Assessment #5 Instructions: Professional ePortofolio.Develop a professional ePortfolio and resume.This is your final assessment for the course.For this assessment, you will create a professional ePortfolio and resume to showcase your achievements and competence in various areas for job search or advancement conversations.Demonstration of ProficiencyBy successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes. Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care. Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes. Explain how at least 2 chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes.Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice. Explain how chosen at least 2 artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.Present a well-organized ePortfolio in a clear and professional manner, using correct grammar, spelling, and APA style.You should complete this assessment last.Professional ContextA portfolio is a great way to for nurses to "record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, development and learning, not only for themselves, but for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers and peers" (Green, Wyllie, & Jackson, 2014, p. 8). As you collect the artifacts that best showcase your strengths, you begin to track, reflect on, and evaluate your own learning and growth over time.PreparationFor this assessment, you will be creating a professional ePortfolio and resume to take with you after completing your program. To help you complete this assessment, review the following resources as needed:ePortfolio.Getting Started with Pathbrite ePortfolio [PDF].Capella University Career Center – Building an Effective Resume.InstructionsFor this assessment, your ePortfolio will focus on showcasing your growth and accomplishments in the context of the following course competencies:Competency 1: Lead people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes.Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.Competency 6: Collaborate interprofessionally to improve patient and population outcomes.Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.For each competency, complete the following in your ePortfolio:Create an area in your ePortfolio for the competency and label it with the course competency number or the competency language.Select the two artifacts (assessments) that you feel best showcase your accomplishments or growth relative to the competency and place them in the corresponding ePortfolio area.For each competency, write 2–3 paragraphs detailing the ways in the artifacts illustrate your accomplishments or growth in the competency so reviewers can easily understand your achievements and strengths. Place this in the corresponding ePortfolio area with your chosen artifacts.For the Competency 8 section of your ePortfolio, include a professional resume that highlights your professional standards and values. Consult the resources in the Capella University Career Center, such as the Capella Career Center: Resume Rubric.Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score:Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of leading people and processes to improve patient, systems, and population outcomes. Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of transforming processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care Explain how at least two chosen artifacts illustrate personal growth and achievements in interprofessional collaboration to improve patient and population outcomes. Explain how at last two chosen artifacts and a professional resume illustrate personal growth and achievements in the area of integrating professional standards and values into practice.Communicate ePortfolio in a clear and well-organized manner, using correct grammar and spelling.Additional RequirementsAPA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style. Refer to the APA Module as needed.ReferenceGreen, J., Wyllie, A., & Jackson, D. (2014). Electronic portfolios in nursing education: A review of the literature. Nurse Education in Practice, 14(1), 4–8.SCORING GUIDEUse the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.

Week 8: Discussion - Health Policy and Ethics STATE: FLORIDA Purpose: This discussion board content is intended to facilitate learning for 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 discussions provides students with opportunities to contribute graduate level-appropriate knowledge and experience to the topic in a safe, caring, and fluid environment that models professional and social interaction. The ebb and flow of a discussion is based upon the composition of student and faculty interaction in the quest for relevant scholarship. Participation in the discussion 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. Discussions 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. Activity Learning Outcomes Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to: Synthesize knowledge of population to the role of political advocacy as an Advanced Practice Nurse. (CO 5, 7) 2.Appraise ethical and legal principles to the provision of care by the Advanced Practice Nurse (CO 5, 7) A 10% late penalty will be imposed for initial discussions posted after the weekly deadline regardless of the number of days late. No postings will be accepted after 11:59pm MT on Saturday (i.e. student will receive an automatic 0). Week 8 discussion closes on Saturday at 11:59pm MT. Total Points: 60 Points Assignment Requirements Go to your state government web page. Find one health policy enacted within the last two (2) years at the state level. Write down the bill number and the sponsors of the bill and include this information in your initial post. STATE: FLORIDAWrite a minimum of a one-page critical analysis summary of the policy. (450 words double spaced, APA). Your summary should integrate the concepts of advocacy, population health, and the ANA ethical statements ("The Code"), and course readings, to include a minimum of one course scholarly article (provided within the course). Be sure to speak to the role of advocacy and population health. DISCUSSION CONTENT Category Points % Description Scholarly 13 22% The student actively stimulates and sustains inquiry by making reflective insightful comments, asking thoughtful questions and/or engaging in a scholarly discussion. The student expresses a clear idea of the topic under discussion and sustains inquiry in order to explore relevant issues. The student recognizes values or values conflict as things that form the assumption basis of arguments and recognizes when it is important to acknowledge these values. The student recognizes the accuracy, logic, relevance, or clarity of statements. The student asks clarifying questions and knows when clarifying questions need to be asked. The student distinguishes fact from opinion. Application 20 33% All components of discussion prompt addressed (met) in initial posting. The student’s writing conveys an understanding of significant ideas relevant to the issue under discussion. This is indicated by integration of course and weekly objectives, as well as readings from text and articles. All posts should make correct use of terminology, precise selection of the pieces of information required to make a point, correct and appropriate use of examples and counterexamples, demonstrations of which distinctions are important to make, and explanations that are concise and to the point. Information and knowledge are accurate. The student elaborates statements with accurate explanations, reasons, or evidence from the course and/or weekly objectives. All postings integrate scholarly sources to support points consistently. Interactive Dialogue 10 16.6% Responds to ideas in a way that advances discussion with engagement, depth, rigor, and application. Interacts with a professional tone and is able to express opinions with ownership and without judgement. Chooses to include professional experience to the discussion board mindful of appropriateness and boundaries. Experience is integrated as it supports the discussion board topic and utilizes scholarly references to support overall topic. 43 72% Total CONTENT Points= 43 pts DISCUSSION FORMAT Category Points % Description APA (current edition) 12 20% In text citations are formatted per APA. Reference list is formatted per APA. Spelling, grammar, and scholarly tone per APA. Spelling / Grammar etc. 5 8% Posts should utilize correct spelling and grammar (sentence structure and avoidance of slang or casual language). 17 28% Total FORMAT Points=17 pts 60 100% DISCUSSION TOTAL=60 points

In this exercise, you will complete a 5-essay type question Knowledge Check to gauge your understanding of this module’s content.