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1. DISCUSSION QUESTION WEEK 1 Personal Goals
DISCUSSION QUESTION WEEK 1 Personal GoalsDISCUSSION QUESTION WEEK 1 Personal
GoalsAre you familiar with Walden University’s vision and mission? Were they a factor in
selecting this University? How do they relate to your professional and academic goals? Does
it matter if there is a tight or loose relationship or one at all? This week’s Discussion asks
you to think about how the Walden mission and vision and the School of Nursing (SON)
mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. Is there a match? How
does Walden’s mission and vision relate to your becoming a scholar-practitioner committed
to social change? To prepare: Review the Walden and SON mission and vision statements,
Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes
presented in this week’s Learning Resources. Reflect on your professional and academic
goals as they relate to your program/specialization. Consider how the information in the
documents, identified above, fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-
practitioner. Think about how you will incorporate your commitment to social change into
your professional and academic goals, particularly as it relates to the area(s) of interest
represented by your program/specialization. Post a description of one or more significant
ways in which Walden’s and the School of Nursing’s perspectives (i.e., vision, mission, social
change message, and outcomes) relate to your professional and academic goals and to your
becoming a scholar-practitioner. Include how you plan to incorporate social change into
your professional and academic goals. Support your Discussion assignment with specific
resources used in its preparation using APA formatting. You are asked to provide a
reference for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this
course. IMPORTANT: THE DISCUSSION QUESTION HAS TO BE FREE OF PLAGIARISM NOTE:
READ AND USE THE DOCUMENTS ATTACHED BELLOW TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT
CORRECTLY. USE THE APA Basics Checklist: Citations, Reference List, and Style AS A
GUIDE. MY PROGRAM/SPECIAIZATION IS: MASTER IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSE
PRACTITIONERORDER NOW FOR CUSTOMIZED, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPERSYou must
proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and
grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect
your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical
mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before
handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend
proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to
uncorrected mistakes.Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface.

2. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to
read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to
compress it into fewer pages.Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-
spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between
letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are
unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.The paper must be neatly
formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each
page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If
it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument