Welcome to NU499! Orientation Seminar Course is without clinical practicum Includes the Optimal Resume e-Portfolio.

Welcome to NU499!Orientation Seminar

Course is without clinical practicum

Includes the Optimal Resume e-Portfolio

Topics: Housekeeping Welcome to NU499 Syllabus

Assignments/Major Papers/ePortfolio Choosing your nursing problem Student access to TURNITIN – Unit 6 Grading Extensions Our Relationship Q&A

Housekeeping

Is there anyone in this seminar that belongs to a different section of NU499? If so, what is your instructor’s name?

Roll call

Important Definitions

The Capstone Project is comprised of three papers that address different stages of the problem solving process, as described later in this power point.

The Capstone Site is defined as the place where the nursing problem exists. This can be a current or former place of employment, or any of the sites provided in the Simulated Scenarios.

The Identified Nursing Problem is an actual problem that exists at the Capstone site. Its existence at the Capstone Site can be substantiated with data that supports its existence at the site.

Welcome to NU499! How does NU499 differ from your previous courses?

It focuses on leadership and management skills (primarily problem solving)

It requires increased autonomy and “ownership” of your capstone project for your learning and experience.

It requires increased creativity.

It brings together ALL of the knowledge learned in your previous courses for use in your Capstone Project.

There is an increased responsibility for your learning. You set your objectives to compliment the course outcomes listed on the syllabus. (Plan of Study – Unit 2 assignment)

“You will get out of it only what you put into it.”

Syllabus

Major Assignments :

Discussion Boards (3) (Week 1, 2, 10)

There are only 3 weeks that require participation in the discussion board and are graded.

Journals (5) (Weeks 2, 3, 5, 7,10)

All journals have set topics to discuss. The journals are NOT diaries of your day to day activities. They follow APA format and style as much as possible in the journal site. Journals do not require a separate title page. They do require an introductory paragraph, summary or conclusion paragraph, and references.

Plan of Study Sample in Doc Sharing

The Capstone Plan of Study (POS) is a learning contract that you develop between you and your instructor. You will be responsible for submitting the POS to the Unit 2 Dropbox.

The POS consists of:

Your personal goal(s) and objectives for the Capstone course and experience. Please reference the course objectives when completing your POS. NU 499 Course Objectives can be found on the Syllabus and under the Course Home Page Menu.

The POS also includes a brief discussion and justification for why you have chosen your particular evidence-based nursing problem. This is required whether you have chosen your own topic or picked from one of the simulated scenarios.

Syllabus Continued Major Assignments:

3 major papers that address your nursing problem project:

Unit 4:

Paper #1 – Identifies the nursing problem at the actual or scenario facility and includes supporting data that the problem exists. Provide preliminary possible solutions for the problem.

THE NURSING problem MUST BE SOLVABLE AT YOUR LEVEL OF NURSING PRACTICE. It is approved by the instructor prior to beginning the project.

Unit 6:

Paper # 2 – A formal Literature Review that discusses and analyzes the current available research on your topic.

Unit 8:

Paper #3 – Discusses your plan for the implementation of the solutions to the nursing problem. (What do you plan to do about it?) Talk about the communication techniques that you used in the planning process. Talk about how you specifically plan to disseminate your plan (Tell/teach the people who need to know about it)

Tips for each paper will be found in DocSharing and a reminder to read the Tips will be in the Announcement Area about 2 weeks prior to the due dates for each paper.

Content Requirements of Nursing Problem PapersPaper#1 Paper#2 Paper#3

1. Identify the nursing problem at your current, previous or scenario facility and provide support/information that the problem does exist there.

2. Name specific prior general education courses, nursing courses, and experiences that prepared you for this project. (EX: Mat 305 taught statistics which will help me….)

3. Describe your plan for researching the problem to solve the problem. (This is not about providing solutions, but describing your method or approach for resolving the problem.)

1. Write a formal literature review of 8-10 actual research studies on your nursing problem topic within the last 5 years.

