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Self-assessment and a personal learning plan
Self-assessment and a personal learning plan
Purpose: Since nurses are self-regulated professionals, self-assessment and creation of a Personal Learning Plan are actions required of ongoing professional practice throughout a nurse’s career. In the context of this course, these actions provide a learner and clinical instructor with an opportunity to reflect on each learner’s knowledge and competencies, identify areas where enhancement or improvement of competency is needed, and co-develop a meaningful plan that is tailored to each learner’s prior experience, strengths, areas for development and learning style. The Personal Learning Plan also forms a learning contract between the learner and instructor, with each member of this Learning Partnership making a commitment to work toward the stated objectives.
Evaluation Criteria: This activity is to be completed using the Formative Self-Assessment Tools (Appendix B, Parts 1 and 2), Personal Learning Plan (Appendix C, Part [i]) and PATCH assessment link provided above. (Part [ii] of Appendix C is a sample learning plan that may be helpful.)
Instructions: As illustrated in Figure 1 (below), there are several steps in developing and using a personal learning plan. The process starts at the top of the wheel with “Where am I now?” and goes clockwise until “Where next?”, then it starts again. The wheel depicts the life-long nature of learning and self-assessment. Each step is described on the following pages.
Step 1: Perform a Self-Assessment (“Where am I now?”):
• Use Part 1 of the Formative Self-Assessment Tools (Appendix B) to identify your learning needs by reflecting on your past experience and level of competency.
• Use Part 2 of the Formative Self-Assessment Tools (Appendix B) to summarize your personal and professional strengths; identify three areas you believe need development to enhance your practice; and identify your learning style.
• Submit Parts 1 and 2 of the Formative Self-Assessment Tools to your Clinical Portfolio.
• Also perform a self-assessment of your learning needs in relation to nursing informatics by completing a PATCH assessment (Pretest for Attitudes Toward Computers in Healthcare) as follows:
• Go to the Nursing Informatics Self-Assessment webpage at this url: http://nursinginformatics.ca/patch/
• Click on the link to the Online Version of the P.A.T.C.H. scale, register on the website (there is no cost for this), and complete the assessment.
• At the end of the assessment you will receive the option to review your answers and receive a certificate of completion. Click on the Certificate button, download and submit this certificate of completion to your Clinical Portfolio.
• NOTE: Information in these self-assessment tools will not be used to determine Pass (P) | Not Pass (NP) status in the course. In other words, there are no marks assigned for “not knowing” or not having had an experience.
Step 2: Develop a Personal Learning Plan:
• Use the Personal Learning Plan Template (Appendix C, Part i) to address the following questions:
– “Where do I want to go?” Identify three learning objectives after reflecting on your skills and knowledge, and the things you need to learn, and the areas on which you need to focus. The objectives you set should address what you want to achieve in the coming semester and be written using the SMART principle (see boxed text below).
– “How will I know when I get there?” Define your Criteria for Success by identifying what competencies you are now able to perform.
– “When can I get there?” Identify a “Target Date”.
– “How do I get there?” Identify the available learning resources and strategies that will assist you in achieving your objectives.
• Submit your Personal Learning Plan to your Clinical Portfolio.
• Conference with your instructor to review your Personal Learning Plan and revise as needed.
Diversity management and firms productivity
Diversity management and firms productivity or company pay structure and individual performance
Guide to prepare a scientific essay
Title
The title should not reflect the field of study, instead it should fix the main problem under investigation. So, the exact wording of the title is most often made after the work is done and main results are obtained, although one can start with the working title.
As the title should indicate what is being investigated, it usually reflects some relationships between chosen characteristics of the investigated object (e.g. diversity management and firm’s productivity; company pay structure and individual performance; team work and company performance; workforce demography and motivation to work; management style and engagement of employees, etc.).
Introduction
Although it is an introduction, it is also written in the end (once the goal is clear, the methodology is applied, and the results are obtained). This is because the introduction should contain the following components:
2.1. Reasons to choose this topic – these might be personal, but it is better to be scientific reasons, or both. In the second case it is recommended to show that some issues are insufficiently researched; the problem is investigated, but with some unsatisfactory or contradictory results, and so far, the reason could be also the emergence of a new paradigm or perspective on this problem.
2.2. The relevance of the topic, which is determined by its importance and / or usefulness for science, economy, or society, etc. The relevance is justified by pointing to some information sources – from literature or from practice.
2.3. Main goal – it is also formulated at the end, although there could be a working definition at the beginning. The main goal should reflect the resolution of an identified problem, reveal something that is insufficiently disclosed, or prove something (including the influence of some factors, elements, components, stages on the results of interest).
