The document outlines the requirement to reflect on various nursing courses and their relevance to the BSN essentials throughout the nursing career. It emphasizes understanding course content related to care management, ethical and legal issues, information technology, and pharmacotherapeutics, while applying key BSN essentials to enhance nursing practice. The reflection must encompass a comprehensive analysis of how these elements integrate to foster professional development in nursing.

1. Please explain what each of the following courses mean to me
within my nursing career and how I was able to apply the
various BSN essentials through the completion of various
course assignments and clinical practice experiences. I have
attached the BSN essentials as well as a course description for
each course. The paper needs to be 2 pages in length, reflecting
on each class. The description of each class is listed below
along with an explanation of each BSN essential. Utilize as
many BSN essential as possible for each course reflection.
2 pages minimum
12 Point Font (Times New Roman)
Semester 2
Care Management II
Nursing care management of diverse adult and elderly acute
care populations experiencing physiologic and psychological
illnesses. Proficiency is acquired in the classroom and in
clinical experiences across conditions that have a significant
effect on quality of life, are highly preventable, and/or
economically inefficient. Emphasis is placed on
interprofessional collaboration and advocacy to achieve optimal
outcomes.
Ethical and Legal issues in health care
The course introduces contemporary bioethical and legal issues
confronting healthcare providers in a variety of settings. Topics
focus on identification of legal and ethical principles under lying
the decision-making process in nursing and healthcare.
Information Technology for Nursing
Information management and patient care technology skills,
including analysis of various applications of information
systems within the context of the healthcare system. Elements
covered include theoretical models; data acquisition and data

2. representation; nursing vocabularies and nursing knowledge
representation; managing organizational change; ethical and
social issues in healthcare and consumer information
technology.
Nursing Pharmacotherapeutics
Pre-licensure BSN course. Essential concepts and principles of
pharmacology as applied to baccalaureate level nursing
practice. Imparts knowledge and skills required for safe,
effective administration of therapeutic drugs (including herbal
and complementary medications). The course covers critical
skills related to dosage calculation and medication
administration that. must be performed without error to achieve
a passing grade for the course.
The BSN Essentials
Essential I: Liberal Education for Baccalaureate Generalist
Nursing Practice
A solid base in liberal education provides the cornerstone for
the practice and
education of nurses.
Essential II: Basic Organizational and Systems Leadership for
Quality Care and
Patient Safety
Knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and
patient safety are
necessary to provide high quality health care.
Essential III: Scholarship for Evidence Based Practice

3. Professional nursing practice is grounded in the translation of
current evidence
into one’s practice.
Essential IV: Information Management and Application of
Patient Care Technology
Knowledge and skills in information management and patient
care technology are
critical in the delivery of quality patient care.
Essential V: Health Care Policy, Finance, and Regulatory
Environments
Healthcare policies, including financial and regulatory, directly
and indirectly
influence the nature and functioning of the healthcare system
and thereby are
important considerations in professional nursing practice.
Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and
Collaboration
for Improving Patient Health Outcomes
Communication and collaboration among healthcare
professionals are critical to
delivering high quality and safe patient care.
Essential VII: Clinical Prevention and Population Health
Health promotion and disease prevention at the individual and
population level are necessary to improve population health and
are important components of baccalaureate generalist nursing
practice.

4. Essential VIII: Professionalism and Professional Values
Professionalism and the inherent values of altruism, autonomy,
human dignity, integrity, and social justice are fundamental to
the discipline of nursing.
Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
The baccalaureate graduate nurse is prepared to practice with
patients, including individuals, families, groups, communities,
and populations across the lifespan and across the continuum of
healthcare environments. The baccalaureate graduate
understands and respects the variations of care, the increased
complexity, and the increased use of healthcare resources
inherent in caring for patients.