Academic Success And Professional Development Plan Part 1

NURS 6003 Academic Success And Professional Development Plan Part 1

Academic Success And Professional Development Plan Part 1

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 1: Developing an Academic and Professional Network

When was the last time you read Meditation XVII of John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions?

Unless you are a student of seventeenth-century poetry, you may not be all that familiar with this piece. However, you may be much more familiar with one of its well-known phrases: “No man is an island…”.

As you begin your journey toward achieving your academic and professional goals, you have a great opportunity to network with academics and professionals who can help ensure you do not travel alone. This network can help to clarify your own vision for success and can help guide you now and in the future. To paraphrase Donne, no one is an island.

Begin creating an academic and professional network by identifying which academic and professional connections and resources with which you need to collaborate to succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.

To Prepare:

• Consider individuals, departments, teams, and/or resources within Walden University and within your profession that you believe can support your academic and professional success.
• Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals, colleagues, or teams that might help you succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
• Download the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

The Assignment:

Academic and Professional Network

Complete Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template. Be sure to address the following:

• Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals or teams to collaborate with to be successful in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
• Explain why you selected these individuals and/or teams and how they will support your success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse.

By Day 7 of Week 1

Submit Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

• Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK1Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
• Click the Week 1 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
• Click the Week 1 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
• Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK1Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
• If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
• Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

Grading Criteria

To access your rubric:

Module 2 (Weeks 2–3): Academic and Professional Integrity

Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2018). Academic and Professional Integrity [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

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Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2018). The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Academic and Professional Integrity [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

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Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Identify APA formatting rules
• Analyze the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• Analyze the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Analyze strategies for maintaining integrity and ethics in academic work
• Analyze strategies for maintaining integrity and ethics in professional work

Due By	Assignment
Week 2, Days 1–4	Read the Learning Resources. Begin to check your knowledge with the Quiz. Begin to compose Part 2 of your Assignment.
Week 2, Days 5–6	Continue to check your knowledge with the Quiz. Continue to compose Part 2 of your Assignment.
Week 2, Day 7	Final day to complete Quiz.
Week 3, Days 1–6	Continue to compose Part 2 of your Assignment.
Week 3, Day 7	Deadline to submit Part 2 of your Assignment.

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Learning Resources

Required Readings

American Nurses Association. (2015). Code of ethics for nurses with interpretive statements. Retrieved from https://www.nursingworld.org/coe-view-only

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

• Chapter 1, “Scholarly Writing and Publishing Principles”
  • Section 1.17, “Implications of Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism” (p. 21)
• Chapter 4, “Writing Style and Grammar”
• Chapter 8, “Works Credited in the Text”
  • Section 8.2, “Plagiarism” (p. 254)
  • Section 8.3, “Self-Plagiarism” (p. 256)
• Chapter 10, “Reference Examples”

Alba, B. (2018). Factors that impact on emergency nurses’ ethical decision-making ability. Nursing Ethics, 25(7), 855–866. https://doi.org/10.1177/096973301667476

Glasper, A. (2016). Does cheating by students undermine the integrity of the nursing profession? British Journal of Nursing, 25(16), 932–933.

NLN Ethical Principles for Nursing Education. (2012). Nursing Education Perspective, 33(1), 65.

Walden University Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). ASC success strategies: Plagiarism. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ASCsuccess/ASCplagiarism

Walden Office of Student Affairs. (n.d.). SafeAssign tutorials. Retrieved from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/studentaffairs/academicintegrity/safe-assign-turn-it-in

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). APA style: Overview. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.). APA style: APA basics checklist. Retrieved May 3, 2021, https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/checklist

Walden University Writing Center. (n.d.) Grammarly: Overview. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammarly

Document: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template (Word document)

Document: Citing a Discussion Posting in APA Style (PDF)

Document: Common APA Style and Formatting Challenges (PDF)

Document: Introduction to Scholarly Writing: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity (PDF)

Required Media

Walden University (Producer). (2020). APA tutorial [Interactive media]. Retrieved from https://cdn-media.waldenu.edu/2dett4d/Walden/APA/Tutorial01/index.html#/

Quiz: APA Style and Format

As a nurse embarking on an advanced degree, you are developing the characteristics of a scholar-practitioner, which include strong communication skills. Writing in a scholarly manner involves supporting your thoughts with evidence from the literature and appropriately using APA formatting.

One of the challenges of scholarly writing is paraphrasing the thoughts of others in your work. Paraphrasing, and correctly citing the original author for his or her ideas, allows you to take the ideas of others, summarize them, and incorporate them into your own writing. When summarizing the ideas of others, it is important to avoid plagiarizing (i.e., copying the words and ideas of others as though they were your own). In addition to expanding your knowledge of APA Style, this modules’ Learning Resources help you distinguish between paraphrasing and plagiarizing.

This Quiz will help you determine how your understanding of these concepts and preparedness to reflect them in your work. The questions presented on the Quiz are derived from the Resources related to APA writing standards, plagiarism, and academic integrity.

To Prepare:

• Review the Resources related to APA Style and format this Module presents.

Click on the “Week 2 Quiz” link to begin.

By Day 7 of Week 2

Complete the Quiz.

