Unit 9 Nursing 501 Assignment
Developing Professional Maturity: Photo Essay
In this assignment, you will illustrate a commitment to personal health and well-being and a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity by creating a photo essay.
Photo essays tell a story in pictures. This is a PowerPoint assignment with voice. This is not simply an art form assignment but an academic-level illustration of your commitment to personal health well-being as a health care professional while demonstrating an advanced-level spirit of inquiry, fostering flexibility and professional maturity. Much of the content you may realize is yet to be developed within you. Address how you have progressed in each topic and how you plan to continue to develop. Pace yourself as you add the audio so the picture can have an impact on the viewer as well as your content.
The content on the slide should be a photo with a title aligning with the below-bolded slide topics. You can add a brief description or a few words on the side if you choose or over the picture slightly, using appropriate aesthetics. Look up examples of photo essays to gain ideas. Remember, this is not strictly only a photo essay or art. You will have a title on each slide and audio narration with academic-level reflection and references toward advanced nursing maturity.
The focus is on you and your representation of the content via pictures and voice.
Each slide should be an appropriately related photo then described by you in audio.
- Title slide: Title of presentation, a picture of you, your name, course, etc.
- Introduction: A photo. Narration is the introduction to the content being presented.
- About Me: A photo. Address the program you are in and your background in nursing. Include why you are pursuing a master’s degree. What is your inspiration?
- Personal Health: A photo. Address personal health beliefs and goal(s).
- Well-Being: A photo. Address your emotional well-being and how you can develop this toward professional maturity. Include content on emotional intelligence.
- Spirit of Inquiry: A photo. Describe what this means and how you plan to foster inquiry in your professional practice. Where will you locate resources?
- Fostering Flexibility: A photo. Describe what this means and how you plan to foster flexibility in your professional practice. How might flexibility be shown? Include narration content on social determinants of health.
- Lifelong Learning: A photo. Describe what lifelong learning you will have to maintain for your advanced nursing practice role.
- Professional Maturity: A photo. Address what professional maturity will look like in your new role. What needs do you have to develop to attain professional maturity in your new role, and what skills do you have now that will translate?
- Conclusion: A photo. The picture here is about you and your professional journey as you begin the road toward your master’s degree.
- References: Include scholarly support in your references and a reference page. Personal reflection supported by published sources adds support to your reasoning. You can cite on the bottom right of the slide in a smaller font 10–12, to keep within the aesthetics of the presentation. Your instructor can direct you on any specific requirements for referring to the citation.
Photo Essay Pointers
- The photos should elicit a depiction, an emotion, or a thought related to the purpose of the assignment and topical slide content.
- All the pictures do not have to be yours but can be from other sources you reference.
- If you use web pictures, be sure they are public domain and cite them.
- All photos must be appropriate for any viewer.
- Do not share information you consider private.
- No real patients should be in the photos.
- Nothing propriety can be in the photos.
- Keep the directed order of slides and the slide titles.
Assignment Requirements:
- Slide number requirement is 11 slides total.
- Each slide should have audio narration.
- Duration of the narration is 3–5 minutes.
- The presentation should be formatted so that it will “auto-play” without any need for observer interaction with the program.
- Three peer-reviewed sources are required (more is fine) within 5 years or less publication dates.
- Utilize spelling and grammar checks to minimize errors.
- An introduction and conclusion are required and considered a standard requirement. Use APA 7th edition.
- Use this source to guide how to format your presentation in APA style.
Your assignment should:
- Align content with margins and not beyond.
- Have no blurred pictures or art.
- Be well-ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful.
- Display superior design, content, organization, style, and mechanics.
You are encouraged to consult the Academic Success Center before submission of your work.
To view the grading rubric for this assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Resources.
