Assignment: Practice and leadership strengths

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. You may write this narrative paper in the first person using personal pronouns.

1. Complete the activity in the Week 2 Explore section

2. Write a narrative paper where you will need to identify strengths and skills you already possess as a nurse. Then, discuss how these skills can be translated into political capital. Using examples of what this political capital would look like is a great way to showcase how your current skills can be translated effectively. This paper is not the same as the one written in NR703 as the focus is not on leadership but rather on political competency.

3. The following areas must be addressed:

a. Introduction

b. Practice and Leadership Strengths

i. Identify 3 practice and leadership strengths

ii. Propose how you can translate these 3 skills to promote your political capital

c. Relationship and Collaboration

i. Identify 3 examples of where you excel in relationship development and collaboration

ii. Propose how can you translate these 3 skills to promote your political capital

d. Effective Communication

i. Identify 3 examples of where you excel in communication

ii. Propose how you can translate these 3 skills to promote your political capital

e. Persuasion and Persistence

i. Identify 3 examples of where you excelled in persistence and persuasion

ii. Propose how you can translate these 3 skills to promote your political capital

4. Conclusion

a. Well-rounded and comprehensive conclusion

b. Summarizes the paper

c. Provides a call to action

5. Clarity of Writing

a. Use standard English grammar and sentence structure

b. There should be no spelling errors or typographical errors

c. Paper should be organized around the required components using appropriate headers.

d. Paper needs to offer flow and logical progression

6. APA/Formatting/References -All information taken from another source, even if summarized, must be appropriately cited in the manuscript and listed in the references using APA (current edition of the APA manual) format including:

a. Document setup

b. Title and reference pages

c. Proper in-text citations with a properly formatted reference list

7. Explore Activity Upload

a. Upload the week 2 explore activity results to the assignment folder

Rubric

NR708: Political Strength to Strategies Assignment Rubric

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.