Assignment: Professional Portfolio
Length: 6 pages.
I) 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."
• Create a professional mission statement (suggested length of 1 paragraph) that includes the following:
o a representation of your career goals, your aspirations, and how you want to move forward with your career
o an overview of where you would like to focus your time and energies within the profession
- Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you throughout your nursing career.
• Complete a professional summary (suggested length of 3 to 4 pages) that includes the following:
o Explain how the specific artifacts or completed work or both in your portfolio represent you as a learner and a healthcare professional.
o Discuss how the specific artifacts in your portfolio represent your professional strengths.
o Discuss challenges you encountered during the progression of your program.
- Explain how you overcame these challenges.
o Explain how your coursework helped you meet each of the nine nursing program outcomes.
Note: Refer to the attachment "Nursing Conceptual Model."
o Analyze how you fulfilled the following roles during your program:
- scientist
- detective
- manager of the healing environment
o Discuss how you have grown professionally since the beginning of your program.
II) Complete the following within the section "Quality and Safety":
• 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.
o Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
o Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
- Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part B1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
• Discuss the importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.
III) Complete the following within the section "Evidence-Based Practice":
• 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.
o Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
o Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
- Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part C1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
• Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your understanding of evidence-based practice and applied nursing research by doing the following:
o 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
o Explain how your experience in the program helped you achieve excellence in evidence-based practice.
IV) Complete the following within the section "Applied Leadership":
• 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.
o Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
o Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
- Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part D1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
• Summarize (suggested length of 1 paragraph to 1 page) your Learning Leadership Experience task by doing the following:
o Discuss the importance of professional collaboration for effective nursing leadership.
V) Complete the following within the section "Community and Population Health":
• 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.
o Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition.
o Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition.
- Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part E1.
Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio.
• Summarize (suggested length of 1 page) your Community and Population Health task by doing the following:
o Discuss what you learned during your Community Health Nursing task.
o Discuss what you learned that led to your community diagnosis.
o Discuss how your initial focus and diagnosis evolved after working with your population.
• Discuss the importance of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.