National Conference for Nurse Practitioners
QUESTION
Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.
You are required to post one scholarly activity while you are in the BSN program, which should be documented by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.
Submit, as the assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment. (upload)
National Conference for Nurse Practitioners
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National Conference for Nurse Practitioners
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The National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP)
Health care facilities continue to evolve as time goes by increasingly. With the constant changes in the environment, nurses need to enhance their nursing skills and further their education to offer quality and efficient medical care to patients (Cherry & Jacob, 2016). Part of enhancing my professional skills as a nurse includes attending conferences and seminars, which provide a platform for me to interact and learn from other nurses with whom we share the same goals. It is through such platforms that I get to familiarize myself with what health care systems entails. Additionally, this takes place both at a national and global level, broadening my knowledge and networking.
Overview
In the course of my BSN program, I have had the opportunity to attend conferences in line with my nursing profession to improve my skills and sharpen my knowledge. The National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP) is one of the conference meetings I attended. The meeting was held in Sunny Anaheim, California, from September 19 to 22 at the Anaheim Marriot Hotel. The meeting was attended by nurses that work in primary care and Acute care department across all health care settings. By attending this meeting, I interacted with nurses who work with geriatric patients who encountered patient falls as a challenge in their practice. Some of the nurses worked in hospital facilities, palliative care, and residential homes. As I continued furthering my relationship with them, I learned methods and approaches through which they were using to prevent elderly patient fall cases in their healthcare institutions. I also learned more comprehensive patient care strategies through the evidence-based lessons offered throughout the workshops.
Problem
The conference aims at solving medical issues concerning:
• Family, adult, pediatric, women’s health, mental health, and acute care specialties.
• Evaluating pharmacological methods and new treatment methods.
• Identifying issues that threaten advanced practice such as malpractice, health issues such as patient falls.
Elderly patient falls continue to be an increased threat to nurses working in gerontology departments. The majority of these patients have poor mobility, chronic ailments, and mental issues such as dementia that predispose them to falls (Jin, 2018). Another leading factor to increased falls among elderly patients is the treatment and medication they receive. Nurses would be able to increase their continuing education through evidence-based lessons offered: they will learn different treatment methods that benefit their patients and reduce the amount of workload they experience. I believe that attending such a conference also offers nurses the opportunity to learn communication skills to help them in patient advocacy.
Solution
Part of the conference’s agenda addresses issues that nurses go through while handling patients: this being inclusive of patient falls and developing new treatment and Pharmacological methods. Having discovered that some of the medications offered to patients interfere with their body system, leading to feeling nauseated and having migraines. Such conditions are a result of the types of medication offered. The conference discussed ways medical practitioners can assess their patients and offer medical treatments that are safer and integrate positively with their body systems.
Opportunity
I believe that nursing conferences are designed to offer individuals the chance to broaden their knowledge through different educational systems all in one place. Through the conference’s objective of increasing advanced practice clinician skills, I improved my technology skills that will improve most of my medical operations. The conference’s purpose is based on offering interactive tutorials: this helped me improve my social skills and get a chance to learn from other nurses. Attending the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners enabled me and continues to be of great help in my nursing career. I was able to make medical assessments and developed clinical management skills. I am also more confident in my advocacy of Fall prevention among elderly patients.
Program Competencies
A couple of competencies I gained by attending the conference and participating in the various workshops include using current technology information in the health care facility. Communicating effectively on errors that might occur during research. I was also able to enhance my patient care skills, am empathetic with my patients, and put up safety measures that prevent them from injuries acquired through falls and modify their environment. The conference also trained me in decision making: I can make sound and critically analyzed decisions before offering patient care. In addition to all this, an individual needs to work in interdisciplinary teams, communicate effectively, and collaborate with other medical professionals to ensure that the care-given is reliable to all patients and is of quality.
References
Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob, PhD, RN. (2016). Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, &Management. https://books.google.co.ke/books/about/Contemporary_Nursing.html? id=vzzdCwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Jin, J. (2018). Prevention of falls in older adults. Jama, 319(16), 1734-1734. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2679279and management, 8(5), 300. https://doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2019.11
NCNP Fall 2018 recap, The Nurse Practitioner: December 2018 – Volume 43 – Issue 12 – p 50-52 doi: 10.1097/01.NPR.0000550097.52171.27