Standard Precautions/ Transmission-Based

RUA
Evidence-Based Practice Paper

NR452

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Individual Paper Plan
Utilize APA template located in course shell
Write a maximum 4-6 page paper, excluding title & reference page
Must be in APA format 7th edition-including in-text citations for non-original content
TurnItIn score must be 24% or less.
Utilize draft submission box as many times as needed
Resources:
Tutor.com
Located in Canvas->tutoring tab
CAS
Chamberlain’s Library: http://library.chamberlain.edu
APA manual 7th edition or Purdue Owl for APA formatting

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Individual Paper Plan
Due dates:
Part 1 (A, B, C) – Due Date Friday March 12th 1800
Part 2 (D, E) – Due Date Friday March 19th 1800
Part 3 (F, G, H) – Due Date Friday March 26th 1800

Reference Requirements
3 journal articles (minimum) from scholarly sources
Must be published between 2016 and 2021
Must be in an academic or medical journal (textbooks and CDC website not scholarly)
Must be peer reviewed
Content must have in text citations in APA format
Reference page must be in APA format

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Purpose
To analyze own performance on the integrated comprehensive assessments and reflect on areas of opportunity and strategies to promote NCLEX-RN success and transition into practice.
The student will apply the priority concept (topic) to evidence-based professional practice upon which nurses have the ability to resolve or have a positive impact. There is a focus on the healthcare disparities of the individual, as well as ethical and legal implications to professional practice.
The student will discuss how an interdisciplinary approach promotes quality improvement for the patient and evidence-based professional practice, driving positive outcomes

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Headings for Paper
Introduction
Importance
Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions
Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges
Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach
Quality Improvement
Conclusion
References

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Priority Concept (Topic)

Track your performance on the comprehensive assessments by logging NCLEX-RN Client Need Category performance on the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends: Longitudinal Performance tool.
Based on individual performance on the comprehensive assessments, prioritize the top concept (topic) of greatest opportunity.
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Priority Concept (Topic)

Identify the priority concept (topic) of opportunity.
Provide a description of how this aligns with the NCLEX-RN Test Plan as indicated by performance in the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends Table.
Identify a minimum of two learning strategies that you plan to implement to address your learning need.
Identify a minimum of two resources that you will integrate into your NCLEX-RN Readiness plan to assist you with improving the identified learning need
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Management of Care Safety & Infection Control Health Promotion & Maintenance Psychosocial Integrity
Advance Directives/Self-Determination/Life Planning
Advocacy
Assignment, Delegation and Supervision
Case Management
Client Rights
Collaboration
Concepts of Management
Confidentiality/Information Security
Continuity of Care
Establishing Priorities
Ethical Practice
Informed Consent
Information Technology
Legal Rights and Responsibilities
Performance Improvement (QI)
Referrals
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Accident/Error/Injury Prevention
Emergency Response
Handling Hazardous Waste
Home Safety
Ergonomic Principles
Reporting of Incident/Event/Irregular Occurrence/Variance
Safe Use of Equipment
Security Plan
Standard Precautions/ Transmission-Based Precautions/Surgical Asepsis
Use of Restraints/Safety Devices Aging Process
Ante/Intra/Postpartum and Newborn Care (OB)
Developmental Stages and Transitions (PEDS)
Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
Health Screening
High Risk Behaviors
Lifestyle Choices
Self-Care
Techniques of Physical Assessment Abuse/Neglect
Behavioral Intervention
Chemical and Other Dependencies/Substance Use Disorder
Coping Mechanisms
Crisis Intervention
Cultural Awareness/Cultural Influences on Health
End of Life Care
Family Dynamics
Grief and Loss
Mental Health Concepts
Religious and Spiritual Influences on Health
Sensory/Perceptual Alterations
Stress Management
Support Systems
Therapeutic Communication
Therapeutic Environment

Basic Care & Comfort Pharma-cological & Parental Therapies Reduction of Risk Potential Physiological Adaptation
Assistive Devices
Elimination
Mobility/Immobility
Non-Pharmacological Comfort Interventions
Nutrition and Oral Hydration
Personal Hygiene
Rest and Sleep Adverse Effects/
Contraindications/Side Effects
Blood and Blood Products
Central Venous Access
Devices
Dosage Calculation
Expected Actions/Outcomes
Medication Administration
Parenteral/Intravenous
Therapies
Pharmacological Pain
Management
Total Parenteral Nutrition Changes/Abnormalities in
Vital Signs
Diagnostic Tests
Laboratory Values
Potential for Alterations in
Body Systems
Potential for Complications of
Diagnostic Tests/Treatments/
Procedures
Potential for Complications
from Surgical Procedures and
Health Alterations
System Specific Assessments
Therapeutic Procedures Alterations in Body Systems
Fluid and Electrolyte
Imbalances
Hemodynamics
Illness Management
Medical Emergencies
Pathophysiology
Unexpected Response to
Therapies

