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Description 1. Create a professional mission statement (suggested length of 1 paragraph) that includes the following: • a representation of your career goals, your aspirations, and how you want to move forward with your career • an overview of where you would like to focus your time and energies within the profession a. Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you throughout your nursing career.

2. Complete a professional summary (suggested length of 3–4 pages) that includes the following: a. Explain how the specific artifacts or completed work or both in your portfolio represent you as a learner and a healthcare professional. b. Discuss how the specific artifacts in your portfolio represent your professional strengths. c. Discuss challenges you encountered during the progression of your program. i. Explain how you overcame these challenges. d. Explain how your coursework helped you meet each of the nine nursing program outcomes. Note: Refer to the attachment “Nursing Conceptual Model.” e. Analyze how you fulfilled the following roles during your program: • scientist • detective • manager of the healing environment f. Discuss how you have grown professionally since the beginning of your program. B. Complete the following within the section “Quality and Safety”: 1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of quality and safety developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition. a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition. b. Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition. i. Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part B1.

Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio. 2. Discuss the importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) certificate for your future role as a professional nurse. C. Complete the following within the section “Evidence-Based Practice”: 1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of evidence-based practice developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition. a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition. b. Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition. i. Explain how these artifacts support your definition from part C1. Note: The artifacts should be attached within the portfolio. 2. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your understanding of evidence-based practice and applied nursing research by doing the following: a. Discuss how you are able to evaluate current primary research and apply the concepts to your nursing practice, considering the following: • relevancy and believability of data • differences between quality improvement and research (places and uses of each) • differences between primary and secondary research and resources and the implications of each in clinical practice b. Explain how your experience in the program helped you achieve excellence in evidence-based practice.

D. Complete the following within the section “Applied Leadership”: 1. Reflect (suggested length of 1 page) on your professional definition of applied leadership you developed in Professional Roles and Values, including any necessary changes to your definition. a. Discuss how the program assisted you in developing your professional definition. b. Identify the artifacts in your portfolio that support your definition. i. Explain how these artifacts support the definition from part D1. Please see attached documents for continued rubric