- Investigate the organizational philosophy, mission and vision of several healthcare
facilities including hospitals, residential care centers and community care organizations. These must have nurses that work for them.
- Locate an organization that aligns with your own personal values. This may be a
facility located in your local community, across the country or around the world.
To complete the paper, include a discussion of the following (make each a paragraph and do not change the order of paragraphs or combine). Paraphrase information from source – no direct quotes allowed:
• Discuss and differentiate historical and contemporary issue(s) in the nursing profession (cite). This could be one issue that has changed over time (or) a discussion of an important historical issue in nursing as well as a more current issue in today’s nursing.
• Examine and identify nursing values, knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to model professional nursing practice. How will your values be integrated into your chosen organization? How do your values link or tie to your organization to be a ‘successful’ nurse in this organization? Be sure to identify your organization and cite it when stating information about that organization.
• Identify your lifelong learning approach(es) (approach to learning over your lifetime) that will support both excellence in nursing and how they will support your chosen organization’s philosophy, mission, and values. Do not include their mission statement – you may refer to important parts of it however (if you cite it).
• Discuss the significance of spiritual beliefs and values to promoting health from a patient standpoint (cite if from a source). Apply this to patients and NOT nurses and avoid negative correlations. (References in APA must be within the last 5 years)