NR 393 Nursing History Week 6 Assignment
Course Project Phase 3: Reflection Paper
Purpose:
The purpose of this course project is for learners to explore how living nurses are making nursing history, apply lessons from nursing history, and analyze the impact of this project on nursing history today.
The nurses from the 20th century will best guide my professional practices because their moral behavior was satisfactory to both the patients and the management. Nurses in the 19th century were lower class level women who were not trained and gave themselves the head nurses’ position and put themselves in charge of the critical patients (Helmstadter, 2008). They lacked moral character, such as being kind to the patients. The nurses are paid a full salary without work experience, but they involved themselves with some less critical nursing care such as making beds, cleaning the weaker patients, and helping them. The nurses had to find and pay substitutes by themselves because they had no paid time off.
The 20th-century nurses were well trained, came from the middle class, were highly disciplined, made sure they had well attended to their patients, did their work with passion, kind to their patients, humbly communicated them, and used the correct language to their patients (Amadeo, 2008). They have trained matrons who are maintaining adequate discipline and see them providing exemplary patient care. Nurses in the 20th century are kind where they are mindful. They are in the position to listen to their patients, encourage them, be respectful even when faced with demanding patients, and deal with patients’ fearful or anxious feelings.
Nurses should develop self-awareness, which is beneficial to their professional level and personal. Mindful awareness includes their unsolved emotional stress, mainly through conscious awareness. However, many nurses have difficulty dealing with dying patients, witnessing patients suffer, and their families. It will improve the relationship between the patients and nurses.
References
Amadeo, C. A. (2008). A correlational study of servant leadership and registered nurse job satisfaction in acute health-care settings (Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix).
Helmstadter, C. (2008). Authority and leadership: The evolution of nursing management in 19th century teaching hospitals. (n.d.). Journal of Nursing Management 16, 4–13
During the 19th century, there was a lot of great works from pioneer nurses who had limited education but did an extraordinary job of caring for the patients. One of them is Mary Ann Bickerdyke who was an untrained nurse who worked for the Union Army in the Civil War. The Superb provision of care of the soldiers earned her the title of “Mother” (Judd, 2015). After her unsuccessful venture into the higher institutions in Oberlin, Bickerdyke decided to become a nurse. In 1837 she assisted doctors in the cholera outbreak in Cincinnati, Ohio (Ohiohistorycentral.org). She established a hospital for Union soldiers in Cairo, Illinois, during the American Civil War & thereafter she established three hundred more union hospitals to help wounded & sick soldiers. Upon her arrival at the base, she was so appalled by the conditions that she refused to leave. Without official permission, she began to clean wounds, improve sanitation & cook nutritious meals (Nursing-theory.org). Due to her resilience, she was appointed matron of the hospital by General Grant & in 1862 a sanitary field agent (Nursing-theory.org). As a matron, she oversaw not only nursing but also cooking, cleaning & securing supplies. She was so dedicated that she will use a lantern to search for wounded soldiers after nightfall. She was an advocate for the soldiers by talking about the struggles & their difficulty they face health-wise, thereby soliciting funds from the civilian population. She did not only advocate for the soldiers, but the nurses as well by helping over three hundred female nurses secure their pension. She also helped the veterans begin new lives, obtained free transportation for them & continue to advocate for them (Ohiohistorycentral.org). She stayed on as an army nurse until she retired in March 1866.
The nursing care that we provide to our patients must fit with or have beneficial meaning and health outcomes for people of different or similar cultural backgrounds which made realize the importance of proving holistic care to the promotion of wellbeing or health of the patient, and according to the World Health Organization, health is defined as the complete state of physical, mental, social well-being and not merely an absence of a disease or an infirmity. Providing culturally sensitive care is essential in ensuring that we are proving holistic care and at the same time it is one way of showing respect to our patients.
In today’s nursing, Due to the education and improvement in the health care system nursing is seriously moving forward. Nursing has improved greatly by nurses doing more for patients and going far and beyond to advocate for patients and render holistic care to patients. This practice has been guiding my day-to-day practice in the nursing profession. I go far and beyond for my client, work together with the health care team to render care to patients. This has been helping my day to day activities by doing all I can in my capacity to advocate for the wellbeing of my patient and making the patient comfortable. All these practices and values are still carried on till today.
