• Clear Thinking: thinking through reasoning, creating, and reflecting
• Effective Communication: integrating information with experience and expressing insights
• Accepting Diversity: understanding and respecting individuals and local, regional, national, and global communities
• Ethical Decision Making: maintaining responsibility for environmental, political, economic, social, and personal concerns

Purpose of Learning Activity:
Program Student Learning Outcome #1: Demonstrate reflection, self-analysis, self-care, and lifelong learning into nursing practice.
Competencies Addressed:
• 1B: Construct lifelong learning approaches to support excellence in nursing.
• 1D: Utilize nursing values, knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to model professional nursing practice.
• 1F: Differentiate historical and contemporary issues in nursing.
• 1G: Identify nursing values that are significant to becoming a professional nurse.
• 1H: Explain how care for vulnerable populations is impacted by attitudes, values and expectations.
• 1I: Develop a professional development plan inclusive of practice excellence, life-long learning, and professional engagement.
• 1K: Recognize the significance of spiritual beliefs and values to promote health.
Course Outcomes/Upon completion of this assignment the student will:
• #2: Demonstrate an awareness of the role of the professional nurse within organizational systems.
• #7: Describe behavioral change techniques to promote health and manage illness in the professional nurse.
• #8: Reflect on personal and professional actions based on a set of shared core nursing values.

Suggested reading to prepare for self-assessment: APA Publication Manual & ANA Scope and Standards of Practice – Lifelong learning and professional development

To prepare for completion of the scholarly paper:

1. Investigate the organizational philosophy, mission and vision of several healthcare
   facilities including hospitals, residential care centers and community care organizations. Registered Nurses must be employed at your chosen organization.
2. Locate an organization that aligns with your own personal values. This may be a
   facility located in your local community, across the country or around the world.