Assignment: Professional Obligations Paper

Question Description
Benchmark – Future Scope, Role, and Professional Obligations Paper

For this assignment, you will conduct research on the current scope of practice for your specialty and efforts that are being made to expand that scope and the role of the advanced nurse in positively influencing the health care system. Write a 1,250-1,500-word paper that includes the following:

A discussion of the scope of your future role as an advanced registered nurse, including any regulatory, certification, or accreditation agencies that define that scope.
A discussion of three professional nursing organizations that you think are most influential in advancing the scope and influence of advanced nursing. Of these organizations, evaluate the one that you would most like to join. How do its goals and mission fit in with your worldview and philosophy of care? How might membership in this organization improve your practice?
A discussion of a controversial or evolving issue that is most likely to affect your scope of practice or role in the next few years. How do you think this issue could influence the profession and other stakeholders, and why does it matters to the advanced registered nurse?
You are required to cite five to 10 sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

The California legislative session of 2022 considered and ultimately passed Assembly Bill 2223. This bill amends the state’s health code regarding reproductive health. In summary, this bill added language to the health code that protects anyone exercising their reproductive rights or assisting another in exercising these rights from civil or criminal prosecution. The amendment also allows for anyone who’s reproductive rights are hindered by a state actor, agency or rule to bring civil legal action (California Legislative Information, 2022). This bill will act as a safeguard of current reproductive health rights, specifically the right to abortion, as currently allowed for in the state of California up to the point of viability of a fetus. The clear language in this amendment should act to prevent county or city governments or any other government entity from restricting anyone’s ability to obtain a legally provided abortion in the state of California.

With the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous states have imposed restrictions on abortions and have enacted criminal penalties on those who seek or perform abortions. The California AB 2223 prevents this from happening in California. In my practice in Neonatal Intensive Care, this legislation will directly affect our patient population. In cases of prenatally diagnosed congenital complications that are determined to be incompatible with life, pregnant women and their medical providers will be free to make the decision to continue or terminate a pregnancy based on what they believe to be best, without the fear of criminal penalties. As advanced as neonatal intensive care has become, there are many conditions which are not savable. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2014, the most common causes of death in neonates are congenital anomalies accounting for 25.06% (National Association of Neonatal Nurses, 2015). Without legal protections in place, women carrying infants with life-limiting anomalies would be forced to deliver their infants and the medical team would be obligated to provide all possible lifesaving measures available. It can be argued that these types of interventions create significant pain and suffering in the infant without the possibility of saving the infant’s life. The attempted resuscitation efforts are also an immense strain on limited resources as well as the care providers involved.

As I move toward a future role in healthcare quality and patient safety, I hope to use the data that I will be tracking while in this position to drive change at system levels. For example, by collecting data on patient falls and correlating this with nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, I can utilize this information to promote the necessity of passing nationwide legislation around staffing laws. I believe strongly that all states must have staffing ratios written into law to protect the safety and sustainability of the patients as well as the nursing profession.

References

California Legislative Information. (2022, September 28). AB-2223 Reproductive health. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2223..

National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) Board of Directors. (2015, February). Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Newborns and Infants Position Statement #3063. https://nann.org/uploads/About/PositionPDFS/1.4.5_Palliative%20and%20End%20of%20Life%20Care%20for%20Newborns%20and%20Infants.pdf.

Assignment: Professional Obligations Paper

Assignment: Professional Obligations Paper

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.