Please discuss your area of nursing practice and interest in nursing theory.
Please discuss your area of nursing practice and interest in nursing theory.
Feel free to share any additional information you would like your peers to know about you.
DQ2 Applying Florence Nightingale’s Theory to Your Life
Please respond to the following prompts:
Choose one patient care problem (for example, adolescents at the end of life) and describe two ways you can apply Nightingale’s theory to the concept of environment.
View the trailer of “An Inconvenient Truth” (found on the Learning Materials page), which is a movie by former Vice President Al Gore. How can you use Nightingale’s theory to address this major environmental problem?
Your initial post should contain two to three (2–3) paragraphs with three to four (3–4) sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for the citations and references.
DQ3 Syllabus Review
The syllabus is a detailed document that outlines the course expectations for students. By carefully reviewing the syllabus during your first week, you will ensure that you don’t miss any essential activities or information that will be helpful over the term.
Reply to this discussion board by Day 7, stating that you have read the syllabus and listing one item that you learned “new” after reading the syllabus.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 3 Discussion
Borderline Case- Ethics of Patient Care
For this discussion, you will be applying defining attributes to an actual patient case. Please listen to the NPR podcast, “If You Have Dementia, Can You Hasten Death As You Wished?” Additionally, review Wilkinson’s defining attributes (found in the Wilkinson (1997) reading in the Learning Materials section).
Please respond to the following prompts:
Review Wilkinson’s (1997) defining attributes and describe how the NPR podcast, “If You Have Dementia, Can you Hasten Death As You Wished?” case story meets the definition of a borderline case.
Describe the ethical issues the case raises.
If it were changed to meet criteria for a model case, what ethical issues would come to the forefront?
Your initial post should contain two to three (2–3) paragraphs with three to four (3–4) sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 4 Discussion
Grand Theory Group Presentation Reflections
Create your initial post by Day 3 about your own group and theory experience. Additionally, one student in each group should post their group’s presentation website/URL by Day 3, clearly indicating the group number. Reply to at least two other Grand Theory Group Presentations by Day 7.
Grading Category: Discussions
This discussion board is to be completed individually; not with your group.
Initial Post
Please respond to the following prompts:
One student in each group should post their Grand Theory Presentation website/URL by Day 3.
Describe your thoughts on the grand theory about which your group presented.
What were the challenges that you faced in understanding the theory?
How did you attempt to resolve those challenges?
Your initial post should contain two to three (2–3) paragraphs of three to four (3–4) sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 6 Discussion
Practice Theory Evaluation
For this discussion, you will be evaluating Willis, DeSanto-Madeya, & Fawcett (2015). Moving beyond dwelling in suffering: A situation-specific theory of men’s healing from childhood maltreatment. Nursing Science Quarterly, 28(1), 57–63.
Initial Post
For your initial post, your group should collaborate to address the following:
Situation-Specific Theory Evaluation Criteria
Complexity/Simplicity: Is the theory complex or simple? Explain.
Clarity
Is the theory understandable? Why or why not?
How could this theory be made more understandable? Describe.
Parsimony
Is the theory concise or wordy?
Provide examples.
Socio-cultural Utility
Does the theory attend to diversity?
If so, how?
If not, suggest one way it can be refined to address diversity using at least one reference to support your suggestion.
Accuracy
Is the theory relevant to nursing today?
If yes, provide an example of its relevance.
If not, please explain.
Your initial post should contain be a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of 750 words. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 7 Discussion
Application to Pragmatic Adequacy Assignment Reflections
Please respond to the following prompts:
Identify the article your group wrote their assignment about.
Which theory or model did your group choose and which Healthy People 2020 objective/topic did you connect it to as a group?
Provide a summary of your group’s work in five to seven (5–7) sentences.