References:
Judd, D., & Sitzman, K. (2014). A History of American nursing: Trends and eras (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett
http://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Mary_Ann_Bickerdyke. Retrieved March, 2017
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Course Outcomes:
This course project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO2: Apply lessons from nursing history to today’s professional nursing practice. (PO4)
CO4: Analyze the impact of nursing history on professional nursing roles today and in the future. (PO7)
Due Date for Phase 3:
Submit by Sunday at 11:59 p.m.?MT at the end of Week?6.?
Late Assignment Policy:
If the assignment is not submitted by due date, a late deduction will be applied. See rubric below.
Points Possible:
The entire project is worth 600 points. Course Project Phase 3: Reflection Paper is worth 225 points of this total.
Directions:
After completing the Phase 2: Conversation with the Selected Nurse in Week 3, you may begin working on the Phase 3: Reflection Paper. The Phase 3: Reflection Paper will be due by Sunday end of Week 6 by 11:59PM Mountain Time.
Download the Phase 3: Reflection Paper template below.
View the Phase 3: Reflection Paper Tutorial (Links to an external site.)
The Phase 3: Reflection Paper be a typed paper in APA format including:
Double-spaced, font and type size consistent with APA manual
Title Page adheres to Chamberlain and APA standards.
Content and headings as below and on the rubric:
Introduction (include Introduction content, but no heading)
Reflection on Learning from Nurse’s Answers
Insight Gained from Conversation Regarding Leadership, Provision of Care, and/or Evidence-Based Practice
Analysis of the Impact of Nursing History on Professional Practice Today and in the Future
Conclusion
Length: Approximately 3 double-spaced pages excluding Title Page; 800-1000 words required in the body of the paper.
No outside sources will be used. No citations or references. No Reference page needed.
Excellent mechanics of scholarly writing including spelling, grammar, structure, paragraphing, and punctuation.
Submit Phase 3 assignment via Canvas by due date.
Reflection Paper
Type your one paragraph introduction here, and remove all yellow highlighted instructions from all pages of this template. Update your name, instructor’s name, and the due date on the title page. The introduction should clearly identify each of the three main content areas (Hint: you can find these as the headings below) that this paper will include. See the rubric on the NR393 Course Project Phase 3: Reflection Paper assignment page for details in grading throughout the paper.
Reflection on Learning from Nurse’s Answers
In this section of the paper, provide depth by reflecting on your learning from the answers provided by the nurse in your Phase 2 Conversation. Remember that reflection is an activity that involves your deep thought about your Phase 2 Conversation experience and the nurse’s answers. Think about the experiences that the nurse shared as well as your learning from those answers.
Information in this section should be two to four well developed paragraphs for a total of 800-1000 words in the entire paper (excluding the Title Page). Writing should be well organized, logical, and clear. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be correct throughout the paper.
Insight Gained from Conversation Regarding Leadership, Provision of Care, and/or Evidence-Based Practice
This section of the Reflection Paper focuses on insight that you gained from the Phase 2 Conversation. Depth is expected as you explain your insight and reasons why. You may select leadership, provision of care, and/or evidence-based practice as your focus in this section; clearly identify which of the three choices you select. You may select more than one of those topics, but no additional points will be earned for choosing more than one. Your choice should be guided by the answers provided by the nurse in your Phase 2 Conversation.
Information in this section should be two to four well developed paragraphs for a total of 800-1000 words in the entire paper (excluding the Title Page). Writing should be well organized, logical, and clear. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be correct throughout the paper.
Analysis of Impact of Nursing History on Professional Practice Today and in the Future
In this section, you will analyze the impact that nursing history has on professional nursing practice today and in the future. Writing in a clear and thorough manner, delineate the impact today versus the impact you anticipate in the future; both today and the future must be covered well in this section of the paper.
Information in this section should be two to four well developed paragraphs for a total of 800-1000 words in the entire paper (excluding the Title Page). Writing should be well organized, logical, and clear. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be correct throughout the paper.
