Professional Development Synthesis Paper
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Develop a scholarly paper using APA format describing focus of current and future practice to include setting, specialty and role.
Paper not using APA format and without scholarly presentation. Contains few or references to current and future practice without describing setting, specialty or role.
APA format has deficiencies. References are made to current and future practice, but does references less than two of the inclusions (setting, specialty and role).
Paper written in APA format and contains reference to current and future practice, but does not define all three inclusions (setting, specialty and role).
Paper written in accurate APA format describing current and future practice and includes setting, specialty and role.
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Discuss how the courses you've taken or are taking integrate and contribute to personal development as a nurse (to include EVERY course though some may be grouped together e.g. philosophy courses) with a comment or two about each and how your BSN curriculum has enhanced and/or will enhance your professional practice.
Does not demonstrate how courses taken contribute to personal development as a nurse. Does not include or comment on ALL courses. Does not discuss how BSN curriculum will enhance professional practice.
Discusses how only a few courses taken contribute to personal development as a nurse and does not include comments on all courses. Superficially mentions how BSN curriculum has enhanced professional practice.
Discusses how courses taken contribute to personal development as a nurse, but does not include ALL courses taken or are taking and comments on all courses mentioned. Discusses how the BSN curriculum will/has enhance(d) professional practice.
Discusses how EVERY course taken or are taking integrate and contribute to personal development as a nurse and includes a comment or 2 about EACH and discusses how BSN curriculum has enhanced or will enhance professional practice.
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Formulate a personal model of leadership in nursing practice that will guide your current and future practice that you can articulate to others and explains how the model is consistent with beliefs/values about people, leadership, nursing and own personality style.
Makes no reference to personal models of leadership that will guide future or current practice and does not explain how the model is consistent with beliefs/values about people, leadership, nursing and own personality style.
Discusses a personal model of leadership but does not demonstrate how it will guide BOTH current and future practice and does not fully cover explaining how the model is consistent with beliefs/values about people, leadership, nursing and own personality style.
Discusses a personal model of leadership in nursing practice, but does not explain how model is consistent with beliefs/values about people, leadership, nursing and own personality style.
Articulates a personal model of leadership in nursing practice that guides current and future practice and explains how model is consistent with beliefs/values about people, leadership, nursing and own personality style.
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Outline strategies for achieving short term and long term (5-7 years) goals and discusses how personal style and model will facilitate or hinder achieving goals.
Does not outline strategies for achieving short term or long term goals and does not discuss how personal style and model will either facilitate or hinder achieving goals.
Generally outlines a strategy for achieving either short term goals or long term goals, but not both and does not discuss how both personal style and model will facilitate or hinder achieving goals.
Generally outlines strategies for achieving short and long term goals and touches briefly on one of remaining inclusions (how personal style and model facilitates or hinders achieving goals).
Outlines strategies for achieving short term and long term (5-7 years) goals and discusses how personal style and model will facilitate or hinder achieving goals.
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Briefly summarize key points from objectives 1-4
Does not include a brief summary of preceding points.
Summarizes fewer than 3 key points from preceding objectives.
Briefly summarize key points from 3 of 4 objectives.
Briefly summarizes key points from all objectives 1-4
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