Discussion Prompt:
Read the Advocacy: An Essential Competency of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Download Advocacy: An Essential Competency of the Clinical Nurse Specialist article. Give a brief summary of the article, then give your critical analysis of the content. Answer the following questions as you apply this week’s Essentials to the article.
- What themes stood out to you?
- What other information is out there to support/disprove the concepts presented?
- How are Essentials 9 and 10 linked?
- How do professionalism and leadership development impact advanced practice nurses? Give specific examples.
- How will you incorporate these into your practice?
- Be sure to include specific sub-competencies in your post.
Remember, even though this is an opinion/experience-based discussion topic, scholarly references ARE required to support your statements. See the learning activities overview and discussion rubric for discussion expectations.
Purpose:
The purpose of the threaded discussion is to promote dialogue among students and faculty during the course.
Requirements:
- The student must provide the initial substantive response to the discussion question/topic(s) posted by the course faculty by Friday of those weeks with a discussion board assignment.
- The student must also provide a minimum of two additional responses to two student colleagues on two different days by Tuesday of those weeks with a discussion board assignment.
- All questions posed to the initial student post by course faculty need to be answered by the student to earn full credit for the discussion board assignment.
This should be substantive feedback to a student colleague’s response to the question/topic posted by the course faculty. All responses must be respectful and thoughtful.
Discussion boards are not opinion boards. Students are expected to have scholarly sources to support their claims and constructs presented in the original post and citations must be provided. While scholarly resources are not required for your response posts, they do strengthen your posts and you must cite information taken from a source. Citations for parts of posts that are synthesized from the course text, peer-reviewed research articles, and other credible sources are required. Course faculty monitor for the compliance of citations with Turnitin evaluation of the posts intermittently during the course session.
Note: This discussion requires you to complete your initial post before you can see your classmates’ posts. If you are having trouble getting started, please contact your instructor.
NSG 5110: Foundational Concepts and Applications
This topic will be used for your two assignments in NSG 5110:
1) Essentials of Professional Nursing Education Presentation and PowerPoint and
2) Essentials of Professional Nursing Education Letter to the Editor.
Although you are selecting one of the AACN Essentials as your topic, these will be individual
assignments.
The Essentials of Advanced-level Education in Nursing Topics
• Essential I: Knowledge for Nursing Practice
• Essential II: Person-Centered Care
• Essential III: Population Health
• Essential IV: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
• Essential V: Quality and Safety
• Essential VI: Interprofessional Partnerships
• Essential VII: Systems-Based Practice
• Essential VIII: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies
• Essential IX: Professionalism
• Essential X: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development
Select one AACN Essentials as your topic (week 6):
In week 6, you will select one AACN Essential for both the Presentation and Paper:
You must submit to the professor in the dropbox, what AACN Essential you will use for the
Week 8 Presentation and Week 10 Paper. You will use the same Essential for both assignments.
