APA Health Care and Life Sciences

NURSING

APA Format. Single spaced. NO PLAGARISM…PAPER WILL BE CHECKED BEFORE ANY PAYMENTS ARE RELEASED!!!

USE THE ATTACHED ARTICLE AS THE ONLY REFERENCE/SOURCE FOR THE PAPER/QUESTIONS

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
How do nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at your workplace (or previous clinical setting)? What changes would you suggest be made on your unit or facility to improve a non-punitive culture of safety? (In one paragraph)

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
Select a challenging nursing care issue (examples include falls, medication errors, pressure ulcers, and other clinical issues that can be improved by evidence in nursing). Do not select a medical issue (disease, medical treatment). Do not select a workforce issue (staffing, call-offs, nurse to patient ratios). Explain the following for the selected clinical issue.
-State the issue.
-Explain the process you would use to search CINAHL(NURSING DATABASE) for evidence.0- Include your search terms.  (In one paragraph)

USE THESE REFERENCES ONLY:

Blais, K. K., & Hayes, J. S. (2011). Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

Hess, R. G. (2004). From bedside to boardroom: Nursing shared governance. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 9(1).

Hood, L. J. (2018). Leddy & Pepper’s professional nursing (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (SPECIFICALLY TARGET THIS REFERENCE)
-Chapter 6: pp. 136137
Chapter 15: pp. 400401
Chapter 17: pp. 443448, 451453
Chapter 10: pp. 256271
Chapter 15: pp. 384385

Massachusetts Action Coalition Future of Nursing. (2016). The Massachusetts nursing core competencies: A toolkit for implementation in education and practice settings (2nd ed.). Retrieved from http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/685777

FORMATTING:
                                              Introduction (about 75 words)

Introduce the assigned paper topic. Explain that this paper is a summary of the assigned article, followed by explanation of the impact of the article contents on your own future professional nursing practice. 

                      Article Summary (about 200 words)
    Type statements that summarize the assigned article here. This paper should include a summary of the most important ideas in the assigned article. Most of these facts should be paraphrased (including proper citations). One or two short direct quotations (with appropriate citations) should be used in this section. There should be no prior knowledge, experience, or opinion in this section. All facts (both quoted and paraphrased) must originate from and be cited to the assigned article. No information should be included from other sources. (USE THE ATTACHED ARTICLE BELOW)
    Add paragraphs here as needed.

                    Impact of Assigned Article Content on Future Practice (about 150 words)
Type statements here about the impact that the content of the assigned article will have on your future professional nursing practice. This portion of this paper should be your own ideas about how your own future practice will be impacted by content of the assigned article. Since ideas are your own, use of first person is appropriate and no citations are needed in this section. See rubric for length limitations and other criteria.
    Add paragraphs here as needed.

                                                         
                                                            Conclusion (about words)
A concise summary of the paper is to be written here. A concluding statement is also to be provided in this section.

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 500-525 = 1 PAGE SINGLE SPACED; NOT INCLUDING THE REFERENCE PAGE

                                        Reference (centered, not bold)
Type your reference here using hanging indent and double line spacing (under Paragraph on the Home toolbar ribbon).  See your APA Manual and the resources in the APA section of Course Resources under Modules for reference formatting.