Then select a different Healthy People 2020 objective/topic and connect it to your group’s selected theory or model. Identify this objective topic and discuss how you would apply your chosen Healthy People 2020 objective/topic to the selected theory or model, focusing on the following two areas:
Outlining client outcomes
Designing nursing interventions
Ensure you utilize at least three scholarly sources in your initial post.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 8 Discussion
Application of a Shared Theory or Model to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing
Please respond to the following prompt:
Applying your selected model to your primary care specialty, describe how you would use the model in intervening with a patient-care problem focusing on assessment, counseling, and teaching (for example: PNP: Adolescents with Type One diabetes; Women’s Health: Mothers with postpartum depression; Adult Geriatric NP: Older widower coping with their spouse’s death).
Your initial post should contain two to three (2–3) paragraphs with three to four 3–4 sentences per paragraph. The post should integrate a minimum of three readings and/or other evidence-based research articles no more than three years old and use APA formatting for citations and references.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 2 Assignment
Annotated Bibliography
Annotated Bibliography Instructions
An important part of the concept analysis is review of articles related to the concept you will focus on. An annotated bibliography is a method you can use to summarize and assess the articles that you plan to use for your concept analysis paper.
Grief is the concept of focus in week 2. You are required to write an annotated bibliography of two articles related to grief. One article must have an empirical referent of grief. For example, your required reading, Martincekova, L. & Klatt, J. (2017). Mothers’ grief, forgiveness, and posttraumatic growth after the loss of a child. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying,75(3), 248-265. contains three empirical referents—the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief, the Enright Forgiveness Inventory, and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory.
Paper Instructions
You will write an annotated bibliography (summary and assessment) of two articles related to the concept of grief. The annotated bibliography of each article should be two to three paragraphs long. The Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliographies website contains a useful guide to writing annotated bibliographies. The Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliographies Samples provides annotated bibliography examples. You should follow these suggestions related to summarizing and assessing articles:
Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how the degree of detail of your summary.
Assess: Is it a useful source? (Source: Purdue OWL: Annotated Bibliographies, retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/common_writing_assignments/annotated_bibliographies/)
You need to write your annotated bibliography in your own words. Do not use the abstract of an article as your annotated bibliography.
The articles you select must be at a graduate level. They must be from academic/professional level journals. You cannot use articles from introductory nursing journals (e.g., Registered Nurse Journal or American Journal of Nursing).
You are required to write your annotated bibliography according to APA Manual 6th edition guidelines. The Owl Purdue Annotated Bibliographies Samples website includes an example of an annotated bibliography for a book, Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America. New York: Henry Holt.
Please refer to the Annotated Bibliography Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 3 Assignment
Concept Analysis Paper Outline
Purpose and Process
You will choose a concept for analysis from the list that is provided in the NU601Moodle site. Each student must select a different concept for their concept analysis assignment. In other words, no concept can be selected by more than one student. The concepts you will choose from are related to nursing practice, education, and/or administration. For example, if you are planning to be a family nurse practitioner, you might choose the concept of family support. In the concept analysis assignment, you will review the literature related to the study of your concept from different disciplines. Doing sowill help illuminate the meaning of the concept for you. View it as helping you build the foundation for your nursing research proposal in NU 630, Advanced Nursing Research, and adding to your body of knowledge. For example, a former student, who planned to specialize in women’s health, chose the concept of post-partum depression for her concept analysis for an NU601 course. For NU630, she focused her research proposal on the same concept.
Paper Guidelines
1. Introduction (5 points):In this section, you inform the reader ofthe purpose of your paper. Sometimes, students start writing their papers without stating the focus of their paper. In addition, You should also explain what a concept analysis is according to the literature. Then, you should describe why you chose your concept and its application to nursing research and another area in nursing, such as nursing administration, nursing practice, or nursing education.
2. Review of the Literature (15 points):This is the main section of your paper whereyou should identify all uses of the concept. First, you beginwith the dictionary and lay sources, then you move to academic literature. You should review the nursing literature related your topic, as well as two other disciplines, such as biology, psychology, or law. The selected literature should mainly be scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks. You should provide a brief summary of each of thesearticles and connect them together as a synthesis. For example, for post-partum depression, you would review the literature in nursing, and two other possible disciplines you would include would be psychology and social work. Generally, references that have been published within the last five years should be used, unless there is a landmark piece of literature (for example, Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships). Use at least three scholarly articles from each discipline. Write a synthesis of these articles (for example,compare and contrast focus and/or findings). For more information, examine Nursing: How to Write a Literature Review.
