Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignments asks you to consider these and how you might apply them to your own work.

To Prepare:

• In support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
• Also reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Write a 2- 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between academic integrity and writing.
• Clearly and accurately explains in detail the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics.
• Accurately cite at least 3 resources that fully support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.y

Clearly and accurately describe in detail how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity. Include sufficient evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were utilized to improve responses.

Part 3, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

• Clearly identifying and accurately describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your 1) academic work while a student of the MSN program, and 2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career.
• Include a clearly developed review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

 Remember to include an introduction paragraph which contains a clear and comprehensive purpose statement which delineates all required criteria, and end the assignment Part with a conclusion paragraph. 

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 3: Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethic

Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to quickly erode…or worse.

 

Reflect on the concepts and practices you have learned in NR506 on healthcare systems, politics, and health policy. Read the article that is linked below and share insights as how to make informed decisions on nursing practice and patient outcomes on a global basis.  In addition, state how you will apply what you have learned in this course to your upcoming practicum experience. 

Read the article by:

Kohl, H.W., Craig, C. L., Lambert, E.V., Inoue, S., Alkandari, J.R., Leetonngin, G., & Kahlmeier, K. (2012). The

     pandemic of physical inactivity: Global action for public health. The Lancet, 380(9838), 294-305. doi:

     http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60898-8. Link to article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

A systems approach to dealing with the global concern of physical inactivity is discussed.

 

Write a 650-1300 word response to the following questions: 

1. Explain multicultural communication and its origins.
2. Compare and contrast culture, ethnicity, and acculturation.
3. Explain how cultural and religious differences affect the health care professional and the issues that can arise in cross-cultural communications.
4. Discuss family culture and its effect on patient education.
5. List some approaches the health care professional can use to address religious and cultural diversity.
6. List the types of illiteracy.
7. Discuss illiteracy as a disability.
8. Give examples of some myths about illiteracy.
9. Explain how to assess literacy skills and evaluate written material for readability.
10. Identify ways a health care professional may establish effective communication.
11. Suggest ways the health care professional can help a patient remember instructions.

This assignment is to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

This is the second part to the first question I posted. ( Below is the information for the proposed change)

      

Creating a balanced scorecard for the new stroke nurse position is critical. The balanced scorecard will track improvements to the quality of patient outcomes and financial outcomes (Jeffs, Merkley, Richardson, Eli, & McAllister, 2011). With the balanced scorecard allows for leadership to see where and how to grow the new stroke nurse position. 

Collecting data is how you can justify if the new change is working “Create a Balanced Scorecard of Robust Measures, Meaningful Targets, and Strategic Initiatives,” 2014). Data collection is mandated by the joint commission to maintain comprehensive stroke certification. The stroke nurse will collect and monitor patients progress during admission and give follow-up calls around up to 90 days after discharge from the hospital. This will allow for leadership to see an improvement in the outcome of stroke patients. After six months the collected data from before stroke nurse and after stroke nurse can be compared. The hospital is expected to have an increase in a stroke patient with the new comprehensive stroke certification. This will create an increase in revenue which will help offset the cost of the stroke nurse program. 

References

Create a Balanced Scorecard of Robust Measures, Meaningful Targets, and Strategic Initiatives. (2014). Balanced Scorecard Evolution, 221-267. doi:10.1002/9781118915011.ch6

Jeffs, L., Merkley, J., Richardson, S., Eli, J., & McAllister, M. (2011). Using a nursing balanced scorecard approach to measure and optimize nursing performance. Nursing Leadership, 24(1), 47-58. doi:10.12927/cjnl.2011.22334

Section 4: Budgeting and Timeline Tools

As you have been examining this week, budgeting and timeline tools are vital for determining necessary resources and planning for a proposed change. For your Course Project, you use these types of tools to assess resources that may be required for the successful implementation of your strategic plan.