2. You may use peer reviewed professional journals only.

3. Do not use journal articles that are already literature reviews.

1. Discuss the solutions to the nursing problem that you found in paper #2, the literature review

2. Discuss how you plan to implement them at your capstone project site.

3. Include communication strategies used during your capstone project

4. Discuss how to plan to inform those who need the information.

5. Include how your solutions contribute to the profession of nursing or to nursing practice.

Syllabus Continued

Major Assignments Continued:

Power Point Presentation with Oral Presentation of your power point to your assigned group.

You will find your assigned group posted in the Announcement Area when the lists are completed.

Dates for the final Oral Presentations will be found in the Announcement Area

Oral presentation lasts a maximum of 10 minutes including Questions & Comments. (Due to the course size)

There are tips for improving power point presentations in Doc Sharing and in Student Resources.

Syllabus Continued Major Assignments Continued:

ePortfolio

You will submit a professional nursing e-Portfolio focused on your meeting Kaplan’s RN to BSN nursing program outcomes and NU499 course outcomes. (They are the same)

Your ePortfolio demonstrates progress toward completion of the BSN degree and identifies priorities for professional goals post-graduation.

Your ePortfolio will include past and current Assignments from Kaplan BSN nursing courses (NU300–NU499) and will be submitted to Optimal Resume (refer to hyperlink under assignment instructions).

Don’t wait to begin to set up and collect the necessary documentation for this assignment. START NOW!!

See Unit 9, the Grading Rubric, and the Optimal e-Portfolio in Doc Sharing for complete information.

OPTIMAL RESUME Portfolio will be created and stored on the Optimal

Resume website.

Optimal Resume web link: http://kaplanu.optimalresume.com/

Register – ASAP

Optimal Resume site has tech support

Why Optimal Resume? The Optimal E-Portfolio belongs to you, and you will have access to it after graduation.

8 Portfolio Components “Projects”/Sections

To receive full credit, you must create the resume in the Optimal Resume software and link to your e-Portfolio

Career Services will review the resume for you – see Course Announcements for details

Letter to potential employer(s)To receive full credit, you must develop the letter in

the Optimal Resume software and link to your e-Portfolio.

Community ServiceSubmit documentation to verify participation in

community service (letters, certificate, etc)

Resume

Portfolio Components cont’d

Awards

Submit documentation to verify award (letters, certificate, etc)

Organizations

Submit documentation to verify membership (membership card, letters, certificate, etc)

Reference Letters

Three,

Signed,

By Bachelor’s degree or greater.

should be current (<1 yr. old)

Thank you cards

TIPS for Portfolio Success Start NOW – do not delay

Register on Optimal Resume ASAP, explore site; begin to set up sections

You can get resume reviewed by Career Services

Problems finding old assignments? – contact Professor to discuss

Ask for references now

Contact Professor with any questions

Each student’s portfolio will be individualized (not exactly the same as every other student’s).

Not everyone has all of the required components and will vary by each students experiences, and therefore grades will vary. This is to be expected.

Please read the grading rubric to review the maximum points assigned to each component.

Build a Portfolio you can be proud of and are wiling to share with potential employers and others.

Assignment Component Assignments from prior or current courses

6-9 assignments – total required*

Representative of Program Outcomes

RN-BSN Program Outcomes are the same as the NU 499 Course Outcomes – See NU 499 Syllabus

Assignment works if you can justify how it meets one or more of the outcomes.

You will provide a 1 page detailed description for each of the submitted assignments on how the assignment meets one or more specific program outcomes

Some students place this one page description before each assignment submitted, and some students choose to place the one page in the description block of the assignment. Placement is up to you, but be sure that it is clearly marked for the reviewer to find.

No set list of required assignments – students pick and then document how it meets one or more of the RN-BSN Program outcomes.

*Remember that the written assignments constitute only 25 points of the 200 points of the assignment on the grading rubric.

TIPS for Portfolio Success

Start NOW – do not delay

Register on Optimal Resume ASAP

You can get Optimal Resume reviewed by Career Services

Problems finding old assignments? – contact Professor to discuss

Ask for references now - Must have signature and credentials of author

Each student’s portfolio will be individualized (not exactly the same as every other student’s).