3. Defining attributes (15 points):From your literature review of uses of the concept (sources such as the dictionary and thethesaurus [lay sources]and academic), you should determine the defining attributes of your concept. In order to accomplish this part of your analysis, it is helpful if for each of your selected sources (academic journal articles, dictionaries, textbooks) that you (1) read through them entirely, (2) highlight or underline the definitions within each of these sources so you can keep track of the various definitions used to define your selected concept, and (3) extract the definitions from across the sources to put together a comprehensive list of the attributes that define your specific concept. Two or three defining attributes may exist for one type of concept, whereas for another concept, there could be seven or eight defining attributes. Do a comprehensive review of the literature within your selected sources prior to deciding on your final list of defining attributes, so you fully capture the “essence” or meaning of your concept.
4. Definition of the Concept (5 points):Write adefinition that incorporates all the concept’s defining attributes. This definiti9on should be written in a one-to-two paragraph narrative.
5. Cases (35 points):Ensure your cases fit your designatedcase types. Also, be sure to provide a rationale for why your case meets that criterion. For example, model case: First describe what a model case is according to the literature, then describe your model case and why it meets that criterion. Be specific. You should follow this method with each of your cases.
a. Model Case: (15 points)
b. Borderline, Related, Contrary, Illegitimate, and Invented Cases.(Each section is worth 4points; 20 points for this component.)
6. Antecedents and Consequences (10 points;antecedents 5 points, and consequences 5 points):Antecedents are the events/required elements that occur before the concept can happen. Consequences are the events/outcomes that take place after the concept occurs. Antecedents and consequences cannot be the same. They also cannot be the concept itself, but the events/required elements that take place before or after the concept is evident.
7. Empirical Referents (5 points): Here, you describe how the concept is measured. Look for two research tools on the concept.Describe the definition of the concept that the researcher used and the purpose and structure of the tool (that is, number of items), and then describe one study where the toolwas used including its purpose, sample, method, and main findings. This information can come from your literature review.
8. Summary (5 points): Summarize your paper and do not provide new information. You should not leave the reader in suspense as if there will be a sequel.
9. Format (5 points): Your paper should use APA formatting for its all components and formal writing mechanics, and be free of spelling and grammar errors.
Other Requirements
• Your paper should be 10 to 12 pages long,typedin a Times New Roman 12-point font, and have 1-inch margins. The paper’s length does not include the title page and references list. Do not include appendices.
• You will have following three milestones for your Concept Analysis paper so that your instructor can provide you with feedback on itsdevelopment:
1. Concept Analysis Outline:It includes the Introduction through Review of the Literature with at least four references styled in APA format. This outline is due in Week 3.(Counts as 10% of the Concept Analysis paper’s grade.)
2. Concept Analysis draft:A draft of entire paper is due in Week 5. The Concept Analysis draft you submit in Week 5 should be a complete version of the paper. Each part of the final paper should be present, including references styled in proper APA format. The closer that your draft is to the final paper, the more specific feedback your NU601 faculty can provide to you to help improve your final submission (which will be submitted during Week 7). (This draft is worth 10% of the Concept Analysis paper grade.)
3. Final Paper: The final complete paper is due in Week 7 (The final paper is worth 80% of the Concept Analysis paper grade)
Helpful Hints
• Ensure you review the Week 2 and Week 3 learning materials and readings on concept analysis before you begin writing your Concept Analysis paper. Refer to the examples in the media activities about what should beincluded in a concept analysis.
• Have easy access to your APA Manual. It will be of help in writing your paper.
• Use the headings of the paper guidelines to organize your paper. Subheadings might also be helpful, but use them judiciously.
• Reference all work that is not your own or common knowledge, such as “alcoholism is a serious problem”.
