Primary care and improve care rendered by the family nurse
Primary care and improve care rendered by the family nurse
GUIDELINES: Each STUDENT will hand in one formal paper. The paper is to be a five (5) pages total (double-spaced, 12 font, 1 inch margins).
Follow APA guidelines for a cover sheet, headers, pagination, references, etc.
Use APA format and label each section using the evaluation outline below.
The criteria guidelines below will be used to evaluate your paper.
Components of the Paper and possible points SECTION
Analysis of basic components/concepts of the selected theory.
Discuss in detail the theory’s core concepts and/or components
Use a secondary source like your textbook or scholarly article that details the selected nursing theory.Application to Research and Practice
Select two peer- reviewed/practice- based articles in which the same theory has been applied to clinical patient care issues (i.e. multiple sclerosis, CHF, etc.).
Describe the key details of each article (purpose, sample size, methodology, interventions, results, future implications, strengths & limitations).
Critically analyze and summarize how the research results can be applied to primary care and improve care rendered by the family nurse practitioner.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
