Academic Resource/Strategy 1
The first academic resource that is useful to the MSN nursing student is research databases. These are very useful to the student as a budding academic. Postgraduate nursing students are expected to carry out research during the course and to build their academic portfolios. To come up with the literature that they use to support their problem statements and theoretical frameworks, the postgraduate nursing students must access up-to-date published peer-reviewed journal articles in their areas of interest. Research databases provide the solution to this by opening up access to a rich repository of previous published scholarly works. And because the contemporary practice now is to only employ healthcare interventions that are evidence-based, MSN nurse students are trained to make clinical inquiry into traditional healthcare practices by questioning their appropriateness. Through this they are able to come up with PICOT (population, intervention, comparison, outcome, and timeframe) statements and questions for which they then have to find support from published scholarly works. Again, the only available resource to help them do this are the research databases. Examples of these research databases are CINAHL, Embase, Cochrane, and PsychINFO (Bond, n.d.).
Academic Resource/Strategy 2
The second academic resource that the postgraduate MSN nurse student can make use of are the peer-reviewed journals published after scientific research and observations. The journals contain authoritative information that has been verified and counter-checked by academic peers in the same field as the authors. MSN nurse students are required in the course of doing their projects to only use credible authoritative sources to back their academic arguments. NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.Peer-reviewed academic journals provide these credible scholarly sources in the form of published articles. In being able to access and use published articles from peer-reviewed journals, the MSN nurse student not only benefits by getting information, but also by seeing how scholarly research is conducted. Examples of these peer-reviewed nursing journals include the Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA), Journal of Advanced Nursing, and Journal of Nursing Education (Bond, n.d.).
Academic Resource/Strategy 3
The third and last academic resource for the postgraduate MSN nursing student are the annual scientific conferences that are organized by the various professional nursing organizations such as the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). Almost all of these associations have provisions for student membership alongside the usual membership by qualified and practicing nurses. The students (such as the MSN students) benefit academically when they attend the annual scientific conferences that are organized by these professional associations. They get to hear feedback from the latest nursing research and also learn about innovations by nurse scholars (Bond, n.d.). NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.
Professional Resource/Strategy 1
On professional resources, it follows that when the student has obtained membership of a professional association as a student to benefit from the annual scientific conferences as stated above, they will retain the membership as professional nurses. Professional nursing associations are therefore the first professional resource that the MSN student will require once they graduate. There are very many professional nursing associations in the country. Examples of these professional nursing associations are the National Association of Neonatal Nurses, the Transcultural Nursing Society, and the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists amongst others. Apart from enabling the qualified professional MSN nurse to network with colleagues from different parts of the country, these professional associations and organizations also provide the opportunity for advocacy and leadership (Nurse.org., n.d.). NURS 6003N – Part 6: Finalizing the Plan.
Professional Resource/Strategy 2
The next professional resource for the qualified MSN nurse are the professional certification organizations and institutions. When a qualified MSN nurse is certified in her area of expertise, they become more respected and marketable to employers. Furthermore, it becomes easier to obtaing licensure to practice in many states when the MSN nurse is certified. In fact, in some of the states it is mandatory to have certification from a recognized body before b
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