Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the discussion. Contact
your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions:
Reflect upon a leader or manager who positively or negatively impacted your
practice. Do not identify the leader by name.
Include the following sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with
explanations and detail.
a. Describe the impact on your nursing practice.
b. Discuss the impact on the practice environment.
c. Analyze the individual’s leadership skills using either the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) or the American Organization for
Nursing Leadership (AONL) leadership competencies provided in the Week 1
Explore lesson.
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by
program expectations:
a. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
b. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
c. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
d. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no
more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
e. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all
references and provide references for all citations.
3. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking
questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives,
information, or implications for practice.
a. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
b. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
c. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology
appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
4. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in
English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
5. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references
and is free of errors.
6. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the
graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by
Wednesday, 11:59
p.m. MT of each week.
7. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one
to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty
question) on two different days during the week.
your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions:
Reflect upon a leader or manager who positively or negatively impacted your
practice. Do not identify the leader by name.
Include the following sections:
1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with
explanations and detail.
a. Describe the impact on your nursing practice.
b. Discuss the impact on the practice environment.
c. Analyze the individual’s leadership skills using either the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) or the American Organization for
Nursing Leadership (AONL) leadership competencies provided in the Week 1
Explore lesson.
2. Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by
program expectations:
a. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
b. Cite a scholarly source in one faculty response post.
c. Cite a scholarly source in one peer post.
d. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence with no
more than one short quote (15 words or less) for the week.
e. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources per week. Cite all
references and provide references for all citations.
3. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers and faculty by asking
questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives,
information, or implications for practice.
a. Peer Response: Respond to at least one peer.
b. Faculty Response: Respond to at least one faculty post.
c. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology
appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
4. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in
English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
5. Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references
and is free of errors.
6. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the
graded discussion topic (not a response to a peer or faculty), by
Wednesday, 11:59
p.m. MT of each week.
7. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one
to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty
question) on two different days during the week.