Introduction – 20 points
Statement of purpose for paper
Identify priority concept (topic) from the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends drawn from one (1) of the four (4) main categories of the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint:
Assurance of a safe and effective care environment
Health promotion and maintenance of health
Preservation of the patient population’s psychosocial integrity
Preservation of the patient population’s physiological integrity
Detailed description of the relationship between the NCLEX-RN category and the priority concept (topic).
Content must have in text citations in APA format

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Importance – 20 points
Describe the importance of the priority concept (topic).
Describe the health of the patient population.
Negative effects to professional practice if priority concept (topic) is unresolved.
Negative effects to patient population is priority concept (topic) is unresolved.
Content must have in text citations in APA format

Potential negative effects:
Patient death
Patient infection
Poor patient outcome
etc
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Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions – 70 points
Identify patient populations negatively influenced by the priority concept (topic) if unresolved.
Identify healthcare resources to support evidence-based professional practice related to the priority concept (topic).
Summarize potential healthcare disparities and inequalities related to diverse populations.
Propose an evidence-based solution for the priority concept (topic) related to healthcare disparities.
Content must have in text citations in APA format

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Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions – 70 points
Identify three (3) evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions.
Prioritize the identified EBP interventions and provide rationale.
Discuss two (2) patient education considerations related to the priority concept (topic).
Content must have in text citations in APA format

Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges – 40 points
Identify at least one (1) ethical and one (1) legal implication for addressing the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of an ethical dilemma related to the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of legal consequences related to the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
Content must have in text citations in APA format

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Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges – 40 points
Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of preventing the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.
Identify one (1) anticipated challenges to the success of resolving the priority concept (topic) in professional practice.

Content must have in text citations in APA format

Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach –
20 points
Identify all the parties who will be involved in the implementation of the priority concept (topic)interventions.
Discuss the role of each member in the intervention implementation for the priority concept (topic).
Identify a minimum of two (2) members of a discipline outside of nursing.
Discuss the benefit of including the identified interdisciplinary member from disciplines outside nursing to promote evidence-based professional practice.
Content must have in text citations in APA format

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Quality Improvement – 20 points
Provide at least one (1) benefit in patient outcomes from addressing the priority concept (topic) within the clinical environment.
Provide at least one (1) benefit to the nursing profession that will result from addressing this priority concept (topic) in clinical professional practice.
Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to promote improved patient outcomes in the clinical environment.
Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to increase professional nurse knowledge promoting improved clinical professional practice.
Content must have in text citations in APA format

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Conclusion – 20 points
Provide a thorough recap of the purpose to promote increased evidence-based professional practice knowledge related to the priority concept (topic) deficiency.
Summarize resources identified to support improved evidence-based professional practice related to the priority concept (topic).
Include a complete statement describing why addressing the priority concept (topic) matters and to whom.

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Reference Page
Must be in APA format

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Evidence Based RUA

Student Name

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR452: Capstone

Session Month and Year

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4

Evidence Based RUA

Type your introduction. Although the first paragraph after the paper title is the introduction, no heading labeled Introduction is used. Refer to your assignment guidelines for the headings to be used for the body of the paper. Include NCLEX category with appropriate in text citation.

Importance

Use as many paragraphs as needed to cover the content appropriately. Include negative effect of leaving issue unresolved.

Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions

Use as many paragraphs as needed to cover the content appropriately.

Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges

Use as many paragraphs as needed to cover the content appropriately. Include ethical and legal implications.

Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach

Use as many paragraphs as needed to cover the content appropriately. Include members of a discipline outside of nursing (please note that case managers and educators are nurses).

Quality Improvement

Use as many paragraphs as needed to cover the content appropriately. Provide benefits in addressing the priority concept (topic) and resources utilized.

Conclusion

Papers should end with a conclusion or summary. The assignment directions will specify which is required. It should be concise and contain little or no detail. No matter how much space is left on the page, the references always start on a separate page (insert a page break).

References

Author Last Name, First Initial. (Year of Publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number (issue number), pages. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing (2019). NCLEX-RN Examination [PDF file], (2019). Retrieved from https://www.ncsbn.org/2019_RN_TestPlan-English.htm.

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Purpose

To analyze own performance on the integrated comprehensive assessments and reflect on areas of opportunity and
strategies to promote NCLEX-RN success and transition into practice. The student will apply the priority concept
(topic) to evidence-based professional practice upon which nurses have the ability to resolve or have a positive
impact. There is a focus on the healthcare disparities of the individual, as well as ethical and legal implications to
professional practice. The student will discuss how an interdisciplinary approach promotes quality improvement for
the patient and evidence-based professional practice, driving positive outcomes.

