Week 3Professional Support and Collaboration

Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to identify and evaluate individuals who provided professional support and mentoring throughout your DNP program. These individuals may include your preceptor, mentor, course faculty, or others who assisted you in finding the right direction in your course work, practice change project, and practicum experience.

Instructions

Reflect on your readings this week and respond to the following in 150 words or less:

1. Identify 2-3 individuals who provided professional support, mentoring, or who helped guide you throughout your DNP degree program and/or during your DNP practice change project design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
2. Evaluate the influence that intraprofessional or interprofessional collaboration with the individuals you identified had on your success in the DNP degree program.

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Program Competencies

This discussion enables the student to meet the following program competencies:

1. Integrates scientific underpinnings into everyday clinical practice. (POs 3, 5)
2. Applies organizational and system leadership skills to affect systemic changes in corporate culture and to promote continuous improvement in clinical outcomes. (PO 6)
3. Uses analytic methods to translate critically appraised research and other evidence into clinical scholarship for innovative practice improvements. (POs 3, 5)
4. Appraises current information systems and technologies to improve health care. (POs 6, 7)
5. Creates a supportive organizational culture for flourishing collaborative teams to facilitate clinical disease prevention and promote population health at all system levels. (PO 8)
6. Leads others in professional identity, advanced clinical judgment, systems thinking, resilience, and accountability in selecting, implementing, and evaluating clinical care. (POs 1, 4)

Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Develop a comprehensive plan for communicating the results of the evaluation of the DNP project for determination of sustainability and replication. (PCs 1, 2, 3, 4; POs 5, 6)
2. Use project management processes to implement the DNP project. (PCs 6 8; POs 4, 8)