Reflect upon a leader or manager who positively or negatively impacted your practice.

General instructions:

Reflect upon a leader or manager who positively or negatively impacted your practice.

Include the following sections:

1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.

• • Describe the impact on your nursing practice.
  • Discuss the impact on the practice environment.
  • Analyze the individual’s leadership skills using either the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) or the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) leadership competencies provided in the Week 1 Explore lesson.

1. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:

• • Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
  • Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
  • Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
  • Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
  • Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all references and provide references for all citations.

1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.

• • Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
  • Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
  • Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.

1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
2. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
3. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
4. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.