personal perspectives and professional development

Guidelines: Support your responses with scholarly academic references using APA style format. Assigned course readings and online library resources are preferred. Weekly lecture notes are designed as overviews to the topic for the respective week and should not serve as a citation or reference.
In your discussion question response, provide a substantive response that illustrates a well-reasoned and thoughtful response; is factually correct with relevant scholarly citations, references, and examples that demonstrates a clear connection to the readings.
Assignment 1 Grading Criteria     Maximum Points
Discussion Question Responses: Displays an understanding of the course materials and the underlying concept discussed. Includes course materials and aIDitional scholarly resources to support important points.     15
Professional Practice Connection: Demonstrates reflective thought pertaining to personal perspectives and professional development. Reflective statements include a theoretical rationale.    10
Quality of Academic Writing: Written responses are free of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. Citations and references are included and written in the correct APA Style.    10

Discussion Question 1
Rank the top three current trends or issues that you believe to be most important with regard to credentialing for the Family Nurse Practitioner
a.    Why do you see these as the most pressing ones?
b.    For the top two issues that you ranked as most important, identify two strategies that: (1) you as an individual and (2) the nursing profession as a whole should take to aIDress these issues and strengthen advanced nursing practice.
Justify your answers using peer examples and reasoning.

Discussion Question 2
Nurses in advanced roles need to be familiar with current health policy and strategies to contribute to policy development. Discuss your personal experience with influencing policymakers in efforts to change policy and promote health. Next, describe a policy issue that needs to be aIDressed in your community or workplace that is appropriate to theFamily Nurse Practitioner role. Map out a policy strategy that uses a high degree of political competence to aIDress the policy issue.

Justify your answers using examples and reasoning.

Discussion Question 3
For this question, identify your role and respond to the following with this in mind.
Your manager has asked you to develop a proposal for a new advanced role position in your health care organization. To do so, you will need to aIDress several key issues. Identify and discuss those issues and how you would aIDress them. Would the issues differ if the respective hire were a new graduate or experienced? How?
Justify your answers using examples and reasoning.