• For each section of your paper, you should define what each part means according to the literature, then provide your explanation. You will want to define what a concept analysis is, as well as the meaning of defining attributes, model cases, borderline cases, etc.
• You can combine your review of the literature pertaining to the three disciplines or presenteach separately.
• Do not use broad assumptions without data or evidence to support them.
• Write in your own words.
• Do not use colloquial statements or informal language, such as “Let’s take the car for a spin.”
• If you find a concept analysis of your concept, you may use it very judiciously. Your paper should be your own work.
• Review this example of a Concept Analysis paper:West, P., Abbott, P., & Probst, P. (2014).Alarm fatigue: A concept analysis.Online Journal of Nursing Informatics 18(2). It is not perfect, but it should help further your understanding in how to write your paper.
• You may not use basic nursing resources (such as Registered Nurse Journal orAmerican Journal of Nursing), nor basic nursing textbooks. You may use websites that are classified as .org or .edu websites. However, such websites should be used judiciously.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 5 Assignment
Concept Analysis Draft
Submit a draft of your Concept Analysis paper including all references. The more complete your draft, the more input you will receive from your instructor for your final paper. Review the Concept Analysis Paper Instructions (Word) if needed.
Concept Analysis Paper Assignment Instructions
Purpose and Process
You will choose a concept for analysis from the list that is provided in the NU601Moodle site. Each student must select a different concept for their concept analysis assignment. In other words, no concept can be selected by more than one student. The concepts you will choose from are related to nursing practice, education, and/or administration. For example, if you are planning to be a family nurse practitioner, you might choose the concept of family support. In the concept analysis assignment, you will review the literature related to the study of your concept from different disciplines. Doing sowill help illuminate the meaning of the concept for you. View it as helping you build the foundation for your nursing research proposal in NU 630, Advanced Nursing Research, and adding to your body of knowledge. For example, a former student, who planned to specialize in women’s health, chose the concept of post-partum depression for her concept analysis for an NU601 course. For NU630, she focused her research proposal on the same concept.
Paper Guidelines
1. Introduction (5 points):In this section, you inform the reader ofthe purpose of your paper. Sometimes, students start writing their papers without stating the focus of their paper. In addition, You should also explain what a concept analysis is according to the literature. Then, you should describe why you chose your concept and its application to nursing research and another area in nursing, such as nursing administration, nursing practice, or nursing education.
2. Review of the Literature (15 points):This is the main section of your paper whereyou should identify all uses of the concept. First, you beginwith the dictionary and lay sources, then you move to academic literature. You should review the nursing literature related your topic, as well as two other disciplines, such as biology, psychology, or law. The selected literature should mainly be scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks. You should provide a brief summary of each of thesearticles and connect them together as a synthesis. For example, for post-partum depression, you would review the literature in nursing, and two other possible disciplines you would include would be psychology and social work. Generally, references that have been published within the last five years should be used, unless there is a landmark piece of literature (for example, Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships). Use at least three scholarly articles from each discipline. Write a synthesis of these articles (for example,compare and contrast focus and/or findings). For more information, examine Nursing: How to Write a Literature Review.
3. Defining attributes (15 points):From your literature review of uses of the concept (sources such as the dictionary and thethesaurus [lay sources]and academic), you should determine the defining attributes of your concept. In order to accomplish this part of your analysis, it is helpful if for each of your selected sources (academic journal articles, dictionaries, textbooks) that you (1) read through them entirely, (2) highlight or underline the definitions within each of these sources so you can keep track of the various definitions used to define your selected concept, and (3) extract the definitions from across the sources to put together a comprehensive list of the attributes that define your specific concept. Two or three defining attributes may exist for one type of concept, whereas for another concept, there could be seven or eight defining attributes. Do a comprehensive review of the literature within your selected sources prior to deciding on your final list of defining attributes, so you fully capture the “essence” or meaning of your concept.
4. Definition of the Concept (5 points):Write adefinition that incorporates all the concept’s defining attributes. This definiti9on should be written in a one-to-two paragraph narrative.
