Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development PlanPart 2: Academic Resources and StrategiesNew construction projects begin with a design phase, where architects blueprint the vision complete with design details. They work in collaboration with builders who use the designs to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materials to bring the vision to reality. You are both architect and builder of your success. You have started to blueprint your vision in your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan. You have identified others with whom you will collaborate. Now you can begin to prepare the appropriate strategies, tools, and materialsHow will you approach your studies? What types of resources are available to you, and how will you access and utilize them? Taking the opportunity to prepare these strategies, tools, and materials will help ensure you can “break ground” without incident and successfully move to the phase where you begin building your vision.To Prepare:Consider your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.Reflect on the strategies presented in the Resources for this module.The Assignment: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 develop the second component—academic resources and strategies. To accomplish this:Identify and describe at least three academic resources or strategies that can be applied to the MSN programIdentify and describe at least three professional resources that can be applied to success in the nursing practice in general or your specialty in particularExplain how you intend to use these resources, and how they might benefit you academically and professionally.

Assignment OverviewThe purpose of this assignment is to analyze best practice skills and strategies to address a social services organization or practice problem. You first need to identify a problem at the macro level (larger group, organization, community, et cetera). You then conduct a library search of peer-reviewed articles. Finally, integrate best practice strategies into a plan that addresses the problem.All reference material must be from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, edited books, official government documents, or reliable agency and organizational reports and documents approved by the instructor. Note that textbooks are not allowed as reference material for this assignment. Additionally, newspapers, Internet sites such as Wikipedia, and other non-peer-reviewed reference materials are not acceptable as references for this assignment. Using these materials as references result in failure of the assignment.Assignment DescriptionIn this assignment, you create a five-page paper identifying a macro-level problem related to a social services organization or practice. Use the Capella University Library and other credible sources. Perform a search for relevant, peer-reviewed articles that have been published in the past five years. You must use a minimum of eight peer-reviewed references in your analysis.Assignment InstructionsIn your paper:Describe the problem you have identified.Justify the selection by describing why this is a significant problem worth addressing. Provide evidence demonstrating the extent of the problem. Also, describe the impact the problem is having on macro level of practice.Summarize and synthesize the peer-reviewed literature related to the identified problem.Evaluate relevant theories and models found within the literature. Be sure to explore macro level theories or models related to your chosen problem. In your evaluation, explain the impact these theories and models may have on the identified problem and whether the impact improves or makes the problem worse.Analyze and synthesize best practice skills and strategies related to the problem found within the literature. Explore the variety of strategies used to reduce the problem. These strategies could be about social change or about advocacy.Combine these strategies and skills into a holistic plan to address the problem, after reviewing the literature.Be sure that your plan contains a minimum of three integrated strategies.Explain your reasoning using details and peer-reviewed literature.Describe which types of strategies best apply to the problem (for example, social change strategies, advocacy strategies, et cetera).Note: Remember to be as detailed as possible in developing your argument and ideas. Also, include relevant, peer-reviewed APA citations to support your analysis throughout the paper.Additional RequirementsYour paper should meet the following requirements:Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting standards.References: A minimum of eight scholarly resources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years.Length of paper: Five typed, double-spaced pages.Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.