What is a Reflective Journal
Reflective Journal entries are opportunities for you to reflect on what you are reading/discussing and how it applies to your personal practice.
Think of it as a diary in which you are talking with me at the end of each week to tell me how things are going & what you are thinking.
This reflective journal provides you with an opportunity for introspection into your own perception, interpretation of readings, reaction to Blackboard discussion, beliefs, life-ways, values, experiences, and their impact on your reactions, feelings, and insights as provoked by course readings, assignments and presentations.
It also provides documentation of your preparation for this course. You will be exploring the literature of many different health and related disciplines throughout this course. In this journal you can discuss the how and why you arrived at these cognitive libraries (theory, concepts), and how you have begun to integrate the various methods of care depicted in these professional schools of thought and the meaning you have derived from this exploration.
If there are new terms/concepts relevant to your learning include them in your journal that are relevant for please indicate the source of your data for these definitions.
Although journal writing is less structured than most types of scholarly writing, APA format and graduate level writing style is required.
Journal entries should be 250-400 words per weekly entry. Journal entries do need a title page and should be written in college level English grammar – if you cite sources, they need to be cited appropriately – but it is not always necessary to include referenced sources in a journal entry.
Readings
DeNisco, S., & Barker, A. (Eds.). (2021). Advanced practice nursing: Essential knowledge for the profession (4th ed.). Jones and Bartlett.
Chapter 5 – Influencing and Leading Change in the Complex Healthcare Environment: The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse (pp. 129-142)
Chapter 6 – Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health (pp. 143-174)
Cashion, A., & Pickler, R. H. (2018). What will I bring: Nurse scientists’ contributions to interdisciplinary collaboration. Nursing Research, 67(5), 347–348. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000299
Boamah, S. (2018). Linking Nurses’ Clinical Leadership to Patient Care Quality: The Role of Transformational Leadership and Workplace Empowerment. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 50(1), 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0844562117732490
Lopatina E, Donald F, DiCenso A et al.(2017). Economic evaluation of nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist roles: A methodological review. International Journal of Nursing of Studies, 72, 71–82.
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine (2011). The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. National Academies Press (US); https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209867/
Orchard, C. A., Sonibare, O., Morse, A., Collins, J. & Al-Hamad, A. (2017). Collaborative leadership, part 1: The nurse leader’s role within interprofessional teams. Nursing leadership (Toronto, Ont.), 30(2), 14–25.
Read the Nurse Practice Act of the state in which you practice as it addresses the practice of nursing in advanced roles
