Nursing Professional development

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES
Description: This 4-6-page paper is a thoughtful reflection summarizing the development of the student from
admission to the nursing program to graduation as a baccalaureate prepared professional nurse. In order to
successfully summarize professional development, the student will consider experiences while engaged in
both nursing and general education course work. The student will then reflect on the major areas of learning
in the professional nursing undergraduate curriculum and write a structured summary reflection. This
Capstone Summary will be submitted to the faculty member teaching in N480R. The five areas of learning
and program outcomes are:

1. Clinical Reasoning and Priority Setting: The ability of a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program to
   analyze information, make inferences, draw logical conclusions, and critically evaluate all aspects and
   consequences of a decision or action.
2. Communication: The ability of a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program to verbally and nonverbally
   interact in the complex world of the health care system including demonstrating the skilled use of written
   communication.
3. Role Development: The ability of a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program to display social and
   personal characteristics that indicate development in the roles of provider, manager, designer, coordinator
   of patient care and a well-educated member of a profession.
4. Diversity: The ability of a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program to demonstrate evidence of the
   capacity to work with all people regardless of differences in race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age,
   gender, sexual orientation, ability/disability, social/economic status or class, education, beliefs, and related
   attributes.
5. Ethics: The ability of a graduate of a baccalaureate nursing program to apply a value system in making
   decisions about the rightness and/or wrongness of a situation, decision, or action.
   Each student will write this Capstone Summary of Professional Development using the five areas of
   learning to structure the reflection. (See the grading rubric for the Capstone Summary of Professional
   Development). Course faculty will grade this reflection using this grading rubric. No drafts of this reflection
   will be reviewed or accepted. All submitted Capstone Summaries will be presumed to exist in their final
   form. The Capstone Summary of Professional Development should be posted to TURNITIN on the course
   Blackboard site.