1. ) The first part of the portfolio:

      I.)  Cover letter also known as professional letter

     II. ) Your Nursing Philosophy

     III.) Curriculum Vitae(CV) or Resume (include your license and certifications which are also part of the portfolio)

What is a portfolio? 

A professional portfolio is a collection of materials that document the nurse’s competencies and illustrate the nurse expertise.

Why is the portfolio important?

A portfolio is a presentation of you as a professional APRN. Portfolio development at postgraduate level emphasizes linking theory and practice and stresses the importance of reflection on practice. The portfolio can also be used by nurses to develop their clinical career pathways and encourage personal development planning (Joyce, 2005)

Reference

Joyce, P. (2005). A framework for portfolio development in postgraduate nursing practice. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 14(4), 456-463.doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2004.01075

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IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT PROPER GRAMMAR AND CITATION BE NOTED OR POINTS ARE DEDUCTED. 

As in all APA textbook. Citations must include the doi or the website where your article was retrieved from, the journal name is on italics.

Example:

Goodhue, C. J., Burke, R. V., Ferrer, R. R., Chokshi, N. K., Dorey, F., & Upperman, J. S. (2012). Willingness to respond in a disaster: a pediatric nurse practitioner national survey. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 26(4), e7-e20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2010.11.003

 

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Support your responses with scholarly academic references using APA style format.

Discussion Question 1

Answer the following:

   Coaching and mentoring should be a core competency of nurses prepared at the graduate level. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Defend your response.

   Based on your graduate specialization, identify one coaching activity that you can do in this advanced practice role. What strategies would you employ for this activity?

   Describe one mentoring activity you might complete with a mentor that would help you to acclimate to your new advance practice role. Should this activity be structured or unstructured?

Discussion Question 2

Consultation is a core competency of graduate nursing. Answer the following:

   Differentiate consultation from supervision?

   Are consultation and collaboration synonymous? Defend your response.

   Give an example on how you have seen the consultation competency practiced in your current nursing area. Explain if the practice followed the graduate competency criteria.

 

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Week 2 Discussion

Tasks:

1. The “theory-practice gap,” as some have called it, has prevented our profession from full utilization of its knowledge base in practice, and has impeded the view of nursing as a theoretically based discipline, to its detriment. There are distinctly different viewpoints to this argument, based on the different perspectives of academics and theoreticians on the one hand and that of practitioners on the other. Being honest about your reaction, and applying critical thinking skills to the question, where do you stand on the issue, and why?

2. The development of the discipline of nursing has gone through many stages of philosophical debates. Justify the relevance and utility of the knowledge of theory development to your practice.

Directions:

Guidelines: Support your responses with scholarly academic references using APA style format. Assigned course readings and online library resources are preferred. Weekly lecture notes are designed as overviews to the topic for the respective week and should not serve as a citation or reference.

In your discussion question response, provide a substantive response that illustrates a well-reasoned and thoughtful response; it is factually correct with relevant scholarly citations, references, and examples that demonstrate a clear connection to the readings.

 

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Comment using your own words but please provide at least one reference for each comment.

Do a half page for discussion #1 and another half page for discussion #2 for a total of one page.

Provide the comment for each discussion separate.

 

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