Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice Week 3
This week, reflect up your personal nursing philosophy as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific theorists you feel you most identify with. How does your personal nursing philosophy, and the work you completed in your program support evidence of meeting the following?
Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice
Outcome #18: Develop an awareness of patients’ as well as healthcare professionals’ spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care.
Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future.
Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect upon and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. Learn about the spiritual beliefs and values of both patients and health care workers, and how those beliefs and values affect health care.
Review your past schoolwork, figure out how well you are meeting this program requirement, and think about how this skill will affect your future.
Show how you met the essential by referring specifically to the assignment(s) in your answer. Also, think about and make connections between what you’ve learned in school and how it can be used in the real world.
Showcase your academic work related to this essential and these outcomes in your ePortfolio and directly reference it in your reflection response.
Recommended: Refer back to work you completed for NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice and LDR 432 Principles of Leadership for Healthcare Organizations, as well as other courses to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential.
Your reflection should be 1-1/2 to 2 pages and APA formatted. Reference and cite any sources you use.
Submit your assignment here for grading. When your instructor returns the graded assignment, make any recommended revisions and submit a polished copy to your ePortfolio.
