Professional Nursing Organization Paper

Description

Purpose:

To increase awareness of professional nursing organizations and what they offer to members. It also introduces the student to the use of APA style formatting in writing scholarly papers.

Instructions:

You will be assigned a professional nursing organization by the instructor ( my assigned topic is Association of Rehabilitation Nurses). Describe and analyze the professional aspects of the organization as noted below. Address all of the questions/criteria below and the other items outlined in the Grading Rubric to ensure your assignment meets all the criteria for this assignment.

Mission and Members:

• What is the stated purpose/mission/goal(s) of the organization?
• What is the shared interest of the members of the organization? Is this focus a clinical, cultural, religious, or professional interest?
• Who is eligible for membership? Be specific. Are there any minimum requirements? May non-nurses or non-RNs be members?
• Does this organization meet locally? If so where/when?

Organizational Activities:

• What services, activities, and support does the organization offer its members?
• What are the organization’s legislative priorities and political positions?
• Does the organization offer any type of professional certification? If so, what is it?
• Describe one publication the organization sponsors. If the publication is a journal, cite one recent article, be sure to include the title and author of the article; if it is another type of publication cite the publication itself.

Professionalism:

• How does the organization promote the professional development of the members?
• How does the organization work to promote the professional stature (quality or status) of nursing?
• What are the educational, professional and experiential credentials of the president of the organization? How does she/he convey the image of the nurse as a professional?
• What else might the organization do to promote professionalism?
• Would you join or encourage other nurses to do so? Why or why not?
• Are you a member of/attend this organization or any other? Be specific. If not, why not?

Guidelines

• View the Grading Rubric to understand how you will be evaluated.
• This is an individual writing assignment.
• The paper should be no more than 3 pages in length (excluding the title page and references). Do not exceed the page limit. Content exceeding the 3 page limit will not be graded.
• The paper must start with an introductory paragraph and end with a conclusion. Students must use the APA book as a guide when writing. Use headings, if there is room on the paper.

Deadlines:

The paper has a specific deadline. Refer to the course schedule. When the paper is submitted to the dropbox it will run through Turnitin-Feedback Studio and yield an originality report for you to review. Based on the report, you will determine what (if any) changes need to be made to your paper. Students who do not wish to submit work through Turnitin-Feedback Studio must notify their instructor via course email within the first seven days of the course. In lieu of Turnitin-Feedback Studio use, faculty may require a student to submit copies of sources, preliminary drafts, a research journal, or an annotated bibliography.