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1. PLEASE FOLLOW THE RUBRIC AS GUIDANCE As nurses, the CNO
PLEASE FOLLOW THE RUBRIC AS GUIDANCE As nurses, the CNO states that we must reflect
as a professional expectation. Reflecting is more than just thinking about thinking. It is an
intentional process of thinking, analyzing, and learning. Reflecting improves our ability to
critically think, empowers us as professionals and advocates, helps us to gain self-
awareness and provides for personal and professional growth. For our clients, reflection
means a commitment to improving quality of care, ensuring safety of care, and improving
client outcomes. Reflection occurs before, during, and after situations with the purpose of
developing greater understanding of the self and the situation so that future encounters
with the situation are informed from previous encounters (Wald & Reis, 2010). Reflective
writing is the purposeful and recursive contemplation of thoughts, feelings, and happenings
that pertain to significant practice experiences (Kennison, 2012). Reflective writing
requires one to reflect on a personal experience for the purpose of self-awareness and
professional growth (Kerr, 2010). To be committed to reflection, nurses must have: A belief
that there is no end point in learning about your practice A willingness to learn Motivation
to change Open-mindedness Courage to act For this essay, you must write from your lens as
an RPN transitioning on the journey to RN practice. The application of scholarly evidence is
used to critically analyze a health care issue or practice situation and must clearly support
your perspective. Your essay must integrate evidence-based nursing literature from the key
course concepts. Relevant CNO expectations of RN practice must be included. 1000 words,
excluding title page and reference list double spaced, 12 font, standard margins follows APA
7th edition style guidelines minimum 4 scholarly references within past 5 years (excluding
CNO) Submitted to Safe Assign on due dateAs nurses, Essay Rubric ( /60 15% of grade)
Student Name: __________________________________________ Section: __________
Date:______________________________ Criteria Focus Comments Marks Content and Ideas 35
marks 1. Introduce and explore an experience/challenge. (5) 2. Describe the how the
experience has influenced your growth and development. (5) 3. Reflect, analyse, and
explore the influence of professional, social, cultural, personal, and/or environmental
factors. Explain how and/or why they impacted or may have impacted the
experience/challenge. (5) 4. Use course concepts and apply them to support the analysis of
the experience/challenge. Consider what has influenced, validated, or changed your
perspective. (10) 5. Write from the perspective of your transition from RPN to RN. Include
your strengths and the areas that require further development. (5 ) 6. Describe your
thoughts/concerns about your next steps in becoming an RN, including strategies. (5)

2. Research 10 marks 1. Research demonstrates a clear connection and supports ideas
presented. (3) 2. Research demonstrates the basis for analysis and reflects a variety of
perspectives found in the literature (3) 3. Minimum 4 relevant references from peer-
reviewed literature, plus any references to the CNO. (2) 4. Ideas supported with minimum
of 5 in-text citations (2) Organization 10 marks • Topic and purpose of paper clearly stated
and identified in the introduction paragraph. Thesis statement (2) • Conclusion provides a
brief summary of the points discussed in the essay (2) • Introduction and conclusion are to
the body of the essay (2) • Paragraphs flow and transition easily into the next; paragraphs
contains one idea or concept that is appropriately developed and supported with
literature/theory (2) • Reader easily follows the flow of concepts and ideas presented in the
essay (2) APA format 5 marks 60 Marks Total • Accurate title page and reference list (2) •
Accurate citations in paper (2) • Correct font size, style and spacing.(1) If paper exceeds
1000 words, it will not be read beyond the word limit. This will impact grades for elements
listed in categories above. 60