Goals of Practicum Project

Discuss about the Curriculum Development for Masters in Nursing Education?

The health-care industry has been changing dramatically in the last few years, transforming the roles and responsibilities of the nurses. There is a need for bringing positive changes in the healthcare service delivery, and for such changes to occur, sufficient approaches must be taken up by the nursing educators for preparing the nursing workforce to deliver best quality care to the patients (Gulliford & Morgan, 2013). The scope of nursing opportunities will increase if they are trained to become the frontline providers of health care services (Swayne et al., 2012).

The organisation has a proposed Practicum project for nursing, and the title of the practicum project is, “Education Program on the Subject of Leadership Development in Nursing”. The present report is on the practicum goals and project, the mission and vision and vision statement of the organisation, and how the practicum project aligns with the vision and mission of the organisation.

Nursing education program must be started at the onset of nursing practice. Educators from organisations, from personal mentors to clinical nurse educators to academics, must instill the expectations that nurses have the high potential to become leaders (Billings & Halstead, 2013). The topics that are relevant to the present situations in nursing are taken up for the curriculums. The aspect of nursing that is the limelight for the requirement of bringing changes are usually taken up in such curriculums (Oermann & Gaberson, 2013).

For the present nursing practicum, the topic would be to develop nursing leadership among the nursing workforce. Nursing is a practice discipline, and nursing leadership is all about critical thinking, advocacy and actions. Nursing leadership has a crucial role in the lives of nurses, and the impact of nursing leadership is, on the whole, healthcare system (Wong et al., 2013). According to Hutchinson & Jackson (2013), nursing leadership is about the development of leaders who can deliver best possible health care along with the other members of the healthcare setting. Leadership begins when nurses are instilled with the meaning of ethical nursing practice. It is about the engaged and competent nurses who give exemplary care and think independently and critically to inform their practice with evidence. Yoder-Wise (2014) states that leadership in a nursing domain is about combining science with the deep understanding of health needs of the population to envision new features in the practice and drive the discipline strongly in the forward direction. It is also about mentoring the junior researchers and linking the practice closely with policy leaders (MacPhee et al., 2012). 

Nursing Leadership in Healthcare Industry

In the context of the increasing need of nursing leadership,  the organisation has set up a project that aims to fulfil the goal of having a steady supply of energetic and visionary leaders of nursing across the different domains of the discipline who are visible, courageous and credible and inspires others to support innovative and modern professional nursing practice. The practicum project would promote nurses to endorse safe delivery of care systems, quality practice environments that deliver appropriate resources,  and social justices for addressing broad determinants of health. The aim would, therefore, be to mentor nurses for delivering services that would reduce disparities in healthcare and bring improvements in access to care. Nurses are to be shaped up for developing options in innovative service care models of improving access to care. The project practicum would prepare the nurses for an advanced role of health care management. This project is designed to make the nurses deliver healthcare services across the range of care setting. Nurses are to take up the project program of a duration of 6 months. All the topics relevant to nursing leadership would be included in the project (Stoller, 2013).

The practicum project has the role in supporting and developing a nursing leadership agenda that encompasses the following:

Creating excitement among the nurses to build a strategic conviction and engage nurses in the leadership goal

Develop visions to build the future of the healthcare in the organisation

Advocacy in the arena of public health policy

Supporting regulatory framework

Sharing expertise

Providing mentorship, building capacity and offering planning of engaging notice nurses

Working to build equity and diversity in the profession

Define and implement standards of patient care

Manage and develop work teams

Implement processes to achieve continual improvement in care delivery

Implement programs to achieve the targets set in financial budget and maintain fiscal accountability

Undertake evaluation of assigned staff

Undertake collaboration with other disciplines to enhance the integration of care delivery and services

Mentor staff to encourage team competency and performance

Implement and manage changes

Demonstrate problem solving and critical analysis skills

Balance operational, financial and interpersonal responsibilities

Engage support from peers, subordinates and supervisors in fulfilling the goals of the organisation

Facilitate transparent communication with fellow professionals

The organisation has a promise of excellence and leadership that is driven by core values. It plays an active role in improving and promoting health within the wide range of health care for addressing the needs of the community and building an integrated and strong system for healthcare delivery.

Alignment with Organization’s Mission and Vision

Vision statement

To provide world class leadership in healthcare and deliver each patient with the world-class and exceptional services in order to be nationally respected and trusted for personalised and coordinated care. 

Mission statement

To improve healing and health of the common people and the community served by the organisation

To deliver patient-centered care having an emphasis on speciality care for the community

To educate future health-care professionals in order to develop the heath care services delivered by the novice professionals

To develop, apply and share new knowledge and technology in the process of patient care delivery by world-class research programs

The practicum project set on nursing education on leadership development aligns with the mission and vision of the organisation in the aspect that there is a strive to produce best health care professionals delivering best health care services. Through the project, nurses would be prepared to implement effective management techniques for delivery of health care and nursing across the healthcare setting and wide range of speciality area. The nurses would gain the breadth of knowledge and skills required for an effective leadership position in the organisation. The project would carry forward the mission of the organisation to incorporate some nursing professionals who would be flexible to work in adverse situations to deliver the best care services. The curriculum would have a focus on impact of state, national and local policies on the organisation and make a deliberate attempt to put forward suitable changes in the policies. Nurses would take up current and relevant practice after the completion of the project and thereby face challenges of the health care industry with strong viewpoints. The curriculum would leverage clinical practicum with recognised successful leaders. Integration of case studies would be taken up by the nurses that align with the aim of the organisation to practice an evidence-based care. The project would successfully link technologies with health care while embracing the academic and cultural diversity (Hauck et al. 2013). As a whole, the practicum project would effectively align with the vision and mission statements of the organisation to improve healing and health of the common people and the community served by the organisation. By fulfilling the education program, nurses would be able to deliver patient centered care and educate future health professionals. They would be able to apply new advancements in technology for the process of care delivery and thereby improve the well-beign and health of the common people. 

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