This guide is for NURS 524 Week 6 Reflective Exercise 2, start to submission. The second reflective exercise, the largest of the three, in current APA with a title page and reference page.
NURS 524 is Systems Management and Leadership for Nurse Leaders, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's MSN. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as NURS524; it is the same course.
| Course | NURS 524 Systems Management and Leadership for Nurse Leaders |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 6 |
| Points | 125 points |
| Length | As set in the exercise's own instructions |
| Sources | As set in the exercise's own instructions; cite the course texts |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Current APA with a title page and reference page |
What NURS 524 Week 6 Reflective Exercise 2 asks for
Reflective Exercise 2 is due in Module/Week 6 with Kelly and Tazbir chapter 13, Porter-O'Grady and Malloch chapter 9 and two websites. It follows its own guidelines for length and sources, in current APA with a title page and reference page, and at 125 points it is the largest of the three exercises.
Where it fits in NURS 524
In the published schedule, Reflective Exercise 2 is one of 10 graded written assignments in NURS 524. It follows Week 5 The Influence of Teams on Patient Outcomes and comes before Week 7 Discussion Board Forum 2.
How NURS 524 Week 6 Reflective Exercise 2 is graded
Liberty grades Reflective Exercise 2 with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 125 points in the published guide. That is about 12% of the course's 1,010 points. Read the rubric first. Each row is a criterion, and the wording of the highest column is the closest thing you have to a model answer.
Course grades in NURS 524 use Liberty's point scale: an A is 940 to 1010 points of the course total. Missing the length or source minimum usually costs points on several rows at once, which is why the checklist below starts with them.
Timing in the published guide: Each course module/week begins on Monday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday. Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The NURS 524 Week 6 method, step by step
Pick one event and stay with it
Choose a single event or experience that fits the Reflective Exercise 2 prompt and that you can describe honestly. One well-examined event beats three summarized ones.
Describe it briefly and accurately
Tell what happened in a few sentences. Remove names and identifying details; the reader needs the situation, not the people.
Analyze it with course concepts
Use the concepts from Systems Management and Leadership for Nurse Leaders to explain why it happened. This is the part graders weigh most: the reflection must show the course changed how you see the event.
Bring in the evidence the guide asks for
Meet the source rule (As set in the exercise's own instructions; cite the course texts). Sources turn a personal account into professional analysis by showing how others have studied the same problem.
Say what you would do differently
End with a specific change in practice that follows from the analysis. Graders look for growth that is tied to the evidence you cited.
Write in first person, formatted in APA
Use first person where you describe your own experience and keep the APA format for everything else. Check the length (As set in the exercise's own instructions).
A structure for NURS 524 Week 6 Reflective Exercise 2
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,000 words of body text, set by the length in the guide; the rubric decides where to spend more.
| Section | What it must do | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Name the event and the lesson the paper will draw from it. | ~130 words |
| The event | What happened and your role, without identifying details. | ~220 words |
| Analysis | Why it happened, explained with course concepts and sources. | ~420 words |
| What changes | What you learned and the concrete change you will make. | ~170 words |
| Conclusion | Tie the lesson back to the course. | ~60 words |
A topic angle that works
Mid-course chapters address change and innovation. Reflect on a change you lived through at work, and analyze it with a change model such as Lewin's or Kotter's: which steps were done well, which were skipped, and with what result.
Model paragraph with notes
An original paragraph written by our desk to show the register that earns full rubric credit. It is study material: learn the moves, then write your own.
The electronic health record conversion on my unit felt chaotic, and Kotter's model explains why.1 Leadership created urgency and announced the go-live date, but the guiding coalition was made up of managers, not the nurses who would chart in the system, so the short-term wins Kotter emphasizes never reached the floor.2 If I lead a change, I will put two frontline nurses on the planning team from the first meeting.3
- Names the change and the model.
- Applies specific steps of the model to the experience.
- Turns the analysis into a leadership commitment.
Mistakes that cost points on NURS 524 Week 6
- Narrative without a change model.
- Ignoring the exercise's own length and source rules.
- No title or reference page.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: As set in the exercise's own instructions
- Sources: As set in the exercise's own instructions; cite the course texts
- No names or identifying details of patients, clients or coworkers
- At least one course concept named and applied
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
How many points is NURS 524 Reflective Exercise 2?
125 points in the published guide, the largest of the three reflective exercises.
How many points is NURS 524 Week 6 Reflective Exercise 2 worth?
125 points in Liberty's published course guide for NURS 524, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 12% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is NURS 524 Week 6 the same in every section of NURS 524?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for NURS 524. Liberty notes that course content can change from term to term, so if your Canvas section shows different instructions, a different week or different points, follow Canvas and your instructor.
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