Literature Evaluation Table

In nursing practice, accurate identification and application of research is essential to achieving successful outcomes. The ability to articulate research data and summarize relevant content supports the student’s ability to further develop and synthesize the assignments that constitute the components of the capstone project.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

For this assignment, provide a synopsis of the review of the research literature. Using the “Literature Evaluation Table,” determine the level and strength of the evidence for each of the eight research articles you have selected. The articles should be current (within the last 5 years) and closely relate to the PICOT question developed earlier in this course. The articles may include quantitative research, descriptive analyses, longitudinal studies, or meta-analysis articles. A systematic review may be used to provide background information for the purpose or problem identified in the proposed capstone project.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

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PAPER 2

Capstone Change Project Outcomes

After working with your preceptor to assess organizational policies, create a list of measurable outcomes for your capstone project intervention. Write a list of three to five outcomes for your proposed intervention. Below each outcome, provide a one or two sentence rationale.

The assignment will be used to develop a written implementation plan.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

PAPER 3

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Students are required to submit weekly reflective narratives throughout the course that will culminate in a final, course-long reflective journal due in Topic 10. The narratives help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week students should also explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).

In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. Journal entries should address one or more of the areas stated below.  In the Topic 10 graded submission, each of the areas below should be addressed as part of the summary submission.

1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Lesson 4 Assignment 4.1

Due: Dec 8 at 11:59pmCalendarPublic SpeakingDetailsAssignment 4.1: Developing Purpose and Thesis Statements

This assignment supports the following lesson objective:

• 4.2 Prepare purpose statements and thesis statements for speech topics

Assignment Overview
This writing assignment provides you with practice selecting a topic and developing purpose and thesis statements for different types of speeches.

Deliverables

• A one-page paper (12-point font, about 300 words) written in a word processor, such as MS Word

Assignment Details
In this activity, you will select a topic of your choice and write specific purpose and thesis statements based on that topic for an informative, persuasive, and celebratory speech.

Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Imagine that you need to submit a proposal for an informative speech, a persuasive speech, and an entertaining or celebratory speech about one topic of your choice.
If your proposal is accepted, you will have 30 minutes to present your speech.

Step 2: Copy the table below and paste it into your word processing (such as MS Word) document.

TopicGeneral PurposeSpecific PurposeThesis Inform
  Persuade Audience

  Entertain/Celebrate

  
Step 3: Enter a topic suitable for the scenario presented in Step 1 in the Topic column of the table.

Step 4: In each of the three Specific Purpose cells, enter a specific purpose that matches the corresponding general purpose statement.

Step 5: In each of the three Thesis cells, enter a thesis based on the corresponding specific purpose statements.

Assignment 4.2: Get to the Point

This assignment supports the following lesson objective:

• 4.3 Apply standard methods for creating fully developed speech topics

Assignment Overview
This writing assignment explores the importance of clear and meaningful thesis statements in the process of developing a speech.

Deliverables

• A one- to two-page paper written using a word processor, such as MS Word.

Assignment Details
In this activity, you will use thesis statements as starting points to generate questions from which you can derive the main points for speeches.

Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Review the information presented in the lesson that discusses using a thesis statement to determine the main points to include in a speech.
A well-constructed thesis statement raises a question in the mind of the audience. To generate the main points to include in your speech, identify the question and the potential answers.

Step 2: Open the document you created for Assignment 4.1: Developing Purpose and Thesis Statements.

Step 3: For each of the three thesis statements you wrote for the topic you selected, identify one resulting question and generate at least three main points.
Enter the thesis statement, question, and main points into your word processing document using the format in the example shown here.

Example:
Thesis Statement: The government should (or shouldn’t) provide health insurance coverage to all citizens.

Question: Why should the government provide health insurance coverage to all citizens?
Main Points:Health care is prohibitively expensive for citizens without health insurance.
The first question you are asked when you call most doctors’ offices in the United States is, “What type of insurance do you have?”
People without health insurance may be unable to get the health care they need.

