Education Week 9 Signature Assignment: Profile of a Graduate

The Profile of a Graduate The following characteristics represent the qualities, attitudes and values that students should possess by the time they have completed their studies. .

Professionalism: Graduates should treat all patients and clients with respect and dignity. Graduates should always maintain and safeguard the confidentiality of every patient and client. Graduates should maintain a professional appearance and conduct themselves with professionalism at all times. Graduates should understand the value of professional association affiliation.

Currency, Adaptability, and Lifelong Learning: Graduates should seek to adapt and remain current with the guidelines and scope of their practice. Graduates should espouse lifelong learning, and should exhibit this commitment via scholarly inquiry, including educational achievements in public and/or global health services, evidence based clinical care, and the sciences.

Interprofessionalism: Graduates should be prepared as health professionals for working deliberatively in interprofessional teams and through interprofessional collaborative practice. Graduates should strive to develop a safe, patient-centered, and population-based health care system to achieve optimal health and wellness.

Global Awareness: In addition to the commitment to local, state, regional, national, and public service, graduates should demonstrate an awareness and appreciation for international healthcare models and practices.

Clinical Application: Graduates should be prepared to apply their clinical skills and knowledge in a variety of diverse settings, both global and local, to promote public health. Graduates should be able to adapt to a variety of clinical situations.

Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity as ‘Health Care Citizens’: Graduates should embrace a commitment to diversity and cultural sensitivity. Graduates should be prepared to meet the broad and disparate needs of their patients, clients, and the communities within which they serve. Graduates should be advocates for health care change and health promotion.

Service-Oriented and Community Advocacy: Graduates should demonstrate a sustained and meaningful sense of service to their patients, clients, and communities. Graduates should have participated in community service opportunities that have increased their sensitivity to and awareness of the communities within which they serve.

Acquisition of Personal Attributes: Graduates should demonstrate altruism, integrity, dependability, compassion, respect, temperance, acceptance of criticism, emotional stability, self- awareness, and resilience. Graduates should exhibit confidence in taking appropriate actions and have the aptitude to respond quickly in emergency situations. Graduates should exhibit personal accountability.

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Team Player: Graduates should be willing to execute their professional skills as a member of a team. They should exhibit a keen awareness of team dynamics, and be willing to be open-minded, seek common ground, and support and encourage all members of an inter-disciplinary health care team.

Legal and Ethical Responsibilities: Graduates should be aware of the legal parameters of their scope of practice. They should abide by their respective professional code of ethics and/or oaths, as prescribed by each profession, and/or licensure body.

Leadership Skills: Graduates should contribute as leaders in their profession and understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and the importance of being flexible, and possessing good organizational and time-management skills to achieve a common goal.

Interpersonal Communication Skills: Graduates should be active listeners and communicate well with patients, clients, and families to understand their needs and explain treatments. Graduates should communicate competently in written, oral, and electronic forms with patients, clients, and the healthcare team and should be sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues.

Critical Thinking Skills: Graduates should think critically and address problems proactively. They should exhibit sound judgment and reasoning such as the ability to measure, calculate, analyze, and synthesize information pertinent to problem solving when making decisions.

Knowledge Attainment: Graduates should be qualified and knowledgeable practitioners, as demonstrated by passing board and/or licensure examinations, course grades, and by clinical evaluations, such as preceptorships and field experiences.

Acquisition of Evidence-Based Resources: Graduates should demonstrate knowledge of information resources and data-bases, to identify strategies for locating additional evidence-based resources to expand knowledge and skill bases, for referrals and reference. Graduates should possess the ability to utilize computer technology and apply this expertise in professional and clinical settings.

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This assignment helps to ensure that you will be mindful of the profile of a graduate characteristics throughout your degree program and to build unique, personal, and meaningful connections between your chosen characteristics.

You will select two of the fifteen characteristics and form a comparison between them, using the research you completed during your previous Research Diary Log assignments. After explaining the results of your research on each of your chosen characteristics, you will conclude the assignment by sharing a proposal for how the two characteristics can be uniquely and meaningfully connected.

You have two options for how you compose, construct, and submit this assignment.

Choose ONE of the options below.

OPTION 1: APA-FORMATTED PAPER

Submit a three- to four-page, APA-formatted paper presenting a well-researched and reasoned evaluation of the Profile of a Graduate. Offer a comparison of the two characteristics you chose, using the research you completed during your previous Research Diary Log assignments. Explain the results of your research and conclude your paper with a proposal for how the two characteristics can be uniquely and meaningfully connected. Your instructor will provide additional guidance.