The main goal can be broken down into sub-goals or tasks that underlie the structure of the work. The first part of the work could answer one or two of these sub-goals, the second part – answer the others, etc. in order that in the end the main goal is achieved.
2.4. Research methodology (briefly presented in the introduction) – what theory or concept is shared; what methods will be used to collect data (interviews, questionnaires, etc.), how the data will be processed, what are the hypotheses, and shortly the obtained results.
2.5. On that basis, finally, in the introduction briefly outlines the structure of the work – what the first, second and eventually third parts contain.
- Part one
This part contains always a literature review of the chosen topic. In practice, the work actually starts with this part. At the beginning one could refer to the basic books, and if these are considered insufficient, to continue with some scientific articles. Such articles are accessible from the university computers (in this case – in the faculty library) mostly from the electronic libraries like Science Direct, J-store, and others, for which the University has a subscription. These articles can be found by searching with key words (closely related to the chosen topic). The usefulness of consulting scientific articles is twofold. First, each article contains a literature review, which can help the student’s review. Second, many articles can suggest how to prepare and make your personal mini survey. Even you decide to repeat some other research by using other’s methods, etc. in different organisation or environment, it is acceptable.
- 2. Part two
This part includes student personal contribution or personal mini-survey/research. The research may use qualitative methods, e.g. gathering information (data) through the interview with open questions, or quantitative methods, e.g. gathering information (data) through questionnaire with close questions (usually scaled from 1 to 5, where 1 = “completely disagree” and 5 = “completely agree”). The number of respondents in both cases for the case study could be around 8-10-15 etc. Rarely one could use other data (secondary data analysis), but very attentively, as often such data are not collected for your purpose.
Processing the qualitative data requires skills to make sensible interpretation, and to arrive to some concepts, new ideas, etc., while processing the quantitative data requires skills to work with Excel, SPSS, or other packages for statistical analysis.
After the obtained results are presented, these should be carefully commented. The comments may refer to the literature review, what from the obtained results is in line with the previous results, or what is different, and why such differences, etc.
This part my end with summarised conclusions, and based on these, with some recommendations.
Conclusions
Conclusions should contain a recapitulation of what has been done: what was the main goal and the tasks of your paper; what has been done to achieve the goal; and to what conclusions you came to the end.
Literature
Here one should show all the information sources used – books, articles, papers from the internet, etc. Important is to have the same number and the same sources in both the text and the literature. More citations in the text are shown, more positively the paper is viewed and vice versa – less citation in the text, more plagiarism is suspected
Ways of citing in the text: (Smith, 2015, p. 20-22; Smith, Koen, 2010, p. 341). For the internet sources: author, title, internet address, (retrieved: date, year).
Appendixes – here usually are attached questions for interviews, or questionnaire, organigrams of the investigated organisations, or other materials.
Volume of the paper – in this case minimum 8, maximum 15 pages, on average – 10 pages
Exemplary structure: Introduction = 1-2 pages; 1st part = 3-4 pages; 2d part – 3-4 pages; Conclusion = 1 page.
Positive Psychology Essay
Positive Psychology Essay
The case assignment is a 5-8 page (excluding cover references pages) paper written in APA format that includes the material and topics covered in Modules 1-4. A minimum of six (6) sources must be used to support your comments, although more sources are highly encouraged. Sources must be a combination of sources used in the course and sources found in independent research. All sources must be referenced and cited in the body of your assignment and formatted to APA criteria. Ensure that your paper includes a formal introduction, conclusion, and all required topics are separated by at the very minimum, section (Level 1) headings. Do not include an abstract as many students confuse an abstract with an introduction.
Overview:
You are an Industrial/Organizational psychologist hired by a large manufacturing company in the American Midwest. The CEO states that over the last three – five years employee morale has declined. Employee turnover has increased and productivity has steadily declined. Teams that were identified as high performing in the past now suffer from internal conflict and dysfunction. The company is fast-paced focusing on filling customers’ orders within a very quick turnaround time, and has increased its consumer base without hiring more employees. Relationships between supervisors and line staff are described as “strained.” The CEO charges you with making an organizational assessment to determine the problems that result in low employee morale and productivity, and high turnover, asking for initial recommendations to improve employees’ performance.
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Content Requirements:
Based on your learning from Modules 1-4, how will you assess the company’s dynamics and identify existing and potential issues?
Describe your process and the rationale for it. Be sure to focus your comments on mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Further describe how the issues you might find affect employees’ behavior and performance, and
Propose recommendations that the company might take to remediate the issues.
Be sure to take a positive health psychology approach to your assessment and recommendations using terminology learned over the last several weeks.