Addressing Bias Assignment: NR 500 Week 3

Addressing Bias Assignment: NR 500 Week 3

At the end of Week 3, the Addressing Bias assignment must be completed by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (MT). This assignment counts for 7.5 percent of your total grade. See the assignment details below and on the Course Resources page in the Introduction & Resources Module.

What Is the Goal of Addressing Bias Assignment?
The increasing diversity, globalization, and expanding technologies in today’s healthcare settings create complex ethical pressures that influence nursing practice and practice outcomes. It is critical to understand personal values, beliefs, strengths, and limitations in order to be effective in a master’s-prepared advanced nurse practice role. The goal of this evaluation is to encourage introspective reflection on implicit and/or explicit personal biases. Students will devise a strategy to reduce bias and promote personal and professional development.
Course Results

CO 1: Examine the roles and competencies of master’s-prepared nurses that are required to function as leaders and advocates for holistic, safe, and high-quality care. (PO 1 – 5)

CO 2: Apply person-centered care concepts to nursing practice situations. (PO 1, 2, 5) Formalized paraphrase

Total Number of Points Available

This evaluation is worth 75 points.

The deadline

Submit your file(s) no later than 11:59 p.m. Week 3 concludes on Sunday, MT.

Requirements

Assignment Content Criteria for Addressing Bias

Make a self-inventory of your personal biases. Biases can be implicit or explicit.

Address the following points in a one- to two-page summary.
Determine your chosen specialty track (education, executive, family nurse practitioner, healthcare policy, or nursing informatics).
Examine how biases can affect outcomes in specific nursing practice settings.
Identify personal biases and attitudes toward people who are different from you in terms of culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, weight, and religion.
Choose one of your biases.
Create a strategy to reduce this bias.

Getting the paper ready

Addressing Bias Assignment Submission Requirements

Application: To create the written assessment, use Microsoft Word 2013TM.
Length: The paper is no more than two pages long (excluding the title and reference pages).
A minimum of two (2) references to scholarly literature must be used.
Submission: Please submit the following files: Assessment 2 Addressing Bias Last name First initial

Best Practices for Project Preparation

The best practices for preparing this project are as follows.

Examine the instructions thoroughly.
Follow the submission guidelines.
Make certain that all of the elements on the grading rubric are included.
Grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation rules are adhered to and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
NR 500 Week 3 Addressing Bias Assignment
The title page, running head, body of the paper, and reference page must all adhere to the APA guidelines outlined in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper, with the exception of the introduction, which does not have a heading.
Ideas and information derived from scholarly literature must be properly cited and referenced.
A minimum of two (2) references to scholarly literature must be used.
Follow the CCN academic integrity policy.

The focus of this paper is on family nurse practitioners. Bias exists in our everyday environment in various forms, which has a particular impact on the practice of family nurses. Biasness of any kind tends to affect the quality of services provided on the outskirts of nursing practices. The bias is a more pronounced factor in the healthcare system, lowering the quality of services. This results in a non-intentional reduction in the performance of activities that nurses perform on a daily basis. When the cost of services provided by family nurse practitioners changes, a bias enters the system. The cost of activities tends to rise as nurses’ motivation deteriorates and their overall performance suffers (KlemencKetis & Kersnik, 2014).

Rubric

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

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Hello class and welcome to the class and I will be your instructor for this course. This is a -week course and requires a lot of time commitment, organization, and a high level of dedication. Please use the class syllabus to guide you through all the assignments required for the course. I have also attached the classroom policies to this announcement to know your expectations for this course. Please review this document carefully and ask me any questions if you do. You could email me at any time or send me a message via the “message” icon in halo if you need to contact me. I check my email regularly, so you should get a response within 24 hours. If you have not heard from me within 24 hours and need to contact me urgently, please send a follow up text to

I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.

Please, be advised I do NOT accept any assignments by email. If you are having technical issues with uploading an assignment, contact the technical department and inform me of the issue. If you have any issues that would prevent you from getting your assignments to me by the deadline, please inform me to request a possible extension. Note that working fulltime or overtime is no excuse for late assignments. There is a 5%-point deduction for every day your assignment is late. This only applies to approved extensions. Late assignments will not be accepted.

If you think you would be needing accommodations due to any reasons, please contact the appropriate department to request accommodations.

Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.

Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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