Below is the suggested rough outline for your paper. However, you may embellish this outline with additional information and insights as desired:

Title page Introduction: Introducing the two Profile characteristics (1 paragraph)

Body:

Profile Characteristic Number 1: Explanation and discussion

○ (2–3 paragraphs)

Profile Characteristic Number 2: Explanation and discussion

○ (2–3 paragraphs) Conclusion: Connecting the two Profile characteristics (1 paragraph) Reference list

The paper must be submitted as a .DOC or .PDF file.

OPTION 2: ACADEMIC POSTER/INFOGRAPHIC

Develop a one-page academic poster or infographic to showcase your research. Offer a comparison of the two characteristics you chose, using the research you completed during your previous Research Diary Log assignments. Explain the results of your research and conclude with a proposal for how the two characteristics can be uniquely and meaningfully connected.

Your poster or infographic should include headings, a brief description of your research findings, and tables or charts when appropriate. Posters should also include effective use of color, images, and clear fonts.

The poster or infographic must include:

Title An introduction of the two Profile characteristics Explanation and discussion of Profile Characteristic Number 1 Explanation and discussion of Profile Characteristic Number 2 Conclusion connecting the two Profile characteristics References list

The poster may be developed using Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, or other creative and graphic applications, but must be saved and submitted as a .PDF file. Images of posters made by hand are not permitted.

The Profile of a Graduate The following characteristics represent the qualities, attitudes and values that students should possess by the time they have completed their studies. .

Professionalism: Graduates should treat all patients and clients with respect and dignity. Graduates should always maintain and safeguard the confidentiality of every patient and client. Graduates should maintain a professional appearance and conduct themselves with professionalism at all times. Graduates should understand the value of professional association affiliation.

Currency, Adaptability, and Lifelong Learning: Graduates should seek to adapt and remain current with the guidelines and scope of their practice. Graduates should espouse lifelong learning, and should exhibit this commitment via scholarly inquiry, including educational achievements in public and/or global health services, evidence based clinical care, and the sciences.

Interprofessionalism: Graduates should be prepared as health professionals for working deliberatively in interprofessional teams and through interprofessional collaborative practice. Graduates should strive to develop a safe, patient-centered, and population-based health care system to achieve optimal health and wellness.

Global Awareness: In addition to the commitment to local, state, regional, national, and public service, graduates should demonstrate an awareness and appreciation for international healthcare models and practices.

Clinical Application: Graduates should be prepared to apply their clinical skills and knowledge in a variety of diverse settings, both global and local, to promote public health. Graduates should be able to adapt to a variety of clinical situations.

Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity as ‘Health Care Citizens’: Graduates should embrace a commitment to diversity and cultural sensitivity. Graduates should be prepared to meet the broad and disparate needs of their patients, clients, and the communities within which they serve. Graduates should be advocates for health care change and health promotion.

Service-Oriented and Community Advocacy: Graduates should demonstrate a sustained and meaningful sense of service to their patients, clients, and communities. Graduates should have participated in community service opportunities that have increased their sensitivity to and awareness of the communities within which they serve.

Acquisition of Personal Attributes: Graduates should demonstrate altruism, integrity, dependability, compassion, respect, temperance, acceptance of criticism, emotional stability, self- awareness, and resilience. Graduates should exhibit confidence in taking appropriate actions and have the aptitude to respond quickly in emergency situations. Graduates should exhibit personal accountability.

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Team Player: Graduates should be willing to execute their professional skills as a member of a team. They should exhibit a keen awareness of team dynamics, and be willing to be open-minded, seek common ground, and support and encourage all members of an inter-disciplinary health care team.

Legal and Ethical Responsibilities: Graduates should be aware of the legal parameters of their scope of practice. They should abide by their respective professional code of ethics and/or oaths, as prescribed by each profession, and/or licensure body.

Leadership Skills: Graduates should contribute as leaders in their profession and understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and the importance of being flexible, and possessing good organizational and time-management skills to achieve a common goal.

Interpersonal Communication Skills: Graduates should be active listeners and communicate well with patients, clients, and families to understand their needs and explain treatments. Graduates should communicate competently in written, oral, and electronic forms with patients, clients, and the healthcare team and should be sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues.

Critical Thinking Skills: Graduates should think critically and address problems proactively. They should exhibit sound judgment and reasoning such as the ability to measure, calculate, analyze, and synthesize information pertinent to problem solving when making decisions.

Knowledge Attainment: Graduates should be qualified and knowledgeable practitioners, as demonstrated by passing board and/or licensure examinations, course grades, and by clinical evaluations, such as preceptorships and field experiences.

Acquisition of Evidence-Based Resources: Graduates should demonstrate knowledge of information resources and data-bases, to identify strategies for locating additional evidence-based resources to expand knowledge and skill bases, for referrals and reference. Graduates should possess the ability to utilize computer technology and apply this expertise in professional and clinical settings.

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