1. Reflect on your learning in this course. Include a discussion of specific DNP Essentials you have met through the course activities.

Please focus on III, IV and VI

2. Write out each course objective and discuss in what ways you achieved these objectives.

3. How will you apply what you have learned to your present and future practice? Give three specific examples using scholarly reference.

OBJECTIVES:

Objectives:

· Evaluate evidence based approaches to delivery of leadership services in nursing in applicable practice settings.

· Use analytic methods to critically appraise evidence including literature to determine and implement evidence based practice.

· Appraise evidence and apply it to policy development in the nursing leadership arena.

· Employ communication skills and the spirit of inquiry, nursing judgment, professional identity, and collaborative skills in the development of practice models.

· Demonstrate nursing judgment in designing, delivering, and evaluating evidence-based care to improve client and/or patient outcomes in the nursing leadership arena.

DNP ESSENTIALS LINK: http://www.dnpnursingsolutions.com/dnp-nursing-program-overview/dnp-program-essentials/

Essential I: Scientific Underpinnings for Practice

Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking Essential III: Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice Essential IV: Information Systems/Technology and Patient Care Technology for the Essential V: Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care Essential VI: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes Essential VIII: Advanced Nursing Practice