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Complete your Week 1 required discussion prompt.

As you prepare to transition from an academic student to a newly graduated nurse in clinical practice, consider the following:

• What two provisions in the ANA’s Code of Ethics for Nurses may help you in this transition?
• Expand on your chosen provisions and describe how adopting them into your clinical practice will help you to be successful.

•  Nurses can be an integral part of designing public policy as political leaders. As a registered nurse, you have a professional commitment to improve health care.  However, many nurses are not politically active and do not lobby for important aspects of their profession.

• What are the reasons many nurses do not actively engage in lobbying efforts?
• What actions can nurses take to encourage themselves and their peers to get involved politically and lobby for specific issues such as healthcare policy changes? Provide a detailed example.

• Complete your Week 3 required discussion prompt.

The United States and other countries are experiencing nursing shortages. To help ease the shortage, many resources are spent on recruiting foreign nurses.

• What are the reasons for these shortages? If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into increasing nurse retention, would the need to recruit foreign nurses decrease? Why or why not?
• Choose one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and discuss how a community nurse can work toward achieving that goal.
• Complete your Week 4 required discussion prompt.

As healthcare organizations become more complex and our focus on the patient experience expands, nurses are leading and participating in evidence-based practice (EBP) projects and quality improvement (QI) initiatives with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

• In what ways is EBP applied where you work or where you do clinicals?
• Discuss the findings of a QI initiative or study from either your clinical location/hospital website or another online source.

• Complete your Week 5 required discussion prompt.

Lifelong learning involves a commitment to remain current within a rapidly changing, increasingly complex, and technologically reliant healthcare world.

• Why is it important for nurses to commit to lifelong learning in relation to patients, organizations, and self?
• How can organizations such as Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) assist nurses in their lifelong learning journey?

• Complete your Week 6 required discussion prompt.

The media portray many images of nursing, some favorable and some unfavorable.

• Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing.
• Discuss the various roles nurses can play that support the real image of nursing. Think about community health care and preventive services for all, but especially the underserved.

•  Complete your Week 7 required discussion prompt.

The phrase “nurses eat their young” has been around for decades. The consequences of bullying include nurses reporting poorer mental health, decreased collaboration with team members, ineffective communication, reduced work productivity, and poor job commitment.

• Do you feel bullying or horizontal violence is an issue in the clinical environment? Why or why not?
• Discuss how the nurse mentor can promote professional socialization in the workplace.