AACN BSN Essentials

Select one of the AACN BSN Essentials and elaborate on its meaning and importance in your own future professional nursing practice. In your post intended to clearly and thoroughly address the topic of this TD, be sure to:

• Identify the AACN BSN Essential that you have selected by name and number.
• Clearly and thoroughly explain why you selected this Essential.
• Clearly and thoroughly explain how this Essential will be used in your future professional nursing career.

For your response to a classmate to further develop that person’s ideas, select at least one classmate who has written about a different AACN BSN Essential than the one that you selected.

NOTE: Week 8 Discussion closes on Wednesday of Week 8. All Week 8 posts are due by Wednesday. Any posts submitted after Wednesday of Week 8 will not count towards your grade.

Hood, L. J. (2014). Leddy & Pepper’s conceptual bases of professional nursing (8th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

• Chapter 7: page 171
• Chapter 22: pp. 568–574
• Chapter 23: pp. 600–607

Other Required Readings (located in Webliography):

• Massachusetts Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies: Review
• AACN Essentials of Baccalaureate Education: Review