5. Cases (35 points):Ensure your cases fit your designatedcase types. Also, be sure to provide a rationale for why your case meets that criterion. For example, model case: First describe what a model case is according to the literature, then describe your model case and why it meets that criterion. Be specific. You should follow this method with each of your cases.
a. Model Case: (15 points)
b. Borderline, Related, Contrary, Illegitimate, and Invented Cases.(Each section is worth 4points; 20 points for this component.)
6. Antecedents and Consequences (10 points;antecedents 5 points, and consequences 5 points):Antecedents are the events/required elements that occur before the concept can happen. Consequences are the events/outcomes that take place after the concept occurs. Antecedents and consequences cannot be the same. They also cannot be the concept itself, but the events/required elements that take place before or after the concept is evident.
7. Empirical Referents (5 points): Here, you describe how the concept is measured. Look for two research tools on the concept.Describe the definition of the concept that the researcher used and the purpose and structure of the tool (that is, number of items), and then describe one study where the toolwas used including its purpose, sample, method, and main findings. This information can come from your literature review.
8. Summary (5 points): Summarize your paper and do not provide new information. You should not leave the reader in suspense as if there will be a sequel.
9. Format (5 points): Your paper should use APA formatting for its all components and formal writing mechanics, and be free of spelling and grammar errors.
Other Requirements
• Your paper should be 10 to 12 pages long,typedin a Times New Roman 12-point font, and have 1-inch margins. The paper’s length does not include the title page and references list. Do not include appendices.
• You will have following three milestones for your Concept Analysis paper so that your instructor can provide you with feedback on itsdevelopment:
1. Concept Analysis Outline:It includes the Introduction through Review of the Literature with at least four references styled in APA format. This outline is due in Week 3.(Counts as 10% of the Concept Analysis paper’s grade.)
2. Concept Analysis draft:A draft of entire paper is due in Week 5. The Concept Analysis draft you submit in Week 5 should be a complete version of the paper. Each part of the final paper should be present, including references styled in proper APA format. The closer that your draft is to the final paper, the more specific feedback your NU601 faculty can provide to you to help improve your final submission (which will be submitted during Week 7). (This draft is worth 10% of the Concept Analysis paper grade.)
3. Final Paper: The final complete paper is due in Week 7 (The final paper is worth 80% of the Concept Analysis paper grade)
Helpful Hints
• Ensure you review the Week 2 and Week 3 learning materials and readings on concept analysis before you begin writing your Concept Analysis paper. Refer to the examples in the media activities about what should beincluded in a concept analysis.
• Have easy access to your APA Manual. It will be of help in writing your paper.
• Use the headings of the paper guidelines to organize your paper. Subheadings might also be helpful, but use them judiciously.
• Reference all work that is not your own or common knowledge, such as “alcoholism is a serious problem”.
• For each section of your paper, you should define what each part means according to the literature, then provide your explanation. You will want to define what a concept analysis is, as well as the meaning of defining attributes, model cases, borderline cases, etc.
• You can combine your review of the literature pertaining to the three disciplines or presenteach separately.
• Do not use broad assumptions without data or evidence to support them.
• Write in your own words.
• Do not use colloquial statements or informal language, such as “Let’s take the car for a spin.”
• If you find a concept analysis of your concept, you may use it very judiciously. Your paper should be your own work.
• Review this example of a Concept Analysis paper:West, P., Abbott, P., & Probst, P. (2014).Alarm fatigue: A concept analysis.Online Journal of Nursing Informatics 18(2). It is not perfect, but it should help further your understanding in how to write your paper.
• You may not use basic nursing resources (such as Registered Nurse Journal orAmerican Journal of Nursing), nor basic nursing textbooks. You may use websites that are classified as .org or .edu websites. However, such websites should be used judiciously.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 7 Assignment
Concept Analysis Final Paper
Submit your final concept analysis paper, including all the references, using APA format. Review the Concept Analysis Paper Instructions (Word) if needed. Please refer the instructions for the grading breakdown for each section.
