Cover Letter

A significant part of a registered nurse’s job involves communicating with patients and providing emotional support. A successful cover letter should emphasize examples of your bedside manner and empathy as well as your emotional stability and composure in difficult situations.

 Follow these steps to create your customized entry-level, registered nurse cover letter:

 

You are applying for a job at Kindred Hospital in South Florida. Research the unique needs, characteristics, and culture of the hospital. 
1. Specify how you’re a good fit for the position. (10 points)
2. Highlight your specialties and skills which set you apart from other nurses, paying particular attention to those that required additional training. (10 points)
3. Don’t neglect soft skills that are highly relevant to a position as a registered nurse, such as problem solving, teamwork, communication, and leadership. (5 points)
4. Carefully proofread your cover letter before submitting to make sure all contact information is correct and that there are no misspellings.(5 points)

 

   

· Week 5: Assignment – Critical Appraisal of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring

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Points: 100 | Due Date: Week 5, Day 7 | CLO: 6 | Grade Category: Assignments

Assignment Prompt

Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring is a conceptual thread in the USU College of Nursing’s curriculum framework. The purpose of this assignment is to offer students the opportunity to be exposed to Human Caring Science while providing students with the skills of critical appraisal of evidence.

1. Students will select one nursing research article that focuses on a study that used Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring as a theoretical framework.

2. Students should use as a guide, an appropriate Rapid Critical Appraisal Checklist found in Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt (2019; pp. 708-722).

3. The critiques are to be informal, although correct grammar, spelling, etc., are expected. The critique should include a brief description of the study that was reviewed and should address elements of the study relevant to critique.

4. Students will provide a written critique on a critical appraisal of the elements relevant to the nature of the research study such as type of study, design, quality of the study; and rationale, as well as implications for practice and further research and/or evaluation.

The grade will be based on accuracy, level of content and structure of the document.

Examples of research articles incorporating Jean Watson’s theory  in USU online library:

Durgun Ozan, Y., & Okumus, H. (2017). Effects of nursing care based on

  Watson’s theory of human caring on anxiety, distress, and coping when

   infertility treatment fails: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Caring

  Sciences, 6(2), 95-109. 

Rossillao, K. (2018).  Caritas education: Theory to practice…2018 

 National Teaching Institute research abstracts presented at the AACN

 National Teaching Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2018. 

 American Journal of Critical Care, 27(3), e 14 – e15. 

    

Expectations

· Due: Saturday, 11:59 pm PT

· Length: 4-5 pages (including title and reference pages)

· Format: Formal paper in APA 6th ed format

· Citations: If used (not required) cite references according to APA 7th ed.

· File name: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_Appraisal

See USU NUR Writing Assignment Rubric for additional details and point weighting.

Provide a progress report of your oral presentation by addressing the following:

• What steps do you plan to take to transition your paper to a presentation?
• Which key ideas will you focus on?
• What questions do you have about using Panopto recording software for your presentation?
• What recording device will you use? (I will use Panopto recording software)
• Share some tips and tricks you have learned for delivering a powerful presentation.
• How confident are you presenting your paper via video? Explain.
• What are your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to giving video presentations?
• How will you maximize your strengths?

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1. Build a three–slide PowerPoint (or Prezi) presentation that includes text and graphics. Outline your answers to the following questions:

• What are some specific questions you have concerning the final argument paper?
• What is your time–management plan for compiling and editing your final paper?
• What parts of your final paper do you anticipate will take the most time and attention? For example:

• Incorporating instructor feedback in your perspective papers
• Reworking the perspective papers into one cohesive paper
• Writing the introduction, conclusion, or abstract
• APA formatting
• Revising for grammar, spelling, and punctuation

In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making. A critical component of any policy design is evaluation of the results. How comfortable are you with the thought of becoming involved with such matters?

Some nurses may be hesitant to get involved with policy evaluation. The preference may be to focus on the care and well-being of their patients; some nurses may feel ill-equipped to enter the realm of policy and political activities. However, as you have examined previously, who better to advocate for patients and effective programs and polices than nurses? Already patient advocates in interactions with doctors and leadership, why not with government and regulatory agencies?

In this Discussion, you will reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

To Prepare:

• In the Module 4 Discussion, you considered how professional nurses can become involved in policy-making.
• Review the Resources and reflect on the role of professional nurses in policy evaluation.

Post an explanation of at least two opportunities that currently exist for RNs and APRNs to actively participate in policy review. Explain some of the challenges that these opportunities may present and describe how you might overcome these challenges. Finally, recommend two strategies you might make to better advocate for or communicate the existence of these opportunities. Be specific and provide examples.

Please use this reference To base the care plan.

The assignment has to be on a patient with uncontrolled hypertension and cardiac issues  This patient was re admitted to the hospital (cardiac/telemetry unit) because of the on going Controlled hypertension And possible heart attack.

Instructions

Developing a Care Plan

There are two parts to the comprehensive nursing care plan assignment. In Week 5 you are required to submit a draft of your care plan. In Week 6 you will submit your final nursing care plan based on feedback from your instructor and your continued work.

In a Microsoft Word document of 4-5 pages formatted in APA style, begin to develop a comprehensive care plan for the aggregate based on the health risks faced by the aggregate that you identified in the risk assessment. 

In your paper, address the following:

• Propose two (2) priority-nursing diagnoses based on the major health risks identified during the risk assessment for the aggregate
  • Include strategies to address the nursing diagnoses and identified risks of aggregate.
  • Support your strategies with at least two journal articles.
• Develop a disaster management plan with the following components:
  • List of disasters that might affect your aggregate (take into consideration the geographical location of the aggregate, past history, etc.).
  • Strategies for handling at least two disasters from the list.
  • Recommendations for a disaster supplies kit.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format. Please notethat the title and reference pages should not be included in the total page count of your paper.