Course outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO # 1: Synthesize knowledge from sciences, humanities, and nursing in managing the needs of humans as

consumers of healthcare in a patient-centered environment. (PO#1)
CO # 2: Integrate communication and relationship skills in teamwork and collaboration functioning effectively with

health team members and consumers of care. (PO#3)
CO # 3: Utilize information technology to manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making with health

team members and consumers of care. (PO# 8)
CO # 4 Integrate critical thinking, clinical reasoning skills, best current evidence, clinical expertise, and patient/family

preferences/values in the implementation of the nursing process. (PO# 4)
CO # 5: Explore the impact of professional standards, legislative issues, ethical principles, and values on professional

nursing, using data to monitor outcomes and improve quality and safety. (PO# 5, 6)

Due date: Your faculty member will inform you when this assignment is due. The Late Assignment Policy applies to
this assignment.

Total points possible: 250 points

Preparing the assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions.
1) Track performance on the comprehensive assessments by logging NCLEX-RN Client Need Category performance on

the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends: Longitudinal Performance tool.
2) Based on individual performance on the comprehensive assessments, prioritize the top concept (topic) of greatest

opportunity.
3) Include the following criteria for each identified concept (topic): The NCSBN NCLEX-RN Test Plan will support this

process (detailed criteria listed below and in the

Grading Rubric

must match exactly).
a. Priority Concept (Topic)- 20 points/8%

• Identify the priority concept (topic) of opportunity.
• Provide a description of how this aligns with the NCLEX-RN Test Plan as indicated by performance in the

Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends Table.
• Identify a minimum of two learning strategies that you plan to implement to address your learning need.
• Identify a minimum of two resources that you will integrate into your NCLEX-RN Readiness plan to assist you

with improving the identified learning need.

https://www.ncsbn.org/testplans.htm

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Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends: Longitudinal Performance Table

ATI Assessment
Title

NCLEX-RN Client Need Categories:
Students will log their individual assessment performance in each category below

and highlight the scores below 60% or lowest three scores for each assessment
Course Manage-

ment of
Care

Safety &
Infection
Control

Health
Promotion &
Maintenance

Psychosocial
Integrity

Basic Care &
Comfort

Pharma-
cological &
Parental
Therapies

Reduction
of Risk
Potential

Physiological
Adaptation

ATI Capstone
Comprehensive
Assessment B

NR-446

ATI Comprehensive
Practice- Form A

NR-452

Based on individual performance on the comprehensive assessments, prioritize the top concept (topic) of greatest
opportunity:

1)

Apply the priority concept (topic) of greatest opportunity below:

Identified Priority Concept (Topic):

Learning Needs:

Identify the concept (topic) and
provide a description of how this
aligns with the NCLEX-RN Test Plan.

*Utilize the National Council of
State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)
NCLEX-RN Test Plan for assistance.

Learning Strategies:

Identify a minimum of two learning strategies that you
plan to implement to address your learning need.

1)
2)

Learning Resources:

Identify a minimum of two resources that you will
integrate into your NCLEX-RN Readiness plan to assist
you with improving the identified learning need.

1)
2)

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In this paper the student will provide a detailed description of the relationship between the category from
the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint, the priority concept (topic), and professional practice.
1) Write a 4-6 page paper (not including the title page or reference page) using APA format
2) Include the following sections

a. Introduction- 20 points/8%
• Offer a detailed description of the statement of purpose for the paper.
• Identify a priority concept (topic) from the Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends:

Longitudinal Performance Table drawn from one (1) of the four (4) main categories of the
NCLEX-RN examination blueprint:
 Assurance of a safe and effective care environment
 Health promotion and maintenance of health
 Preservation of the patient population’s psychosocial integrity
 Preservation of the patient population’s

physiological integrity

• Provide a detailed description of the relationship between the category from the NCLEX-RN
examination blueprint and the priority concept (topic).

b. Importance – 20 points/8%
• Describe the importance of the priority concept (topic) to professional practice
• Describe the health of the patient population.
• Include the potential negative effect to professional practice if the priority concept (topic) is

unresolved.
• Include the potential negative effect to the patient population if the priority concept (topic) is

unresolved.
c. Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions- 70 points/28%

• Identify patient populations that may be negatively influenced by the priority concept (topic) if unresolved.
• Identify healthcare resources to support evidence-based professional practice related to the priority

concept (topic).
• Summarize potential priority concept (topic) healthcare disparities and inequalities related to diverse

populations.
• Propose an evidence-based solution for the priority concept (topic) related to healthcare disparities.
• Identify three (3) evidence-based practice interventions.
• Prioritize the identified evidence-based practice

interventions and provide rationale.