Not everyone has all of the required components and will vary by each students experiences, and therefore grades will vary. This is to be expected.

Please read the grading rubric to review the maximum points assigned to each component.

Build a Portfolio you can be proud of and are wiling to share with potential employers and others.

Choosing Your Nursing problem You choose your nursing problem The nursing problem must be approved by your instructor. The nursing problem must exist at the capstone project facility The nursing problem must be solvable at the capstone level of nursing The nursing problem can not be the nursing shortage or staffing

problems related to the nursing shortage, and cannot require capital budget funding.

The problem can be related to: Patient/family care/student problems) Needed improvement in, or lack of, effective systems Leadership or Management problems It is NOT a disease oriented paper – meaning the papers don’t

focus on, or teach us, about a disease/disease process, condition or general topic

See Power Point on the course home page for more information

Please e-mail me with your proposed nursing problem for approval

prior to beginning your work.

Grading There are no extra credit assignments or opportunities

in NU499.

Assignments are graded using the grading rubrics for each assignment.

Tip: Use the grading rubric, assignment instructions and Tips & Checklists for the Nursing problem Paper # 1,2,3, Presentations, & ePortfolio to outline and plan your papers. This will help you get the best grade that you can.

Tip: Include in your papers where you are clearly addressing the required criteria in the rubric. Don’t assume that the reader will find it or make the reader search for it.

Tip: Major points are earned in the content portion, but don’t throw away points due to format, style, spelling or grammar errors.

Submit ALL assignments for grading by naming your file beginning with your entire name, then the name of the assignment. EX: Mary Smith – Unit 4 – Nursing problem Paper #1

TURNITIN – Student Access for Unit 6 Paper

Turnitin – Software program for plagiarism prevention, documentation, and teaching opportunity

You will be able to utilize Turnitin for plagiarism prevention for the Unit 6 Nursing Problem Paper –the Literature Review

You will see that the Drop Box for the Unit 6 assignment is already set up for this purpose.

You can submit your Unit 6 assignment as many times as you need to until the assignment deadline date and time, in order to reduce the number of areas identified as possibly plagiarized. You can do this by rewriting, paraphrasing or correctly citing the identified areas.

You will receive your paper with identified areas for plagiarism and the percentage of your paper that was identified as plagiarized.

Aim for 25% or below

Assignments will not be downloaded for grading until after the assignment deadline is past.

Professional Papers - hints All papers are formal, scientific style papers and are not editorial or

opinion papers.

Professional paper are written in the 3rd person and avoid the use of the 1st person.

APA allows the use of first person in a special circumstance where you are an actual researcher doing and reporting an experiment. In NU 499 you will not be actually doing true experiments, so the special circumstance does not apply to you.

Attempt to not refer to yourself at all. Write in terms of the topic, not you.

All papers follow APA format and style and include:

A title/cover page

Body

Introductory paragraph

Main body of paper

Summary/Conclusion paragraph

Reference page

Extensions (EXT)Purpose: to provide relief and support to you if you find yourself in a situation where you cannot submit the assignment by the due date. An extension is permission granted to submit a late assignment (later than the original due date).

It is not a method of organizing your time or dealing with assignments from other courses.

Requests for extensions: are written requests e-mailed to me prior to the due date of the

assignment. must include the reason that you need the extension, and the date

that you will submit the assignment. cannot be longer than 2 weeks after the original due date.

You cannot receive an extension for an extension.

Late penalties will apply in fairness to the students who submitted their assignment on time.

Please request extensions judiciously. A student will not be granted an extension for multiple assignments throughout the course.

Our Relationship: I plan to have a great working relationship with you.

My Responsibilities Your Responsibilities

To remember that “life happens”.

To keep you informed of any changes or information through announcements, e-mail or Ask the Prof.

To help you succeed in this class.

To notify me when “life happens” to work out a reasonable plan that works for you and me.

You are responsible for reading all the course announcements, Kaplan e-mails, and Ask the Prof Forum. You will also notify me if you are unable to attend a seminar.

To ask me for help when you need it or don’t understand an assignment or concept.