Powerful caring leads to social change
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IN3005: Powerful Caring Leads to Social Change: Analyze the responsibility of nursing professionals to advocate for social change.
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Instructions
Write your responses where it reads “Enter your response here.” Write as much as needed to satisfy the requirements indicated. Each item contains the Rubric, which will be used to evaluate your responses.
At the end of the template, you will list the references you used to support your responses. Be sure to support your responses with scholarly sources. Practice using APA in-text citations and reference lists to support your response. If you need additional information about how to correctly paraphrase, cite, and/or reference sources, please visit the Walden Writing Center: http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/citations
Item 1
Consider the six statements of The Elements of Nursing’s Social Contract found in the ANA’s “Nursing’s Social Policy Statement.”
The following statements uphold professional nursing’s social contract with society:
- Humans manifest an essential unity of mind, body, and spirit.
- Human experience is contextually and culturally defined.
- Health and illness are human experiences. The presence of illness does not preclude health, nor does optimal health preclude illness.
- The relationship between the nurse and patient occurs within the context of the values and beliefs of the patient and nurse.
- Public policy and the healthcare delivery system influence the health and well-being of society and professional nursing.
- Individual responsibility and interprofessional involvement are essential.
These values and assumptions apply whether the recipient of professional nursing care is an individual, family, group, community, or population.
The Elements of Nursing’s Social Contract describes nursing’s active and enduring social responsibility. Currently in your nursing work, you make remarkable achievements for patients and continue to make a difference by addressing challenges where you live and work. As a nurse, you are both valued within a society and uniquely accountable to that society.
Select two statements from the Elements of Nursing’s Social Contract, and explain how you currently exhibit those elements in your practice or professional experience. For example, explain how you practice holistic care, respect a patient’s culture, broaden your professional skill-set, participate in professional organizations, or implement policies that impact patients and communities. Analyze why your actions benefit your professional practice and your patients. (1–2 pages)
Your Response
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Rubric
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| The Value of Social Change in Nursing | |||
| Select two statements from the Elements of Nursing’s Social Contract, and explain how you currently exhibit those elements in your practice or professional experience.
LO1: Explain how Elements of Nursing’s Social Contract apply to professional practice. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
| Analyze why your actions benefit your professional practice and your patients.
LO2: Analyze the benefits of your actions to professional practice and your patients. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
Item 2
Your Response
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| The Value of Social Change in Nursing | |||
| Identify a nursing colleague or present-day nurse leader who evidences healthcare-related change advocacy. Explain how that individual puts into action at least one of the areas discussed by The Campaign for Action recommendations.
LO1: Describe ways nurses advocate for change. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
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LO3: Analyze the benefits of the nurse leader’s advocacy actions. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
Item 3
Describe one health-related positive social change area or topic that is most important to you and how you are working to positively impact this area or topic.
Analyze how Walden University’s focus on social change, as an integral part of its mission and curriculum, supports and guides your social change endeavors.
(1–2 pages)
Your Response
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Rubric
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| Social Change as an Integral Part of Walden’s Curriculum | |||
| When it comes to positive social change, describe one health-related area or topic that is most important to you and how you are working to positively impact this area or topic.
LO1: Recognize ways nurses can advocate and contribute to positive social change. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
| Analyze how Walden University’s focus on social change, as an integral part of its curriculum, supports and guides your social change endeavors.
LO2: Analyze how Walden’s focus on social change can support and guide personal social change endeavors. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
| Describe your results from Walden’s “What Kind of Social Change Agent are You?” quiz. Explain how the results either do or do not reflect your current social change efforts. Explain how the results might reflect your future social change goals.
LO3: Analyze the relationship between social change results and current and future nursing practices. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
Item 4
Defend the following statement: Advocating for social change is the responsibility of the nursing professional. (2 paragraphs)
Your Response
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| Social Change as an Integral Part of Walden’s Curriculum | |||
| Defend the following statement: Advocating for social change is the responsibility of the nursing professional.
LO1: Analyze the responsibility of nurses to advocate for social change. |
Response is missing. | Response is vague, inaccurate, or incomplete. | Response is clear, accurate, and complete. |
References
Provide a citation for each resource you used to write your response to this Assessment. A sample citation is provided below:
- Robertson, C. (2016). Safety, nutrition, & health in early education (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Mastery Rubric
In order to achieve mastery of this competency, you must achieve a “2” on every rubric row in addition to meeting the additional expectation indicated in the Mastery Rubric.
| Exceeds Expectations: Connections to Experiences | |
| LO1: Effectively selects and develops examples of life experiences, drawn from a variety of contexts (e.g., work experience, volunteer endeavors, program developments), to describe and illustrate the concept of social change.
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Responses synthesize concepts of social change in relation to specific examples within professional practice.
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Professional Skill Building
The faculty Assessor will provide feedback based on the following Professional Skill: Written Communication. Although the feedback is here to inform the development of your skills, it is not a barrier to achieving the competency, unless the writing is too poor to be able to score the content of the Assessment. Review the rubric and check your work based on the learning objectives listed. If you are concerned that you will not meet these expectations yet, reach out to your coach so he or she can work with you to further develop this important professional skill.
It is highly recommended that you use this opportunity to practice this important skill in the context of this Competency Assessment in order to receive feedback about your current level of proficiency.
| Written Communication: Write with clarity, coherence, and purpose. | |||
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| LO1: Construct complete and correct sentences (AWE 2; Sentence-Level Skills) | Sentences are incoherent and impede reader’s access to ideas. | Sentences are incomplete and/or include fragments and run-on sentences, limiting reader’s access to ideas. | Sentences structure effectively conveys meaning to the reader. |
| LO2: Demonstrate the effective use of grammar and mechanics. (AWE 2; Sentence-Level Skills) | Multiple inaccuracies in grammar and mechanics impede reader’s access to ideas. | Some inaccuracies in grammar and mechanics limit reader’s access to ideas. | Use of grammar and mechanics is straightforward and effectively conveys meaning to reader. |
| LO3: Create cohesive paragraphs with a clear central idea. (AWE 2; Paragraph-Level Skills) | Paragraphs, or lack of paragraphs, impede reader’s access to ideas. | Construction of main idea and/or supporting paragraphs limit reader’s access to ideas. | Main idea and/or supporting paragraphs effectively convey meaning to reader. |
| LO4: Use supporting material to support a claim. (AWE 2; Use of Evidence) | Supporting materials are not present. | Supporting material is used inconsistently or inappropriately. | Supporting material is used to enhance meaning. Writing is appropriately paraphrased and uses direct quotes as applicable. |
| LO6: Identify sources (AWE 2; Credit to source) | Sources are missing. | Writing inconsistently identifies or misrepresents sources. | Writing clearly identifies the source of non-original material and/or ideas. |
I am attaching the template file and rubric criteria.
For item 3 walden university\’s \”what kind of social change agent are you\”, here is the link. (based on social change score, I am \”Ultra-committed Change-Maker\” https://www.waldenu.edu/
