Description

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General Instructions:

Reflect upon a leader or manager who positively or negatively impacted your practice. Do not identify the leader by name.

Include the following sections:

1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
   1. Describe the impact on your nursing
   2. Discuss the impact on the practice
   3. 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.
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
   1. Cite a scholarly source in the initial
   2. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response
   3. Cite a scholarly source in one peer
   4. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
   5. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per Cite all references and provide references for all citations.
3. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
   1. Peer Response: Respond to at least one
   2. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty
   3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
4. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
5. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
6. 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.

7. 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.