DNP Essential Artifacts / blog
Collection of reflections, coursework and other items relevant to DNP program outcomes and DNP essentials. Continued as a professional blog following completion of my doctoral program.
September 11, 2018
Reflection and key takeaways from the September 2018 Semester Saturday on-campus session, themed “Valuing and Appreciating Diversity.”
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July 1, 2018
It has been well described that leaders are made, not born. Thus, we also understand the importance of committing to deliberate practice of leadership skills we need wish to develop. As Dr. Wright so insightfully reminded us, “you have to water the flowers you want t...
June 26, 2018
Reflective presentation on my perspective of the relationship between leadership and culture and its’ impact on professional joy.
June 25, 2018
Presentation composed for informatics coursework. View below, or click here to download PDF version for improved quality of slides/images.
June 12, 2018
Focused reflection on our most recent DNP on-campus session...
Strategic Planning
Our first speaker, Daniel Henderson, Division Vice President and Worldwide Manufacturing for Corning Optical Fiber and Cable and Corning Optical Communications, gave an interesting presenta...
June 5, 2018
The recent New York Times article, 'How Tech Can Turn Doctors into Clerical Workers,’ presents a unique perspective of a pervasive problem plaguing our current healthcare system. The author writes, “In America today, the patient in the hospital bed is just the icon, a...
March 26, 2018
Innovation coupled with the concept of boundary spanning is the solution to the complexity of health systems problems. What do I mean by this? Traditional thoughts of innovation, while well understood and respected in its inherent creativity, is limited to the brilli...
January 26, 2018
Further reflection on Semester Saturday’s theme, ‘Theory in Practice,’ brings much clarity to practicality of theory with respect to DNP project development.
Theory in a New Light
Upon completion of the Project I course, I was feeling fairly confident in my progre...
January 23, 2018
A few key take-aways from this 'Semester Saturday’ that really helped to provide context, applicability and centeredness to the study of theory were: (1) Theories, models and frameworks are often interdependent with no single best one for any given situation, vary base...
October 17, 2017
Reflection from Semester Saturday and key take-aways related to program outcomes and DNP Essentials.
While I am by no means an avid football fan, I felt that, given the season, the visual of a engaged football team was appropriate imagery while composing this reflection...