DNP_840_Week_7_Assignment_Benchmark_Assignment___Comprehensive_Assessment_Part_Two__Outcomes_and_Reflection

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DNP_840_Week_7_Assignment_Benchmark_Assignment___Comprehensive_Assessment_Part_Two__Outcomes_and_ReflectionOUTCOMES AND REFLECTION 2 Doctoral nursing practice (DNP) is made up of many categories. Evi... dence based research shows how a plethora of activities are carried out by professionals. A Direct Practice Improvement Project (DPI) is recommended to be taken by the DNP student. This helps students to be equipped with the necessary skills as well as competence needed (Bush, 2014). The nurses are expected to meet the requirements of developing necessary experiences such as in Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP). This project is designed to show how patients who are admitted to health care facilities that develops Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) (Pamer, 2016). The project will evaluate whether indulging in the practice of ASP programs will help nurses to be prepared to take action. While preparing the project and getting grants that will help to afford one the opportunity to be enlightened more in the skills and the essentials of DNP (Bush, 2014). The reflective paper will be a reflection of information obtained. Outcome 1 The DNP program is designed to help the DNP student to learn the essentials of putting the project together and how to effectively gather information. Among them, the need for nurses operating at this level to “integrate and apply appropriate nursing and science-based theories in evaluation and analysis of health and health care phenomena as well as develop and implement innovative practice approaches” is paramount (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy, & O'Grady, 2013). The DNP prepared nurse is required to combine different theoretical concepts with what they have learned throughout the DNP course (Hamric et al., 2013). The Health Belief Model (HBM), “posits that messages will achieve optimal behavior change if they successfully target perceived barriers, benefits, self-efficacy, and threat” (Jones, Jensen, Scherr, Brown, Christy, & Weaver, 2015). Using the Nightingale's model, it will allow staff to focus on the fact that a patient’s [Show More]

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