NRS 493 – Individual Success Plan (ISP)

The assignment

Planning is the key to successful completion of this course and program-related objectives. The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment requires early collaboration with the course faculty and your course preceptor. Students must establish a plan for successful completion of

The required 50 community direct clinical practice experience hours, 50 leadership direct clinical practice hours, and 25 indirect clinical experience hours.

Completion of work associated with program competencies.

Work associated with completion of the student’s capstone project change proposal.

Students will use the “Individual Success Plan” to develop an individual plan for completing practice hours and course objectives. As a part of this process, students will identify the number of hours set aside to meet course goals.

Student expectations and instructions for completing the ISP document are provided in the “NRS-493 Individual Success Plan” resource, located in the Study Materials and in the assignment instructions.

Students should apply concepts from prior courses to critically examine and improve their current practice. Students are expected to integrate scholarly readings to develop case reports that demonstrate increasingly complex and proficient practice.

After the ISP has been developed by the student and approved by the course faculty, students will initiate a preconference with the faculty and preceptor to review the ISP.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

NRS-493 Individual Success Plan

REQUIRED PRACTICE HOURS: 100 Direct Clinical Experience (50 hours community/50 hours leadership) – 25 Indirect Clinical Experience Hours.

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Complete Contact Information

Student Information GCU

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Course Faculty Information GCU

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Practicum Preceptor Information Practice Setting

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ISP Instructions

Use this form to develop your Individual Success Plan (ISP) for NRS-493, the Professional Capstone and Practicum course. An individual success plan maps out what you, the RN-to-BSN student, needs to accomplish in order to be successful as you work through this course and complete your overall program of study. You will also share this with your preceptor at the beginning and end of this course so that he or she will know what you need to accomplish.

In this ISP, you will identify all of the objectives and assignments relating to the 100 direct clinical practice experience hours and the 25 indirect clinical practice hours you need to complete by the end of this course. Use this template to specify the date by which you will complete each assignment. Your plan should include a self-assessment of how you met all applicable GCU RN-to-BSN Domains & Competencies (see Appendix A).

General Requirements

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of each assignment as it pertains to deliverables due in this course:

Use the Individual Success Plan to develop a personal plan for completing your clinical practice experience hours and self-assess how you will meet the GCU RN-to-BSN University Mission Critical Competencies and the Programmatic Domains & Competencies (Appendix A) related to that course.

Show all of the major deliverables in the course, the topic/course objectives that apply to each deliverable, and lastly, align each deliverable to the applicable University Mission Critical Competencies and the course-specific Domains and Competencies (see Appendix A).

Completing your ISP does not earn clinical practice experience hours, nor does telephone conference time, or time spent with your preceptor.

Within the Individual Success Plan, ensure you identify all graded course assignments and indirect clinical assignments listed in the table on the next page.

Topic Graded Assignment Indirect Clinical Assignments

Topic 1 1. Individual Success Plan

2. Reflection Journal Entry

1. List of potential topics for the change proposal

Topic 2 1. Topic Selection Approval Paper

2. Reflection Journal Entry

1. Search the literature for supporting journal articles

2. Summary of topic category; community or leadership

Topic 3 1. PICOT Question Paper

2. Reflection Journal Entry

1. List of objectives

Topic 4 1. Literature Evaluation Table

2. Reflection Journal Entry

1. List of measurable outcomes

Topic 5 1. Reflection Journal Entry 1. Summary of the strategic plan

2. Midterm Evaluation Tool

Topic 6 1. Literature Review Table

2. Reflection Journal Entry

1. List of resources

Topic 7 1. Reflection Journal Entry 1. Summary of the evaluation plan

2. Remediation-if required

Topic 8 1. Benchmark Written Capstone Project Change Proposal

2. Reflection Journal Entry

Topic 9 1. Reflection Journal Entry 1. Professional Presentation

Topic 10 1. Finalized ISP

2. Scholarly Activity Summary

3. Benchmark-Reflection Journal Summary

1. Summary of presentation

2. Final Clinical Evaluation Tool

3. Practice Clinical Evaluation Tool-Agency

4. Practice Clinical Evaluation Tool-Preceptor