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

 

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 erode quickly or worse.

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

In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics. (see below bullets points for links)
• Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.
• https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only
• https://journals-sagepub-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/doi/10.1177/0969733016674769
• http://www.nln.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/ethical-principles-for-nursing-education-final-final-010312.pdf

The Assignment:

Part 3, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1 and expanded in Module 2, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

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

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by:

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

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

ENGL 1020: Composition/Analysis

University of Memphis

Individual New Media Writing Assignment

Overview:  

When we produce an argument, many of the decisions we make are determined by the rhetorical situation. Thus, when the rhetorical situation changes, so will our argument. In this major Multimodal Composition, you will be revising your researched argument using one of the digital apps we learned during the New Media Group Project.  

Process:

1. Review the New Media Group Projects posted in eCourseware.  
    
2. Choose the app that you assess to be the most effective for conveying your researched argument.  Consider:
    
   1. Who is my audience?
       
   2. What is the most persuasive information I need to convey to be persuasive?
       
   3. Do I need a lot of charts and graphs? Consider Piktochart.
       
   4. Will my audience be most persuaded using video? Imovie.
       
   5. Will humor work best for my argument? Powtoon or Pixton.
       
3. Outline your researched argument draft for the most persuasive information.
    
4. Revise your argument into a Multimodal Composition using your chosen app. Consider:
    
   1. What tone is appropriate for the non-academic audience?
       
   2. How can I best combine text, images, and sound to construct a sound argument?
       
   3. What appeals can I make using linguistic, visual, aural, spatial and gestural modes?
       

Length: If you make a video, it should be 3-5 minutes.  If you make an infographic, it should be two pages.

You will need to include an MLA citation page in your presentation.

Caution: You are completely revising your argument for a new rhetorical situation.  It will not be adequate to cut and paste from your Researched Essay Draft. Your tone, structure, word choice etc. should change to reflect the new situation. Also, be sure to check how long you have free access, so your trial doesn’t end before you finish your project.  

Assessment: Per the syllabus, this project is worth 20% of your overall course grade.

Identify a state health policy and the tools used to implement the policy. How do you think the political climate has affected the choice of policy tools and the behavioral assumptions by policymakers?  How have professional nursing organizations been involved in this policy issue? If they have not, what recommendations would you make for them to participate?  Develop a few talking points to inform other health care professionals regarding this issue.

Discussion Rubric

The initial post will be regarding the topic of the week and will be a minimum of 250 words. Make sure you provide appropriate references and utilize APA style and to use at least 2 references.

 please read this scenario and answer the 3 questions below in short paragraphs. APA citation and reference. no plagiarism 

Lillian fell when she was returning from the bathroom after the suppository. The nurse found her sitting on the floor complaining of pain on the left side of her rib cage. The nurse called for help and assisted Lillian back to bed. She notified the physician and completed the necessary reports. The physician ordered a follow-up chest X-ray that came back within normal limits. Lillian had a small bruise on her rib cage but no fracture. The physician gave the nurse the following orders over the phone.

• Acetaminophen (Tylenol): 325 mg po every 4 hours as needed for pain
• Zolpidem (Ambien): 5 mg po at bedtime for sleep
• Alprazolam (Xanax): 0.5 mg po as needed for anxiety

1. How would the nurse assess Lillian’s pain, and when would the nurse assess for pain when giving the acetaminophen?
2. How does zolpidem work? Be sure to include the drug category, mechanism of action, onset and duration of action, and safety considerations.
3. What are the factors that contributed to Lillian’s fall?

During your tour of the city, describe 1 observation related to the 3 selected determinants of health. (a total of 3 observations must be described). Note indicators of high or low employment. Consider education levels, number of female head of households, and median household incomes for example.  Finally, describe a total of 3 strategies or evidence based recommendations to help reduce or eliminate the selected observations noted during your Sentinel City® tour.  The 3 selected determinants are: 1) social economic environment 2) physical environment 3) Individual lifestyle.

All submissions must have a minimum of two scholarly references to support your work 

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