Conclusion
Provide a Conclusion as the final portion of your paper. Write a summary of the three main sections (headings) in your paper that is complete yet concise. End the Conclusion with a concluding statement tying the parts of your paper together as a whole.
Information in this section should be one well developed paragraph for a total of 800-1000 words in the entire paper (excluding the Title Page). Writing should be well organized, logical, and clear. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation should be correct throughout the paper.There are no References page or citations in this paper.
Late Assignment Policy
Students are expected to submit assignments by the time they are due. Assignments submitted after the due date and time will receive a deduction of 10% of the total points possible for that assignment for each day the assignment is late. Assignments will be accepted, with penalty as described, up to a maximum of three days late, after which point a zero will be recorded for the assignment.
In the event of an emergency that prevents timely submission of an assignment, students may petition their instructor for a waiver of the late submission grade reduction. The instructor will review the student’s rationale for the request and make a determination based on the merits of the student’s appeal. Consideration of the student’s total course performance to date will be a contributing factor in the determination. Students should continue to attend class, actively participate, and complete other assignments while the appeal is pending.
This Policy applies to assignments that contribute to the numerical calculation of the course letter grade.
Evaluation Methods
The maximum score in this class is 1,000 points. The categories, which contribute to your final grade, are weighted as follows.
| Graded Item | Points | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion (50 points, Weeks 1–7; 25 points, Week 8) | 375 | 37.5% |
| Shared Governance Model Paper (Week 3) | 200 | 20% |
| Management of Power Paper (Week 5) | 200 | 20% |
| Executive Summary (Week 7) | 225 | 22.5% |
| Total | 1,000 | 100% |
No extra credit assignments are permitted for any reason.
All of your course requirements are graded using points. At the end of the course, the points are converted to a letter grade using the scale in the table below. Percentages of 0.5% or higher are not raised to the next whole number. A final grade of 76% (letter grade C) is required to pass the course.
| Letter Grade | Points | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| A | 940–1,000 | 94% to 100% |
| A- | 920–939 | 92% to 93% |
| B+ | 890–919 | 89% to 91% |
| B | 860–889 | 86% to 88% |
| B- | 840–859 | 84% to 85% |
| C+ | 810–839 | 81% to 83% |
| C | 760–809 | 76% to 80% |
| F | 759 and below | 75% and below |
NOTE:To receive credit for a week’s discussion, students may begin posting no earlier than the Sunday immediately before each week opens. Unless otherwise specified, access to most weeks begins on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. MT, and that week’s assignments are due by the next Sunday by 11:59 p.m. MT. Week 8 opens at 12:01 a.m. MT Sunday and closes at 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday. Any assignments and all discussion requirements must be completed by 11:59 p.m. MT Wednesday of the eighth week.
Students agree that, by taking this course, all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
Participation for MSN
Threaded Discussion Guiding Principles
The ideas and beliefs underpinning the threaded discussions (TDs) guide students through engaging dialogues as they achieve the desired learning outcomes/competencies associated with their course in a manner that empowers them to organize, integrate, apply and critically appraise their knowledge to their selected field of practice. The use of TDs provides students with opportunities to contribute level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The TD’s ebb and flow is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the TDs generates opportunities for students to actively engage in the written ideas of others by carefully reading, researching, reflecting, and responding to the contributions of their peers and course faculty. TDs foster the development of members into a community of learners as they share ideas and inquiries, consider perspectives that may be different from their own, and integrate knowledge from other disciplines.
Participation Guidelines
Each weekly threaded discussion is worth up to 25 points. Students must post a minimum of two times in each graded thread. The two posts in each individual thread must be on separate days. The student must provide an answer to each graded thread topic posted by the course instructor, by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT, of each week. If the student does not provide an answer to each graded thread topic (not a response to a student peer) before the Wednesday deadline, 5 points are deducted for each discussion thread in which late entry occurs (up to a 10-point deduction for that week). Subsequent posts, including essential responses to peers, must occur by the Sunday deadline, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
Direct Quotes
Good writing calls for the limited use of direct quotes. Direct quotes in Threaded Discussions are to be limited to one short quotation (not to exceed 15 words). The quote must add substantively to the discussion. Points will be deducted under the Grammar, Syntax, APA category.