• Discuss two (2) patient education considerations related to

the priority concept (topic).

d. Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention Challenges- 40 points/16%
• Identify at least one (1) ethical and one (1) legal implication for addressing the priority concept (topic) in

professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of an ethical dilemma related to the priority concept (topic)

in professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of legal consequences related to the priority concept (topic)

in professional practice.
• Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of preventing the priority concept (topic) in

professional practice.
• Identify one (1) anticipated challenges to the success of resolving the priority concept (topic) in

professional practice.
e. Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach – 20 points/8%

• Identify all the parties who will be involved in the

implementation of the priority concept (topic)
interventions.

• Discuss the role of each member in the intervention implementation for the priority concept (topic).
• Identify a minimum of two (2) members of a discipline outside of nursing.
• Discuss the benefit of including the identified interdisciplinary member from disciplines outside nursing to

promote evidence-based professional practice.

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f. Quality Improvement– 20 points/8%
• Provide at least one (1) benefit in patient outcomes from addressing the priority concept (topic) within the

clinical environment.
• Provide at least one (1) benefit to the nursing profession that will result from addressing this priority

concept (topic) in clinical professional practice.
• Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to promote improved patient outcomes in the clinical

environment.
• Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to increase professional nurse knowledge promoting improved

clinical professional practice.
g. Conclusion – 20 points/8%

• Provide a thorough recap of the purpose to promote increased evidence-based professional practice
knowledge related to the priority concept (topic) deficiency.

• Summarize resources identified to support improved evidence-based professional practice related to the
priority concept (topic).

• Include a complete statement describing why addressing the priority concept (topic) matters and to whom.
h. APA Style and Organization– 20 points/8%

• References are submitted with paper.
• Uses current APA format and is free of errors.
• Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
• At least three (3) scholarly, peer reviewed, primary sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook,

are provided. Each section should have a cited source to support information provided.

For writing assistance (APA, formatting, or grammar) visit the APA Citation and Writing page in the online Chamberlain
library.

Please note that your instructor may provide you with additional assessments in any form to determine that you fully
understand the concepts learned in the review module.

https://library.chamberlain.edu/citinglibrarysources

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Grading Rubric
Criteria are met when the student’s application of knowledge within the paper demonstrates achievement of the outcomes for this assignment.

Assignment Section and
Required Criteria

(Points possible/% of total points available)

Highest Level of

Performance

High Level of
Performance

Satisfactory
Level of

Performance

Unsatisfactory
Level of

Performance

Section not
present in

paper

Priority Concept (Topic)
(20 points/8%)

20 points 18 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Identify the concept (topic) of opportunity.
2. Provide a description of how this aligns with the NCLEX-RN

Test Plan as indicated by performance in the Individual
Student ATI Assessment Trends Table.

3. Identify a minimum of two learning strategies that you plan
to implement to address your learning need.

4. Identify a minimum of two resources that you will integrate
into your NCLEX-RN Readiness plan to assist you with
improving the identified learning need.

Includes all 4
requirements for

section.

Includes all 3

requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 2
requirements for
section.

Includes no less
than 1 requirement

for section.

No requirements
for this section

presented.

Introduction
(20 points/8%)

20 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Offer a detailed description of the statement of purpose

for the paper.
2. Identify a priority concept (topic) from the

Individual Student ATI Assessment Trends:
Longitudinal Performance Table drawn
from one (1) of the four (4) main categories
of the NCLEX-RN examination blueprint:

a. Assurance of a safe and effective care
environment

b. Health promotion and maintenance of health
c. Preservation of the patient population’s

psychosocial integrity
d. Preservation of the patient population’s

physiological integrity

Includes all 3 requirements for section.

Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements

for section.

Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement

for section.

No requirements
for this section

presented.

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Assignment Section and
Required Criteria
(Points possible/% of total points available)

Highest Level of
Performance

High Level of
Performance
Satisfactory
Level of
Performance
Unsatisfactory
Level of
Performance
Section not
present in
paper

3. Provide a detailed description of the
relationship between the category from the
NCLEX-RN examination blueprint and the
priority concept (topic).

Importance
(20 points/8%)

20 points 18 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Describe the importance of the priority

concept (topic) to professional practice
2. Describe the health of the patient

population.
3. Include the potential negative effect to

professional practice if the priority concept
(topic) is unresolved.

