Assignment
Directions
A. Discussions are designed to promote dialogue between faculty and students, and students and their peers. In discussions students:
a. Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week
b. Integrate outside scholarly sources when required
c. Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates and/or instructor
d. Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner
B. Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
C. Best Practices include:
a. Participation early in the week is encouraged to stimulate meaningful discussion among classmates and instructor.
b. Enter the discussion often during the week to read and learn from posts.
c. Select different classmates for your reply each week.
Task
Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
o Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
o How was your compassion demonstrated?
o How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.