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Topic 1- Discussion question: Reflection

In each course the final Discussion topic provides you with an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned. Look back over your BSN Program as well as your nursing career and:

1. Appraise your professional growth

2. Evaluate the achievement of your self-initiated goals

Consider addressing the following:

1. How has my professionalism grown over this BSN program?

2. What are the most important things I have learned?

3. How will the BSN change my practice?

4. Share your future career plans and goals?

5. What the experience what you thought it would be?

6. Plans for continuing on in your education.

Topic 2-Journal Entry-Finding Meaning in Your Experiences

In your last Journal you will compose an entry discussing your practicum experience and your nursing issue. This is chance for you to summarize and share what you have learned over the past 10 weeks. Consider discussing the following:

3. Meaningful experiences in your practicum.

4. Specific things you learned from your preceptor about their nursing role.

5. What was the nursing issue research process like?

6. Talk about the presentation, what you learned about presenting to peers, and what you learned from your peers during the presentations.

7. How have you grown during this term?

How will you take what you learned in the capstone course and apply it to your current and future career?

As this Assignment is a Journal entry and not a formal paper, it may at times be difficult to follow the organization, style, and formatting of the APA 6th Edition Manual. Despite this, your Journal Assignment should:

8. clearly establish and maintain the viewpoint and purpose of the Assignment;

9. follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);

10. be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;

11. display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and

12. use APA 6th edition format for crediting sources.