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Creating a Professional Development Plan
Creating a Professional Development Plan
Write a 6–8-page professional development plan for your career as an MSN-prepared nurse. The professional development plan should include the following:
Introduction: A brief introductory paragraph that clearly states the purpose of the paper.
Area of focus: A description of your specific area of focus in nursing education, the position that you wish to obtain, and the educator competencies that you will need as an MSN-prepared nurse.
Professional goals: A statement of your specific professional goals (a minimum of three) and discussion of their relationship to your nurse educator philosophy.
Influences: A brief description of any additional forces (social, economic, political, or institutional) that may influence your nursing education role.
Analysis: An analysis of how you will carry out scholarship activities as an MSN-prepared nurse and a specific plan for scholarship based on a model.
Leadership role: A discussion of specific ways (a minimum of two) that you will develop a leadership role in your chosen area of focus.
Development plan: Specific plans for professional growth and any additional education, certifications, or training to be acquired.
Reflection: A reflection in a concluding paragraph on your abilities to meet goals and achieve your professional development plan and ethical
practice. As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What are some approaches that nurse educators can use when encountering resistance to change?
How might effective leadership styles be the same or different for the following roles?
BSN nursing faculty.
-Community health educator.
-Staff development educator.
What are some ways that scholarship fits with nursing practice?
How do you or would you view the following evaluation processes as an educator? What can be most useful to faculty from student
evaluations?
-Regular evaluation of nurse educators by students and administrators.
-Peer evaluations of teaching skills.
Research Proposal Presentation
Research Proposal Presentation
In Week 6 you will create a Power Point Presentation. This presentation will be a summary of your Research Proposal. You have 2 options for
doping this :
Each slide should represent a section of the proposal with a brief explanation of that section, not just the headings, on the slide
Provide bullet points of what you want to talk about and then include the speaker notes of what you will be saying.
Do not forget the references slide.
This assignment is the easiest of all the assignments since you will include only the main points of the proposal.
Present your research proposal poster.
Online Students must complete an 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation.
Include the following in your presentation, regardless of the course modality:
Abstract, including the research question
Prior research: literature review
Purpose
Methods
Expected conclusions
References
Format your presentation or poster consistent with APA guidelines.
Bone Tissue Lap Report
Bone Tissue Lap Report
LAB REPORT 1 ACTIVITY:
Students should read through activity to understand how it was conducted, the observations made before, during and after the experiment, and then answer the questions that follow.
Please, type each question followed by the answer to that question. The answers should be properly numbered, typed, and double-spaced with 12 font size. There should be a cover page. The cover page should have the student name, Professor’s name, assignment title and date. The assignment should be submitted online. Click on lab report submission to upload the lab report.
NOTE*: The amount of writing for each question should NOT be more than half a page.
OBJECTIVE: This activity will help students understand the main differences between connective tissues and other main classes of tissues. It will also help students correlate structure and function of the components in a prototype connective tissue used in this case, the bone.
BACKGROUND: The human body has 4 main types of tissues. Each type has specific characteristics that help determine their structure, and consequently their function and location. If the properties of any of the components of the tissue changes, the characteristics of the tissue will change, and so will it’s functions.
PART 1
What makes bones strong?
Although bones are relatively light, they are strong. Really strong for a variety of reasons: a characteristic that is very important to their functions in the human body.
The things you need for this experiment:
o Dried clean chicken leg bone (after cleaning the flesh from the chicken bone, you can let it dry up in the sun for about a day or two).
o A glass (should be big enough to contain the whole bone)
o White vinegar
Steps to follow:
1. Without breaking the bone, hold the bone and try to bend it – don’t force it to bend; else it will break! Take note of the stiffness of the bone.
Record your observation of the bone.
2. Place the chicken bone in a glass and fill it with white vinegar. Take note of the appearance of the bone in the vinegar at the start of the experiment, and also observe the appearance at the end of the experiment.
3. Let the bone soak for 2-3 days, then pour out the vinegar
4. Add fresh vinegar and let it soak for about 3 or 4 more days.
5. After the 6th or 7th day of soaking, observe the vinegar solution with the bone, then take out the bone and dry it off. Now try to bend the bone without breaking it as initially done in step 1. What do you notice? How does it feel different from before you soaked it in the vinegar?
PART 2
The table below represents the weight of the bone recorded every day with the electronic scale for 9 days. Assume this weight to be the weight
of your bone, and use it as your data.
Time/day
Bone weight/grams
1
26.10
2
26.10
3
22.00
4
18.20
5
14.00
6
10.00
7
6.00
8
4.00
9
4.00
QUESTIONS:
1. What is connective tissue and what are the characteristics that make it different from the other types of tissues? 15points
2. Why is bone considered a connective tissue? Identify the specific components in bone that make it a connective tissue. 10points
3. Describe the results of your observation in experiment of PART 1, before and at the end of your experiment. 15points
4. Give a detailed explanation of the reason for your observation in #3. 15points
5. Using a graph paper or excel, plot a graph using the data on the table in PART 2, with Time(days) on the X-axis and bone Weight(grams) on the Y-axis. 10points
6. Give a detailed explanation about the shape of your graph. 10points
7. Is there a relationship between the shape of the graph and your observations of the experiment in PART 1? Please, explain why, if you think
there is a relationship. If there is no relationship, explain why you think there isn’t one. 10points
8. a) How does this activity justify the importance of maintaining homeostasis? 6 points
b) Name one parameter or variable in the human body whose change can theoretically lead to the situation in the experiment. 3 points
c) Identify at least 3 systems, that need to work normally, to prevent the situation in the experiment from happening in the body. 6 points