Professional Nurse Identity and Practice Development

NUR 301 Project One Guidelines and Rubric Competencies In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies: Integrate knowledge of nursing to inform the profession Develop professional communication and scholarly inquiry to guide nursing practice Overview As a nurse, you should know how important it is to update your professional information on a regular basis as you continue your education by gathering experience, acquiring skills, and even specializing! This is part of developing and exploring your professional nurse identity. This project will help you to establish a strong personal identity to help navigate your practice with integrity and confidence. The details gathered in this project can also be applied to other professional spaces and applications. One example is a bio that you could provide prior to a conference presentation. A bio is a statement summarizing your professional skills and accomplishments. By this time, you have completed formative assignments that will prepare you for this. This project provides a foundation for additional updates throughout the program and beyond. Scenario Imagine you need to update your professional nurse identity within your resume. You have numerous resources, writings, and artifacts that can guide details of your integrity and confidence as a strong candidate. You want to create a summary that highlights your professional nursing attributes, examines your current nursing practice, and promotes the professional nursing path you plan to follow in the future. To demonstrate scholarly inquiry and academic integrity, you will include in-text citations and references. Directions This assignment should not only be a reflection of your professional skills and what guides those skills, but also your values, strengths, and aspirations. Use at least five scholarly, current (published within the last five years) resources to provide evidence-based support for your work. Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Professional Nurse: Describe yourself as a professional nurse. Be sure to include the following in your response: Describe your vision for your future professional nursing practice. Describe the path you will take to achieve your vision. Professional Attributes: Explain your professional attributes that you display or plan to display in your professional practice. Be sure to include your emotional intelligence strengths in your response. Interpersonal Communication: Explain a skill you use or will use for communicating professionally with other nurses and care team members. Nursing Theory: Explain a nursing theory you apply or will apply to your professional practice. Scholarly Inquiry: Explain how you incorporate or will incorporate scholarly inquiry into your professional practice. Academic Integrity: Explain how you incorporate or will incorporate academic integrity into your professional practice. Professional Organization: Describe a membership organization that guides or can guide your professional nursing practice. What to Submit To complete this project, you must submit the following: Complete and submit Project One. Your submission should be a 3- to 4-page Word document that follows APA standards. The title and reference pages are not included in the page count. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Project One Rubric Criteria Exceeds Expectations (100%) Meets Expectations (85%) Partially Meets Expectations (55%) Does Not Meet Expectations (0%) Value Professional Nurse Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes self as a professional nurse Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Professional Attributes Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains professional attributes, including emotional intelligence strengths, that are or will be displayed in professional practice Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Interpersonal Communication Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains a skill that is or will be used for communicating professionally with other nurses and care team members Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Nursing Theory Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains a nursing theory that is or will be applied to professional practice Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Scholarly Inquiry Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains how scholarly inquiry is or will be incorporated into professional practice Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Academic Integrity Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Explains how academic integrity is or will be incorporated into professional practice Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Professional Organization Exceeds expectations in an exceptionally clear, insightful, sophisticated, or creative manner Describes a membership organization that guides or can guide professional nursing practice Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions Does not attempt criterion 11 Clear Communication Exceeds expectations with an intentional use of language that promotes a thorough understanding Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understanding Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication 7 Scholarly Sources Incorporates more than five scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or use of sources is exceptionally insightful Incorporates five scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources that support claims Incorporates fewer than five scholarly, current (within the last five years) sources, or not all sources support claims Does not incorporate sources 8 APA Style Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with no errors Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with fewer than five errors Formats in-text citations and reference list according to APA style with five or more errors Does not format in-text citations and reference list according to APA style 8 Total: 100%