Submit a 5-paragraph essay in which you analyze your own readiness in the area of personal leadership. You will use the Week 2 Assignment template provided to complete each section indicated. For each of the following sections, be sure to include specific examples, scores, or other details from one or more of the different self-assessment activities you completed this week. You should include enough details to support your analysis for each section of the essay. The section titles should be as follows:

• Progress and Performance Management
  • Based on the results of the self-assessment activities you completed this week, analyze how well you manage your performance on activities, including how you track progress and prioritize your time. Provide specific examples and information or scores from the self-assessment activities to support your response. (1 paragraph)
• Cueing Strategies
  • Based on the results of the self-assessment activities you completed this week, analyze your current use of positive and negative cueing strategies in your own self-leadership. Provide specific examples to support your response, including an assessment of how effective you are in this area. (1 paragraph)
• Goal Setting
  • Based on the results of this week’s self-assessment activities, analyze your current goal-setting behaviors, including how often you set goals, whether they are goals you are able to achieve, and how successful you generally feel in meeting your goals. (1 paragraph)
• Self-Rewards and Feedback
  • Based on the results of this week’s self-assessment activities, analyze your use of self-rewards, self-punishment, and other feedback, including specific strategies you use to influence your own behavior. (1 paragraph)
• Summary of Results
  • Classify your level of readiness in the area of personal leadership. As support for your classification, include your Total Score on the Self-Leadership Questionnaire, as well as any areas identified in your completion of the Self-Assessments that could provide some insight into areas you may want to continue to improve upon. (1 paragraph)

INSTRUCTIONS

In Hamlet, Shakespeare makes significant use of extended monologues, or soliloquies, to express the thoughts and feelings of Hamlet in dramatic form. For this assessment, write a 6–8-page essay in which you explore the use of this technique in three distinct ways:

1. Select one of Hamlet’s soliloquies from the play and analyze how it displays his inner thoughts for the audience in dramatic form.
2. Use evidence from the play to compose a soliloquy that expresses the point of view of one of the following characters: Gertrude, Claudius, Ophelia, or Polonius. Into which act of the play would you insert this additional speech?
3. Write a soliloquy for yourself, expressing the central narrative of your own life in dramatic form. Think of yourself as a character, explaining yourself to an audience that does not include those who play the most important roles in your life.

This assessment requires you to employ your critical skills in analyzing a work of literature but also gives you the opportunity to apply what you have learned in creative expression of your own.

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Length: 6–8 typed and double-spaced pages.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional. You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:

The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).

You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.

Why is understanding the health care system at the local level important to consider when planning an EBP implementation? Conduct research and solicit anecdotal evidence from your course mentor that you will take into consideration for your own change project.