Collaboration Café
PURPOSE
The purpose of the graded Collaboration Café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nurse practitioner (NP) practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared.?This collaboration café supports the professional formation of the nurse practitioner role.?
COURSE OUTCOMES
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Examine leadership competencies and underpinnings essential for advanced nursing practice. (POs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)?
CO 2: Evaluate factors that influence healthcare delivery across diverse settings. (POs 1, 5)?
CO 3: Appraise health policy and advocacy at all levels of the healthcare system. (POs 4, 5)?
CO 4: Apply advocacy for the development of health policy to advance healthcare outcomes and equity. (PO 5)?
CO 5: Develop professional competencies to lead in diverse healthcare settings. (POs 2, 3, 4, 5)?
DUE DATE
Initial posts are due to the discussion forum by?Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Peer responses are due?by?Saturday at 11:59 p.m. MT.?Students must post on a minimum of two separate days.?A 10% late penalty will be imposed for discussions posted after the deadline?Wednesday?at 11:59 p.m. MT,?regardless of the number of days late. NOTHING will be accepted after 11:59?p.m.?MT on Saturday (i.e.,?the?student will receive an automatic 0).?????
TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE: 50 POINTS
PREPARING THE COLLABORATION CAFÉ
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections:
Application?of?Course?Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
Reflect on your learning experience. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact?? How do you envision using the concepts learned in this course in your future nursing practice as a master’s prepared nurse???
Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve Program Outcome 5: Advocates for positive health outcomes through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Extraordinary Nursing).
Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve ONE of the subcompetencies listed below that are related to the AACN Essentials Competency 10.3: Develop Capacity for Leadership:
10.3j Provide leadership to advance the nursing profession
10.3k Influence intentional change guided by leadership principles and theories.
10.3l Evaluate the outcomes of intentional change
10.m Evaluate strategies/methods for peer review
10.3n Participate in the evaluation of other members of the care team
10.3o Demonstrate leadership skills in times of uncertainty and crisis
10.3p Advocate for the promotion of social justice and eradication of structural racism and systematic inequity in nursing and society
10.3q Advocate for the nursing profession in a manner that is consistent, positive, relevant, accurate, and distinctive
Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
Respond to at least one peer.
Respond to a second peer post.
Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide?a?substantive?response to the Collaboration Café?topic (not?a?response?to a peer),?by?Wednesday,?11:59 p.m. MT?of?each week.?
Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student?peers)?on two different days during the week.??