5. informatics and healthcare technologies, 6. health policy and advocacy, 7. interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population outcomes, 8. clinical prevention and population health for improving health, and 9. masters level nursing practice (AACN, 2011). Throughout this program, I have grown into a more confident leader and disseminator of patient education. I am ready to portray myself as a more confident nurse and nurse practitioner. As an inpatient nurse over the last 18 years, the AACN’s essentials ought to be the framework for how hospitals should operate. By using science and humanities to make the best clinical decisions, it would allow for better patient outcomes and improve quality and safety. Through great organizational and systems leadership, staff satisfaction would be high all while caring for our patients in a more compassionate way. NONPF Core Competencies The National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) developed core competencies that reflect the goals for each nurse practitioner program. The NONPF competencies include 1. Scientific Foundations, 2. Leadership, 3. Quality, 4. Practice inquiry, 5. Technology and information literacy, 6. Policy, 7. Health delivery system, 8. Ethics, 9. Independent practice (Nurse Practitioner Core Competencies, 2017). These competencies explain the steps involved to become confident and educated nurse practitioners. In my own 4 growth and development, I began this career with a scientific foundation by attending graduate school, becoming a leader and charge nurse on a busy cardiac unit, giving ethical and quality care to each patient, and being a disseminator of patient education. Course Artifacts Correlated to Program Outcomes NR 500NP: Foundational Concepts & Advanced Practice Roles NR 500 introduced the graduate student to the conceptual foundations and skills essential for a masters prepared nurse. This course explored the scholarly communication of ideas, the use of critical inquiry, and information dissemination (NR 500 Syllabus, n.d). Artifact #1: Area of Interest PowerPoint assignment. This assignment allowed the student to choose an area of interest, identify a practice problem, and offer positive change solutions. The topic I chose was the early assessment of depression in adolescence. The outcome achieved in this assignment was number 2 and 3. This assignment allowed the student to create a caring environment for achieving quality health outcomes by engaging in lifelong personal and professional growth through reflective practice and appreciation of cultural diversity (NR 500 Syllabus, n.d). Artifact #2: Roles in advanced practice paper. The purpose of this assignment was to provide the student an opportunity to explore the roles and competencies of the advanced practice nurse (NR 500 Syllabus, n.d). This assignment examined roles and competencies of advanced practice nurses essential to performing as leaders and advocates of holistic, safe, and quality care which is program outcome #5. Artifact #3: Systems theory and practice issues. The purpose of this discussion was to engage faculty and students in an interactive dialogue to assist the student in organizing, integrating, 5 applying, and critically appraising knowledge regarding advanced nursing practice (NR 500 Syllabus, n.d). The program outcome met during this assignment was program outcome number