NR 632

NR 632 Week 6 Assignment; Completion and Lessons Learned

When we think of advocacy, many nurses think about how they advocate for their patients and/or families. Or you may think of situations where you advocate for a colleague, direct report, or team. Those are all legitimate aspects of advocacy and important for nurses. You've probably heard an instructor or mentor say that in aspiring to executive-level leadership, a transition occurs in your outlook. Your view expands exponentially as you become responsible for many teams and sometimes an entire ...

NR 632 Week 1 Self-assessment of Professional Competencies

NR 632 Week 1 Learning Agreement

Choose any two: • Time/schedule • Cost • Quality In project management, you will read about and experience what is often referred to as the "triple constraint triangle." We introduced it in an earlier lesson in NR631. The idea is that, with any project, you can really only achieve two sides of the triangle. Share your thoughts on that concept and then share which side of the triangle poses the greatest threat of constraint for your project.

As alluded to in the lesson introduction, this week's discussion will focus on relevant professional organizations and scholarly journals of interest and value to the nurse executive. You can choose to focus on one of the following directions for your discussion this week. Executive leadership practice: Identify at least one professional organization and one scholarly journal that you feel would be valuable for you to be actively involved with to enhance your role as a nurse leader. What is it ...

Reflect on the Capstone Project and identify the contributions it has made to your professional development and attainment of career goals. Discuss how you've seen yourself grow as a result of your studies. What are your thoughts about your next steps professionally, educationally, or even personally? Do you feel that what you have learned and experienced in this MSN program has provided value to you professionally and/or personally?

Most of what you did in NR631, and some of what you'll do in NR632 is part of the planning phase of project management. Although it took us eight weeks to get here, in reality, most of what you've done would have been completed in one or two weeks. For this week's assignment you'll be preparing your kickoff presentation which is kind of a "pep rally" for your project. Your goal is to get everyone motivated and excited to start working on implementing the practice change. As you think abou...

NR 632 Week 2 Assignment; Monitor and Control Assignment

NR 632 Week 8 Learning Agreement