GCU NRS490 Week 1 Assignment Individual Success Plan (ISP)
NRS490
Professional Capstone and Practicum
Week 1 Assignment
Individual Success Plan (ISP)
Planning is the key to successful completion of this course
and your overall program of study. The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment
requires early collaboration with the course faculty and your course mentor.
You will need to establish a plan for successful completion of (1) deliverables
associated with weekly course objectives, (2), required practice immersion
hours, and (3) deliverables associated with your capstone project.
Access the “Individual Success Plan” resource in
the Topic Materials. Read the information in the resource, including student
expectations and instructions for completing the ISP document.
Use the “Individual Success Plan” to develop a
personal plan for completing your practice hours and how topic objectives will
be met. Include the number of hours you plan to set aside to meet your goals.
A combination of 100 supervised clinical hours in community
health and leadership areas will be obtained through the application of the
objectives listed in the Guidelines for Undergraduate Field Experiences manual.
Practicum immersion experiences are required in a community
health setting. Community-based settings should encourage community integration
and involvement; expand accessibility of services and supports; promote
personal preference, strengths, dignity; and empower people to participate in
the economic mainstream.
According to HealthyPeople.gov, educational and
community-based programs and strategies are designed to reach people outside of
traditional health care settings. These settings may include schools,
worksites, health care facilities, and communities. Community health and
leadership practice immersion can occur in the same site and in conjunction
with the evidence-based project in the NRS-490 course.
If you are a registered nurse in Washington, your practicum
experience must include a minimum of 50 hours in a community health setting.
Students should apply concepts from prior courses to
critically examine and improve their current practice. Students should also
integrate scholarly readings to develop case reports that demonstrate
increasingly complex and proficient practice.
Consider the challenges you expect to encounter as you
continue the practice hour and competency requirements throughout this course.
How might you overcome these challenges?
You can renegotiate these deliverables with your faculty and
mentor throughout this course and update your ISP accordingly.
Once your ISP has been developed and accepted by your course
faculty, you will have your course mentor sign it at the beginning of, and upon
completion of, each assignment that incorporates practice immersion hours. You
will track all course practice immersion hours in the ISP.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is
expected.
You are not required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite.
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GCU NRS490 Week 1 Assignment Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective
Week 1 Assignment
Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal and
Scholarly Activities
Throughout the course, students will engage in weekly
reflection and scholarly activities. These assignments are presented in Topic 1
to allow students to plan ahead, and incorporate the deliverables into the
Individual Success Plan if they so choose.
The weekly reflective journals and scholarly activities will
not be submitted in LoudCloud each week; a final, culminating submission will
be due in Topic 10. No submission is required until Topic 10.
Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Students are required to maintain weekly reflective
narratives throughout the course to combine into a final, course-long
reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice
as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. This
course-long journal assignment will be due in Topic 10.
In each week’s entry, you should reflect on the personal
knowledge and skills gained throughout the Professional Capstone and Practicum
course. Your entry should address a variable combination of the following,
dependent on the specific practice immersion clinical experiences you
encountered that week:
New practice approaches
Intraprofessional collaboration
Health care delivery and clinical systems
Ethical considerations in health care
Population health concerns
The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
Health policy
Leadership and economic models
Health disparities
In the Topic 10 submission, each of the areas should be
addressed in one or more of the weekly entries.
This reflection journal also allows students to outline what
they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and
weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be
introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how
they met competencies and course objectives.
Scholarly Activities
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 one scholarly activity while you
are in the BSN program, which should be documented 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.
In Topic 10, you will submit a summary report of your
scholarly activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary”
resource to help guide this assignment.
NRS490
Professional Capstone and Practicum
Week 1 Assignment
Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal and
Scholarly Activities
Throughout the course, students will engage in weekly
reflection and scholarly activities. These assignments are presented in Topic 1
to allow students to plan ahead, and incorporate the deliverables into the
Individual Success Plan if they so choose.
The weekly reflective journals and scholarly activities will
not be submitted in LoudCloud each week; a final, culminating submission will
be due in Topic 10. No submission is required until Topic 10.
Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Students are required to maintain weekly reflective
narratives throughout the course to combine into a final, course-long
reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice
as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. This
course-long journal assignment will be due in Topic 10.
In each week’s entry, you should reflect on the personal
knowledge and skills gained throughout the Professional Capstone and Practicum
course. Your entry should address a variable combination of the following,
dependent on the specific practice immersion clinical experiences you
encountered that week:
New practice approaches
Intraprofessional collaboration
Health care delivery and clinical systems
Ethical considerations in health care
Population health concerns
The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
Health policy
Leadership and economic models
Health disparities
In the Topic 10 submission, each of the areas should be
addressed in one or more of the weekly entries.
This reflection journal also allows students to outline what
they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and
weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be
introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how
they met competencies and course objectives.
Scholarly Activities
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 one scholarly activity while you
are in the BSN program, which should be documented 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.
In Topic 10, you will submit a summary report of your
scholarly activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary”
resource to help guide this assignment.
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GCU NRS490 Week 1 Assignment Professional Capstone and Practicum Documentation
NRS490
Professional Capstone and Practicum
Week 1 Assignment
Professional Capstone and Practicum Documentation
The Professional Capstone and Practicum course requires
students to select a course mentor. This mentor is not a preceptor, but an
individual who will guide students as they work to complete the practice
immersion hour requirements for this course. Students are not required to
“shadow” their mentor.
The course mentor should be someone who can provide
professional development knowledge and guidance and who possesses a genuine
interest in working with students to further their academic goals.
Selection, approval, and retention of a course mentor must
be completed as soon as possible at the start of this course, as this
individual will be working with the student on each assignment that
incorporates practice immersion hours. Working with a course mentor is
mandatory.
Once a course mentor has agreed to serve in the role, you
must complete and submit the following required documentation so that practice
experiences can begin in a timely manner:
Field Experience Site Information Form
Qualified Mentor/Preceptor Summary Form
Mentor’s license, certification, and resume/curriculum vitae
The student is responsible for obtaining all signatures for
the paperwork submission. Course faculty will approve all sites and mentors
according to student learning needs and specific course objectives.
Do not initiate new work on practice-immersion-hour-based
course assignments until your course instructor has approved your course
mentor.
Once a course mentor is approved, students should contact
the mentor within 1 week of receiving the approval notification. Students are
encouraged to make an appointment to meet with their mentor in person and
arrange to review the NRS-490 course objectives and the Individual Success Plan
(ISP).
For more specific information on the course mentor process
and roles and responsibilities, refer to Section Three of the Guidelines for
Undergraduate Field Experiences resource.
