The purpose of this task is to develop a working knowledge of nursing theory, nursing ethics, and professional accountability and apply these concepts to your professional clinical practice. You will be required to think about real-life scenarios and how they relate to nursing codes in your professional practice.  A. Identify a nursing theory that has influenced your values and goals. 1. Explain how nurses apply the identified theory from part A to implement excellent nursing practices. 2. Discuss how the identified theory from part A fits your professional practice. B. Identify the contributions of two historical nursing figures in the nineteenth or twentieth century. 1. Compare the differences in contributions of the two historical figures identified in part B. 2. Describe how the contributions of the two historical figures influence your professional nursing practice. C. Explain the functional differences between the State Board of Nursing and the American Nurses Association (ANA). 1. Define the roles of these two organizations. 2. Explain how these two organizations influence your nursing practice. 3. Explain the requirements for professional license renewal in your state. a. Discuss the consequences of failure to maintain license requirements in your state. 4. Compare the differences between registered nursing license requirements in a compact state versus a non-compact state. D. Discuss the functional differences between the Food and Drug Administration and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (see the web links below). 1. Discuss how the two regulatory agencies influence your professional nursing practice. a. Describe your role as a patient advocate in promoting safety when a patient has requested to use an alternative therapy. E. Discuss the purposes of the Nurse Practice Act in your state and its impact on your professional practice. 1. Discuss the scope of practice for a RN in TEXAS. 2. Discuss how your state defines delegation for the RN. F. Apply each of the following roles to your professional practice: • a scientist • a detective • a manager of the healing environment G. Identify two provisions from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (see web link below). 1. Analyze how the two provisions identified in part G influence your professional nursing practice. 2. Describe a nursing error that may occur in a clinical practice (e.g., clinical setting, skills lab, or simulation). a. Explain how the ANA provisions identified in part G can be applied to the error discussed in part G2. H. Identify four leadership qualities or traits that represent excellence in nursing. 1. Discuss the significance of the four leadership qualities identified in part H in the nurse’s role as each of the following: • a leader at the bedside • within a nursing team or interdisciplinary team 2. Identify how your work environment impacts the following: • nursing leadership • decision making • professional development I. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. J. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission. 

Please read the rubric. The final project is combining the first couple of milestones into 1 final paper. I have pasted what the requirements are. Please ensure all of the prompts are answeredit might be easier to read from the rubricFor your final project, you will submit an essay in which you reflect on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and how they apply to real-life situations. Throughout the course, you will develop a leadership development action plan to outline how you will use the five practices to improve the three areas of leadership you will identify in Module One. In Modules Three and Five, you will complete milestone assignments that will help you assemble your final deliverable in Module Seven. These milestone assignments are short papers that will summarize the progress you have made on your leadership development action plan. In Module Seven, you will complete a reflective essay that will allow you to put into practice the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership as well as the leadership theories and approaches covered in the course. Note that the milestone assignments do not specifically address the last of the five practices (Encourage the Heart), but you will do so as part of the final project. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:  Assess leadership skills and abilities that apply to interpersonal and intra-organizational situations and effectively influence workplace dynamics  Evaluate leadership decision-making strategies for their effectiveness on the achievement of organizational goals  Analyze various leadership theories and approaches for their ability to enhance organizational effectiveness to improve sustainability  Explain the influence of international and cultural differences on leadership strategies and organizational dynamics in fostering shared visions and purposes Prompt You have learned about each of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and, on a weekly basis, have developed a leadership development action plan to improve selected leadership areas. Through the milestone assignments, you have analyzed how you will use the leadership practices to assist with the process of improving your selected areas. Using your milestone submissions, your textbook, your course resources and discussion posts, and your leadership development action plan, address the following critical elements:  Describe the concept behind each of the five practices with supporting evidence.  Apply each of the five practices to an organization of your choice. o Identify an organization you are currently a leader of or would like to be a leader of in the future. o Identify how many employees you are leading or would feel comfortable leading in the future. o Reflect upon your acquired knowledge of the five practices and write about how the concepts you have learned might be used in the organization you selected with the quantity of employees you selected.  Select two leadership theories or approaches you learned about in Modules Two through Six and describe how you will apply those theories (with supporting evidence) to the three leadership areas of improvement you selected in Module One.