Clinical Nursing Experience Paper

Introduction The admission process of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program includes a formal interview with a faculty member. During my formal interview, I learned students were required to choose a theme that would be incorporated throughout the DNP courses. As I drove away from Quinnipiac University, I started thinking about possible themes I could envision studying for the next three or more years. At this point, I only had four years of clinical nursing experience, much less than many of my DNP student peers. As a nurse, I had mostly cared for patients undergoing surgical procedures. At first, I thought choosing a theme involving surgical nursing would be most appropriate since it was the only clinical nursing experience I had …show more content…
Prevention education against cardiac disease was originally focused towards men because of the stigma that cardiac disease was a “man’s disease.” It is important that the awareness of cardiac disease in women’s health starts with primary care providers. Women are frequently misdiagnosed or improperly treated due to their atypical symptoms of cardiac disease. Women are often uneducated about the risk factors, clinical symptoms, and delayed treatment of cardiac disease, leading to more preventable negative health outcomes in women with cardiac disease (Mieres et al., 2011). As future Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs), it is our responsibility to change stigmas and innovate new clinical practice approaches when caring for women at risk for cardiac …show more content…
The course emphasized the importance of evidence-based guidelines and research in APRNs level of practice for health promotion and prevention. The purpose of the Health Promotion and Screening Table project was to learn multiple health promotion and screening guidelines resource websites and to understand their recommendations for APRNs level of practice. Students were divided into groups and assigned an illness that had a variety of health promotion and screening guidelines. My group was assigned colorectal cancer screening, we each investigated a colorectal health promotion and screening guidelines resource website. I investigated the colorectal cancer health promotion and screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Task Force website. Then, as a group we constructed and presented a table comparing the differences and similarities between each health promotion and screening guidelines for colorectal cancer