Discussion: NURS 4060 Capella University Professional ePortfolio and Resume

Discussion: NURS 4060 Capella University Professional ePortfolio and Resume

Question Description
Develop a professional ePortfolio and resume.

This is your final assessment for the course.

For this assessment, you will create a professional ePortfolio and resume to showcase your achievements and competence in various areas for job search or advancement conversations.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROFICIENCY
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.
Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
Explain how chosen at least 2 artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Present a well-organized ePortfolio in a clear and professional manner, using correct grammar, spelling, and APA style.
You should complete this assessment last.

PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT
A portfolio is a great way to for nurses to “record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, development and learning, not only for themselves, but for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers and peers” (Green, Wyllie, & Jackson, 2014, p. 8). As you collect the artifacts that best showcase your strengths, you begin to track, reflect on, and evaluate your own learning and growth over time.

PREPARATION
For this assessment, you will be creating a professional ePortfolio and resume to take with you after completing your program. To help you complete this assessment, review the following resources as needed:

ePortfolio.
Getting Started with Pathbrite ePortfolio [PDF].
Capella University Career Center – Building an Effective Resume.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assessment, your ePortfolio will focus on showcasing your growth and accomplishments in the context of the following course competencies:

Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.
Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.
Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
For each competency, complete the following in your ePortfolio:

Create an area in your ePortfolio for the competency and label it with the course competency number or the competency language.
Select the two artifacts (assessments) that you feel best showcase your accomplishments or growth relative to the competency and place them in the corresponding ePortfolio area.
For each competency, write 2–3 paragraphs detailing the ways in the artifacts illustrate your accomplishments or growth in the competency so reviewers can easily understand your achievements and strengths. Place this in the corresponding ePortfolio area with your chosen artifacts.
For the Competency 8 section of your ePortfolio, include a professional resume that highlights your professional standards and values. Consult the resources in the Capella University Career Center, such as the Capella Career Center: Resume Rubric.

Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score:

Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.
Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care
Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.
Explain how at last two chosen artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Communicate ePortfolio in a clear and well-organized manner, using correct grammar and spelling.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

Also Read:

Many people describe nursing as being at the center and forefront of healthcare. Nurses are the patient’s first point of contact. To practice as a nurse, you must be licensed, and every nurse must pass a state board exam. Once a nurse is licensed and able to practice, it is critical for the nurse, patient, and healthcare to continue education and practice at the highest level possible. A strong nursing workforce, according to the campaign for action, is the key to a healthier America. Because the bachelor of science in nursing degree is the catalyst for professional advancement, the Campaign has identified five models for professionals to obtain that BSN. Nurses are also mastering the complexities of care and advanced technology, allowing them to contribute decisively on teams, understand health policy, analyze data to make critical decisions, and contribute to health equity in greater numbers.

“The establishment of a link between mandatory continuing education and professional competence development has been deemed critical to future decision-making about the best methods of assuring continued competence” (Smith,2003). Smith and her research studies show that a nurse with a BSN is more likely to be able to critically think and manage critical situations.
This author believes that continuing education is beneficial to all because it allows you to gain knowledge and learn more about evidence-based practice. However, this author worked on a medsurg floor with a nurse who earned her MSN and another who earned her BSN, but the author was the charge nurse and handled rapid response situations well on the floor. When placed in charge, this author was skeptical, but gained confidence after certain situations were handled properly, even if only with an ADN. However, this author believes that anyone furthering their education at any level is beneficial to everyone.

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Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
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Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.