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Community Café Assignment Guidelines

Community Café Assignment Guidleines_ NOV25 © 2025 Chamberlain University. Al l Rights Reserved 1

Purpose

The purpose of the graded Community Café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nursing practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared. The Community Café assignment supports the professional formation of the nurse role.

Program outcomes: This assignment enables the student to meet the following outcomes:

2. Demonstrates leadership and collaboration with consumers and other healthcare providers in providing care and/or delegating responsibilities for health promotion, illness prevention, health restoration, health maintenance, and rehabilitative activities.

3. Communicates effectively with patient populations and other healthcare providers in managing the healthcare of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities.

4. Integrates clinical judgment in professional decision making and implementation of the nursing process.

5. Demonstrates responsibility for continued personal and professional development through enrollment in graduate education, continuing education degree programs, professional reading, and participation in professional organizations and community service.

8. Incorporates evidence-based practice in the provision of professional nursing care to individuals, families, aggregates and communities.

Due date: Initial posts are due to the discussion forum by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT. First peer responses are due by Wednesday 11:59 MT and second peer responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Students must post on a minimum of two separate days.

Total points possible: 25 points

Preparing the assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing this assignment. Speak with your faculty member if you have questions. 1) Review the Community Café assignment for the week in Canvas. 2) Include the following sections when engaging in Community Café activities:

a. Application of Course Knowledge: 20 points/80% 1. Answers 1 of the 3 questions with explanations and detail. 2. Includes a short summary of what has been learned (2-3 sentences) 3. Includes question(s) related to concepts that are still unclear. 4. Respond to a first peer’s initial post by Wednesday 11:59 p.m. MT. 5. Respond to a second peer’s initial post by Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT.

b. Professionalism in Communication: 5 points/20% 1. Grammar and mechanics are free of errors. 2. All answered questions and communications use terminology and collegial language appropriate to

nursing practice. 3. Citations included when appropriate 4. Post initial post and respond on a minimum of two separate days