4. Include the potential negative effect to the
patient population if the priority concept
(topic) is unresolved.

Includes all 4
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 3

requirements for
section.
Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements
for section.
Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement
for section.
No requirements
for this section
presented.

Healthcare Disparities, Inequalities, and Interventions
(70 points/28%)

70 points 63 points 54 points 21 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Identify patient populations that may be negatively

influenced by the priority concept (topic) if unresolved.
2. Identify healthcare resources to support evidence-based

practice related to the priority concept (topic).
3. Summarize potential priority concept (topic) healthcare

disparities and inequalities related to diverse populations.
4. Propose an evidence-based solution for the priority

concept (topic) related to healthcare disparities.
5. Identify three (3) evidence-based practice interventions.
6. Prioritize the identified evidence-based practice

interventions and provide rationale.

Includes all 7
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 5-6
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 3-4
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 1-2
requirements for
section.

No requirements for
this section
presented.

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Assignment Section and
Required Criteria
(Points possible/% of total points available)
Highest Level of
Performance
High Level of
Performance
Satisfactory
Level of
Performance
Unsatisfactory
Level of
Performance
Section not
present in

paper
7. Discuss two (2) patient education considerations related to

the priority concept (topic).

Legal & Ethical Considerations and Intervention
Challenges

(40 points/16%)
40 points 36 points 31 points 12 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Identify at least one (1) ethical and one (1) legal implication

for addressing the priority concept (topic) in professional
practice.

2. Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of an ethical
dilemma related to the priority concept (topic) in
professional practice.

3. Discuss at least one (1) strategy in prevention of legal
consequences related to the priority concept (topic) in
professional practice.

4. Identify one (1) anticipated challenge to the success of
preventing the priority concept (topic) in professional
practice.

5. Identify one (1) anticipated challenges to the success of
resolving the priority concept (topic) in professional
practice.

Includes all 5
requirements for
section.

Includes no
fewer than 4
requirements
for section.

Includes no fewer
than 3
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 1-2
requirements for
section.

No requirements for
this section
presented.

Participants and Interdisciplinary Approach
(20 points/8%)

20 points 18 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Identify all the parties who will be involved in the

implementation of the priority concept (topic)
interventions.

2. Discuss the role of each member in the intervention
implementation for the priority concept (topic).

3. Identify a minimum of two (2) members of a discipline
outside of nursing.

4. Discuss the benefit of including the identified

Includes all 4
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 3
requirements for
section.

Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements
for section.

Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement
for section.
No requirements for
this section
presented.

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Assignment Section and
Required Criteria
(Points possible/% of total points available)
Highest Level of
Performance
High Level of
Performance
Satisfactory
Level of
Performance
Unsatisfactory
Level of
Performance
Section not
present in
paper

interdisciplinary member from disciplines outside nursing
to promote evidence-based professional practice.

Quality Improvement
(20 points/8%)

20 points 18 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Provide at least one (1) benefit in patient outcomes from

addressing the priority concept (topic) within the clinical
environment.

2. Provide at least one (1) benefit to the nursing profession
that will result from addressing this priority concept
(topic) in clinical professional practice.

3. Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to promote
improved patient outcomes in the clinical environment.

4. Discuss at least one (1) resource utilized to increase
professional nurse knowledge promoting improved clinical
professional practice.

Includes all 4
requirements for
section.
Includes no fewer
than 3
requirements for
section.
Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements
for section.

Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement
for section.

No requirements for
this section
presented.

Conclusion
(20 points/8%)

20 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. Provide a thorough recap of the purpose to promote

increased evidence-based professional practice
knowledge related to the priority concept (topic)
deficiency.

2. Summarize resources identified to support improved
evidence-based professional practice related to the
priority concept (topic).

3. Include a complete statement describing why addressing
the priority concept (topic) matters and to whom.

Includes all 3 requirements for section. Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements
for section.

Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement
for section.
No requirements for
this section
presented.

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Assignment Section and
Required Criteria
(Points possible/% of total points available)
Highest Level of
Performance
High Level of
Performance
Satisfactory
Level of
Performance
Unsatisfactory
Level of
Performance
Section not
present in
paper

APA Format, Grammar, and Punctuation
(20 points/8%)

20 points 18 points 16 points 8 points 0 points

Required criteria
1. References are submitted with paper.
2. Uses current APA format and is free of errors.
3. Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.
4. At least three (3) scholarly, peer reviewed, primary

sources from the last 5 years, excluding the textbook, are
provided. Each section should have a cited source to
support information provided.

Includes all 4
requirements for
section.
Includes no fewer
than 3
requirements for
section.
Includes no fewer
than 2 requirements
for section.
Includes no fewer
than 1 requirement
for section.
No requirements for
this section
presented.

