This guide is for NURS 626 Week 6 Professional Portfolio, start to submission. Part 2 of the portfolio: an honest showcase of your accomplishments with expertise summary, leadership philosophy, CV, goals, development and service.
NURS 626 is Nursing Administration IV: Nursing Administration Capstone, 3 credit hours, in Liberty University's MSN. Canvas and the course guide file print the code as NURS626; it is the same course.
| Course | NURS 626 Nursing Administration IV: Nursing Administration Capstone |
|---|---|
| Module/Week | 6 |
| Points | 100 points |
| Length | All required portfolio elements (no page count set in the guide) |
| Sources | Cite any sources in current APA |
| Faith integration | Not required by the guide |
| Format | Current APA throughout |
What NURS 626 Week 6 Professional Portfolio asks for
Building on your CV, you create a professional portfolio that honestly depicts your abilities and successes and showcases accomplishments, talents, competencies and performance. It must include a summary of professional expertise, a statement of leadership philosophy, your curriculum vitae, professional goals, professional development and service, all in current APA. It is due in Module/Week 6 with Kouzes and Posner chapters 7 and 8 and is worth 100 points.
Where it fits in NURS 626
In the published schedule, Professional Portfolio is one of 11 graded written assignments in NURS 626. It follows Week 5 Capstone Project Part 3 Outline and comes before Week 7 Capstone Project Part 4 Visual Presentation.
How NURS 626 Week 6 Professional Portfolio is graded
Liberty grades Professional Portfolio with the rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas, worth 100 points in the published guide. That is about 10% of the course's 1,010 points. The rubric rows are the real instructions. Draft against them, and you will rarely be surprised by the grade.
Course grades in NURS 626 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 week begins on Monday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday. Check the due dates in your Canvas section, which govern.
The NURS 626 Week 6 method, step by step
See where this piece sits in the project
Read the whole project brief before this stage. Knowing where Professional Portfolio leads lets you collect the right information now.
Choose a subject you can research
Pick a real organization, product or setting with enough public information to support every stage. A subject that runs out of data halfway through is hard to recover.
Answer the questions this stage asks
Turn each question in the stage instructions into a heading and answer it with specifics about your subject, not general theory.
Apply the course model
Use the framework from Nursing Administration IV: Nursing Administration Capstone that this stage is built on, named and applied step by step to your subject.
Support with sources
Cite the facts you use (Cite any sources in current APA). Industry reports, filings and journal articles carry more weight than websites with no author.
Format, length and teamwork
Check length (All required portfolio elements, no page count set in the guide) and APA. For group stages, split the sections early and leave a day for one person to unify the voice.
A structure for NURS 626 Week 6 Professional Portfolio
Word targets are planning numbers for about 1,200 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 | The subject and what this stage covers. | ~150 words |
| Stage questions | Each question in the instructions, answered with specifics. | ~610 words |
| Framework applied | The course model worked through on the subject. | ~280 words |
| Implications | What this stage means for the next ones. | ~150 words |
A topic angle that works
Make the leadership philosophy statement the anchor: one page that says what you believe about leading nurses, with each other element (goals, development, service) showing that belief in action.
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.
I believe nurse leaders exist to make it possible for nurses to give excellent care.1 That belief shapes how I lead: I spend the first hour of each shift on the unit, I protect breaks, and I bring staff into decisions that affect their work, practices that Kouzes and Posner call enabling others to act.2 My faith grounds this view, because the leader Christ modeled served those he led.3
- States a belief in one sentence.
- Shows the belief in specific practices.
- Connects it to faith without overstatement.
Mistakes that cost points on NURS 626 Week 6
- Missing one of the six required elements.
- A philosophy with no practices.
- A CV that was not updated from Week 3 feedback.
Checklist before you submit
- Length: All required portfolio elements (no page count set in the guide)
- Sources: Cite any sources in current APA
- Every question in this stage's instructions answered
- Consistent with the subject chosen in earlier stages
- Each rubric row read against the section that answers it
Questions students ask
What must the NURS 626 portfolio include?
A summary of professional expertise, a statement of leadership philosophy, your curriculum vitae, professional goals, professional development and service.
How many points is NURS 626 Week 6 Professional Portfolio worth?
100 points in Liberty's published course guide for NURS 626, out of a course total of 1,010 points (about 10% of the grade). The rubric attached to the assignment in Canvas shows how those points are divided.
Is NURS 626 Week 6 the same in every section of NURS 626?
This guide follows Liberty's published course guide for NURS 626. 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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