NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSINGWeek 1 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 1:
Developing an Academic and Professional Network
When was
the last time you read Meditation XVII of John Donne's Devotions Upon Emergent
Occasions?
Unless you
are a student of seventeeth-century poetry, you may not be all that familiar
with this piece. However, you may be much more familiar with one of its
well-known phrases: “No man is an island...”.
As you
begin your journey toward achieving your academic and professional goals, you
have a great opportunity to network with academics and professionals who can
help ensure you do not travel alone. This network can help to clarify your own
vision for success and can help guide you now and in the future. To paraphrase
Donne, no one is an island.
Begin
creating an academic and professional network by identifying which academic and
professional connections and resources with which you need to collaborate to
succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
To Prepare:
Consider
individuals, departments, teams, and/or resources within Walden University and
within your profession that you believe can support your academic and professional
success.
Identify at
least two academic and at least two professional individuals, colleagues, or
teams that might help you succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing
nurse.
Download
the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
The
Assignment:
Academic
and Professional Network
Complete
Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template. Be
sure to address the following:
Identify at
least two academic and at least two professional individuals or teams to
collaborate with to be successful in your MSN program and as a practicing
nurse.
Explain why
you selected these individuals and/or teams and how they will support your
success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
By Day 4 of
Week 1
Submit a
draft of Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Template to the Discussion board.
Make any
revisions to your draft of Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template based on the feedback you receive in the Discussion.
By Day 7 of
Week 1
Submit Part
1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
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NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSING
Week 3 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 2:
Academic Resources and Strategies
New
construction projects begin with a design phase, where architects blueprint the
vision complete with design details. They work in collaboration with builders
who use the designs to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials
to bring the vision to reality. You are both architect and builder of your
success. You have started to blueprint your vision in your Academic Success and
Professional Development Plan. You have identified others with whom you will
collaborate. Now you can begin to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools,
and materials
How will
you approach your studies? What types of resources are available to you, and
how will you access and utilize them? Taking the opportunity to prepare these
strategies, tools, and materials will help ensure you can “break ground”
without incident and successfully move to the phase where you begin building
your vision.
To Prepare:
Consider
your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.
Reflect on
the strategies presented in the Resources for this module.
The
Assignment:
In this
Assignment, you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous
Assignment to develop the second component—academic resources and strategies.
To accomplish this:
Identify
and describe at least three academic resources or strategies that can be
applied to the MSN program
Identify
and describe at least three professional resources that can be applied to
success in the nursing practice in general or your specialty in particular
Explain how
you intend to use these resources, and how they might benefit you academically
and professionally.
By Day 7 of
Week 3
Submit your
completed Assignment.
Note: Add
your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module
1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template.
Submission
and Grading Information
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your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
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Week 3 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
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criteria from this area.
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NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSING
Week 5 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 3:
Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics
Nurse-scholars
have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have
academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the
body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of
patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.
Fortunately,
there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and
professional work. This Assignment asks you to consider these tools and how you
might apply them to your own work.
In this
Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous
assignment.
To Prepare:
Reflect on
the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of
academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
Reflect on
the connection between academic and professional integrity.
The
Assignment:
Part 3,
Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional
Integrity
Using the
Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1
and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the
following:
Explanation
for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
Explanation
for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
Cite at
least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA
formatting.
Use
Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
Explain how
Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.
Part 3,
Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work
Expand on your
thoughts from Section 1 by:
identifying
and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics
of your: (1) academic work as a student of the MSN program and (2) professional
work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches
you propose to use as a student and a professional.
Note: Add
your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module
1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template.
By Day 7 of
Week 5
Submit both
Section 1 and Section 2 of Part 3.
Submission
and Grading Information
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NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSING
Week 7 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 4:
Research Analysis
Architect
Daniel Libeskind is credited with saying “To provide meaningful architecture is
not to parody history, but to articulate it.” The suggestion is that his work
does not copy the efforts of others but relies on it.
Understanding
the work of others is critically important to new work. Contributions to the
nursing body of knowledge can happen when you are able to analyze and
articulate the efforts of previous research. Research analysis skills are
therefore critical tools for your toolbox.
In this
Assignment, you will locate relevant existing research. You also will analyze
this research using a tool helpful for analysis.
To Prepare:
Reflect on
the strategies presented in the Resources this Module's Learning Resources in
support of locating and analyzing research.
