NURSING Week 2 ASSIGNMENT Presentation Rubric
Instructions/Steps:
1. Choose one from the following advance practice nursing (APN) positions:
● Certified Nurse Anesthetist
● Certified Nurse Midwife (This NOT a CPM, so make sure you research the
correct one as a CPM is not a nurse)
● Nurse Practitioner, if you choose this position, narrow your selection to one of the
following:
o AGNP - Gerontology NP (You will want to focus on the Gerontology
aspect for this specialty)
o PMHNP - Mental Health/Behavioral Health NP
o FNP - Family NP (You will need to focus on the Family aspect for this
specialty OR if the FNP works in another area such as acute care, then you
would focus on their specific work area)
o PNP - Pediatric NP
o NNP - Neonatal NP
o WHNP - Women's Health (this is NOT the same as a CNM although you
can take both CNM and WHNP tracks at the same time within a college
program)
2. Research and find 3 roles and 3 challenges (no more) the selected APN position faces in
Illinois. (Be specific to the identified APN specialty you have chosen; so you will want to
identify areas that are unique to that position and cannot be generalized to others. Utilize
the Illinois specific corresponding Advanced Practice Rules and Regulations as well as
specialty associations to assist with this item. Keep in mind that Illinois APNs have full
practice authority. Note: For this assignment, the word "role" refers to the position or
purpose that someone has in an organization or situation.
3. Contact a licensed, working APN in the field you have chosen and interview them as to
how the roles and challenges you identified affect their current practice. Identify if the
APN has a DNP and how having (or not having) this degree impacts the roles and
challenges. Make sure the person being interviewed understands that no identifying
information will be used within your assignment. You may interview someone from
another state, but you must use the Illinois rules and regulations for your assignment and
then compare how Illinois is different from the state the interviewee is licensed in. You
need to clearly state that you are presenting the information from an interview but you do
not cite or reference the interview.
4. In a PowerPoint presentation, you will use the 6x6 rule (each slide should have no more
than 6 bullet points with each bullet point having no more than 6 words). Your detailed
discussion should be placed on the speaker notes, in full sentences and cited. Provide a
cover slide that includes the APN position you have chosen, your name and date. You
will need an APA formatted reference page(s) as your last slide(s). (This slide(s) should
look exactly like an APA paper’s reference page with all the font size and style matching,
double spacing throughout, and for the individual references, all lines after the first are
indented). You may need to delete the heading area of the slide to comply with APA.
