Assignment: Lifelong Learning is Part of Nursing Practice
Scenario
As a BSN prepared Registered Nurse, you are due to renew your license for the first time. You and your manager overhear other nurses complaining about the continuing education requirement. Your manager suggests you create a handout for the staff lounge bulletin board regarding the importance of lifelong learning as it pertains to clinical reasoning and judgment. To help you get started, she suggests you read the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report titled The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010) so that you will understand "why" it is so important.
Instructions
1. Read Section 4 of the IOM report (2010) titled Transforming Education here and respond to the following questions in a Word document.
2. Describe an initiative that resulted from the IOM report.
3. Discuss the impact of the identified initiative.
4. Summarize the interrelationships that exist between lifelong learning, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.