Reflection on Learning
Collaboration Café
Purpose
The purpose of the graded Collaboration Café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nurse practitioner (NP) practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared. This Collaboration Café supports the professional formation of the nurse practitioner role.
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Examine the role of research and evidence from nursing and related fields in advancing healthcare outcomes and equity. (POs 4, 5)
CO 2: Evaluate research and evidence for application to advanced nursing practice. (POs 4, 5)
CO 3: Appraise legal, regulatory, and professional standards in research and scholarship. (POs 3, 4)
CO 4: Apply evidence-based models to enhance advanced nursing practice. (POs 4, 5)
CO 5: Develop professional competencies in scientific inquiry and translating scholarship into practice. (POs 4, 5)
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Include the following sections:
Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
Reflect on your learning experience in this course. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact? How do you envision using these concepts in your future nursing practice as a masterâ€s prepared nurse practitioner?
Describe how course learning activities and assignments will help you achieve Program Outcome 4: Integrate professional values through scholarship and service in health care.
Describe how course assignments or activities will help you achieve ONE of the sub-competencies from the advanced-level nursing education competencies from AACN Essentials Competency 4.1 Advance the Scholarship of Nursing.
4.1h Apply and critically evaluate advanced knowledge in a defined area of nursing practice.
4.1i Engage in scholarship to advance health.
4.1j Discern appropriate applications of quality improvement, research, and evaluation methodologies.
4.1k Collaborate to advance oneâ€s scholarship.
4.1l Disseminate oneâ€s scholarship to diverse audiences using a variety of approaches or modalities.
4.1m Advocate within the interprofessional team and with other stakeholders for the contributions of nursing scholarship.
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
