What comparisons can be found between the GCU Mission and Domains/CON Mission and Program Competencies (for your selected specialty track, links located in the Course Materials) with the AACN’s Essentials for Master’s Education for Advanced Practice Nursing (link located in the Week 1 Topic Materials)? Explain your rational.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Grand Canyon University (GCU) both laid emphasis on providing students with a package of knowledge that is “practice-oriented with a goal that professionals develop cutting-edge skills and information for professional roles, and those programs that are more theoretically or research directed with a goal of developing scholars for the generation of new knowledge.” (“The Essentials Of Master’s Education For Advanced Practice Nursing,” n.d., p. 1) Both AACN and GCU realize the important for the masters prepared nurse to be culturally sensitive and understanding of others, and themselves. Using evidence based practice through research and thinking critically helps the masters prepared nurse to deliver only the uppermost quality of care to their patients, families, and the communities they serve.
GCU the College of Nursing (CON) also sees the AACN’s essentials as part of their own recognizing that masters prepared nurses need to be able to provide health assessments that are in-depth and accommodating to the person as an individual, as a family or as a community member. These two organizations express the necessity to be able to gain knowledge and apply it into skills in their clinical practice. The master prepared nurse is expected to be able to be “grounded in the reality of the world, accept the consequences of choice, and strive unselfishly to help others meet their highest potential”. (Grand Canyon University Mission and Vision website, 2014)
The Term Paper on Scholarship, Practice, And Leadership In Nursing
Information literacy is foundational to scholarship, practice, and leadership. The three areas are dependent on information for their basic functions. Scholarship, practice, and leadership require information literacy: the ability to find, evaluate, and organize information for efficient operation. Nursing requires a high level of scholarship, practice, and leadership from initial entry to the ...
The nursing career affords programs that bring a knowledgeable nurse into a masters prepared nurse who should possess all of the above statements. These master prepared nurses should be able to participate in the nursing profession as a leader in the business of health care. Both organizations strive to bring nurses to a topmost educational and professional level side by side. They both want the business to be managed with key members of the profession that are equipped with appropriate skills that are presented within these programs.
References
Grand Canyon University Mission and Vision website. (2014).
http://www.gcu.edu/About-Us/Mission-and-Vision.php The Essentials of Master’s Education for Advanced Practice Nursing. (n.d.).
Retrieved Oct 31, 2014, from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/education-resources/MastersEssentials11.pdf
