Write a scholarly paper about a nursing association using the guidelines and rubric outlined at the end of the syllabus and submit it to the assigned drop box on Canvas by Sunday at 11:59pm.
Note: Please be advised that only up to 20% similarity index (exclusive of citations/references) will be allowed.
Guidelines for Scholarly Paper
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to become familiar with the purpose and bylaws of a professional nursing association.
Instructions: Students must complete the following sections for this paper:
Choose a nursing association.
List the mission and purpose of the association.
How is it governed?
What is the legislative agenda of the association?
How is that agenda developed? Is the membership involved?
How is the agenda communicated to the membership?
Does it partner with any coalitions?
Does the partnership influence policy on a national or state level? If yes, how?
When you graduate will you join the association? If yes, why? If no, why not?
Additionally,
Your paper should be at least six (6) paragraphs in length (each paragraph should have at least five sentences). The first paragraph should be the introduction, the next four (4) should be the body, and the last paragraph should be the conclusion.
You must follow APA regarding citations with references (Please ensure to include at least three (3) citations with references. One [1] or two [2] of your citations can be personal communication—check your APA manual for the correct way to cite personal communications). Please use 12 font and check for grammar and spelling errors.
Each page of your paper should have a running head including your title page (see pg. 61 in your APA manual). Your title page should only have the title, your name and the name of the college you attend (along with the running head as page 1). Your references should be on a separate page following the conclusion and should have a list of references that correspond to each citation in your paper (see pg. 66 in your APA manual). However, if you cite personal communications, you will not add them to the reference (Please see your APA manual for guidance on personal communication citations).
Please submit your paper to Tutor. com or the Student Success Center here at FGC for feedback before you submit it for grading.
Rubric for Scholarly Paper: Nurse Advocates for Social Justice
Assignment Competencies
Maximum Points Allotted for each Assignment
Competency
Student Name:
Faculty Comments:
Purpose: To provide the opportunity for students to become familiar with the purpose and bylaws of a professional nursing association.
Identified a Professional Nursing Association.
5 points
Stated the mission and purpose of the association.
10 points
Outlined the legislative agenda of the association and stated how it is developed.
20 points
Stated members’ involvement in the association.
10 points
Stated how the agenda is communicated to the members.
10 points
Stated if the association is partnered with any coalitions and how this partnership influences policy at state and national levels.
10 points
Discussed plans to join a professional nursing association after graduation with a BSN degree.
15 points
Please adhere to the APA guidelines
Has at least three (3) citations, including up to two (2) personal communications correctly cited. Has a reference page and your references should be listed as hanging indent.
6 points
Have a Title page with running head that starts as page 1, this page also has the title of the paper, your name and Florida Gateway College (nothing else).
3 points
Paper is clearly written, well organized, with a logical flow and with subheading based on APA.
5 points
Free from spelling error, punctuations, and grammatical errors.
2 points
Paper has an introduction, body (with several paragraphs), and conclusion.
2 points
Paper has 12 font size, double spaced, and at least six (6) paragraphs in length.
2 points
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Write an analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.
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Assessment 3 Instructions: Analyzing a Current Health Care Problem or Issue
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Write an analysis of a current problem or issue in health care, including a proposed solution and possible ethical implications.
Introduction
In your health care career, you will be confronted with many problems that demand a solution. By using research skills, you can learn what others are doing and saying about similar problems. Then you can analyze the problem and the people and systems it affects. You can examine potential solutions and their ramifications. This assessment allows you to practice this approach with a real-world problem.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Apply information literacy and library research skills to obtain scholarly information in the field of health care.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain a health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Competency 2: Apply scholarly information through critical thinking to solve problems in the field of health care.
Analyze a health care problem or issue by describing the context, explaining why it is important and identifying populations affected by it.
Discuss potential solutions for a health care problem or issue and describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Competency 3: Apply ethical principles and academic standards to the study of health care.
Analyze the ethical implications if a potential solution to a health care problem or issue was implemented.
Competency 4: Write for a specific audience, in appropriate tone and style, in accordance with Capella’s writing standards.
Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Write following APA style for in-text citations, quotes, and references.
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. At a minimum, be sure to address each point. In addition, you are encouraged to review the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Describe the health care problem or issue you selected for use in Assessment 2 (from the Assessment Topic Areas media piece) and provide details about it.
Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.
Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
You may find the How Do I Find Peer-Reviewed Articles? library guide helpful in locating appropriate references.
You may use articles you found while working on Assessment 2 or you may search the Capella library for other articles.
You may find the applicable Undergraduate Library Research Guide helpful in your search.
Review the Think Critically About Source Quality to help you complete the following:
Assess the credibility of the information sources.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.
Analyze the health care problem or issue.
Describe the setting or context for the problems or issues.
Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.
Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.
Analyze the ethical implications if the potential solution (the one for which you provide pros and cons) were to be implemented.
Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.
Discuss the pros and cons of implementing the proposed solution from an ethical principle point of view.
Describe what would be required to implement the proposed solution.
Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:
Assessment 3 Example [PDF].
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
Length: 4–6 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA tutorial: Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX] for guidance.
Written communication: Write clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
Using outside sources: Integrate information from outside sources into academic writing by appropriately quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, following APA style.
References: Integrate information from outside sources to include at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles and three in-text citations within the paper.
APA format: Follow
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