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Liberty's catalog frames NURS 721 as a study of organizational leadership and advanced communication that improve care and outcomes, of consultative and leadership approaches that encourage collaboration, of the advanced practice nurse's role in policy development, championing change and inspiring clinical innovation, and of national and global policy issues with attention to their ethics.

The published guide opens in Module/Week 1 with Clawson's introductory and closing chapters and an appendix of leadership theories, plus the checklist, introductions and Discussion Board Forum 1 at 50 points. Module/Week 2 reads three more Clawson chapters and asks for Forum 2.

Module/Week 3 reads Clawson on emotions and asks for the Emotional Intelligence Paper, worth 200. Module/Week 4 brings Forum 3, and Module/Week 5 the Leadership and Change Theory Synthesis Paper, worth 300 and the largest single grade.

Module/Week 6 switches to Goudreau and Smolenski on policy and asks your group to submit its presentation topic, worth 50. Module/Week 7 is the Group Electronic Presentation Project, worth 250, and Module/Week 8 closes with Forum 4.

The class is carried in three blocks. The first block, Modules/Weeks 1 to 3, is the two opening forums and the emotional intelligence paper. If your section asks you to take an emotional intelligence self-assessment, you complete it and send the results, and the paper is written around your actual scores, strengths and growth areas, linked to Clawson and the research literature.

The second block, Modules/Weeks 4 and 5, is Forum 3 and the synthesis paper. The writer chooses two or three leadership and change theories that fit your role, such as transformational leadership with Kotter's change model or servant leadership with Lewin, and synthesizes them into an argument about leading change in your setting.

The third block is the group project. Your group picks the policy topic; the writer can propose options if you are asked for ideas, then drafts your assigned slides and notes, researched from Goudreau and Smolenski and current policy sources.

Forum 4 closes the course. Every item reaches you about a week before its date, and you post and submit it yourself.

NURS 721 is written by a nurse executive with a DNP or PhD, someone who has led departments, managed change and worked on policy, whether through a professional association, a state board or an organization's government relations work.

The writer knows Clawson's model of leading at the level of values and beliefs, the major leadership and change theories that appear in DNP programs, and Goudreau and Smolenski's account of how advanced practice nurses influence policy.

The emotional intelligence paper is written with care. It uses your own results and examples you provide, and presents your growth areas honestly, because that candor is what the rubric rewards.

A second doctorally prepared nurse leader reads both papers and your presentation share before you see them, checking the theories, the evidence and the ethics discussion.

Your organization and colleagues are never named. Examples from your leadership are described by role and setting only, so a paper shared with your group gives nothing away.

The first sticking point is Clawson. Level Three Leadership asks readers to examine their own values and assumptions, and students who skim it write forums and papers that sound like general leadership advice rather than engagement with the text.

The second is the emotional intelligence paper. Students either describe emotional intelligence in general terms without applying it to themselves, or reflect personally without connecting to theory and research. At 200 points, the paper needs both.

The third is the synthesis paper, worth 300 points. A synthesis is not two summaries side by side. The rubric expects the theories to be compared, combined and applied to a real change, and many first drafts never make that move.

The fourth is the group presentation. Coordinating a topic and slides with classmates in different time zones, while the policy content must be current and accurate, takes more time than most expect.

The last is ethics. Policy topics carry ethical dimensions that the presentation and Forum 4 must address explicitly, and students often leave them implicit.

Hand over NURS 721 before Module/Week 1 and the opening forums are ready as the course begins. The emotional intelligence paper arrives during Module/Week 2, as soon as your self-assessment results are in.

The synthesis paper is drafted across Modules/Weeks 3 and 4 and reaches you before Module/Week 5 opens, giving you time to read it closely. Forum 3 arrives before Module/Week 4.

The group block is scheduled around your group. Topic ideas are ready before Module/Week 6, and your share of slides and notes arrives early enough for the group to assemble and rehearse the presentation before Module/Week 7 ends. Forum 4 arrives before Module/Week 8.

The quote lists four forums, two papers, the topic contribution and your presentation share, each with its Module/Week. The group's collective decisions, any self-assessment and the checklist never appear on it.

If you are past Module/Week 3, the plan prices what is left, usually the synthesis paper and the group block, and continues from your graded work.