1) Planning is the key to successful completion of this course and program-relat

1) Planning is the key to successful completion of this course and program-related objectives. The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment requires early collaboration with the course faculty and your course preceptor. Students must establish a plan for successful completion of
The required 50 community direct clinical practice experience hours, 50 leadership direct clinical practice hours, and 25 indirect clinical experience hours.
Completion of work associated with program competencies.
Work associated with completion of the student’s capstone project change proposal.
Students will use the “Individual Success Plan” to develop an individual plan for completing practice hours and course objectives. As a part of this process, students will identify the number of hours set aside to meet course goals.
Student expectations and instructions for completing the ISP document are provided in the “NRS-493 Individual Success Plan” resource, located in the topic Resources and in the assignment instructions.
The “Individual Success Plan” is a clinical document that is necessary to meet clinical requirements for this course. Therefore, the form should be submitted with the preceptor’s hand-written signature. A typed electronic signature will not be accepted.
Each Column
Column 1 is all you assignments for each week
Column 2 is the objective for each week. This should be detailed
Column 3 is the due date of each assignment
Column 4 is the domain competencies. You will find this in Appendix A part B. You are to match what competencies you think correlate with each assignment. You do not type out the competency but put the number that matches it (i.e. 1.1, 2.3, 3.2)
Column 5 is the Critical competencies. You will find this in Appendix A part A. You are to match what competencies you think correlate with each assignment. You do not type out the competency but put the number that matches it (i.e. MC1, MC2)
Column 6 is to be left blank for now, you will revisit this in week 10
Week 1
ISP
Topic Selection
Week 2
Topic Approval
Summary
Week 3
Benchmark Objectives
PICOT paper
Week 4
Capstone Outcomes
Literature Table
Week 5
Strategic Summary
Week 6
Capstone Resources
Week 7
Capstone Evaluation Plan
Week 8
Benchmark Project Proposal
Week 9
Capstone Presentation and Feedback
Week 10
Capstone Presentation
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2) Students should apply concepts from prior courses to critically examine and improve their current practice. Students are expected to integrate scholarly readings to develop case reports that demonstrate increasingly complex and proficient practice.Write a reflection journal (250-300 words) to outline what has been discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and/or weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week there will be a specific focus to use in your reflection. Integrate leadership and inquiry into the current practice. Please make sure to address all areas in your writing.
Topic Focus: New Practice Approaches
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected.
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3) Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.
You are required to post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.
Submit, by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.