Concept Analysis Paper Assignment Instructions
Purpose and Process
You will choose a concept for analysis from the list that is provided in the NU601Moodle site. Each student must select a different concept for their concept analysis assignment. In other words, no concept can be selected by more than one student. The concepts you will choose from are related to nursing practice, education, and/or administration. For example, if you are planning to be a family nurse practitioner, you might choose the concept of family support. In the concept analysis assignment, you will review the literature related to the study of your concept from different disciplines. Doing sowill help illuminate the meaning of the concept for you. View it as helping you build the foundation for your nursing research proposal in NU 630, Advanced Nursing Research, and adding to your body of knowledge. For example, a former student, who planned to specialize in women’s health, chose the concept of post-partum depression for her concept analysis for an NU601 course. For NU630, she focused her research proposal on the same concept.
Paper Guidelines
1. Introduction (5 points):In this section, you inform the reader ofthe purpose of your paper. Sometimes, students start writing their papers without stating the focus of their paper. In addition, You should also explain what a concept analysis is according to the literature. Then, you should describe why you chose your concept and its application to nursing research and another area in nursing, such as nursing administration, nursing practice, or nursing education.
2. Review of the Literature (15 points):This is the main section of your paper whereyou should identify all uses of the concept. First, you beginwith the dictionary and lay sources, then you move to academic literature. You should review the nursing literature related your topic, as well as two other disciplines, such as biology, psychology, or law. The selected literature should mainly be scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles and textbooks. You should provide a brief summary of each of thesearticles and connect them together as a synthesis. For example, for post-partum depression, you would review the literature in nursing, and two other possible disciplines you would include would be psychology and social work. Generally, references that have been published within the last five years should be used, unless there is a landmark piece of literature (for example, Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationships). Use at least three scholarly articles from each discipline. Write a synthesis of these articles (for example,compare and contrast focus and/or findings). For more information, examine Nursing: How to Write a Literature Review.
3. Defining attributes (15 points):From your literature review of uses of the concept (sources such as the dictionary and thethesaurus [lay sources]and academic), you should determine the defining attributes of your concept. In order to accomplish this part of your analysis, it is helpful if for each of your selected sources (academic journal articles, dictionaries, textbooks) that you (1) read through them entirely, (2) highlight or underline the definitions within each of these sources so you can keep track of the various definitions used to define your selected concept, and (3) extract the definitions from across the sources to put together a comprehensive list of the attributes that define your specific concept. Two or three defining attributes may exist for one type of concept, whereas for another concept, there could be seven or eight defining attributes. Do a comprehensive review of the literature within your selected sources prior to deciding on your final list of defining attributes, so you fully capture the “essence” or meaning of your concept.
4. Definition of the Concept (5 points):Write adefinition that incorporates all the concept’s defining attributes. This definiti9on should be written in a one-to-two paragraph narrative.
5. Cases (35 points):Ensure your cases fit your designatedcase types. Also, be sure to provide a rationale for why your case meets that criterion. For example, model case: First describe what a model case is according to the literature, then describe your model case and why it meets that criterion. Be specific. You should follow this method with each of your cases.
a. Model Case: (15 points)
b. Borderline, Related, Contrary, Illegitimate, and Invented Cases.(Each section is worth 4points; 20 points for this component.)
6. Antecedents and Consequences (10 points;antecedents 5 points, and consequences 5 points):Antecedents are the events/required elements that occur before the concept can happen. Consequences are the events/outcomes that take place after the concept occurs. Antecedents and consequences cannot be the same. They also cannot be the concept itself, but the events/required elements that take place before or after the concept is evident.
7. Empirical Referents (5 points): Here, you describe how the concept is measured. Look for two research tools on the concept.Describe the definition of the concept that the researcher used and the purpose and structure of the tool (that is, number of items), and then describe one study where the toolwas used including its purpose, sample, method, and main findings. This information can come from your literature review.
8. Summary (5 points): Summarize your paper and do not provide new information. You should not leave the reader in suspense as if there will be a sequel.