Total Points Possible = 250 points

Purpose
Preparing the assignment
Grading Rubric

Individual Performance Profile
RN Comprehensive Online Practice 2019 A

Individual Name: FAWAZ ALLI

Student Number: D40789542

Institution: Chamberlain U Addison BSN

Program Type: BSN

Test Date: 3/3/2021

# of Questions: 150

Individual Score: 88.7%

Practice Time: 2 hr 34 min

Individual Performance in the Major Content Areas
# Individual Individual Score (% Correct)

Sub-Scale Items Score

Management of Care 30 80.0%

Safety and Infection
Control

18 94.4%

Health Promotion and
Maintenance

14 85.7%

Psychosocial Integrity 13 84.6%

Basic Care and Comfort 13 100.0%

Pharmacological and
Parenteral Therapies

23 95.7%

Reduction of Risk
Potential

18 83.3%

Physiological Adaptation 21 90.5%

Topics To Review Go to your Improve tab to access your Focused Review Experience

Management of Care (6 items)
Advance Directives/Self-Determination/Life Planning (1 item)

Legal Responsibilities: Responding to a Client’s Wishes for a Living Will(Active Learning Template: Basic Concept)

Advocacy (1 item)

Professional Responsibilities: Priority Action for Suspected Negligence(Active Learning Template: Basic Concept)

Assignment, Delegation and Supervision (1 item)

Managing Client Care: Delegating Tasks to an Assistive Personnel(Active Learning Template: Basic Concept)

Confidentiality/Information Security (1 item)

Professional Responsibilities: Nurse’s Role Regarding Confidentiality of Client Information(Active Learning Template:
Basic Concept)

Collaboration with Interdisciplinary Team (1 item)

Cystic Fibrosis: Priority Finding to Report to the Provider(Active Learning Template: System Disorder)

Referrals (1 item)

Coordinating Client Care: Referral for Care Following Discharge(Active Learning Template: Basic Concept)

Safety and Infection Control (1 item)
Standard Precautions/Transmission-Based Precautions/Surgical Asepsis (1 item)

Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases: Identifying Reportable Diseases(Active Learning Template: Basic Concept)

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Health Promotion and Maintenance (2 items)
Ante/Intra/Postpartum and Newborn Care (1 item)

Newborn Nutrition: Evaluating Effectiveness of Breastfeeding (Active Learning Template: Growth and Development)

Techniques of Physical Assessment (1 item)

Data Collection and General Survey: Physical Assessment Techniques Requiring Intervention(Active Learning Template:
Nursing Skill)

Psychosocial Integrity (2 items)
Mental Health Concepts (2 items)

Neurocognitive Disorders: Expected Manifestations of Delirium(Active Learning Template: System Disorder)

Psychotic Disorders: Identifying Alterations in Speech(Active Learning Template: System Disorder)

Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies (1 item)
Medication Administration (1 item)

Medications Affecting Cardiac Rhythm: Teaching About Manifestations of Digoxin Toxicity(Active Learning Template:
Medication)

Reduction of Risk Potential (3 items)
Laboratory Values (1 item)

Infections of the Renal and Urinary System: Expected Laboratory Findings for Glomerulonephritis(Active Learning
Template: System Disorder)

System Specific Assessments (1 item)

Pressure Ulcers, Wounds, and Wound Management: Identifying Risk Factors for Pressure Injury Development(Active
Learning Template: Basic Concept)

Therapeutic Procedures (1 item)

Disorders of the Eye: Evaluating Teaching Following Cataract Extraction(Active Learning Template: Therapeutic
Procedure)

Physiological Adaptation (2 items)
Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances (1 item)

Fluid Imbalances: Manifestations of Fluid Volume Deficit(Active Learning Template: System Disorder)

Pathophysiology (1 item)

Lupus Erythematosus, Gout, and Fibromyalgia: Expected Findings of Raynaud’s Disease(Active Learning Template:
System Disorder)

Outcomes

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RN Assessment 87.5%24 The assessment step of the nursing process involves application of
nursing knowledge to the collection, organization, validation and
documentation of data about a client’s health status. The nurse
focuses on the client’s response to a specific health problem
including the client’s health beliefs and practices. The nurse thinks
critically to perform a comprehensive assessment of subjective and
objective information. Nurses must have excellent communication
and assessment skills in order to plan client care.

RN Analysis/Diagnosis 77.3%22 The analysis step of the nursing process involves the nurse’s ability
to analyze assessment data to identify health problems/risks and a
client’s needs for health intervention. The nurse identifies patterns
or trends, compares the data with expected standards or reference
ranges and draws conclusions to direct nursing care. The nurse
then frames nursing diagnoses in order to direct client care.

