Nursing: Professional ePortfolio and Resume

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This is your final assessment for the course.

For this assessment, you will create a professional ePortfolio and resume to showcase your achievements and competence in various areas for job search or advancement conversations.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROFICIENCY

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
- Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
- Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.
- Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
- Explain how chosen at least 2 artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
- Present a well-organized ePortfolio in a clear and professional manner, using correct grammar, spelling, and APA style.

You should complete this assessment last.

PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

A portfolio is a great way to for nurses to “record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, development and learning, not only for themselves, but for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers and peers” (Green, Wyllie, & Jackson, 2014, p. 8). As you collect the artifacts that best showcase your strengths, you begin to track, reflect on, and evaluate your own learning and growth over time.

PREPARATION

For this assessment, you will be creating a professional ePortfolio and resume to take with you after completing your program. To help you complete this assessment, review the following resources as needed:

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assessment, your ePortfolio will focus on showcasing your growth and accomplishments in the context of the following course competencies:

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.

For each competency, complete the following in your ePortfolio:

Create an area in your ePortfolio for the competency and label it with the course competency number or the competency language.
Select the two artifacts (assessments) that you feel best showcase your accomplishments or growth relative to the competency and place them in the corresponding ePortfolio area.
For each competency, write 2–3 paragraphs detailing the ways in the artifacts illustrate your accomplishments or growth in the competency so reviewers can easily understand your achievements and strengths. Place this in the corresponding ePortfolio area with your chosen artifacts.

For the Competency 8 section of your ePortfolio, include a professional resume that highlights your professional standards and values. Consult the resources in the Capella University Career Center, such as the Capella Career Center: Resume Rubric.

Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score:

Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care
Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Explain how at last two chosen artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Communicate ePortfolio in a clear and well-organized manner, using correct grammar and spelling.

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Fall prevention among elderly program Canes Lebrun Jr NURS-FPX4060 Capella University 8/25/2020 Health concerns and health goals for elderly • Falls accounts for considerable deaths among the elderly. • Falls also affects immediate family members of the elderly. • Program aimed at reducing deaths emanating from falls. Collaboration with participants, assessing outcomes and adjustments to improve future sessions • Participants-Community based workers, organizations for elderly and health professionals (nurses) • Use of data to evaluate program outcomes • Consideration of incorporating more participants or modifying sessions to improve effectiveness. Education program for the elderly • • • • Situation analysis and identification of goals Reaching the elderly Activities and strategies for the program Evaluating the program. Practices for reducing falls • Engagement based on community levels • Clinical intervention • Policies and systems of preventing falls Aspects of changes in the program • Additional incorporation of nurses • Role of nurses in preventing falls • Evaluating the impact of nurses in implementing the program Education sessions and conformance to Healthy people 2020 goals • Healthy people 2020 entails objectives to improve health of Americans. • The U.S Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) proposes exercises as one measures of reducing falls. • The program also argues on importance of clinical intervention for preventing falls among the elderly. • Physical exercises and other strategies can be attained through education programs. References • Frieson, C. W., Tan, M., Ory , M., & Smith, L. (2018). Editorial: Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries Among Older Adults. 22(6), 3-7. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00222 • Houry, D., Curtis , F., Baldwin , G., & Stevens , J. (2016). The CDC Injury Center’s Response to the Growing Public Health Problem of Falls Among Older Adults. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 10(1). doi:10.1177/1559827615600137 • Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. (2020). Nursing: Professional ePortfolio and Resume