9. Format (5 points): Your paper should use APA formatting for its all components and formal writing mechanics, and be free of spelling and grammar errors.
Other Requirements
• Your paper should be 10 to 12 pages long,typedin a Times New Roman 12-point font, and have 1-inch margins. The paper’s length does not include the title page and references list. Do not include appendices.
• You will have following three milestones for your Concept Analysis paper so that your instructor can provide you with feedback on itsdevelopment:
1. Concept Analysis Outline:It includes the Introduction through Review of the Literature with at least four references styled in APA format. This outline is due in Week 3.(Counts as 10% of the Concept Analysis paper’s grade.)
2. Concept Analysis draft:A draft of entire paper is due in Week 5. The Concept Analysis draft you submit in Week 5 should be a complete version of the paper. Each part of the final paper should be present, including references styled in proper APA format. The closer that your draft is to the final paper, the more specific feedback your NU601 faculty can provide to you to help improve your final submission (which will be submitted during Week 7). (This draft is worth 10% of the Concept Analysis paper grade.)
3. Final Paper: The final complete paper is due in Week 7 (The final paper is worth 80% of the Concept Analysis paper grade)
Helpful Hints
• Ensure you review the Week 2 and Week 3 learning materials and readings on concept analysis before you begin writing your Concept Analysis paper. Refer to the examples in the media activities about what should beincluded in a concept analysis.
• Have easy access to your APA Manual. It will be of help in writing your paper.
• Use the headings of the paper guidelines to organize your paper. Subheadings might also be helpful, but use them judiciously.
• Reference all work that is not your own or common knowledge, such as “alcoholism is a serious problem”.
• For each section of your paper, you should define what each part means according to the literature, then provide your explanation. You will want to define what a concept analysis is, as well as the meaning of defining attributes, model cases, borderline cases, etc.
• You can combine your review of the literature pertaining to the three disciplines or presenteach separately.
• Do not use broad assumptions without data or evidence to support them.
• Write in your own words.
• Do not use colloquial statements or informal language, such as “Let’s take the car for a spin.”
• If you find a concept analysis of your concept, you may use it very judiciously. Your paper should be your own work.
• Review this example of a Concept Analysis paper:West, P., Abbott, P., & Probst, P. (2014).Alarm fatigue: A concept analysis.Online Journal of Nursing Informatics 18(2). It is not perfect, but it should help further your understanding in how to write your paper.
• You may not use basic nursing resources (such as Registered Nurse Journal orAmerican Journal of Nursing), nor basic nursing textbooks. You may use websites that are classified as .org or .edu websites. However, such websites should be used judiciously.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 1 Blog
Forever Mark
According to Levine, “Nursing is a human interaction. The nurse enters into a partnership of human experience where sharing moments in time—some trivial, some dramatic—leaves its mark forever on each patient” (Alligood, 2010, Nursing theory: Utilization & application, p. 183). Has a patient ever left a mark forever on you? Please explain in a blog post that is three-to-five (3–5) sentences long.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 2 Blog
Exploring Grief
The concept of grief has many uses. What does grief mean to you? Provide your thoughts in a blog post that is three-to-five (3–5) sentences long.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 3 Blog
Autonomy and You
As a CNS, Dr. Matteis had to assert to a psychiatrist that a psychiatric patient needed to be hospitalized. Was there a time when your autonomy as a nurse was important? Why might autonomy be of interest to you in your current work? Please explain in a blog post that is three-to-five (3–5) sentences long.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 5 Blog
Empathy in Interpersonal Relationships
Watch “The Heart of Compassion” video (found in Week 5: Learning Materials) for this blog assignment.
In a blog post of three to five (3–5) sentences long, describe how empathy is an important part of your nursing practice.
NU601 Nursing Theory
Week 8 Blog
Personal Takeaway
For this blog entry, provide one personal take-away from the course. For example, has the course impacted your views of nursing theory? Have you applied something you learned in your nursing practice? Has a topic from the course influenced you personally? Write a blog post of between three to five (3–5) sentences long.
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