The IOM published report, “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” makes recommendations for lifelong learning and achieving higher levels of education.

In 1,000-1,250 words, examine the importance of nursing education and discuss your overall educational goals.

Include the following:

1. Discuss your options in the job market based on your educational level.
2. Review the IOM Future of Nursing Recommendations for achieving higher levels of education. Describe what professional certification and advanced degrees (MSN, DNP, etc.) you want to pursue and explain your reasons for wanting to attain the education. Discuss your timeline for accomplishing these goals.
3. Discuss how increasing your level of education would affect how your competitiveness in the current job market and your role in the future of nursing.
4. Discuss the relationship of continuing nursing education to competency, attitudes, knowledge, and the ANA Scope and Standards for Practice and Code of Ethics.
5. Discuss whether continuing nursing education should be mandatory. Provide support for your response.

You are required to cite to a minimum of three sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and relevant to nursing practice.  

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide,

Complete an article analysis for each of the two articles using the “Article Analysis: Part 2” template. 

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.

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

Reflect on your clinical skills practice (in the clinical setting and/or for required videos) by writing your response to the following prompts:

• Summarize your experience performing physical assessment over the past 15 weeks. (Identify focus systems in which you have had the most and least experience. What experience have you had with pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients?)
• What aspect of assessment are you most proud of accomplishing?
• What did you learn that you did not expect?
• Review the physical assessment documentation posted in your initial journal and reflect on how your understanding of a comprehensive history and physical has evolved.
• How has your understanding of the NP provider role changed?
• Share actions that helped increase your proficiency and efficiency in assessment.
• How have your learning experiences in this course affected your current nursing role?
• To what extent do you feel prepared for the NU664 clinical practicum specialty course?
• How will your learning experiences in this course influence your future professional practice?

 For this discussion, you will define the nurse’s scope of practice as described by the ANA. You will also define the nurse’s scope of practice in California. Next, you will explain a clinical scenario that demonstrates how you have applied this scope of practice successfully (from start to finish – a complete example). Finally, you will explain why all nurses should have a functional knowledge of their own nurse practice act. 

 Please organize your discussion board as follows:

Paragraph 1: Introduce your discussion board with a general statement about the  discussion board, then a purpose statement. A purpose statement starts with: The purpose  of this posting is to discuss . . . . then the key elements of what you are going to discuss.  This paragraph should define the nurse’s scope of practice as defined by the American Nurses Association.  This will cover the objective of: Define the nurse’s scope of practice as defined by the  American Nurses Association.

Paragraph 2: You will also define the nurse’s scope of practice in your own state.( My state is California) This will  vary between states.  This will cover the objective of: Define the nurse’s scope of practice as defined by that  nurse’s own state’s nursing law.

Paragraph 3: Next, you will explain a clinical scenario that demonstrates how you have  applied this scope of practice successfully (from start to finish complete example).  Finally, you will explain why all nurses should have a functional knowledge of their own  nurse practice act. End the paragraph with a conclusion sentence or two that summarizes  your thoughts.

must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic.  No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts. 

Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1 )from ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice 3rd Edition ISBN 13:878-1-55810-619-2 and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.

 Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one 1 page)

Instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPZ2Ukl7EPU

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For this assignment, you will design an education and intervention program to reduce bullying in middle and late childhood.

You will present your program in a tri-fold brochure (or pamphlet) that you will submit to complete the assignment.

To create the tri-fold brochure:

1. Open Microsoft Word and scroll down the list of templates and find a tri-fold brochure template – there are a number to choose from.

[All FSW students have access to Office 365 which includes the Microsoft Word. If you use other software, be certain that you submit your assignment in a common format, such as PDF. Please check with me in advance if you are using an alternate format.]

 2. Select your own color scheme and photos. [Free images are available from sites such as Pixabay, Unsplash.]

3. Take a look at this sample brochure. It will give you ideas about how to structure your own brochure.

Sample of Brochure Outline download

4. Think carefully about how to best communicate your evidence-based message. Be sure you are clear about what should be done, and WHY you think it will work. [You will need to provide references to support the elements of your proposal.]

• How will you engage peers, families, schools and the community?
• What key physical, cognitive and socioemotional developmental issues of this age group must be addressed?
• How will you construct interventions that reflect the information we know about peer status, peer group influence, context and social cognition?
• How will your program measure that the incidents of bullying and negative outcomes on the victim are decreasing?

5. Your proposal MUST incorporate at least TWO reliable outside sources (in addition to the textbook), and they must be correctly referenced in your brochure using APA format. Use APA format to cite your sources on the back of the pamphlet. 

Here is a link with APA formatting instructions for electronic resources, as well as useful examples:

APA Electronic Resource References