This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):
NU502M5-5: Evaluate nursing theory and ethical decision making to assess, intervene in, and evaluate care.
Bringing it all together!
Nursing theory starts with ideas about what nursing is and what nursing does. Master’s prepared Nurses then use nursing theory to improve the care that nurses provide with the goal of ultimately improving healthcare outcomes. As nursing theory evolves and expands through research and practice, nursing science and the discipline of nursing matures. Throughout this course, nursing theory has been examined from a variety of perspectives. The importance of nursing theory to advanced nursing roles has been explored.
Directions
In this assessment, you will create a presentation using PowerPoint. Your presentation will bring together the conceptual framework/grand nursing theory, theoretical model, and middle or practice theory that best fits your concept of advanced nursing practice related to your role after graduation. You will evaluate nursing theory and ethical decision making to assess, intervene in, and evaluate care.
Assessment Details
Follow this format for your presentation:
- Your title slide will identify you and the title of your presentation.
- The introduction slide should include brief information about you and your program track. The slide should also explain to the audience the purpose of the presentation.
- Describe a grand nursing theory and focus on how the grand nursing theory aligns with your nursing philosophy, worldviews, and applies to your advanced nursing role.
- Describe your chosen middle-range or practice-level theory, the theory’s key concepts, and how it has been used in research. You will also apply this theory to your advanced nursing role.
- Describe your chosen ethical model with an identification of important characteristics that apply to your future advanced nursing role.
- Show how each of the 2 chosen theories; grand nursing theory, the middle-range or practice-level theory and the ethical model can be applied to an advanced nursing practice role. work together to inform future advanced nursing roles.
- Demonstrate translation of one other interdisciplinary science theory and its impact on research-based knowledge into advanced nursing practice.
- Address nursing theory’s overalls use towards ethical decision making to assess, intervene in, and evaluate care
- The final content slide will be your concluding slide. You bring it all together as you summarize the most important points and make connections to demonstrate how nursing theory will advance your practice and allow you to provide high-quality nursing care.
- The last slide will be your reference slide using APA format.
Assessment Requirements:
- Minimal slide requirement is 10 slides of content (maximum 15 slides) This does not include the title and reference slides.
- Each slide should have an audio narration.
- The presentation should be formatted so that it will ‘auto play’ without any need for observer interaction with the program.
- Include the required five (5) credible sources of support.
- Your assessment should:
- be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
- display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics.
Before finalizing your work, you should:
- be sure to read the assessment description carefully (as displayed above);
- consult the grading rubric to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
- utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.
If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, including a clear autoplay, audio narration, with a well designed presentation, it will be returned for revision without being scored. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term you will receive a failing score.
Minimum Submission Requirements
- Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
- This assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 3-4 pages) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
- Use five (5) credible sources of support are required.
- Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
- Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
- Your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
- A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
- Be sure to include references for all sources and to cite them using in-text citations where appropriate. Your sources and content should follow current APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty. It violates the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and the offense is subject to disciplinary action. You are expected to be the sole author of your work. Use of another person’s work or ideas must be accompanied by specific citations and references. Whether the action is intentional or not, it still constitutes plagiarism.
For more information on plagiarism and the University’s Code of Student Conduct, refer to the current University Catalog.