Reference no: EM133720253

Program Portfolio

The graduate exhibits artifacts that both demonstrate the graduate's competency across all program areas as well as provide evidence of professional growth

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A. Include the following in your e-portfolio, using the template you started in C304:

Note: A copy of the "E-Portfolio Template" is included in the Weblinks section.

1. Create a professional mission statement (suggested length of 1 paragraph) that includes the following elements:
• a representation of your career goals, aspirations, and how you want to move forward with your career
• an overview of where you would like to focus your time and energies within the profession
a. Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you throughout your nursing career.
2. Complete a professional summary (suggested length of 3-4 pages) that includes the following:
a. Explain how the specific artifacts or completed work or both in your e-portfolio represent you as a learner and a healthcare professional.
b. Discuss how the specific artifacts in your e-portfolio represent your professional strengths.
c. Discuss any challenges you encountered during the progression of your program.
i. Explain how you overcame these challenges.
d. Explain how your coursework helped you meet each of the nine nursing program outcomes.

Note: Refer to the "Nursing Conceptual Model" file in the Supporting Documents section.

e. Analyze how you fulfilled the following roles during your program:
• scientist
• detective
• manager of the healing environment
f. Discuss how you have grown professionally since the beginning of your program.

B. Include the following in the e-portfolio section "Quality and Safety":
1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of quality and safety developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your e-portfolio that support your definition.

i. Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part B1.

Note: The artifacts should be included in your e-portfolio.

2. Discuss the importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.

C. Include the following in the e-portfolio section "Evidence-Based Practice":
1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of evidence-based practice developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your e-portfolio that support your definition.

i. Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part C1.

Note: The artifacts should be included in your e-portfolio.

2. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your understanding of evidence-based practice and applied nursing research by doing the following:
a. Discuss how you are able to evaluate current primary research and apply the concepts to your nursing practice, considering the following:
• relevancy and believability of data
• differences between quality improvement and research (places and uses of each)
• differences between primary and secondary research and resources and the implications of each in clinical practice
b. Explain how your experience in the program helped you achieve excellence in evidence-based practice.

D. Include the following in the e-portfolio section "Applied Leadership":
1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of applied leadership you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your e-portfolio that support your definition.

i. Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part D1.

Note: The artifacts should be included in your e-portfolio.

2. Summarize (suggested length of 1 paragraph to 1 page) your Learning Leadership Experience task by doing the following:
a. Discuss the importance of professional collaboration for effective nursing leadership.

E. Include the following in the e-portfolio section "Community and Population Health":
1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of community and population health you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition.
a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
b. Identify the artifacts in your e-portfolio that support your definition.
i. Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part E1.

Note: The artifacts should be included in your e-portfolio.

2. Summarize (suggested length of 1 page) your Community and Population Health task by doing the following:
a. Discuss what you learned during your Community Health Nursing task.
b. Discuss how what you learned led to your community diagnosis.
c. Discuss how your initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with your population.
3. Discuss the importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.