The Professional Mission Statement Assignment

The Professional Mission Statement Assignment 

 The development of a professional mission statement increases your marketability as a nurse by showcasing your nursing knowledge to prospective employers. This mission statement allows you, as a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, to focus on nursing concepts, professional strengths, and critical thinking abilities that define nursing practice in practical ways. You will be required to think about real-life scenarios and how they relate to nursing codes as you develop an individual professional nursing statement.

Assignment Instructions: In this assignment, you will create a professional mission statement that showcases a personal plan for the integration of the ANA Code of Ethics, professional traits, nursing theory, and ethical principles into nursing practice. This paper should be at least 5 pages long, not including the title page, and reference page(s).

• Title Page 

Provide an APA-formatted Title Page 

• Introduction 

Provide an introduction to the paper which addresses each of the sections of the paper.

• Professional Goal 

Describe the professional nursing role that you plan on pursuing (nurse practitioner).  What are the characteristics of this role that interests you? 

• Professional Traits 

Discuss the four professional traits from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics that you will bring to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

1. Respect for Human Dignity
2. Relationship with Patients
3. Integrity
4. Effective Communication

• Provisions from the ANA Code of Ethics 

Discuss how two of the provisions from a nursing code of ethics would influence your practice in the selected professional nursing role (nurse practitioner).

1. The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient. 
2. The profession of nursing, collectively through its professional organizations, must articulate nursing values, maintain the integrity of the profession, and integrate principles of social justice into nursing and health policy.

• Nursing Theory and Theorist 

Identify a nursing theory and theorist that has influenced your professional practice. Explain how the chosen theory fits your professional practice. Discuss how the contributions of one nursing theorist that has impacted your professional nursing practice, including modern-day application.

1. Nursing Theorist: Faye Glenn Abdellah
2. Nursing Theory: 21 Nursing Problems Theory

• Safeguarding Ethical Principles 

Discuss a scenario in which you, as a nurse, safeguarded two of the following ethical principles for the patient: Note: Do not include confidential patient information (e.g., name, location).

1. Respect for autonomy
2. Non-maleficence

• Summary 

Provide a summary that addresses how your perspective has changed as a result of completing this assignment.

 Reference Page, Grammar, Formatting, and APA Include all in-text citations and references in APA format. Use appropriate grammar, spelling, and mechanics when creating the submission.