Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to  participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or  professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include  attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity  and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality  improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your  site, within your community, or nationally.

You are required to  post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this  course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved  and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.

Submit,  by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity,  including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points.  Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the  scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this  activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help  guide this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the  body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text  citations and references should be presented using APA documentation  guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the  Student Success Center.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Scholarly Activities

This document describes the scholarly activity elements that should be included in a five paragraph summary. You may use this resource to help guide the preparation of the Scholarly Activities assignment, due in Topic 10.

Overview

This section consists of a single paragraph that succinctly describes the scholarly activity that you attended/participated in, the target market for the activity, and the benefit of the activity to you.

Problem

This section consists of either a short narrative or a list of bullet points that concisely identifies the problems the scholarly activity is designed to solve. Educate: What is the current state of the activity topic? Explain why this is a problem, and for whom is it a problem? Inspire: What could a nurse achieve by participating in the scholarly activity? Use declarative sentences with simple words to communicate each point. Less is more.

Solution

This section consists of either a short paragraph or a list of bullet points that concisely describes the solution to a proposed practice problem that the scholarly activity addressed and how it addresses the problem outlined in the previous section.

Opportunity

This section consists of short paragraphs that define the opportunity that the scholarly activity is designed to capture. It is important to cover the objectives and goals that were met. How will attending/participating in this scholarly activity help you grow as a nurse?

Program Competencies Addressed

This section consists of a list of program competencies that were addressed in this scholarly activity. Please use the list from the ISP.

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