Evolution of Professional Nursing

Evolution of Professional Nursing

Learning Outcomes:

• Summarize health practices throughout the course of history.
• Analyze the effect of historic, political, social, and economic events on the development of nursing.
• Describe the evolution of professional challenges experienced by nurses of diverse ethnic, racial, and educational backgrounds.
• Integrate knowledge of 10 current trends and issues in society and health care into a more holistic perception of their influence on nursing education, students, faculty, and nursing
• Differentiate among various types of conventional, mobility, and new nursing education programs, and the issues associate with them.

 

Discussion:

NURSING: The American Nurse Association (ANA, 2012) defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

Many variables throughout history have impacted the evolution of the profession of nursing.  No longer are nurses untrained caregivers, but educated professionals striving to provide holistic care to the patient.  To appreciate our profession in the 21^st century, it is important to understand where it began and how it has evolved over time.

 

Instructions and Assignment:

• Read Chapters 1-3 of the course textbook.
• Identify a topic of interest from the readings related to the evolution of nursing.
• Write a 3-5 page paper discussing this topic, its impact on the evolution of nursing, and implication for today’s nurse.
• Include at least three references for the paper. The course textbook should be one of the references. This paper will be graded in the Scientific Writing course for APA.
• Refer to the Evolution of Professional Nursing rubric (next page) for guidelines as you develop the paper.
• Save the completed paper as a word doc. or docx.
• Submit the completed paper to the link within Module 2 entitled Evolution of Nursing Paper submission. Label the submission per syllabus instructions.  Refer to the syllabus regarding late submission.

 

Evolution of Nursing Paper Rubric

Rubric

Introduction of topic	Topic not presented 0points Vague presentation of the topic 28points Topic presented but not clearly defined 35points Adequate presentation of the topic 38points Clear, specific presentation of the topic 40points
Impact of the topic to the evolution of nursing	Poor or no presentation 0points Unclear explanation of the impact on nursing 28points Impact less clearly stated and discussed less clearly 35points Impact less clearly stated and discussed adequately 38points Impact clearly stated and discussed well 40points
Implications of the topic for today’s nurse	Implications not stated or discussed 0points Implications vaguely stated and discussion hard to follow 38points Implications less clearly stated and needed more discussion 45points Implications less clearly stated and discussed adequately 48points Implications clearly stated and discussed well 50points
Clarity and Style	Not clear and poorly written 0points Content is less well understood by the reader and the overall less well written 10points Content is vague and not well written 15points Content is vague and not well written 18points Content is well understood by the reader and the overall well written 20points