PURPOSE

The purpose of this application is to provide the student an opportunity to critically appraise advanced nursing practice leadership from an ethic of care perspective.

COURSE OUTCOMES

This assignment provides documentation of student ability to meet the following course outcomes.

CO4: Assimilate relationship-based and patient-centered care attributes for interprofessional collaboration in advanced nursing practice (PO #8).

CO6: Formulate selected strategies for increasing interprofessional collaboration and influence

across diverse personal, professional, and/or practice settings (PO #8).

CO7: Explore ethical dilemma outcomes of organizational and leadership behavior such as mobbing and bullying that have an adverse impact on advanced nursing practice and interprofessional collaboration (PO #8).

REQUIREMENTS

1. To complete this application, you will need to access to the following databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, and the Joanna Briggs Institute. You may access these databases through the Chamberlain College of Nursing Online Library. The library has a main menu available at http://library.chamberlain.edu/index.html with a link for Research Help in the left-hand menu. When clicked, it reveals a list of “Tools” or PDFs on how to do conduct various searches of the required databases (CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane, and JBI) through the portals (EBSCO and OVID) provided.

2. The Advanced Nursing Practice Leadership from an ethic of care paper is worth 275 points and will be graded on quality of information, use of citations, use of standard English grammar, sentence structure, and overall organization based on the required components as summarized in the directions and grading criteria rubric.

3. Create your manuscript using Microsoft Word 2010 (a part of Microsoft Office 2010) or later version, which is the required format for all Chamberlain College of Nursing documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word 2010 document because it will end in “.docx.”

4. Follow the directions and grading criteria closely. Any questions about this paper may be posted under the Q & A Forum.

5. The length of the paper is to be no fewer than six and no greater than eight pages, excluding the title page and reference pages.

6. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headings (upper and lower case, centered, boldface):

Note: Write an introduction to the advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic but do not use “Introduction” as a heading in accordance with the rules put forth in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010, p. 63).

a. Description of ethic of care versus ethic of justice perspectives

b. Reflection on the application from an ethic of care perspective

c. Conclusion

PREPARING THE PAPER

The following are best practices for preparing this paper.

1. When introducing the advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic, be sure to identify appropriate background information regarding the practice situation (who, what, where, when, and why).

2. When describing ethic of care versus ethic of justice perspectives, be sure to fully describe the potential impacts of each ethical perspective using current evidence.

3. When reflecting on the application from an ethic of care dynamic, be sure to fully critique factors that compel an ethic of care in today’s healthcare environment.

DIRECTIONS AND GRADING CRITERIA

Category Points Description

Introduction to the advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic 30 Introduces the purpose of the paper and addresses all background information elements of the advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic in its practice context

Description of ethic of care versus ethic of justice perspectives 55 Individually addresses potential impacts of each ethical perspective using current evidence; uses examples from the practice context to support your assertions

Reflection on the application from an ethic of care perspective 55 Individually critiques factors that compel an ethic of care in today’s healthcare environment; summarizes your critique using examples from the practice context to support your assertions

Conclusion 30 Identifies the main ideas and major conclusions from the body of your manuscript, with minor details left out; summarizes benefits of the application of an ethic of care to advanced nursing practice

Clarity of writing 50 18 Use of standard English grammar and sentence structure; no spelling errors or typographical errors; organized around the required components using appropriate headers

APA format 55 20 All information taken from another source (even if summarized) appropriately cited in manuscript and listed in references using APA (6th ed.) format

1. Document setup

2. Title and reference pages

3. Citations in the text and references

4. 6 – 8 pages (not including title & reference pages)

Total: 275 100

A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.

GRADING RUBRIC

Assignment Criteria Meets Criteria Partially Meets Criteria Does Not Meet Criteria

Introduction to the Advanced Nursing Practice leadership dynamic

(30 points) Excellent introduction of selected advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic; rationale well presented and purpose fully developed

27–30 points Basic understanding and/or limited use of advanced nursing practice leadership dynamic and/or inappropriate emphasis on an area

23–26 points Little or very general introduction of leadership dynamic; little to no original explanation; inappropriate emphasis on an area

0–22 points

Description of ethic of care versus ethic of justice perspectives

(55 points) Excellent discussion of each ethical perspective; discussion of each ethical perspective supported with examples

50–55 points Basic discussion of each ethical perspective; discussion of each ethical perspective not supported with examples

42–49 points Little or very general discussion of each ethical perspective; little or no application to practice context or each ethical perspective not supported with examples

0–41 points

Reflection on the application from an ethic of care perspective

(55 points) Excellent discussion of advanced nursing practice leadership application; reflection on ethic of care perspective supported with practice context examples

50–55 points Basic discussion of advanced nursing practice leadership application and/or reflection on ethic of care perspective not supported with practice context examples

42–49 points Little or very general discussion of advanced nursing practice leadership application, or little or no reflection on ethic of care perspective and/or practice context examples

0–41 points

Conclusion

(30 points) Excellent understanding of ethic of care contributions to advanced nursing practice; conclusions well evidenced and fully developed

27–30 points Basic understanding and/or limited application of ethic of care contributions to advanced nursing practice

23–26 points Little or no understanding of ethic of care contributions to advanced nursing practice; inappropriate emphasis on an area.

0–22 points

Clarity of writing

(50 points) Excellent use of standard English showing original thought; no spelling or grammar errors; well organized with proper flow of meaning

45–50 points Some evidence of own expression and competent use of language; no more than three spelling or grammar errors; well organized thoughts and concepts

38–44 points Language needs development; four or more spelling and/or grammar errors; poorly organized thoughts and concepts

0–37 points

APA format

(55 points) APA format correct with no more than 1–2 minor errors.

50–55 points Three to five errors in APA format and/or 1–2 citations missing

42–49 points Multiple errors in APA formatting and/or several citations missing

0–41 points

Total Points Possible = ____ points