Health-Related Issue
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 epidemiology and population health in advancing healthcare outcomes and equity. (POs 1, 2, 5)
CO 4: Apply advocacy for population health interventions to advance healthcare outcomes and equity. (PO 5)
Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions
Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Heath blog home pageLinks to an external site.. Select one blog post related to an area of interest in your future practice and complete the following.
Include the following sections:
Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
Briefly summarize the issue described in the blog.
Describe how the issue may impact the communities you will serve as an advanced practice nurse.
Discuss how you could apply the information in the blog post to your future practice.
Include a link to the blog post.
Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
Respond to at least one peer.
Respond to a second peer post.
Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