RN Planning 100.0%25 The planning step of the nursing process involves the nurse’s ability
to make decisions and problem solve. The nurse uses a client’s
assessment data and nursing diagnoses to develop measureable
client goals/outcomes and identify nursing interventions. The nurse
uses evidenced based practice to set client goals, establish
priorities of care, and identify nursing interventions to assist the
client to achieve his goals.

RN Implementation/Therapeutic
Nursing Intervention

89.6%67 The implementation step of the nursing process involves the nurse’s
ability to apply nursing knowledge to implement interventions to
assist a client to promote, maintain, or restore his health. The nurse
uses problem-solving skills, clinical judgment, and critical thinking
when using interpersonal and technical skills to provide client care.
During this step the nurse will also delegate and supervise care and
document the care and the client’s response.

RN Evaluation 83.3%12 The evaluation step of the nursing process involves the nurse’s
ability to evaluate a client’s response to nursing interventions and to
reach a nursing judgment regarding the extent to which the client
has met the goals and outcomes. During this step the nurse will
also assess client/staff understanding of instruction, the
effectiveness of interventions, and identify the need for further
intervention or the need to alter the plan.

Nursing Process
No of
Items

Individual
Score Description

92.6%27 Ability to demonstrate nursing judgment in making decisions about
priority responses to a client problem. Also includes establishing
priorities regarding the sequence of care to be provided to multiple
clients.

Priority Setting in Nursing
No of
Items

Individual
Score Description

Foundational Thinking in Nursing 87.5%24 Ability to recall and comprehend information and concepts
foundational to quality nursing practice.

Clinical Judgment/Critical Thinking in
Nursing

88.9%126 Ability to use critical thinking skills (interpretation, analysis,
evaluation, inference, and explanation) to make a clinical judgment
regarding a posed clinical problem. Includes cognitive abilities of
application and analysis.

Thinking Skills
No of
Items

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Score Description

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RN Management of Care 80.0%30 The nurse coordinates, supervises and/or collaborates with
members of the health care to provide an environment that is cost-
effective and safe for clients.

RN Safety and Infection Control 94.4%18 The nurse uses preventive safety measures to promote the health
and well-being of clients, significant others, and members of the
health care team.

RN Health Promotion and
Maintenance

85.7%14 The nurse directs nursing care to promote prevention and detection
of illness and support optimal health.

RN Psychosocial Integrity 84.6%13 The nurse directs nursing care to promote and support the
emotional, mental and social well-being of clients and significant
others.

RN Basic Care and Comfort 100.0%13 The nurse provides nursing care to promote comfort and assist
client to perform activities of daily living.

RN Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies

95.7%23 The nurse administers, monitors and evaluates pharmacological
and parenteral therapy.

RN Reduction of Risk Potential 83.3%18 The nurse directs nursing care to decrease clients’ risk of
developing complications from existing health disorders, treatments
or procedures.

RN Physiological Adaptation 90.5%21 The nurse manages and provides nursing care for clients with an
acute, chronic or life threatening illness.

NCLEX®
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Items

Individual
Score Description

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Fundamentals 78.6%14 Ability to apply fundamental nursing principles and skills to basic
needs of clients. Topics include foundational client care concepts
(ie: medical and surgical asepsis, infection control, physical
assessment, therapeutic communication, medication administration,
pain management integral to the delivery of safe, ethical, and legal
nursing practice.

Adult Medical-Surgical 86.1%36 Ability to apply medical-surgical nursing knowledge to clinical
problems experienced by adults. Topics include care of clients with
cardiovascular, hematologic, gastrointestinal, neurosensory,
endocrine, fluid and electrolyte, integumentary,
lymph/immune/infectious, renal and urinary, musculoskeletal,
reproductive, and respiratory disorders as well as topics relevant to
perioperative nursing care and emergency care/triage.

Maternal Newborn 100.0%15 Ability to apply nursing knowledge to perinatal nursing care. Topics
include antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum nursing care as
well as care of the newborn.

Mental Health 91.3%23 Ability to apply nursing knowledge to the care of clients with mental
health disorders. Topics include foundational mental health
concepts (e.g., therapeutic communication, therapeutic milieu,
legal/ethical issues), care of clients experiencing psychobiologic
disorders or psychiatric emergencies, and care of clients receiving
traditional nonpharmacological and psychopharmacological
therapies.

Nursing Care of Children 95.2%21 Ability to apply nursing knowledge to clinical problems experienced
by children. Topics include basic concepts (e.g., medication
administration, physical assessment, nutritional needs), care of
children with various system disorders, care of children experiencing
pediatric emergencies (e.g., accidental poisoning, respiratory
arrest), and care of children with psychosocial disorders.

