ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND VALUES — C128
PRFA — BQM1
COMPETENCIES
740.2.3 : Ethical Practice
The graduate integrates advanced professional standards of practice and codes of ethics to concepts of
situational ethics.
740.2.4 : Advanced Professional Accountability
The graduate analyzes the advanced responsibilities and accountability of nurses from professional and
regulatory perspectives.
740.2.8 : Interprofessional Practice
The graduate analyzes the impact of new and diverse advanced nursing and care provider roles on
interprofessional practice.
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this assessment is to write an informative, scholarly, professional paper that presents a
position on emerging ethical topics. The position paper should be supported by current evidence and focus
on the application of ethical concepts and principles to identify ethical challenges in nursing practice.
SCENARIO
You are a nurse leader who serves on an ethics committee in your healthcare organization. You are tasked
with writing an informative, scholarly, professional position paper about ethical challenges in nursing
practice and procedural alignment with the organization’s mission statement. The paper should explain
common ethical challenges, the impact of these ethical challenges on stakeholders, and the nurse leader’s
role in addressing these ethical challenges. You will present the paper to the ethics committee.
REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be
directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the report provided when
submitting your task as a guide.
Professional Communications is a required aspect to pass this task. Completion of a spell check and grammar
check prior to submitting your final work is strongly recommended.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that
will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric
aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
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Develop an informative, scholarly, professional position paper for the ethics committee by doing the
following:
A. Discuss two ethical challenges in nursing practice that are common to your organization, as well as the
ethical principles involved in the American Nursing Association (ANA) Code of Ethics.
1. For each ethical challenge, describe one potential legal implication.
2. Support your discussion with a minimum of two scholarly sources, published within the past five years,
for each challenge. A minimum of one source of the two must be a course text or course resource.
B. Discuss the responsibility of a nurse with a master’s degree acting in a leadership role within the
organization by doing the following:
1. Describe the role of the nurse leader in applying a published, ethical decision-making model to one of
the ethical challenges in part A.
2. Discuss the actual or potential stakeholders involved in and affected by the outcome of the ethical
decision-making process and the potential impact on each stakeholder.
3. Describe the role of interdisciplinary team members throughout the ethical decision-making process.
4. Describe a transformational leadership strategy that the nurse leader might use to promote
interdisciplinary team collaboration during the ethical decision-making process.
C. Explain how the actions taken in part B align with your organization’s mission statement.
D. Submit your position paper in APA style and format, including but not limited to the title page and
headers, in-text citations, and references.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
File Restrictions
File name may contain only letters, numbers, spaces, and these symbols: ! – _ . * ‘ ( )
File size limit: 200 MB
File types allowed: doc, docx, rtf, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, odt, pdf, txt, qt, mov, mpg, avi, mp3, wav, mp4, wma, flv, asf, mpeg,
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RUBRIC
A:ETHICAL CHALLENGES
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of 2 ethical
challenges in nursing practice
and the ethical principles
involved is not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion identifies 2
ethical challenges common to
the organization, but it does not
accurately discuss the
applicable ethical principles or
provisions of the American
Nursing Association (ANA)
Code of ethics for each ethical
challenge.
COMPETENT
The discussion identifies 2
ethical challenges that are
common to the organization and
accurately discusses the
applicable ethical principles or
provisions of the American
Nursing Association (ANA) Code
of Ethics for each ethical
challenge.
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A1:LEGAL IMPLICATIONS
A2:SOURCES
B1:ROLE OF THE NURSE
B2:STAKEHOLDERS
NOT EVIDENT
A description of 1 potential legal
implication for each ethical
challenge identified in part A is
not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion demonstrates
limited understanding of legal
implications by inaccurately
describing 1 potential legal
implication that could result
from each ethical challenge
discussed in part A.
COMPETENT
The discussion demonstrates
understanding of legal
implications by accurately
describing 1 potential legal
implication that could result from
each ethical challenge discussed
in part A.
NOT EVIDENT
The discussion is not supported
by any scholarly sources.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion is supported by
only 1 scholarly source for each
challenge. Or at least 1 of the
scholarly sources was not
published in the last five years.
