1. Complete this week’s assigned readings, chapters 39-43.

2. After completing the readings, post a short reflection, approximately 1 paragraph in length, discussing your thoughts and opinions about one or several of the specific topics covered in the textbook readings.

3. Identify which one MSN Essential most relates to your selected topic in your discussion.

Textbook

Author: Diana Mason, Deborah Gardner, Freida Outlaw, Eileen O’Grady

Publisher: Elsevier – Health Sciences Division Edition: 7th, Seventh, 7e

Year: 2016

ISBN 13: 978-0323241441

ISBN: 0323241441

• Essential I: Background for Practice from Sciences and Humanitieso Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse integrates scientific findingsfrom nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, qualityimprovement, and organizational sciences for the continual improvementof nursing care across diverse settings.

• Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadershipo Recognizes that organizational and systems leadership are critical to thepromotion of high quality and safe patient care. Leadership skills areneeded that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effectiveworking relationships, and a systems-perspective.

• Essential III: Quality Improvement and Safetyo Recognizes that a master’s-prepared nurse must be articulate in themethods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to quality, aswell as prepared to apply quality principles within an organization.

• Essential IV: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into Practiceo Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse applies research outcomeswithin the practice setting, resolves practice problems, works as a changeagent, and disseminates results.

• Essential V: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies5o Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse uses patient-care technologiesto deliver and enhance care and uses communication technologies tointegrate and coordinate care.•

Essential VI: Health Policy and Advocacyo Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse is able to intervene at thesystem level through the policy development process and to employadvocacy strategies to influence health and health care.•

Essential VII: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient andPopulation Health Outcomeso Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse, as a member and leader ofinterprofessional teams, communicates, collaborates, and consults withother health professionals to manage and coordinate care.

• Essential VIII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health for ImprovingHealtho Recognizes that the master’s-prepared nurse applies and integrates broad,organizational, client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in theplanning, delivery, management, and evaluation of evidence-based clinicalprevention and population care and services to individuals, families, andaggregates/identified populations.

• Essential IX: Master’s-Level Nursing Practiceo Recognizes that nursing practice, at the master’s level, is broadly definedas any form of nursing intervention that influences healthcare outcomesfor individuals, populations, or systems. Master’s-level nursing graduatesmust have an advanced level of understanding of nursing and relevantsciences as well as the ability to integrate this knowledge into practice. .Nursing practice interventions include both direct and indirect carecomponents.