Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to  participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or  professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include  attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity  and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality  improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your  site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to  post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this  course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved  and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit,  by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity,  including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points.  Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the  scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this  activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help  guide this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the  body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text  citations and references should be presented using APA documentation  guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the  Student Success Center.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Nurses are often portrayed in films and television. From Nurse Ratched in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, to Julia Baker in Julia, and Gaylord “Greg” Focker in Meet the Parents, nurses have been portrayed showing various traits. Some are positive, while others are less than caring. For each, the five elements of emotional intelligence, 1) self-awareness, 2) self-regulation, 3) motivation, 4) empathy, and 5) social skills, are expressed at different levels. Select a nurse archetype portrayed in films or on television and consider the following.

1- What features of emotional intelligence does your selected nurse portray? What features are they lacking? Provide an example to support your rationale.

2- If you were the nurse’s leader, how would use your change agent characteristics to support that individual’s growth? Provide specific examples using scenarios from the setting from which the nurse is portrayed.

3- How does complexity theory or chaos theory influence the organization in which the nurse is portrayed? Provide specific examples to support your rationale.

In this assignment, students will pull together the capstone project change proposal components they have been working on throughout the course to create a proposal inclusive of sections for each content focus area in the course. For this project, the student will apply evidence-based research steps and processes required as the foundation to address a clinically oriented problem or issue in future practice.

Develop a 1,250-1,500 written project that includes the following information as it applies to the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need profiled in the capstone change proposal:

1. Background
2. Clinical problem statement.
3. Purpose of the change proposal in relation to providing patient care in the changing health care system.
4. PICOT question.
5. Literature search strategy employed.
6. Evaluation of the literature.
7. Applicable change or nursing theory utilized.
8. Proposed implementation plan with outcome measures.
9. Discussion of how evidence-based practice was used in creating the intervention plan.
10. Plan for evaluating the proposed nursing intervention.
11. Identification of potential barriers to plan implementation, and a discussion of how these could be overcome.
12. Appendix section, if tables, graphs, surveys, educational materials, etc. are created.

Review the feedback from your instructor on the Topic 3 assignment, PICOT Question Paper, and Topic 6 assignment, Literature Review. Use this feedback to make appropriate revisions to these before submitting.

Prepare this assignment according to the 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 LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:

RN to BSN

1.1:     Exemplify professionalism in diverse health care settings.

2.2:     Comprehend nursing concepts and health theories.

3.2:     Implement patient care decisions based on evidence-based practice.

  

  

Purpose

The purpose of this activity is to deepen learning through reflective inquiry. It will allow for expansion in self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals.

Course outcomes: This assessment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.

· Compare and contrast differences and similarities of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method designs.

· Analyze qualitative and quantitative data for the purposes of critical appraisal of evidence.

· Appraise systematic reviews for translation science.

· Differentiate selected statistical methods for the purposes of translation science. 

· Evaluate selected statistical methods for the purposes of critical appraisal of evidence. 

· Synthesize literature relevant to practice problems.

· Formulate PICOT/PICoT questions relevant to advanced nursing practice. 

Preparing the Assessment

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. 

1. Write a brief 1–2 paragraph weekly reflection addressing the questions posed in the Reflect section of each week. Edit your Reflection to include each weekly reflection.

2. Include the following sections in your Reflection.

1. Week 1

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– What did you learn about your capacity to read and appraise original qualitative research? What changed, if anything, following the week’s activities?

– How will this skill improve your effectiveness as a practice scholar?

2. Week 2

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– What did you learn about your capacity to read and appraise original quantitative research? What changed, if anything, following the week’s activities?

– How will this skill improve your effectiveness as a practice scholar?

3. Week 3

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– What did you learn about your capacity to read and appraise summaries of research evidence? What changed, if anything, following the week’s activities?

– How will this skill improve your effectiveness as a practice scholar?

4. Week 4

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– How has the course information influenced your understanding of descriptive statistics?

– How can you bring this information of statistical analysis to practice?

5. Week 5

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– In what ways did course information influence your understanding of parametric statistics?

– What goals will you set in accordance with what you have learned this week?

6. Week 6

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– What was the most rewarding learning experience you had this week?

– How could you amplify the effectiveness of your skill in evidence synthesis and translation science?

7. Week 7

– Provide one specific example of how you achieved the weekly objectives.

– How has course information changed your ways of knowing?

– How does the knowledge gained advance your professional formation as a practice scholar?

8. Writing Organization and Mechanics

– Grammar and mechanics are free of errors.

Requirements 

1. Addresses all aspects of the weekly reflection 

2. Assesses own learning 

3. Assesses value of the learning experience

I ATTACHED EVERY WEEK DISCUSSION BOARD FOLLOWING THE GUIDE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT AND THE ATTACHED, YOU CAN COMPLETE EVERY WEEK. REMEMBER IS 1 TO 2 PARAGRAPH FOR EACH WEEK AND USE AT LEAST 5 SOURCES NO LATER THAN 5 YEARS. PLEASE COMPLETE EACH WEEK SEPARATED, EXAMPLE:

WEEK 1

WEEK 2

ETC.

Watch Frontline – Facing Death. (Links to an external site.)  PLEASE WATCH VIDEO FOR THIS ASSIGMENT.

Explain how advances in medical care have complicated the end of life decisions. Be sure to discuss the “broken survivors of intensive care.” This is a rather broad subject so feel free to explore a specific area.

Your explanation should be no less than two pages – double spaced. Be sure to include citations to your sources.