Posted: September 16th, 2017

The development of a professional mission statement increases your

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.

Project Requirements:

Create a professional mission statement that showcases a professional development plan by doing the following:

A.  Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a board of nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing

practice.

B.  Discuss two examples of how provisions from a nursing code of ethics influence your practice.

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

D.  Identify a nursing theory that has influenced your professional practice.

1.  Explain how this theory fits your professional practice.

E.  Discuss how the contributions of one historical nursing figure have impacted your professional nursing practice, including modern-day application.

F.  Discuss a scenario in which you, as a nurse, safeguarded two of the following principles for the patient:

• Beneficence

• Nonmaleficence

• Respect for autonomy

• Justice

G.  When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.