Question: Complete a self-inventory on personal biases you hold. The biases might be implicit or explicit.
1. In a one to two-page summary, address the following.
• Identify your selected specialty track (education, executive, family nurse practitioner, healthcare policy, or nursing informatics).
• Discuss how biases can impact outcomes in selected nursing practice settings.
• Identify personal biases and attitudes toward people with various cultural, gender, sexual orientation, age, weight, and religions that are different than your own.
• Select one bias that you have.
• Develop one strategy to reduce this bias.
Preparing the paper
Submission Requirements
1. Application: Use Microsoft Word 2013TM to create the written assessment.
2. Length: The paper (excluding the title page and reference page) is at maximum two pages.
3. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature references must be used. Make sure to use references that are current, no older than 5 years.
4. Submission: Submit your files: Last name_Firstinitial_Assessment 2_Addressing Bias
Best Practices in Preparing the Project
The following are best practices in preparing this project.
1. Review directions thoroughly.
2. Follow submission requirements.
3. Make sure all elements on the grading rubric are included.
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing.
5. Title page, running head, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the 6th edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used.
6. Ideas and information that come from scholarly literature must be cited and referenced correctly.
7. A minimum of two (2) scholarly literature references must be used.
8. Abide by CCN academic integrity policy.