Leadership 81.8%22 Ability to manage the care of a caseload of clients and nursing care
team while using principles of management and supervision. Topics
include leadership skills (ie: interdisciplinary collaboration,
advocacy, prioritization, delegation), performance improvement,
continuity of client care, and principles of case management while
ensuring safe client care and efficient utilization of human and
material resources.

Community Health 85.7%7 Ability to apply concepts related to public and community health.
Topics include primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions, health
screening, health related education, home health and injury
prevention, disaster planning, and cultural diversity.

Pharmacology 100.0%7 Ability to apply concepts related to the pharmacodynamics and
pharmacotherapeutics of commonly prescribed medications for
clients with physical and mental health disorders. Topics include
principles of medication administration and dosage calculation,
side/adverse effects, drug/food interactions, contraindications, and
nursing implications integral to the safe administration of
medications to clients across the lifespan.

Nutrition 80.0%5 Ability to apply nursing knowledge to normal nutrition and diet
therapy. Topics include the collection of data regarding nutritional
status; implementation of actions to promote normal nutrition or
dietary modification in response to illness; and evaluation of the
client’s response to diet therapy.

Clinical Areas
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Items

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Score Description

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Safety 93.3%45 The minimization of risk factors that could cause injury or harm
while promoting quality care and maintaining a secure environment
for clients, self, and others.

Patient-Centered Care 88.5%26 The provision of caring and compassionate, culturally sensitive care
that is based on a patient’s physiological, psychological,
sociological, spiritual, and cultural needs, preferences, and values.

Evidence Based Practice 86.9%61 The use of current knowledge from research and other credible
sources to make clinical judgments and provide client-centered
care.

Quality Improvement 100.0%3 Care-related and organizational processes that involve the
development and implementation of a plan to improve health care
services and better meet the needs of clients.

Teamwork and Collaboration 80.0%15 The delivery of client care in partnership with multidisciplinary
members of the health care team, to achieve continuity of care and
positive client outcomes.

QSEN
No of
Items

Individual
Score Description

Human Flourishing 85.7%21 Human flourishing is reflected in patient care that demonstrates
respect for diversity, approaches patients in a holistic and patient-
centered manner, and uses advocacy to enhance their health and
well-being.

Nursing Judgment 88.5%104 Nursing judgment involves the use of critical thinking and decision
making skills when making clinical judgments that promote safe,
quality patient care.

Professional Identity 89.5%19 Professional identity reflects the professional development of the
nurse as a member and leader of the health care team who
promotes relationship-centered care, and whose practice reflects
integrity and caring while following ethical and legal guidelines.

Spirit of Inquiry 100.0%6 A spirit of inquiry is exhibited by nurses who provide evidence based
clinical nursing practice and use evidence to promote change and
excellence.

NLN Competency
No of
Items

Individual
Score Description

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Liberal Education for Baccalaureate
Generalist Nursing Practice

92.3%13 The need for an education that exposes nurses to multiple fields of
study providing the foundation for a global perspective of society as
well as high level thinking and acquisition of skills that can be
applied to complex patient and system-based problems.

Basic Organization and Systems
Leadership for Quality Care and
Patient Safety

100.0%10 The need for nurses to be able to understand power relationships
and use decision-making and leadership skills to promote safe
practice and quality improvement within health care systems.

Scholarship for Evidence-Based
Practice

87.7%57 The need for nurses to be able to understand the research process
and base practice and clinical judgments upon fact-based evidence
to enhance patient outcomes.

Healthcare Policy, Finance, and
Regulatory Environments

100.0%1 The need for nurses to be able to understand the role of regulatory
agencies in relation to the development of health care policies and
their effect on patient care services, access to care, financial
reimbursement, and scope of nursing practice.

Interprofessional Communication and
Collaboration

60.0%5 The need for nurses to be able to function as a member of the
healthcare team while promoting an environment that supports
interprofessional communication and collaboration with the goal of
providing patient-centered care.

Clinical Prevention and Population
Health

87.0%23 The need for nurses to be able to identify health related risk factors
and facilitate behaviors that support health promotion, and disease
and injury prevention, while providing population-focused care that
is based on principles of epidemiology and promotes social justice.

Professionalism and Professional
Values

83.3%6 The need for nurses to be able to practice nursing in a professional
manner while providing patient-centered care that is caring,
respects diversity, and is governed by legal and ethical tenets.

Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing
Practice

91.4%35 The need for nurses to be able to practice as a generalist using
clinical reasoning to provide care to patients across the lifespan and
healthcare continuum and to individuals, families, groups,
communities, and populations.

BSN Essentials
No of
Items

Individual
Score Description

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