**Please Note: This Hot Topic Assignment is linked to your Hot Topic Discussion
Purpose
This assignment prompts you to identify and discuss current trends in professional nursing. You must search the Internet for one “hot topic” that relates to ethics or professional issues in nursing and describe this according to the rubric below.
Course Outcomes
- CO 1: Consider the role of the professional nurse in relation to the concepts of integrity and ethical accountability within nursing practice. (PO 4, 6)
- CO 2: Explore the impact of contemporary health care issues on the role of the professional nurse. (PO 7)
Due Date
Hot Topic is due Sunday end of Week 6 by 11:59 p.m. MT.
Points
The Hot Topic assignment is worth 100 points.
Directions
- Review the types of topics that are covered in this course (i.e., professional, ethical, and legal issues).
- Make sure you review the grading criteria in the rubric.
- Selection of a Hot Topic:
- Search the Internet for a current story related to one of the course topics. Topics may be ethical, legal, political, or professional in nature. The story must be no older than 1 year. Do not use wikis, Wikipedia, Facebook, or other social media. Instead, look for stories that may be found in, but not limited to, online news sites, professional organizations’ issues pages, or journal editorials.
- Explain in excellent detail how the topic is related to the course. State the date when the story appeared (no more than 1 year old).
- Provide the location of the story on the internet:
- Identify the name of the site you selected
- Provide a working URL/web address
- Summarize the story in detail:
- Write two to three well-developed paragraphs that summarize the main points of the story.
- Determine what nursing issue is reflected in the story and key people involved
- Share your viewpoint about the story as it relates to nurses and the nursing profession.
- Mechanics and organization of good scholarly writing: See rubric for detail.
0 comments