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Community Nursing Assessment and Ethical

Part 1: Community nursing

•  Analyze the roots of public health nursing. Explain its influence on practice today.

Part 2: Nursing Research

1. What are the challenges encountered in data collection as it applies to research?
2. What are the types of interview technique when interviewing participants?
3.  List your preferences and tell us why?

Part 3: Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education

This week, you have looked at interpreting test results. When your students sit for the NCLEX exam, they will receive a candidate performance report.

Look at the sample report at the following link:

• https://www.ncsbn.org/1223.htm

Also examine the following resources:

• https://www.ncsbn.org/RN_Test_Plan_2016_Final.pdf
• https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/nclex-rn/nclex-practice-questions

1. How you could use the data in the student’s individual report
2. How you could usethese types of resources to coach your student in creating a new study plan to successfully pass the NCLEX exam.

Part 4: Assessment and Evaluation in Nursing Education

1. Explain about what you have learned throughout the course regarding assessment in nursing for both theoretical and clinical courses. This course provides students both formative and summative assessment strategies that can be implemented to evaluate learners, programs, and performance in a variety of settings, such as classroom, laboratories and clinical areas.  Evidence-based approaches to determine the effectiveness of instruction will be presented, along with methods for interpreting and analyzing date for measurement of student learning outcomes.  This course will also add to the nurse educator’s competencies in the use of various strategies to recommend changes based on the results of the assessments made to achieve the highest standards of excellence.
2. What are your biggest take-aways for your future role as a nurse educator?
3. Were there any surprises or “Aha” moments that helped you understand some of your past experiences with evaluation? What areas/topics will you research further (successfully evaluating)? Why?

Part 5: Ethical

1. Describe different ways that social media use can violate ethical nursing practices.
2. How can ethical social media use be beneficial to health care professionals and their patients?

Part 6: Ethical

1. Describe a clinical situation in which a registered nurse may encounter moral distress.
2. Answer the following question for explain the situation, and the possible mitigation strategies.

• • Act to implement strategies for changes to preserve your integrity and authenticity.
  • Assess sources of your moral distress to prepare for an action plan.
  • Affirm your distress and commitment to take care of yourself and address moral distress.
  • Ask appropriate questions to become aware that moral distress is present.