AMANDA SMITH
Assignment: Final Reflection and StrengthsFinder Assessment
This course was designed to develop skills that will help you be an effective online student and to also help you build a multidisciplinary approach to health. For this Assignment, you reflect on becoming a scholar-practitioner, social change agent, and part of a multidisciplinary field. After reviewing your Learning Resources for this course and completing the StrengthsFinder Assessment, consider the issue you addressed in Week 1 and examine how it can be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective.
As part of this Assignment, you will incorporate the Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment results that is attached. Reflect upon them and respond to the following questions in your paper.
The Assignment (3 pages)
· Explain how your understanding of the multidisciplinary nature of the course content has changed or been validated.
· Explain how the issue you discussed in Week 1 (below in red) of the course can be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective.
· Expand on your insights utilizing the Learning Resources.
· Expand on your insights utilizing your StrengthsFinder Assessment results
Include proper APA citations and references (see Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for assistance).
WEEK 1
Health care is a huge industry with a wide range of services. Some
healthcare organizations provide multiple health services while others provide a specific service. Anyhow, there are many issues in the industry that cut across all healthcare institutions. In my field of study, I am interested in evidence-based practice (EBP) which is a term used to describe the utilization of best current evidence to facilitate decision making in healthcare delivery (Lott & Hughes, 2020). EBP consist of three main components, that is individual clinical expertise, best current evidence, and patient values and needs. Individual clinical expertise refers to the professional and personal skills of a caregiver in a healthcare setting. Best current evidence is the information obtained through research that medical professions use to make decisions during care delivery. Patient values and needs are the patient issues that nurses and other medical staff need to consider during care delivery.
Different factors motivated me to get involved in this issue. One of the factors is the need to provide quality patient care. It is imperative to note that patient care is the most important aspect of nursing. Nonetheless, the use of traditional nursing methods makes it difficult for nursing personnel to provide the best care to patients. Adoption of evidence-based practices in health care institutions can have an enormous positive impact on the quality of patient care. Another factor that motivated me to get involved in this issue is the challenge of implementing EBP in health organizations. The main issue that affects the adoption of EBP in health facilities is resistance from nursing professionals (Albarqouni et al., 2019). Medical staff resists these practices because they do not want to abandon traditional nursing practices.
I believe EBPs are effective and all healthcare organizations should adopt them.
Currently, I am studying to become a nurse practitioner (NP) and the program is related to the issue. Some of the roles of an NP include the provision of patient care, diagnosis, treatment, and management of common diseases. The issue of EBP relates to the program since all duties of NP entail patient care. The use of best current evidence in health care is important because it ensures that patients are provided with quality health care. Once I finish the program and join a healthcare organization, I will use my professional and personal skills to advocate for the adoption of EBP.
I would like to accomplish the following goals in my field of study;
· To provide quality patient care: Through EBP, I will implement strategies to provide quality care to patients.
· To advocate for the adoption of EBP: EBPs are effective and advocating for their adoption can lead to improved patient care.
· To encourage health administrators to launch EBP training programs: Training nurses about EBP can facilitate faster adoption of these practices.
References
Lott, T. F., & Hughes, R. (2020). The Implementation of an Evidence-Based Practice Mentorship Program. Retrieved from https://sigma.nursingrepository.org/bitstream/handle/10755/18765/LottAbstractInfo ?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
Albarqouni, L., Hoffmann, T., & Glasziou, P. (2019). EBP Content and Measures. Challenges and Solutions for Educating Clinicians in Contemporary Evidence-Based Practice, 18, 91.
Your Signature Themes
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DON CLIFTON
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Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people
are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop
strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families.
A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities,
but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core
reasons behind your consistent successes.
Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order
revealed by your responses to CliftonStrengths. Of the
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themes measured, these are your “top
five.”
Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By
focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents,
build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect
performance.
The Strategic theme enables you to sort through the clutter and find the best route. It is not a skill that
can be taught. It is a distinct way of thinking, a special perspective on the world at large. This
perspective allows you to see patterns where others simply see complexity. Mindful of these patterns,
you play out alternative scenarios, always asking, “What if this happened? Okay, well what if this
happened?” This recurring question helps you see around the next corner. There you can evaluate
accurately the potential obstacles. Guided by where you see each path leading, you start to make
selections. You discard the paths that lead nowhere. You discard the paths that lead straight into
resistance. You discard the paths that lead into a fog of confusion. You cull and make selections until
you arrive at the chosen path—your strategy. Armed with your strategy, you strike forward. This is
your Strategic theme at work: “What if?” Select. Strike.
“Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. You want to include
people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to
exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group
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so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the
outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. You are an
instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast
few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your
accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should
respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same.
We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the
least we all deserve.
You are a conductor. When faced with a complex situation involving many factors, you enjoy
managing all of the variables, aligning and realigning them until you are sure you have arranged them
in the most productive configuration possible. In your mind there is nothing special about what you are
doing. You are simply trying to figure out the best way to get things done. But others, lacking this
theme, will be in awe of your ability. “How can you keep so many things in your head at once?” they
will ask. “How can you stay so flexible, so willing to shelve well-laid plans in favor of some brand-new
configuration that has just occurred to you?” But you cannot imagine behaving in any other way. You
are a shining example of effective flexibility, whether you are changing travel schedules at the last
minute because a better fare has popped up or mulling over just the right combination of people and
resources to accomplish a new project. From the mundane to the complex, you are always looking for
the perfect configuration. Of course, you are at your best in dynamic situations. Confronted with the
unexpected, some complain that plans devised with such care cannot be changed, while others take
refuge in the existing rules or procedures. You don’t do either. Instead, you jump into the confusion,
devising new options, hunting for new paths of least resistance, and figuring out new
partnerships—because, after all, there might just be a better way.
“Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future
fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and
this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the picture
will depend on your other strengths and interests—a better product, a better team, a better life, or a
better world—it will always be inspirational to you. You are a dreamer who sees visions of what could
be and who cherishes those visions. When the present proves too frustrating and the people around
you too pragmatic, you conjure up your visions of the future and they energize you. They can energize
others, too. In fact, very often people look to you to describe your visions of the future. They want a
picture that can raise their sights and thereby their spirits. You can paint it for them. Practice. Choose
your words carefully. Make the picture as vivid as possible. People will want to latch on to the hope
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you bring.
You are fascinated by ideas. What is an idea? An idea is a concept, the best explanation of the most
events. You are delighted when you discover beneath the complex surface an elegantly simple
concept to explain why things are the way they are. An idea is a connection. Yours is the kind of mind
that is always looking for connections, and so you are intrigued when seemingly disparate
phenomena can be linked by an obscure connection. An idea is a new perspective on familiar
challenges. You revel in taking the world we all know and turning it around so we can view it from a
strange but strangely enlightening angle. You love all these ideas because they are profound,
because they are novel, because they are clarifying, because they are contrary, because they are
bizarre. For all these reasons you derive a jolt of energy whenever a new idea occurs to you. Others
may label you creative or original or conceptual or even smart. Perhaps you are all of these. Who can
be sure? What you are sure of is that ideas are thrilling. And on most days this is enough.
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- Sahens Mezidor
Don Clifton
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Strategic
Includer
Arranger
Futuristic
Ideation