Collaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge

Step 1: From ancient history to today, reflect on your journey through this course over the past eight weeks.

Step 2: Answer all questions below with explanations and details that indicate thoughtful reflection. No scholarly sources are required.

Paragraph one: How do you envision using the lessons learned from this course as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse? Consider all you have learned during this course. What specific week of content or lesson profoundly impacted you, and how will you apply the lessons you have learned to your nursing practice?

Paragraph two: Examine the following program outcomes. Select one and reflect on how your learning in the course helped you achieve that outcome.

PO 2: Demonstrates leadership and collaboration with consumers and other healthcare providers in providing care and/or delegating responsibilities for health promotion, illness prevention, health restoration, health maintenance, and rehabilitative activities.

PO 4: Integrates clinical judgment in professional decision-making and implementation of the nursing process.

PO 7: Practices in established professional roles consistent with entry-level BSN graduates to provide cost-effective, quality healthcare to consumers in structured and unstructured settings.

PO 8: Incorporates evidence-based practice in the provision of professional nursing care to individuals, families, aggregates, and communities.

Paragraph three: Examine the following competencies from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials. Select one and reflect on how the course assisted in achieving that competency.

1.1d Articulate nursing’s distinct perspective to practice.

9.1b Reflect on one’s actions and their consequences.

9.5b Demonstrate the core values of professional nursing identity.

10.2a Engage in guided and spontaneous reflection of one’s practice.