Tag: Positive social change

Nursing, at its very core, is a profession rooted in social change and growth. As a nurse returning to school to further your education, you can learn to enhance your practice to become a “Walden Scholar of Change.” The nursing professional holds a responsibility to serve the interests of people and society. As part of this responsibility, nurses are bound by Nursing’s Social Policy Statement. Consider how your own professional practice can expand in shaping the future of nursing, improving the profession, and enhancing the quality of the health care that nursing delivers.

Assignment: 2-to-3-page Paper
• In this Assignment, you will discuss how furthering your nursing education, with a focus on social change, will enhance your current practice and supports your future career planning. Nursing’s Social Contract entails expectations between the nursing profession and society to elevate the health of society.
• Choose 2 of Nursing’s Social Contract elements and discuss how they are foundational to your nursing practice. Elements include caring service; privacy of the patient; knowledge, skill, and competence; hazardous service; responsibility and accountability; progress and development; ethical practice; collaboration; promotion of the health of the public; etcetera.
• Address your future career planning. How do you intend to make a difference by confronting a current challenge in health care where you live, in your profession, or on a global scale?

Nursing, at its very core, is a profession rooted in social change and growth. As a nurse returning to school to further your education, you can learn to enhance your practice to become a “Walden Scholar of Change.” The nursing professional holds a responsibility to serve the interests of people and society. As part of this responsibility, nurses are bound by Nursing’s Social Policy Statement. Consider how your own professional practice can expand in shaping the future of nursing, improving the profession, and enhancing the quality of the health care that nursing delivers.
Assignment: 2-to-3-page Paper
• In this Assignment, you will discuss how furthering your nursing education, with a focus on social change, will enhance your current practice and supports your future career planning. Nursing’s Social Contract entails expectations between the nursing profession and society to elevate the health of society.
• Choose 2 of Nursing’s Social Contract elements and discuss how they are foundational to your nursing practice. Elements include caring service; privacy of the patient; knowledge, skill, and competence; hazardous service; responsibility and accountability; progress and development; ethical practice; collaboration; promotion of the health of the public; etcetera.
• Address your future career planning. How do you intend to make a difference by confronting a current challenge in health care where you live, in your profession, or on a global scale?
• Support your responses with at least two scholarly sources from the Learning Resources and/or outside sources. Reference in proper APA format.

The year 2020 was filled with many challenges, beginning with the unceasing global pandemic, to protecting democracy not only from foreign sources, but most importantly from domestic threats, as well as the environmental and social shifts that impacted the United States (Robertson Foundation for Government, 2019). Challenges like these and many others likely will persist, and it will take a considerable amount of energy from public administrators to develop their skills in best practices and leadership to meet the hard work ahead for positive social change to take place.
examine public policy and administration best practices to support efforts in meeting the challenges for positive social change.
Reference

Robertson Foundation for Government. (2019). What are the grand challenges in public administration? https://rfg.org/news/what-are-grand-challenges-public-administration.

Review Herman’s “White Papers and Briefing Books” article found in this week’s Learning Resources and use this document to guide you through this Assignment.
Review the Case Study examples found in this week’s Learning Resources to help you as you consider other case study examples related to your work (real or fictional).
Select a topic related to public policy administration or your field of interest for this Assignment.