Issues Paper

The purpose of the assignment is to demonstrate a current professional nursing issue. The students will write up a short paper to discuss the IOM core competency that was utilized and the goal of the scenario.

Structure of assignment/paper:
• Identify a professional nursing issue, one that you have seen, been involved in or is a hypothetical issue.
• Identify a nursing core competency related to your professional issue
• Introduction
o -Patient-centered care including patient rights
o -Teamwork and collaboration
o -Evidence based practice
o -Quality improvement
o -Informatics to include confidentiality
o Briefly explain what the National Academy of Medicine (old Institute of Medicine) is about, and why they developed the five core competencies.
 Explain all the core competency and give a brief description and example of them of them.
o Pick one (1) competencies that related to your scenario, and include a briefly description of the competencies, and:
 Discuss a knowledge, a skill, and attitude example of the competency (Do not use the example from the article, come up with your own)
o Discuss your professional nursing issue- how and why it and issue.
o Briefly discuss the scenario that you are planning to video.
o Conclusion