Use the
Walden Library to identify and read one peer-reviewed research article focused
on a topic in your specialty field that interests you.
Review the
article you selected and reflect on the professional practice use of
theories/concepts described by the article.
The
Assignment:
Using the
“Module 4 | Part 4” section of your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template presented in the Resources, conduct an analysis of
the elements of the research article you identified. Be sure to include the
following:
Your topic
of interest.
A correctly
formatted APA citation of the article you selected, along with link or search
details.
Identify a
professional practice use of the theories/concepts presented in the article.
Analysis of
the article using the “Research Analysis Matrix” section of the template
Write a
1-paragraph justification stating whether you would recommend this article to
inform professional practice.
Write a 2-
to 3-paragraph summary that you will add to your Academic Success and
Professional Development Plan that includes the following:
Describe
your approach to identifying and analyzing peer-reviewed research.
Identify at
least two strategies that you would use that you found to be effective in
finding peer-reviewed research.
Identify at
least one resource you intend to use in the future to find peer-reviewed
research.
Note: Add
your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module
1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template.
By Day 7 of
Week 7
Submit your
analysis, including your completed section of the Academic Success and
Professional Development Plan Template sections and your matrix and summary.
Submission
and Grading Information
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NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSING
Week 9 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 5:
Professional Development
In this
Module’s Discussion, you were introduced to the concept of an academic
portfolio to begin building your own brand. However, portfolios have value that
goes beyond brand building. An academic and professional portfolio can also
help you to build your own vision and mission and establish your development
goals. In this regard, a portfolio becomes yet another tool in your toolbox as
you build your success.
In this
Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan by developing the fifth component--a portfolio for your academic
and professional efforts.
To Prepare:
Consider
your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.
The
Assignment:
Using the
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template document that you
began to work on in Module 1 and have continued expanding throughout this
course, you will develop a curriculum vitae (CV) in Part 5 based on your
current education and professional background.
Write a
statement identifying your professional development goals.
Write a
statement proposing how you might align one or more of your professional
development goals with the university’s emphasis on social change.
Note: Add
your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module
1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan Template.
By Day 7 of
Week 9
Submit Part
5.
Submission
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NURS6003 TRANSITION TO GRADUATE STUDY FOR NURSING
Week 11 Assignment
Assignment:
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 6:
Finalizing the Plan
At some
point in every construction project, efforts turn from design and the focus
moves to actual construction. With the vision in place and the tools secured,
the blueprint can be finalized and approved. Then it is time to put on hardhats
and begin work.
Throughout
the course you have developed aspects of your Academic and Professional
Development Plan. You have thought a great deal about your vision and goals,
your academic and professional network of support, research strategies and
other tools you will need, the integrity of your work, and the value of
consulting the work of others. With your portfolio in place, it is now time to
finalize your blueprint for success.
Much as
builders remain cognizant of the building standards as they plan and begin construction,
nurses must remain mindful of the formal standards of practice that govern
their specialties. A good understanding of these standards can help ensure that
your success plan includes any steps necessary to excel within your chosen
specialty.
In this
Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan by developing the final component–a review of your specialty
standards of practice. You will also submit your final version of the document,
including Parts 1–5.
To Prepare:
Review the
standards of practice related to your chosen specialty.
Download
the Nursing Specialty Comparison Matrix.
Examine
professional organizations related to the specialization you have chosen and
identify at least one to focus on for this Assignment.
Reflect on
the thoughts you shared in the Discussion forum regarding your choice of a
specialty, any challenges you have encountered in making this choice, and any
feedback you have received from colleagues in the Discussion.
The
Assignment:
Complete
the following items and incorporate them into the final version of your
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan.
Complete
the Nursing Specialty Comparison Matrix, comparing at least two nursing
specialties that include your selected specialization and second-preferred
specialization.
Write a 2-
to 3-paragraph justification statement identifying your reasons for choosing
your MSN specialization. Incorporate feedback you received from colleagues in
this Module’s Discussion forum.
Identify
the professional organization related to your chosen specialization for this
Assignment, and explain how you can become an active member of this
organization.
Note: Your
final version of the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan should
include all components as presented the Academic Success and Professional
Development Plan template.
By Day 5 of
Week 11
Submit your
final draft of Parts 1-6 of your Academic Success and Professional Development
Plan.
Submission
and Grading Information
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