Topic: Servant Leadership from a Christian Perspective: The Issue of Humility

                                     Leadership Journal: Example

Journaling provides a valuable tool for recording, reflecting on, and reviewing your learning. This approach provides an opportunity for you to “connect the dots” and observe the relationships between and among activities, interactions, and outcomes.

Unlike a personal journal of thoughts and feelings, this Leadership Journal is a record of your activities, assessments, and learning related to this academic experience.

Journal entries should include a record of the number of hours spent with your nurse leader each week.

Write a journal entry of 750-1,500 words on the subject of example, including the following:

1. Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in Weeks 11-12.

2. Identify three to five personal values or characteristics that you believe are critical components of a good leader, such as honesty, compassion, or fairness. How do you express those values in your professional life?

3. Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Issue of Example” video.

Assignment Guidelines:

• Take your article from a popular publication such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, etc. You can look for a story from the APA at http://www.apa.org/news/psycport/, to begin your search.
• The article must have been published within the past year.
• Do not use an Internet blog, a professional journal, or newspaper article. These sources are likely either too brief or too complex for this assignment.
• Look for a thorough article that is written for the general public.
• Ensure that your article relates to psychology and one of the subjects covered in the course (If you are not sure, refer to the table of contents of your text).
• Make sure that the article has sufficient depth and breadth (enough content and specific information) to allow a thorough critique.

Critiques of the article must include the following:

• Identify and articulate the key issue(s) in the article. Identify information/evidence in the article that supports its point of view and/or conclusions.
• Analyze both the student’s and the author’s assumptions regarding the article’s point of view and/or conclusions.
• Identify background information relevant to the article’s point of view and conclusions.
• Explore and evaluate the issue(s) relevance to real world problems and solutions.
• Clarify the student’s own position, perspective and/or hypothesis.
• Explain the conclusions, implications and/or consequences of the article. Paper Requirements:
• The APA style format must be used in writing the paper.
• It should be between 5-7 pages in length (not including the title and reference page). Although outside sources are not required, any such material used in writing the paper must be properly cited according to the APA format with a complete bibliography of all source material.

In this assignment, you will select a program, quality improvement initiative, or other project from your place of employment. Assume you are presenting this program to the board for approval of funding. Write an executive summary (850-1,000 words) to present to the board, from which they will make their decision to fund your program or project. The summary should include:

1. The purpose of the program or project.
2. The target population or audience.
3. The benefits of the program or project
4. The cost or budget justification.
5. The basis upon which the program or project will be evaluated.

Share your written proposal with your manager, supervisor or other colleague in a formal leadership position within a health care organization. Request their feedback using the following questions as prompts:

1. Do you believe the proposal would be approved if formally proposed?
2. What are some strengths and weaknesses of the proposal?

Submit the written proposal along with the “Executive Summary Feedback Form.”

Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

RUBRIC:

1-Executive summary addresses the purpose of the program or project:

The purpose of the program or project meets all criteria for the assignment, as indicated in the assignment instructions, is provided in detail, and demonstrates higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective though.

2-Executive summary addresses the target population or audience:

The target population or audience meets all criteria for the assignment, as indicated in the assignment instructions, and is provided in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective though

3-Executive summary addresses the benefits of the program or project:

The benefits The benefit of the program or project meet all criteria for the assignment, as indicated in the assignment instructions, and is provided in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective thought.

4-Executive summary addresses the cost or budget justification:

 The cost or budget justification issue meets all criteria for the assignment, as indicated by the assignment instructions, and is provided in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective thought.

5-Executive summary addresses the basis upon which the program or project will be evaluated:

The basis, upon which the program or project will be evaluated as indicated by the assignment instructions, is provided in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective thought.

6- Thesis Development and Purpose:

Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive; contained within the thesis is the essence of the paper. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.

7-Paragraph Development and Transitions:

There is a sophisticated construction of paragraphs and transitions. Ideas progress and relate to each other. Paragraph and transition construction guide the reader. Paragraph structure is seamless.

8-Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

9-Paper Format (use of appropriate style for the major and assignment):

All format elements are correct. 

10-Research Citations (In-text citations for paraphrasing and direct quotes, and reference page listing and formatting, as appropriate to assignment) 

 In-text citations and a reference page are complete. The documentation of cited sources is free of error.

Comment 1

Google is probably one of the first places we think to look for answers on just about every topic. Starting a research paper with a google search may provide good ideas for brainstorming. This may be problematic however when looking for credible references because you don’t always know where the information originated from or if the source can be trusted for accuracy. Seeking out peer reviewed articles from scholarly sources is a much better way to build a quality assignment.

You can find these articles through Google or Google Scholar though many times you will have to pay for the full text or subscribe to a specific service. Fortunately, Grand Canyon University has many scholarly databases available to us at no cost in the library! Two GCU library scholarly databases that are helpful for locating quality research studies and journal articles are Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and CINAHL Complete. The library website has a search engine that is subject specific. This means that your results will be more tailored to what you are looking to write about and you will find more relevant sources for your topic. Articles can also be filtered by year, subject and full text availability.

Comment 2

Resources undoubtedly play an ever-increasing as well as an integral part in the timely accomplishment of research goals and objectives. For this EBP project and considering the topic which I have selected for this GCU course, I am of the opinion that Nursing and Health Science database available at GCU library can turn out to be a valuable asset. Other than that, the Administration for Health Care resource is another credible database that I can rely on for the research in GCU courses. Both of them tend to collectively support in fulfillment of knowledge and statistical documentation needed to complete the EBP GCU project. I consider them much better than Google Scholar and internet searches because they are incredibly focused and not maligned. The data and information uploaded here are verified and worth being relying on (Antelman, 2006). When doing medical researches, one has to consider the authenticity of articles because they might impact the lives of individuals.

Moreover, these databases are also useful because they are flooded with nursing-related issues rather than other articles also. Hence it becomes relatively easier to scroll through the articles and gather information than to waste time in finding the correct articles. Use of keyword search makes the experience more appropriate.

Please NOTE this comment is the other theme. 1 DQ 2

Comment 3

The Institute of Medicine has stated a goal that 90 percent of clinical practice be evidence based by the year 2020. This is exciting because use of evidence-based practice helps to develop the scientific aspect of nursing, produce clinical practice guides and keep knowledge up to date! Despite these benefits, use of EBP in the United States healthcare delivery system is currently at around 15 percent. Two barriers that may be holding us back from adopting EPB into our workplace are insufficient knowledge of the research process and lack of support at the organizational level to change the practice (Barria, 2014).

Some ways to facilitate increased awareness and adoption of EPB include: positive attitude toward research, time dedicated to reading professional journal articles, support of autonomy in nursing, collaboration with other disciplines and attending professional conferences or workshops. Implementing EPB on an organizational level involves promoting a culture of shared governance, responsibility, balanced work load and resources. Leaders and administrators play a key role by modeling evidence-based decisions and supporting the infrastructure which represents the organization’s mission, philosophy and strategic plan (Barria, 2014).