Description

Preparing the Collaboration Café

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

Directions

Collaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge

Step 1: Reflect on your experiences within and outside the healthcare setting and consider how you have exhibited leadership in a formal or informal capacity.

Step 2: Answer all questions below with explanations and details. No scholarly sources are required.

Paragraph one: Examine your personal guiding principles and beliefs. Which ones do you think have influenced your approach to leadership?

Paragraph two: Reflect on your personal or professional leadership experiences. How do you feel your personal or professional background has shaped or influenced your ability to lead?

Paragraph three: Reflect on instances when your professional nursing values (i.e., quality care, family presence, compassion, etc.) or specific ethical principles (i.e., autonomy, justice, beneficence, nonmaleficence) guided your actions as a formal or informal leader. How did adhering to these principles impact your experience and the experience of others?

Posts should meet the following criteria:

Engage in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage with peers and/or faculty by asking questions and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.

1. Respond to a peer and/or faculty post.
2. Provide additional information or clarification in the reply post.
3. Add depth to the Collaboration Café.

Communicate Professionally: Communicate professionally on all posts.

1. Communicate clearly and concisely.
2. Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly.
3. Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.

• Participate: Participate during the assigned week. You are expected to meet the minimum participation requirement described below. You will receive a 10% point deduction in a graded discussion if you do not post at least two (2) times on at least two (2) different days during the assigned week.

1. Post in the Collaboration Café at least two times.
2. Post in the Collaboration Café on two different days.