Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?

When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.

Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.

Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?

In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.

After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:

• The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
• A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
• A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Discussion Topic

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QUESTION 1

Step 1: The three “Principles of Action” outlined in the 

final report to the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
 

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43943/9789241563703_eng.pdf

are essential to achieving health equity. These actions contain a host of SDH such as access to decent employment, and gender equity. Read the “Executive Summary” (pages 1-23) (provided above) paying special attention to the different social determinants of health the Commission addresses. 

Step 2: Find one recent news article (published within the past month), in a newspaper or on a news website, that features a health issue in your particular country or community. Alternatively, you can find one new story of interest on CDC Global Health Newsroom 

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/newsroom/
 (Choose one story from the list of news stories).

Step 3: Write an 300-350 word essay that includes the following information and answers to the following questions:

1. Briefly summarize the main features of the health issue you selected, and how it is affecting the country or community where it exists.

2. What are the main 

risk factors
 for this health issue?

3. Outline three social determinants of health that could influence those who are most at risk for this health issue. Describe how these social determinants are linked and relevant to this health issue. (Note: it may help to go through the determinants described by the Commission and try to visualize how each may be linked to the health issue you selected. For example, how might income, employment, gender, structural racism, global warming, physical environments, access to health services, etc. influence those who are at risk?)

4. Briefly describe 3 actions you recommend that could improve health equity related to this health issue. (These recommendations can be community actions, government actions, or international actions but they must address all three of the social determinants you described in question 3).

QUESTION 2

After reviewing the Case Study 'John's Journey' 

(provided in Week 1 Folder)
 Describe 2 things that the Case Study helped you to understand about the link between community and client health and the impact of the SDOH. Specifically link your observations to John and his family demonstrating understanding and review of the Case Study provided. 

Please be sure to adhere to the following when posting your weekly discussions:

1. Students are to write their name and the appropriate discussion number/discussion title in the title bar for each discussion. For example 
Discussion 1: Micheal Cabrera or Discussion 3: Sheila 

Smith. This is important in identifying that students are submitting original posts as well as response posts as required.

2. Students are to submit their discussions 
directly onto Blackboard Discussion Board.

Attachments submitted as discussion board posts will not be graded.

3.  As a reminder, 
all discussion posts must be minimum 350-550 words, references 
must be cited in 
APA format 7th Edition, and 
must include minimum of 3 scholarly resources published within the past

5-7 
years (not part of the classroom coursework).  

DISCUSSION POSTS WILL BE DUE NO LATER THAN SUNDAY, Since there was a delay to Week 1&2, this post has been extended to Week 3 and is due by Sunday, 9/17/23 by 11:59 pm EST

Since there is only two students who is registered for this section of the course there will not be any peer responses therefore discussions/Cases will only have the original response and my feedback and the rationale for the length as normally the original discussions are 250 words and 2 peer responses are 150 (300 words). I have therefore increased the length of this original post for this reason. 

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 In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making. A critical component of any policy design is evaluation of the results. How comfortable are you with the thought of becoming involved with such matters? 

You have been promoted to nurse manager of your unit. You realize that to function effectively, you must have a better understanding of your organization’s structure and, specifically, the chain of command.

Find and analyze the organizational chart of the healthcare organization you are currently working for or for one that you have encountered in your nursing experience.

• Give a brief description of the organization of the healthcare structure used in your facility.
• Describe the chain of command used in your organization and identify the people you report to and those who report to you.
• Consider the following and discuss how the chain of command is used to implement change.
  • Based on the organization chart, what leadership structure is used in the organization—hierarchical or flat?  How does this affect implementing change?
  • Does this organization use a shared governance model for nursing?
  • When nurses have an idea for changing a process and they make a decision as a group, where do they go with their suggestions? (the director? the unit manager?)
• Explain why understanding this information is important to your success.

APA format.

Step 3 Save and submit your assignment.

Respond at least 2 times each . The goal is for the discussion forum to function as robust clinical conferences on the patients. Provide a response to 1 of the 3 discussion prompts that your colleagues provided in their video presentations. You may also provide additional information, alternative points of view, research to support treatment, or patient education strategies you might use with the relevant patient.