PLEASE FOLLOW THE RUBRIC AS GUIDANCE As nurses, the CNO states that we must refl

PLEASE FOLLOW THE RUBRIC AS GUIDANCE
As nurses, the CNO states that we must reflect as a professional expectation. Reflecting is more than just thinking about thinking. It is an intentional process of thinking, analyzing, and learning. Reflecting improves our ability to critically think, empowers us as professionals and advocates, helps us to gain self-awareness and provides for personal and professional growth. For our clients, reflection means a commitment to improving quality of care, ensuring safety of care, and improving client outcomes.
Reflection occurs before, during, and after situations with the purpose of developing greater understanding of the self and the situation so that future encounters with the situation are informed from previous encounters (Wald & Reis, 2010). Reflective writing is the purposeful and recursive contemplation of thoughts, feelings, and happenings that pertain to significant practice experiences (Kennison, 2012). Reflective writing requires one to reflect on a personal experience for the purpose of self-awareness and professional growth (Kerr, 2010).
To be committed to reflection, nurses must have:
A belief that there is no end point in learning about your practice
A willingness to learn
Motivation to change
Open-mindedness
Courage to act
For this essay, you must write from your lens as an RPN transitioning on the journey to RN practice. The application of scholarly evidence is used to critically analyze a health care issue or practice situation and must clearly support your perspective. Your essay must integrate evidence-based nursing literature from the key course concepts. Relevant CNO expectations of RN practice must be included.
1000 words, excluding title page and reference list
double spaced, 12 font, standard margins
follows APA 7th edition style guidelines
minimum 4 scholarly references within past 5 years (excluding CNO)
Submitted to Safe Assign on due dateAs nurses,
Essay Rubric ( /60 15% of grade)
Student Name: __________________________________________ Section: __________ Date:______________________________
Criteria Focus Comments Marks
Content and Ideas
35 marks 1. Introduce and explore an experience/challenge. (5)
2. Describe the how the experience has influenced your growth and development. (5)
3. Reflect, analyse, and explore the influence of professional, social, cultural, personal, and/or environmental factors. Explain how and/or why they impacted or may have impacted the experience/challenge. (5)
4. Use course concepts and apply them to support the analysis of the experience/challenge. Consider what has influenced, validated, or changed your perspective. (10)
5. Write from the perspective of your transition from RPN to RN. Include your strengths and the areas that require further development. (5 )
6. Describe your thoughts/concerns about your next steps in becoming an RN, including strategies. (5)
Research
10 marks 1. Research demonstrates a clear connection and supports ideas presented. (3)
2. Research demonstrates the basis for analysis and reflects a variety of perspectives found in the literature (3)
3. Minimum 4 relevant references from peer-reviewed literature, plus any references to the CNO. (2)
4. Ideas supported with minimum of 5 in-text citations (2)
Organization
10 marks • Topic and purpose of paper clearly stated and identified in the introduction paragraph. Thesis statement (2)
• Conclusion provides a brief summary of the points discussed in the essay (2)
• Introduction and conclusion are related to the body of the essay (2)
• Paragraphs flow and transition easily into the next; paragraphs contains one idea or concept that is appropriately developed and supported with literature/theory (2)
• Reader easily follows the flow of concepts and ideas presented in the essay (2)
APA format
5 marks
60 Marks Total • Accurate title page and reference list (2)
• Accurate citations in paper (2)
• Correct font size, style and spacing.(1)
If paper exceeds 1000 words, it will not be read beyond the word limit. This will impact grades for elements listed in categories above.
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