In this written assignment, select one cultural factor such as health beliefs, language, perception of time, environment control, etc. (see textbook reading) and apply it to a selected ethnic group. The paper will include the following:

1. One impact on medication preparation. Explain.
2. Two impacts on medication administration. Explain.
3. Two potential adverse reactions. Explain with rationale.
4. One possible issue in adherence to medication regimen. Explain how this can be overcome.

The paper should be no more than 3 pages. Use APA Editorial Format for all citations and references used.

Prior to beginning work on this assignment review Chapters 21, 24, 25 and 27 of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.

Select two of the case studies located in the course textbook at the end of Chapters 21, 24, 25, or 27, and answer the questions associated with those case studies in a cohesive, APA-formatted paper.

Chapter 21:

• Recommend where would you start to improve the user experience.
• Pharmacists are asking for your help due to struggles with non-integrated systems. What methods would you use to examine this issue?
• Describe how usability should be incorporated as part of the purchasing process for this institution.

Chapter 24:

• Assuming that you are the clinical content manager leading reporting efforts, recommend the approach you would take to address the reporting problem.
• Describe how the effort of changing preadmission testing data collection from paper to the Electronic Health Record System (EHR) can be approached.
• Using Patient Safety and Quality Research Design (PSQRD) methodology, identifying area of quality improvement in the hospital setting, recommend a process plan and identify the expected outcomes.

Chapter 25:

• Discuss whether the proposed course of action would be permissible under current fraud and abuse regulations.
• Explain common issues related to the use of EHR and healthcare fraud.
• Discuss how the proposed EHR could potentially facilitate healthcare fraud.

Chapter 27:

• Describe the timeline of the program and its potential financial impact on the individual healthcare providers who are involved in meaningful use.
• Explain the process that providers must complete to avoid payment penalties.
• Explain the timeframe for the provider to achieve modified stage two and stage three measures.

The Week 4 Case Studies Papers

• Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource for each case study.
• Must include a separate title page for each case study with the following:
  • Title of paper including the chapter number and case study title
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

• Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.

• Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
• Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

MODULE 4

TOPIC: Public Health Nursing Assessment

Performing a public health nursing assessment is a critical first step in determining health needs and appropriate interventions to meet them. For this assignment you perform a public health nursing assessment using the Public Health Nursing Tool (PHNAT) included in Chapter 3 of the textbook, complete an assessment on a selected population. You are free to use your setting/population of interest discussed in Topic 3 DQ1 or choose another population of interest.

Using the assessment framework provided by the PHNAT, develop a 1,250-1,500 report summarizing your assessment findings and identifying the public health needs for your selected population. Your summary should include the following:

1. Resources to identify and engage stakeholders, define your diverse community
2. Collection and analysis of data regarding diverse community health issues
3. Summary of how the documentation of the above could be disseminated to the community and its stakeholders

Consider the importance of preparing and providing quality care to the diverse groups within your community. Within your summary, include how you would plan improvement strategies to include a Healthy People 2020 initiative. Lastly, include steps for implementation of the improvement plans and specifics guiding an evaluation of the plan.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

STUDY MATERIALS

Read Chapters 3, 4, 8, and 19 in Public Health Nursing: Practicing Population-Based Care. URL: https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/jones-and-bartlett/2018/public-health-nursing_practicing-population-based-care_3e.php

Read “The Road to Cultural Competency: Are We There Yet?” by Haynes, from Kansas Nurse (2016).URL:https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=112949029&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read “Ethics, Law, and Policy. Dead Wrong! The Ethics of Culturally Competent Care,” by Ortiz and Casey, from MEDSURG Nursing (2017). URL:https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=124650218&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Read “8 Steps to Guide Your Community Health Needs Assessment,” from H&HN Hospitals & Health Networks (2016).URL: https://www.hhnmag.com/articles/7545-steps-to-guide-your-community-health-needs-assessment

Read “QuickFacts United States,” from United States Census Bureau (2017).URL: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217

Read “Cultural Competence,” from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2015).URL: https://npin.cdc.gov/pages/cultural-competence

Read “Tools for Cross-Cultural Communication and Language Access Can Help Organizations Address Health Literacy and Improve Communication Effectiveness,” from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2018). URL: https://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy/culture.html