NSG- Foundations For Professional Nursing

In a Microsoft Word document of 5-6 pages formatted in APA style, describe your personal approach to professional nursing practice. Be sure to address each one of the following criteria:

• Which philosophy/conceptual framework/theory/middle-range theory describes nursing in the way you think about it?

o Discuss how you could utilize the philosophy/conceptual framework/theory/middle-range theory to organize your thoughts for critical thinking and decision making in nursing practice.

• Formulate and discuss your personal definition of nursing, person, health, and environment.

• Discuss a minimum of two beliefs and/or values about nursing that guide your own practice.

• Analyze your communication style using one of the tools presented in the course.

o Discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with your style of communication.

o Impact of your communication style on your ability to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary team.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format. Please note that the title and reference pages should not be included in the total page count of your paper.

o Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

o This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.

o You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

textbook: Black, B. P. (2014). Professional nursing: Concepts & challenges (8th ed.). St. Louis: Saunders [ISBN: 9780323431125].

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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.