Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective.docx

This document provides an annotated bibliography by Olubunmi Salako for a leadership and management in nursing course. It summarizes four sources that discuss various aspects of patient education, nursing standards, and healthcare policy. The sources examine how competency-based nursing curriculum and educational interventions can improve compliance with nursing standards. They also discuss how health policies and addressing social determinants can help reduce public health problems and disparities. The annotations provide details on the authors and relevance of each source to topics like patient education, nursing practice standards, and using policy to influence health outcomes.

SMART GOAL Leadership SMART Goal Leadership goal Setting a goal is important since it really gives clarity to a person’s vision. A goal specifies the outcome of what one wants to accomplish (Jay, 2011). Developing a SMART leadership goal ensures that one’s goal is actually focused and offers a clear idea of what one wants to accomplish. In essence, a goal that is SMART makes it simpler for one to come up with pertinent activities, to measure his or her progress towards accomplishing the goal, and know when he or she has met his/her goal (Jay, 2011). For me, setting a SMART goal will make what I want tangible since I am declaring to myself that this is really what I want. Basically, the SMART goal will help me to focus my everyday energy towards making my dreams and wishes come true. My set goal is SMART in the following way: Specific: Haughey (2014) pointed out that a specific goal has to be focused, detailed, and stated clearly. My goal is specific enough; it is to work in interdisciplinary/interprofessional teams by Week 10 (as selected from the Institute of Medicine (IOM)). In these teams, I should be able to work with other professionals to offering the best care available to transplant patients and help the patients before the transplant, during the transplant, and after. To accomplish this goal, I will greet and introduce myself to various health professionals in the Transplant Services Department so familiarize my self with the department and the transplant of patients and cooperate, collaborate, communicate, and integrate care in teams to ensure that care is continuous and reliable. In the future health care system, health professionals will have to understand the advantage of high levels of cooperation, coordination, and standardization to guarantee excellence, continuity, safety, and reliability. In short, they will have to think of themselves as a team working in and contributing to a larger system. As Don Berwick, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said at the summit,  The team members integrate their observations, bodies of expertise, and spheres of decision making. Thus this competency refers to the various disciplines working together to address the needs of patients. Interdisciplinary teams are critical in dealing with the increasing complexity of care, coordinating and responding to multiple patient needs, keeping pace with the demands of new technology, responding to the demands of payors, and delivering care across settings Teams tend to reduce the utilization of redundant or duplicate services, and they also tend to develop more creative solutions to complex problems because of their members’ diverse academic backgrounds and experience. Patients needing chronic care, critical acute care, geriatric care, and care at the end of life require smooth team functioning because of the complexity of their needs. Different means and settings for delivering care, such as managed care, community-based care, rehabilitation centers,.

This document discusses health policies and their impact on nursing practice, particularly during disasters and emergencies. It notes that health policies provide guidelines for patient care during normal times and can act as a "guiding light" during abnormal situations like disasters. Nurses must be trained on protocols and have a general understanding of what to do in emergencies in order to respond rapidly and effectively. The document also emphasizes that nurses should feel confident in their actions during emergencies and that their experiences can help inform future health policies.