Purpose
The purpose of the graded Collaboration Café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nurse practitioner (NP) practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared. This collaboration café supports the professional formation of the nurse practitioner role. 
Course Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO 1: Examine essential competencies and underpinnings across advanced nursing practice roles. (POs 2, 5)
CO 2: Evaluate factors that influence healthcare delivery across diverse settings. (POs 1, 5)
CO 5: Demonstrate professional competencies in the formation of the advanced nursing practice role. (POs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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Preparing the Collaboration Café
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Instructions:
Reflect upon your current or previous workplace organization, and consider the organizational mission, vision, and values, as well as the organizational culture, and leadership practices then discuss the following: 
Include the following sections:
Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
State the name of the organization and share their mission, vision, and values (note: the organization you choose must have all three elements). Describe the mission, vision, and values of the organization. To what extent are the behaviors of leaders in the organization congruent with the mission, vision, and values?
To what extent are the mission, vision, and values congruent with nursing core values?
How were the mission, vision, and values similar to and different from your personal philosophy of nursing?
Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.