Note: To view the questions you answered correctly and incorrectly, click on your score in the “My Grades” area.

Submission and Grading Information

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 2: Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity and Professional Ethics

Nurse-scholars have a significant obligation to their community as well. Their work must have academic and professional integrity. Their efforts are designed to add to the body of knowledge, advance the profession, and ultimately help in the care of patients. Work that lacks integrity is subject to erode quickly or worse.

Fortunately, there are strategies and tools that can help ensure integrity in academic and professional work. This Assignment asks you to consider these tools and how you might apply them to your own work.

In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by appending the original document you began in the previous assignment.

To Prepare:

• Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this Module in support of academic style, integrity, and scholarly ethics.
• Reflect on the connection between academic and professional integrity.

The Assignment:

Part 2, Section 1: Writing Sample: The Connection Between Academic and Professional Integrity

Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template you began in Module 1, write a 2- to 3-paragraph analysis that includes the following:

• Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing
• Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics
• Cite at least two resources that support your arguments, being sure to use proper APA formatting.
• Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product.
• Explain how Grammarly, Safe Assign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity.

Part 2, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work

Expand on your thoughts from Section 1 by identifying and describing strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your:

1. academic work as a student of the MSN program and
2. professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Module 1 Assignment, which was built from the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

By Day 7 of Week 3

Submit both Section 1 and Section 2 of Part 2.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

• Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
• Click the Week 3 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
• Click the Week 3 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
• Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK3Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
• If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
• Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

Grading Criteria

To access your rubric:

Week 3 Assignment Rubric

Select Grid View or List View to change the rubric’s layout.

Name: NURS_6003_Module02_Week03_Assignment_Rubric

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		Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor
Part 2, Section 1: Using the Academic and Professional Success Development Template write a 2-3 paragraph analysis that includes the following: · Explanation for the relationship between academic integrity and writing. · Explanation for the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics. – Cite at least 2 resources that support your argument. · Use Grammarly and SafeAssign to improve the product. Include sufficient evidence that these tools were utilized in explanation on how these tools contribute to academic integrity.		32 (32%) – 35 (35%) The response clearly and accurately explains the relationship between academic integrity and writing. The response clearly and accurately explains the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics. The response clearly and accurately describes how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity, including sufficient evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were used to improve the responses provided.	28 (28%) – 31 (31%) The response accurately explains the relationship between academic integrity and writing. The response accurately explains the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics. The response accurately describes how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity, including evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were used to improve the responses provided.	25 (25%) – 27 (27%) The response vaguely explains the relationship between academic integrity and writing. The response vaguely explains the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics. The response vaguely describes how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity. The response includes insufficient evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were used to improve the responses provided.	0 (0%) – 24 (24%) The response vaguely and inaccurately explains the relationship between academic integrity and writing or is missing. The response vaguely and inaccurately explains the relationship between professional practices and scholarly ethics or is missing. The response vaguely and inaccurately describes how Grammarly, SafeAssign, and paraphrasing contributes to academic integrity. The response includes insufficient or no evidence that Grammarly and SafeAssign were used to improve the responses provided or the response is missing.
Part 2, Section 2: Strategies for Maintaining Integrity of Work Identify and describe strategies you intend to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of your 1) academic work while a student of the MSN program, and 2) professional work as a nurse throughout your career. Include a review of resources and approaches you propose to use as a student and a professional.		50 (50%) – 55 (55%) The response clearly identifies and accurately describes strategies intended to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of academic work while in the MSN program and in professional work as a nurse. The response clearly reviews and accurately proposes resources and approaches to use as a student and professional.	44 (44%) – 49 (49%) The response identifies and describes strategies intended to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of academic work while in the MSN program and in professional work as a nurse. The response reviews and proposes resources and approaches to use as a student and professional.	39 (39%) – 43 (43%) The response vaguely identifies and describes strategies intended to pursue to maintain integrity and ethics of academic work while in the MSN program and in professional work as a nurse. The response inaccurately reviews and/or vaguely proposes resources and approaches to use as a student and professional.	0 (0%) – 38 (38%) The response about integrity and ethics strategies is vague and inaccurate or is missing. The response about resources and approaches is vague and inaccurate or is missing.
Written Expression and Formatting—Paragraph Development and Organization: Paragraphs make clear points that support well-developed ideas, flow logically, and demonstrate continuity of ideas. Sentences are carefully focused—neither long and rambling nor short and lacking substance.		5 (5%) – 5 (5%) Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity.	4 (4%) – 4 (4%) Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity 80% of the time.	3 (3%) – 3 (3%) Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity 60–79% of the time.	0 (0%) – 2 (2%) Paragraphs and sentences follow writing standards for flow, continuity, and clarity less than 60% of the time.
Written Expression and Formatting—English Writing Standards: Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation.		5 (5%) – 5 (5%) Uses correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation with no errors.	4 (4%) – 4 (4%) Contains a few (one or two) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.	3 (3%) – 3 (3%) Contains several (three or four) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.	0 (0%) – 2 (2%) Contains many (five or more) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors that interfere with the reader’s understanding.
Total Points: 100

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