Reflection on Nursing Core Values and Ethical Standards

Write a 5-6 page reflection on your professional identity as a professional nurse.

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Where we stand on ethical issues can be a point of contention and an opportunity for deeper discussion as we make judgments on how to shape our decision-making, as advanced practice nurses. There are evolving circumstances that arise frequently that require us to keep a pulse on where we stand on important issues that impact our advanced practice nursing decisions.

Overview

Understanding your professional identity can help you be a more effective health care professional, both within the context of personal well-being and in driving positive client outcomes. This assessment asks you to examine your professional identity within the context of nursing’s core values, professional organizations, behavior models, leadership, and evaluation. You can promote your ability to make decisions and collaborate and communicate openly, as well as have a more confidence in yourself, when you come to an understanding of how your professional identity relates to these aspects of practice.

Instructions

In this assessment, you will write a 56 page paper in which you will take an introspective approach to reflect on what shapes the ways you identify as a professional nurse. In this paper, address the following:

• Critique your personal and professional practices in the context of nursings core values.
• Describe your personal view of the professional identity of a nurse.
• Identify the ways you demonstrate the following core values in your personal and professional practices:
• Integrity.
• Altruism.
• Inclusivity.
• Compassion.
• Courage.
• Humility.
• Advocacy.
• Caring.
• Autonomy.
• Humanity.
• Social justice.
• Identify how your professional practices uphold a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion for both patients and colleagues?
• Identify professional organizations that reflect personal nursing values and identity.
• What mission, vision, or values of the selected organizations align with your personal or professional core values?
• How does the identified professional organizations help to improve your personal practice?
• Reflect on how your personal actions model ethical behaviors in nursing practice and leadership.
• Consider what ethical behaviors are inherent in the nursing profession, and reflect on how your personal actions model those behaviors.
• Identify some potential solutions to use when unethical behaviors are observed.
• Reflect on situations in which you mentored others in the development of their professional growth and accountability.
• Consider a time when you formally or informally mentored someone in the development of their professional growth and accountability. If you have not mentored someone, can you think of a time you were mentored instead?
• Consider how the experience provided personal benefit, as well as benefits to the care team as a whole.
• Evaluate strategies and methods for effective peer review.
• From your Assessment 2 resources, identify two peer review strategies or methods that you found useful.
• Identify the benefits and drawbacks of the strategies and methods presented.
• Reflect on an experience in the evaluation of other members of a care team.
• Consider if there has there been a time in your professional practice that you were involved in the evaluation of a peer or were evaluated by a peer.
• Share details about that experience and whether or not it demonstrated effective evaluation techniques.

Submissions Requirements

• Length of narrative: 56 double-spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 24 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your critique, reflection, and evaluation. Current source materials are defined as no older than five years, unless it is a seminal work. Be sure to cite evidence to support that your information is evidence-based.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 2: Contribute to a workplace environment that promotes personal health and professional growth.
• Reflect on situations in which they mentored others in the development of their professional growth and accountability.
• Evaluate strategies and methods for effective peer review.
• Reflect on an experience in the evaluation of other members of a care team.
• Competency 3: Reflect on your personal and professional practices in the context of the core values and ethical standards of nursing.
• Critique their personal and professional practices in the context of nursings core values.
• Identify professional organizations that reflect personal nursing values and identity.
• Reflect on how personal actions model ethical behaviors in nursing practice and leadership.
• Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
• Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with organizational and professional standards.
• Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.