Leadership Experience C493 Task 2

  This is the rubric for task 2,

A professional portfolio will showcase your knowledge and skills to prospective employers and will increase your marketability as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. This portfolio will help you, as a nurse, hone in on the concepts, strengths, and critical-thinking abilities that define professional nursing practice. Throughout your time at WGU, you have developed skills and knowledge that distinguish your practice as that of a baccalaureate-prepared nurse. Items that display your skills and knowledge will be showcased in this professional portfolio. You should organize your portfolio around the four areas of professional nursing practice: quality and safety, advanced evidence-based practice, applied leadership, and community and population health. This portfolio will expand on the portfolio you already created in your Professional Roles and Values course.

REQUIREMENTS

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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. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that 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.

A.  Complete the following, using OneNote:

Note: The directions to access and use your e-portfolio can be found in the web links section below, which will take you to the “Knowledge Base Article.”  

1.   Create a professional mission statement (suggested length of 1 paragraph) that includes the following:

•  a representation of your career goals, your 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 portfolio represent you as a learner and a healthcare professional.

b.   Discuss how the specific artifacts in your portfolio represent your professional strengths.

c.   Discuss 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 attachment “Nursing Conceptual Model.”

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.  Complete the following within the 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 portfolio that support your definition.

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

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.

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

C.   Complete the following within the 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 portfolio that support your definition.

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

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the 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.   Complete the following within the 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 portfolio that support your definition.

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

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the 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.   Complete the following within the 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 portfolio that support your definition.

i.   Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part E1.

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the 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 what you learned that 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.

F.   Provide an appendix to your portfolio by doing the following:

1.   Include all the documents, prior assignments, and additional items that are examples of your best work to support your mastery of all sections given in parts B, C, D, and E.

2.   Include the following materials:

•    the attached “Nursing Conceptual Model”

•    a link to the current IHI Course Catalog

3.   Provide an updated professional résumé.

Note: If you have a LinkedIn account, you can take a screenshot and include a copy with the rest of your documents.

4.   Provide professional references, using one of the following:

•    a professional reference questionnaire

•    a full letter of recommendation

•    a list of four professional references

5.   Include a copy of your IHI certificate of completion.

6.   Include a copy of your AMNH certificate of completion.

G.   Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

H.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

C230 Social Media Paper Tips

 

C230 Task- This document is to assist you with passing task 1 on the first attempt. Please see suggestions in red for each section of the paper. You cannot start this paper until you have your clinical location or sim information. It cannot be submitted for evaluation until the completion of your clinical hours. 

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.

Part 1: Field Experience Project Submission

Note: Your timelog must be submitted with your assessment. If both are not submitted at the same time, your task may be returned to you without evaluation. You will use the Qualtrics link to complete the time log. Once you have completed it in full you will submit it and wait for an email of the document to then save as a word document (paste it in landscape and be sure the entire document is pasted including your signature). Save a word copy as well as a pdf copy to attach to your paper.  If your log needs revisions you can make changes on the word document and again save as a pdf and send it with your paper upon resubmission.

A.  Submit a completed “Community Health Field Experience Timelog” by doing the following: please ensure all of this info is included in every entry.

1.  Include the date of each activity.

2.  Include a brief description of each day’s activity.

3.  Include the name of the contact person, a working phone number, and a full physical address.

Note:  If an email address is available for the contact person, you may choose to include it.

4.  Include the number of hours spent on each activity (not including preparation time).

5.  Describe how each activity relates to your selected Field Experience topic.

6.  Record a total of 90 hours that meet each of the following requirements:

•  25 assigned simulation activity hours- You did these hours already in C826. You automatically get these hours from C826 task 1 Sentinel City. 

•  65 student planned activity hours based on the hours scheduled by Health Placement

•  a maximum of five individual interview hours (i.e., no more than five interviews, no more than one hour per interview) 

•  no prep time hours (i.e., prep time is not to be included in reported hours)

Note:  Random audits and verification of time log activities do occur. Violation of the WGU Code of Student Conduct or the Academic Authenticity Policy could result in disciplinary action.

Part 2: Social Media Campaign- You will not actually be doing this activity- you are talking about the plan for doing it. 

Note:  The “CDCynergy” web link provided in the web links section below may be useful in completing your social media campaign. The use of this web link is optional, i.e., not required.

B.  Write your community health nursing diagnosis statement. Your topic must be one of the approved topics listed on the Approved topics list.  

1.  Explain how the health concern from your community health nursing diagnostic statement is linked to a health inequity or health disparity within the target population. Here you will identify what population you are focusing on. For example, adults 30-60.

a.  Discuss the primary community resources and primary prevention resources currently in place to address the health concern. What resources are available in your chosen area?

b.  Discuss the underlying causes of the health concern. (this is your related to in your nursing diagnosis)

2.  Discuss the evidence-based practice associated with the Field Experience topic.

a.  Identify data about the selected Field Experience topic from the local (e.g., county), state, and/or national level. What are the local, state, and national statistics? What is the evidence that your campaign is effective? Why should you do it? What is the proof that it will help?

C.  Develop a community health nursing social media campaign strategy that will convey your health message and address the Field Experience topic by doing the following:

1.  Describe your social media campaign objective. What is the goal in healthy people 2020 or 2030 for your topic? That should be the goal here.

2.  Recommend two population-focused social marketing interventions and justify how each would improve the health message related to your selected Field Experience topic. to promote health products and changing health behavior. “Social marketing” is an approach to persuade people to accept ideas and attitudes, perform healthy behaviors, refer to health facilities, and receive health products.

3.  Describe a social media platform you would use that is appropriate for communicating with the target population. Facebook, twitter, youtube, tik tok or any other social media platform you prefer.

a.  Discuss the benefits of the selected social media platform in supporting preventative healthcare.

4.  Discuss how the target population will benefit from your health message. Will your campaign educate the public? Will it encourage behavioral change?

D.  Describe best practices for implementing social media tools for health marketing. What are the best ways to complete your task? summarize the best way to use social media according to the CDC.  a short paragraph.

E.  Create a social media campaign implementation plan by doing the following:

1.  Describe stakeholder roles and responsibilities in implementing the plan. Who are your stakeholders? What will they do? Most project stakeholders have responsibilities to businesses that include educating developers, financing projects, creating scheduling parameters and setting milestone dates.

2.  Discuss potential public and private partnerships that could be formed to aid in the implementation of your campaign. 

3.  Create a specific timeline for implementing your campaign. 

4.  Explain how you will evaluate the effectiveness of the campaign. Ask yourself “how do I know what I did was effective in achieving the goal?

5.  Discuss the costs of implementing your campaign. Remember, resources are also a cost. What is the money, time, and product requirement of the project?

F.  Reflect on how social media marketing supports the community health nurse’s efforts to promote healthier populations.

1.  Reflect on how your social media campaign could apply to your future nursing practice. How can social media help you as a professional nurse down the road? What are the benefits of it? 

G.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. Use APA format for your paper and your in-text citations. Cover page, body of the paper, section headers, and a references page

H. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.