Overview: Professional Development Plan: Improving the Nursing Work Environment
Week 5 Assignment: Professional Development Plan
Submit Assignment by 0800 Saturday of Week 5. Name: | | Date: |
Overview: Professional Development Plan
This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by creating a professional development plan.
You will begin by completing some management graphic organizers or tools. Then you will use these tools as the basis of your plan.
Objectives
* Explain how organizations function. * Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management. * Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions. * Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the Week 5 Professional Development Plan. Tasks | Target | Acceptable | Unacceptable | Statement of Philosophy(max 20 points) | (16-20 points)Clear statement of philosophy of nursing (7 points) | (9-15 points)Statement of philosophy of nursing (5 points) | (0-8 points)One or more philosophy statements missing or poorly written(0-5 points) | | Clear statement of personal philosophy (6 points) | Statement of personal philosophy (5 points) | | | Both philosophies clearly reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)(7 points) | Both philosophies somewhat reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)(5 points) | Little or no evidence of connections between philosophies and assessment tools(0-3 points) | Use of Assessment Tools to Formulate Goals(max 20 points) | (14-20 points)Detailed completion of Assessment Tools (5 points) | (4-13 points)Completion of Assessment Tools (3-4 points) | (0-3 points)Little or no completion of Assessment Tools
Submit Assignment by 0800 Saturday of Week 5. Name: | | Date: |
Overview: Professional Development Plan
This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by creating a professional development plan.
You will begin by completing some management graphic organizers or tools. Then you will use these tools as the basis of your plan.
Objectives
* Explain how organizations function. * Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management. * Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions. * Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the Week 5 Professional Development Plan. Tasks | Target | Acceptable | Unacceptable | Statement of Philosophy(max 20 points) | (16-20 points)Clear statement of philosophy of nursing (7 points) | (9-15 points)Statement of philosophy of nursing (5 points) | (0-8 points)One or more philosophy statements missing or poorly written(0-5 points) | | Clear statement of personal philosophy (6 points) | Statement of personal philosophy (5 points) | | | Both philosophies clearly reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)(7 points) | Both philosophies somewhat reflected in values, vision, and personal interests (in first assessment tool)(5 points) | Little or no evidence of connections between philosophies and assessment tools(0-3 points) | Use of Assessment Tools to Formulate Goals(max 20 points) | (14-20 points)Detailed completion of Assessment Tools (5 points) | (4-13 points)Completion of Assessment Tools (3-4 points) | (0-3 points)Little or no completion of Assessment Tools
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