Or at least 1 of the citations is
not a course text or resource.
COMPETENT
The discussion is supported by at
least 2 scholarly sources
published within the past five
years for each challenge. At least
1 of the sources is a course text
or resource.
NOT EVIDENT
A description of the role of the
nurse in a leadership role
applying an ethical decisionmaking
model to 1 of the ethical
challenges in part A is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The description demonstrates
limited understanding of the
role of a nurse in a leadership
role by inaccurately identifying a
published ethical decisionmaking
model or illogically
applying the steps of the ethical
decision-making model to 1 of
the ethical challenges discussed
in part A.
COMPETENT
The description demonstrates
understanding of the role of a
nurse in a leadership role by
accurately identifying a
published ethical decisionmaking
model and logically
applying the steps of that ethical
decision-making model to 1 of
the ethical challenges discussed
in part A.
NOT EVIDENT
A discussion of the actual or
potential stakeholders involved
in the ethical decision-making
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The discussion inaccurately
identifies actual or potential
COMPETENT
The discussion accurately
identifies the actual or potential
stakeholders involved and
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B3:ROLE OF TEAM MEMBERS
B4:LEADERSHIP STRATEGY
C:ALIGNMENT
model and the potential impact
of the outcome on each
stakeholder is not provided.
stakeholders involved and
affected or does not logically
describe the potential impact of
the outcome of the ethical
decision-making process on
each stakeholder.
affected and logically describes
the potential impact of the
outcome of the ethical decisionmaking
process on each
stakeholder.
NOT EVIDENT
A description of the role of
interdisciplinary team members
throughout the ethical decisionmaking
process is not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The description demonstrates
limited understanding of the
role of the interdisciplinary
team by not appropriately
identifying potential team
members or by not logically
describing the role each team
member will play throughout
the ethical decision-making
process.
COMPETENT
The description demonstrates
understanding of the role of the
interdisciplinary team by
appropriately identifying
potential team members and by
logically describing the role each
team member will play
throughout the ethical decisionmaking
process.
NOT EVIDENT
A description of a
transformational leadership
strategy used to promote team
collaboration during the ethical
decision-making process is not
provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The description demonstrates
limited understanding of a
transformational leadership
strategy by not identifying or
defining the strategy or by not
describing how the strategy
could be applied to facilitate
team collaboration during the
ethical decision-making process.
COMPETENT
The description demonstrates
understanding of a
transformational leadership
strategy by identifying and
defining the strategy and
describing how it can be applied
to facilitate team collaboration
during the ethical decisionmaking
process.
NOT EVIDENT
An explanation of how the
actions taken in part B align with
the organization’s mission
statement is not provided.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The explanation demonstrates
limited understanding of
alignment to the organization’s
mission statement by not
providing the mission statement
COMPETENT
The explanation demonstrates
understanding of alignment to
the organization’s mission
statement by providing the
mission statement and by
logically explaining how the
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D:APA STYLE AND FORMAT
E:PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
or by not explaining how the
specific actions taken in part B
will align to the actual mission
statement.
specific actions taken in part B
align to the actual mission
statement.
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not include
in-text citations and references
according to APA style for
content that is quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
The submission includes in-text
citations and references for
content that is quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized,
but it does not demonstrate a
consistent application of APA
style and format.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-text
citations and references for
content that is quoted,
paraphrased, or summarized and
demonstrates a consistent
application of APA style and
format.
NOT EVIDENT
Content is unstructured, is
disjointed, or contains pervasive
errors in mechanics, usage, or
grammar. Vocabulary or tone is
unprofessional or distracts from
the topic.
APPROACHING
COMPETENCE
Content is poorly organized, is
difficult to follow, or contains
errors in mechanics, usage, or
grammar that cause confusion.
Terminology is misused or
ineffective.
COMPETENT
Content reflects attention to
detail, is organized, and focuses
on the main ideas as prescribed
in the task or chosen by the
candidate. Terminology is
pertinent, is used correctly, and
effectively conveys the intended
meaning. Mechanics, usage, and
grammar promote accurate
interpretation and
understanding.