Reflection Assignment 1: Meeting Essential IX This week, reflect up your personal nursing philosophy as it has evolved over the course of your RN-BSN program at WCU. Identify specific theorists you feel you most identify with. How does your personal nursing philosophy, and the work you completed in your program support evidence of meeting the following? Essential IX: Baccalaureate Generalist Nursing Practice Outcome #18: Develop an awareness of patients’ as well as healthcare professionals spiritual beliefs and values and how those beliefs and values impact health care. Review your past academic work, evaluate your effectiveness at meeting this program essential, and ponder the impact that this proficiency will have on your future. Identify how you met the essential by referring to the assignment(s) specifically in your response. Additionally, reflect upon and make connections between your academic experience and real-world applications. Showcase your academic work related to this essential and these outcomes in your ePortfolio and directly reference it in your reflection response. Recommended: Refer back to work you completed for NURS 500 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice and LDR 432 Principles of Leadership for Healthcare Organizations, as well as other courses to gather academic examples and evidence of having met this essential. Your reflection should be 1-1/2 to 2 pages and APA formatted. Reference and cite any sources you use. Submit your assignment here for grading. When your instructor returns the graded assignment, make any recommended revisions and submit a polished copy to your ePortfolio. To prepare for the reflection assignments, begin gathering examples of your completed course work: final papers, essays, discussion posts, and presentations. Make corrections as needed so that you have exemplary academic work to reference and showcase. Submit as many academic examples of excellence to your ePortfolio as you can gather from your files. Next, review and familiarize yourself with the West Coast Universitys program outcomes and AACN Essentials for Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice. You can find these on your course syllabus and in the ePortfolio. You will be speaking to these outcomes and essentials specifically in your reflections.
