Positive Social Change

Assignment 1: Positive Social Change
Nursing, at its very core, is a
profession rooted in social change and growth. As a nurse returning to
school to further your education, you can learn to enhance your practice
to become a “Walden Scholar of Change.” The nursing professional holds a
responsibility to serve the interests of people and society. As part of
this responsibility, nurses are bound by Nursing’s Social Policy
Statement. Consider how your own professional practice can expand in
shaping the future of nursing, improving the profession, and enhancing
the quality of the health care that nursing delivers.
To prepare
Review the Week 6 Required Reading and Media Resources.
Read the Week 6 Assignment Rubric, provided in the Course Information area.
Go to the Writing Resources tab to download the SON Writing Template
to format your paper. There you will also find APA-related resources.
Find at least one current Walden Library article to support your scholarly opinions in the paper.
Assignment: 2-to-3-page Paper
In this Assignment, you will discuss how furthering your nursing
education, with a focus on social change, will enhance your current
practice and supports your future career planning. Nursing’s Social
Contract entails expectations between the nursing profession and society
to elevate the health of society.
Choose 2 of Nursing’s Social Contract elements and discuss how they
are foundational to your nursing practice. Elements include caring
service; privacy of the patient; knowledge, skill, and competence;
hazardous service; responsibility and accountability; progress and
development; ethical practice; collaboration; promotion of the health of
the public; etcetera.
Address your future career planning. How do you intend to make a
difference by confronting a current challenge in health care where you
live, in your profession, or on a global scale?
Support your responses with at least two scholarly sources from the
Learning Resources and/or outside sources. Reference in proper APA
format.
Before you submit your final paper for grading,
submit it to the Safe Assign publish area of the course. Use the
information provided in the Originality Report (Walden University, n.d.)
to revise your paper. Paraphrasing and citing your sources in-text will
decrease the similarity score. Go to Academic Integrity to
learn how to interpret your originality score. Revise your paper before
submitting it to Week 6 Assignment within the course.
Reading Requirements:
1.) https://openathens.ovid.com/OAKeystone/deeplink?idpselect=https://idp.waldenu.edu/openathens&entityID=https://idp.waldenu.edu/openathens&T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=booktext&D=books2&AN=01884427/1st_Edition/2&XPATH=/OVIDBOOK%5b1%5d/METADATA%5b1%5d/TBY%5b1%5d/EDITORS%5b1%5d
2.) https://www.waldenu.edu/why-walden/social-change
3.) https://openathens.ovid.com/OAKeystone/deeplink?idpselect=https://idp.waldenu.edu/openathens&entityID=https://idp.waldenu.edu/openathens&T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&AN=01709760-201701000-00005&LSLINK=80&D=ovft
4.) http://thumbnails.visually.netdna-cdn.com/what-kind-of-social-change-agent-are-you_52a758e27a3a0.jpg