NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities

NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities

Hello. My name is xxx and I have been a nurse for almost 5 years. I worked at a small critical access hospital for the first year where I learned a lot about nursing quickly. I then worked for three years on a surgical unit at a level one trauma center at UW Hospital in Madison, WI. I now work in the Neuroscience ICU at the same hospital. I am very happy in the ICU and love what I do. I have a husband of a year and half and a four year old dog. My dog’s name is Nora and she is a Wheaten Terrier, and she always is within about six inches of me when I am at home. My husband works for Epic, which is an Electronic Health Record (EHR) that many companies across the US use for documentation and billing purposes. I wish we lived somewhere a little warmer but he really loves his job and so do I, so we are staying put for now NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities.

Waldens goals and mission statement are ones that are important to me, as it speaks a lot about the university. Their mission is to provide “a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change” (Walden University, n.d.). This is very important to me as a non-traditional student. I am a grad student attending school online, which is more common these days, but I still like to think that the school respects diversity and understands that not all students benefit from the same situation. For me personally, I would not have been able to benefit from a rigid classroom setting. The college of nursing vision statement discusses a “continuum of care… across the human life span to meet the needs of individuals and local and global communities” (Walden University, n.d.). This is powerful to me because I would like the opportunity to care for individuals across their lifespan, through becoming a FNP. And while I know that I will have an impact on my patients that I care for individually, it may be nice to create a larger impact throughout my career, which Walden makes possible. While I may work in a clinic setting, I may someday find the time and energy to advocate for the importance of unions in the healthcare setting NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities.

The MSN program outcomes also align with the goals that I have for myself. I would like to provide cost effective care on a daily basis, which is heavily emphasized in the program outcomes. The program outcome that resonates the most with me is “Evaluate health needs of diverse populations for necessary teaching/coaching functions based on specialist nursing knowledge to restore/promote health and prevent illness/injury” (Walden University, n.d.). Additionally, I would like to practice as a scholarly practitioner and always incorporate current evidence based practice to promote the best outcomes for my patients. Additionally, I am a preceptor to new nurses and nursing students, so I am always trying to provide them with a quality education that will promote improved outcomes for their patients in the future. Patelarou et al. (2020) reports that undergraduate nursing students are not exposed to enough EBP and lack skills because of this. So my goal is often to incorporate EBP into all of the education that I provide to my students. From an academic perspective, it is always enlightening to be exposed to so much evidence based practice during the educational process. Oftentimes I find myself incorporating new practice to promote safety and infection prevention in my daily practice, which are two aspects of healthcare that I am very passionate about. I think working in the neuro ICU has led me to appreciate extremely clean work environments, as many of my patients have drains that are going into their brain, and an infection in this area would be catastrophic to their recovery NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities.

Academic and professional resources through the University include professors and advisors, as well as writing center resources and more. I look forward to improving my writing skills over the next two years. Since I work at a teaching hospital, it seems that the resources provided to me are practically endless. I work directly with many NPs. My manager is a great advocate and resource, as are the charge nurses, and even the nurses I work with on a daily basis. Many of my coworkers are pursuing higher education and working toward becoming Nurse Practitioners or have the goal of becoming CRNAs. I enjoy being surrounded by so many professionals with great potential. I am excited to hopefully be working to my full potential as a nurse practitioner in just a few years. A recent case study during the Covid-19 crisis was able to show that NPs provide high-quality patient centered care when there was a shortage of doctors available (Thomas-Gayle & Muller, 2021). I look forward to working with all of you and learning together over the next two years! NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities

 References

 Patelarou, A. E., Mechili, E. A., Ruzafa-Martinez, M., Dolezel, J., Gotlib, J., Skela-Savič, B., Ramos-Morcillo, A. J., Finotto, S., Jarosova, D., Smodiš, M., Mecugni, D., Panczyk, M., & Patelarou, E. (2020). Educational Interventions for Teaching Evidence-Based Practice to Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Scoping Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17). https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.3390/ijerph17176351

Thomas-Gayle, P. & Muller, L. S. (2021). Nurse Practitioners Bridging the Gap. Professional Case Management, 26(1), 38–42. doi: 10.1097/NCM.0000000000000481.

Walden University. (n.d.). College of Nursing. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son#s-lg-box-3837398

Walden University. (n.d.). Walden University catalog. Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu

Walden University. (n.d.). Walden University catalog. Retrieved March 1, 2021, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu

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Your vision, mission, and goals are  in perfect line with Walden University’s vision, mission, and goals. More so, with the quality of academic, clinical, environmental, and social educational preparation and exposure, the Walden student is adequately and legitimately prepared to take on the primary care provider. This is due to the fact that any Walden prepared nurse practitioner has been built by astute professors to take on the world of expert leaders, confident fearless speakers, who fight for the common good of the society related to health care issues and services especially for the targeted special populations of our society. Walden prepared nurse practitioners are equipped  on how to manage received grants, or raise funds to provide and make available accessible clinics-ambulatory, non-ambulatory, children’s hospital, maternity clinics, on-the-site care centers, etc. (Walden University, n.d., 2018).

Walden students nurse practitioners form the solid networking that will influence and penetrate into the grassroots of pursuing positive health care policies for the good of the society (Wofford, 2018).

In conclusion, the inevitable successful story of the student nurse practitioner is well written with the assistance of the enrollment specialists, our instructors, the writing center specialists, nursing organizations who have the quest to make ensure that the institute of nursing is equivalent to the Institute of medicine (Walden University, n.d., 2018) NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities.

References

Nurse.org. (n.d.). List of nursing organizations. Retrieved November 14, 2018, https://nurse.org/orgs.shtml

Schmidt, K. (n.d.). 5 reasons nurse should in professional networking. [Blog post]. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://blog.bluepipes.com/5-reasons-nurses-should-take-professional-networking-seriously/

Walden University. (n.d.). Connect to Walden. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://www.waldenu.edu/connect

Wofford, P. (2018). 10 networking tips for nurses who hate networking. Retrieved from https://nurse.org/articles/tips-for-nurse-networking/

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I enjoyed reading your post. Your post made me miss ICU. I had visions of Ventrics and Balloon Pumps in my head. Your husband working for Epic reminded me of a lifetime ago when I was a Superuser for them. I’m sure Epic has changed a lot over the ten years it has been since I used it. I agree with you in regards to the physician shortage. NPs and other mid-levels will be the futures of healthcare. Many MDs and DOs will need to go into surgery to offset the shortage as the need for surgeons grows. This will further increase the shortage of clinic based physicians. According to Boyle (2020) two out of five physicians will be over 65 in the next ten years. Their age of retirement will vary, but this figure indicates that the number of physicians practicing will decrease expeditiously over the next few decades. This will create a void that NPs and mid-levels will be able to fill.

Resources

Boyle, P. (2020, June 26). U.S. physician shortage growing. AAMC. https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/us-physician-shortage-growing NURS – 6003N Week 1 Discussion: Networking Opportunities

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