NR 393 Week 1 Collaboration Café: Historical Influences on Nursing Today
Week 1 Collaboration Café: Historical Influences on Nursing Today
The history of nursing or an institution like Chamberlain University provides insights into their journey to acquiring their current statuses. A notable surprise about Chamberlain’s unique history is how it goes back to the Deaconess tradition and its model, where healthcare services address the local community needs. Based on this model, Chamberlain, which means chief steward, recognizes the valuable role of the nurse as the central steward and patient care coordinator (Chamberlain University LLC., 2025). The continuity of this history inspires Chamberlain to empower nursing students and raise the standard of nursing education to make positive contributions to the global community.
Nursing image evolves as people’s knowledge increases, perceptions change, and services improve, among other factors. My image of nursing is a practice where highly qualified professionals of all genders, races, and ages work passionately to provide compassionate, patient-centered care in a caring environment. This image differs from media portrayals of nursing as a female profession of young individuals who are subordinate and subservient to physicians (González et al., 2023). Although nursing has been a female-dominated profession for a long time, portraying them as young and following exclusive orders from physicians differs from what the practice is today. All ages are present, and many nurses work autonomously in many full-practice authority states.
History drives the future, implying that today’s actions and views will shape the future of nursing. This influence is inevitable since current policies, education programs, and practice values will determine how nursing will perceive and address future issues. Today’s actions will also influence the type of issues that nursing will face in the future. Consequently, there is a need for policies that promote diversity, solutions to the nursing shortage, curricula that empower nurses to address contemporary public health issues, and ethos that facilitates a sense of belonging in the profession (Sumpter et al., 2022). Among others, these actions will influence a practice that welcomes and works for everyone. Nursing professionals and the public will also be confident in it; hence, a positive perception.
References
Chamberlain University LLC. (2025). Our history and heritage. https://www.chamberlain.edu/about/history
González, H., Errasti‐Ibarrondo, B., Iraizoz‐Iraizoz, A., & Choperena, A. (2023). The image of nursing in the media: a scoping review. International Nursing Review, 70(3), 425-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12833
Sumpter, D., Blodgett, N., Beard, K., & Howard, V. (2022). Transforming nursing education in response to the future of nursing 2020–2030 report. Nursing Outlook, 70(6), S20-S31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2022.02.007
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Historical Influences on Nursing Today
Collaboration Café
Purpose
This Collaboration Café aims to reflect on how history has shaped the nursing profession and Chamberlain University.
Course Outcomes
This Collaboration Café enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 2: Apply lessons from nursing history to today’s professional nursing practice. (PO 4)
- CO 4: Analyze the impact of nursing history on professional nursing roles today and in the future. (PO 7)
Due Date
Graded Collaboration Cafés in Weeks 1-7 are due Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. For courses with Week 8 graded Collaboration Cafés, the Collaboration Café will close on Saturday at 11:59 p.m. MT. All Week 8 Collaboration Café requirements must be met by this deadline.
Total Points Possible
This Collaboration Café is worth a total of 50 points.
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 this week’s lesson.
Step 2: Answer all questions below with explanations and details that indicate thoughtful reflection.?No scholarly sources are required.
Paragraph one: Reflect on the long history of nursing through the lens of this week’s lesson. What is something new you learned this week or something that surprised you about nursing history or Chamberlain’s own unique history?
Paragraph two: The current image of nursing has evolved throughout history. How does your image of nursing differ from the image of nursing that you may have seen portrayed through media or other public sources?
Paragraph three: History drives the future. How will today’s actions and views of nursing influence the future of nursing?
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.
- Respond to a peer and/or faculty post.
- Provide additional information or clarification in the reply post.
- Add depth to the collaboration café.
- Communicate Professionally: Communicates professionally on all posts.
- Communicate clearly and concisely.
- Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly.
- Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
- Participate: Participates during the assigned week. Students are expected to meet the minimum participation requirement described below. A 10% point deduction will be earned for not posting at least two (2) times on at least two (2) different days during the assigned week.
- Post in the Collaboration Café at least two times.
- Post in the Collaboration Café on two different days.
Grading
To view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the collaboration café title and then Show Rubric.
NR393 Week 1 Collaboration Café Rubric
| Criteria | Ratings | Pts | |||||
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| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCollaboration Café: Reflect on Knowledge(4 Required Criteria)
1. Answer all questions below with explanations and detail.? 2. Reflect on the long history of nursing through the lens of this week’s lesson. What is something new you learned this week or something that surprised you about nursing history or Chamberlain’s own unique history? 3. The current image of nursing has many variations based on history. How does your image of nursing differ from the image of nursing that the media or others have? 4. History drives the future. How will today’s actions and views of nursing influence the future of nursing? |
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28 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeEngage in Meaningful Dialogue(3 required criteria)
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. |
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14 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeCommunicate Professionally1. Communicate clearly and concisely.
2. Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly. 3. Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation. |
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8 pts | |||||
| This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeParticipateDuring the assigned week (Sunday the start of the assigned week through Sunday the end of the assigned week):
1. Post in the collaboration café at least two times, and 2. Post in the collaboration café on two different days. |
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0 pts | |||||
| Total Points: 50 | |||||||