To prepare:

• Review the information on budgeting in this week’s Learning Resources. Which tools (e.g., Revenue Projection Model, Capital Budgeting Analysis, Depreciation Calculator, Profit and Loss Projection) would be most useful for developing your strategic plan? 
• Use one or more budgeting tools to outline the financial resources for your proposed change. Reflect on any challenges that arise as you evaluate the financial resources required for this change now and in the future.
• Review the information on PERT and other timeline tools in this week’s Learning Resources, including Dr. Huston’s presentation in the media program.
• Use PERT or another tool to analyze and represent the activities that need to be completed to successfully plan and implement your proposed change. Be sure to note dependencies (e.g., a task/milestone that must be completed in order to trigger the next step) and realistically assess the minimum time needed to complete the entire project.  

To complete:

• Outline the financial resources for your proposed change. Describe the budgeting tool(s) you used to arrive at these determinations. Explain what challenges, if any, you encountered through the budgeting process. Provide documentation (e.g., Excel worksheets) to support your analysis.
• Outline the timeline for the implementation of your proposed change using PERT or another timeline tool. Consider how your timeline can allow leeway for variance.

By Day 7

Submit:

• Section 3: Balanced Scorecard
• Section 4: Budgeting and Timeline Tools (which includes an outline of financial resources and a timeline)

  

Influencing Multiple Systems Through Evidence-Based Change

As an advance practice nurse, your work is informed by many factors beyond your direct reach, and your influence extends beyond the immediate context in which you labor. Likewise, the changes you propose as a nurse leader are influenced by multiple systems and, in turn, can have an impact on many different groups. One of the ways to distinguish yourself as a leader is to be knowledgeable about these spheres of influence and to promote awareness of the potential effects that may result from a change.

Indeed, with the fluid and persistently evolving nature of change, it is essential that you stay abreast of latest developments that may affect the practice environment. This is especially critical for maintaining or adapting a change once it has been implemented. As discussed in Weeks 8 and 9, you may need to make adjustments based on evaluation of outcomes; in addition, you must also be prepared for adjustments based on developments within or outside your targeted environment.

To prepare:

• What are some possible adjustments that you might      need to make based on the evaluation of outcomes? Consider insights from      the Discussion in Weeks 8 and 9.
• Consider the evidence-based change you are proposing      for your practicum setting: What other systems or components of a system      are within the sphere of influence of this change? How could evolving      issues internal to the setting, such as budget, staffing shortage,      regulations or external to it, such as supply, funding, national      priorities, and disasters, affect the implementation—and ultimately the sustainability—of      such a change?
• How might your proposed change, in turn, affect      policy or practice at other levels beyond your initial focus?

By tomorrow Wednesday 5/1/19  2pm (America/New York time), write a minimum of 550 words essay in APA format with at least 3 references (see list or required readings below). Include the level one headers as numbered below:

Post a cohesive response that addresses the following:

1) Describe at least three evolving issues that are internal or external to your practicum setting that could affect the implementation and sustainability of your proposed change.

2)  From what systems level do those issues originate (e.g., organizational, local, state, national, global) and what other systems are then involved in response to that factor?

3) How might your proposed change, in turn, lead to shifts at other levels beyond your initial focus?

Required Readings

White, K. M., & Dudley-Brown, S.(2016). Translation of evidence into nursing and health care practice. (2nd edition)  New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

• Review Chapter 11  “Information Technology:      A Foundation and Enabler for Translation”
• Review Chapter 15 “Best Practices in      Translation: Challenges and Barriers in Translation”

Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, M., Nugus, P., Greenfield, D., Travaglia, J., Runciman, W., & … Westbrook, J. (2013). Continuing differences between health professions’ attitudes: the saga of accomplishing systems-wide interprofessionalism. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 25(1), 8-15. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzs071

Hoyle, C., & Johnson, G. (2015). Building skills in organizational and systems change. Nurse Practitioner, 40(4), 15-23. doi:

10.1097/01.NPR.0000461948.38539. fc

Jeungok, C., & Zucker, D. M. (2013). Self-assessment of nursing informatics competencies for Doctor of Nursing practice students. Journal of Professional Nursing, 29(6), 381-387. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.05.014

Toussaint, J. S. (2015). The Framework for a Whole-System Transformation. Journal Of Healthcare Management, 60(6), 386-389.