Discussion: Advanced Practice Leadership Paper
Discussion: Advanced Practice Leadership Paper
Advanced Practice
Leadership Paper
from an ethic of care
Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this
applicationis to provide the student an opportunity to critically
appraiseadvanced nursing practice leadership from an ethic of care perspective
Course Outcomes
This assignment provides
documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes
CO4:Assimilate
relationship-based and patient-centered care attributes for interprofessional
collaboration in advanced nursing practice (PO #8)
CO6:Formulate selected
strategies for increasing interprofessional collaboration and influence
across diverse personal,
professional, and/or practice settings (PO #8)
CO7:Explore ethical
dilemma outcomes of organizational and leadership behavior such as mobbing and
bullying that have an adverse impact on advanced nursing practice and
interprofessional collaboration (PO #8)
Due Date
Submit your completed
applicationby Sunday11:59 pm MT of Week 7as directed
Requirements
1 To complete this
application,you will need to access to the following databases: CINAHL,
MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and the Joanna Briggs Institute You may access
these databases through the Chamberlain College of Nursing Online Library The
library has a main menu available at http://librarychamberlainedu/indexhtml
with a link for Research Help in the left-hand menu When clicked, it reveals a
list of “Tools” or PDFs on how to do conduct various searches of the
required databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane, and JBI) through the portals
(EBSCO and OVID) provided
2 The Advanced Nursing
Practice Leadership from an ethic of carepaperis worth 275points and will be
graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of standard English
grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required
components as summarized in the directions and grading criteriarubric
3 Create your
manuscript using Microsoft Word 2010(a part of Microsoft Office 2010) or later
version, which is the required format for all Chamberlain College of Nursing
documents You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word 2010 document
because it will end in “docxâ€
4 Follow the directions
and grading criteria closely Any questions about this paper may be posted
under the Q&A Forum
5 The length of the
paper is to be no fewer than six and no greater than eight pages, excluding the
title page and reference pages
6 APA format is
required with both a title page and reference page Use the required components
of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):
Note: Write an
introductionto the advanced nursing practice leadership dynamicbut do not use
“Introduction†as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association(2010, p 63)
a Description of ethic
of care versus ethic of justice perspectives
b Reflection on the
application from an ethic of care perspective
c Conclusion
Preparing the Paper
The following are best
practices for preparing this paper
1 When introducing the
advanced nursing practiceleadership dynamic, be sure to identify appropriate
background information regarding the practice situation (who, what, where,
when, and why)
2 When describing ethic
of care versus ethic of justice perspectives, be sure to fully describe the
potential impacts ofeach ethical perspective using current evidence
3 When reflecting on
the application from an ethic of care dynamic, be sure to fully critiquefactors
that compel an ethic of care in today’s healthcare environment
Discussion: Advanced Practice Leadership Paper
Discussion: Advanced Practice Leadership Paper
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.