Evidence-Based Resource Summary. Falls Prevention in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Interventions. Retrieved from https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/tools-resources/evidence-based-resource/falls-prevention-incommunity-dwelling-older-adults-interventions • Phelan, E. A., Aerts, S., Dowler, D., Eckstrom, E., & Casey, C. (2016). Adoption of Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Practices in Primary Care for Older Adults with a History of Falls. Front Public Health, 190(4). doi:10.3389/fpubh.2016.00190 Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM Health Promotion Program Canes Lebrun Jr NURS-FPX4060 Capella University 8/13/2020 1 HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM 2 Introduction The primary objective of health promotion programs is to enhance the health of individuals. Health promotion seeks to engage and empower people and the community to adopt healthy behaviors and changes that minimize the risk of developing chronic illnesses or other morbidities. Health promotion is mostly meant to address health social determinants, which entails modifiable health behaviors. The focus would be on health promotion that seeks to prevent falls among the elderly. In implementing a plan, various participants would be vital. The participants involve are Licensed Practical Nurses working in elderly nursing homes. LPNs would be important in reaching out to in various nursing home settings and identifying the elderly needs of intervention to prevent possible falls. LPN deal with over 15 to 30 patients depending on facility rules. Falls happen often due to extremely high nurse patient ratio. Collaborating with the Director of Nursing and implementing a plan that would help lower the number of fall incidents. Examples like hiring extra staff, require extra rounding to high fall risk patients, and even purchasing new beds with bed exit alarms. These are specific objectives that would improve the quality of lives for the elderly, reducing fall-related injuries. Best practices for health improvement Falls are termed as one of the leading causes of non-fatal and unintentional injury deaths among a specific category of individuals. Various evidence-based practices can be taken to reduce the rate of falls among the selected individuals. Firstly, community-based interventions are one of the measures that can reduce falls. It would involve Licensed Practical Nurses who would be vital in providing information about the program’s target. For fall prevention messages to gain grassroots in communities, there should be efforts to reach out service network for that particular group and incorporate the public health system (Frieson et al., 2018). The community HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM 3 setting is the starting point where people prone to high risk of falls are identified and put into the learning process. Attaining the health promotion program’s objectives would be to use trained individuals to reach the program’s targeted population. Secondly, efforts associated with clinical integration and intervention would be vital in preventing falls. In many cases, the people who are prone to falls interact with the healthcare providers, medical professionals, and the general healthcare system. There the integration of community prevention efforts can be successful since all the members. Based on the recommendation offered by medical professionals, the community members can learn critical approaches to reducing or preventing falls. Thirdly, the establishment of policies and systems would be essential in preventing falls. Since various measures are taken to avoid or reduce falls, a lack of systems or procedures to support the prevention strategies makes the efforts unfruitful. Nursing: Professional ePortfolio and Resume

The prevention system includes coordination of activities initiated by associations or bodies representing the targeted population. The collaboration between various multidisciplinary agencies facilitates the smooth implementation of strategies formulated to curb falls. Population affected by the health concern The health program targets older individuals who are 65 years and above. Falls and fallrelated injuries are a global health issue associated with senior citizens aged 65 years and above. Falls account for a considerable number of older adult’s deaths. In case the falls fail to cause death, they cause reduced mobility, hospitalization, injury, loss of independence, early death, and placement in nursing homes—one in four Americans aged 65 years and above experiences a fall annually. About 2.8 million cases of falls are treated annually in the emergency department, HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM 4 800000 hospitalized, and 27000 deaths are reported (Frieson et al., 2018). Besides affecting the older individuals, falls also affect the society as the immediate family members are required to take care of the injured person. Importance of establishing health goals in collaboration with hypothetical participants The fall prevention program was based on the primary purpose of establishing evidence practices that would minimize falls and fall-related injuries among senior citizens within the community. Various aspects can be addressed through the health promotion program. A systematic review would be selected to collect and summarize the evidence created from the proposed practices. The provision of education would be organized alongside the existing bodies representing the aged. Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) Toolkit is vital in addressing falls among the elderly (Houry et al., 2016). The toolkit was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People in organizations advocating for the rights of older should understand that the tool kit is applied to guarantee the targeted group’s safety. The program’s purpose would be guided by objectives such as prevention of falls, reduction of deaths emanating from falls, education on the aged, and other safety goals. The program would seek to integrate the care providers. In many cases, old people often visit healthcare services; therefore, incorporating the clinicians would a vital step in reducing the rate of falls. For example, the care providers can be urged to guide older people on safety mechanisms such as wearing appropriate shoes and calling for assistance when they experience a fall. HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM 5 References Frieson, C. W., Tan, M., Ory, M., & Smith, L. (2018). Nursing: Professional ePortfolio and Resume

Editorial: Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Falls and Fall-Related Injuries Among Older Adults. 22(6), 3-7. DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00222 Houry, D., Curtis, F., Baldwin, G., & Stevens, J. (2016). The CDC Injury Center’s Response to the Growing Public Health Problem of Falls Among Older Adults. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 10(1). DOI:10.1177/155982761560013 Phelan, E. A., Aerts, S., Dowler, D., Eckstrom, E., & Casey, C. (2016). Adoption of EvidenceBased Fall Prevention Practices in Primary Care for Older Adults with a History of Falls. Front Public Health, 190(4). DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2016.00190 … Nursing: Professional ePortfolio and Resume