Category: Health Care and Life Sciences : Nursing

We begin our journey into discovering the new world of research and evidence-based practice (EBP) by exploring our past. After completing the required readings and lesson, answer the following:
Explain how research has evolved since the Florence Nightingale era.
Discuss how research and EBP are different; include how you believe research supports EBP for nursing.
Describe one past/historical unethical breach of research conduct; then, share how you would ensure care of a study participant using one ethical or legal research consideration (guideline/principle).

updated Statement of Goals outlining student professional goals pertaining to the updated program track. This Statement of Goals should be no more than 3 pages, typed, double spaced, Times New Roman, and 12-point font. 

Care expressed and practiced in professional nursing models provides a way of looking at the nursing role from the aspect of care. It may seem excessive to consider aspects of caring and compassion in nursing. However, precisely because it IS nursing makes it crucial to our continual progress of defining and upholding one of our central professional principles.
Address each of these items:
Reflect on a caring and compassionate experience with a patient or family encountered in your practice.
How was your compassion demonstrated?
How does your thinking about compassion expand to include self and colleagues?
Reflect on the iCARE Self-Assessment and share an insight related to this discussion.

Read the following article and respond to all questions below in your initial post: “Vaccine hesitancy and (fake) news: Quasi‐experimental evidence from Italy”Open this document with ReadSpeaker docReader  (Carrieri et al., 2019). Be sure to include a full APA reference for the article in your post.
Download and complete the CRAAP Test  Download CRAAP TestOpen this document with ReadSpeaker docReaderworksheet by filling in a score for each of the 5 categories. Based on the CRAAP Test, Is this a credible article? Why or why not?
Why is it important to be able to determine whether information is credible in your role as a nurse?
In the introduction section of the article, the authors point to something specific that lends credibility to the argument they’re trying to make. What is it?
What are strategies that you can use in the workplace to ensure that you are using credible sources?

Your Field Essay will then combine certain elements of both the traditional White Paper and Ethnographic Map of Field Essay. It is meant to provide a thorough understanding of your field, examine the issues currently in the field, and explore the culture, sociology, and practices of the people involved in this field. This paper will view your field as its own culture–how do people behave in this field? What are the “cultural” expectations and adaptations? How does location or region affect these cultures? Examine how your field of study is developed into a means of study, while also being a collective group of people who engage and further the field.
This essay is due Sunday, April 28 by 11:59 PM to Moodle via the Turn-It-In link. ***
Prompt
Choose a specific topic within your field of study to explore more deeply through further research. Write a 1500–2000 word essay that communicates a broad but well-researched and extensive understanding of your field of study.
Essay Requirements
– A minimum of 1500-2000 words.
– Essay includes a minimum of 5 scholarly sources. 2 of these sources should be from the database or from the LSU Libraries (print or digital sources), while the other 3 can be credible web sources.
– Acceptable scholarly sources include books/book chapters, journal articles, periodicals, news articles, or government documents.
– Make sure the sources you use in this essay demonstrate college-level research skills.
– You may also use credible web sources, such as the Library of Congress, the National Archives, foundation websites related to your topic. Be extremely careful when doing this, as if you use a non-credible source as one of your main sources, this will negatively impact your grade.
– If there is a source you think is vital to your argument but are afraid it is not credible, use it as an additional source instead of one of your main sources.
– Make sure not to distort your sources or take them out of context.
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– Don’t forget about the resources in the library! You already have some background using them during your independent research, but they are still there to be helpful as you progress through your research.1
General Outline
– Introduction
– Field Background, History, and Context
– Field Overview
– Overview, Key Concepts, Educational & Career Pathways, Significance & Relevance
– Ethnographic Study
– Consider your field of study as a culture and/or community by exploring
the socialization practices, social organizational values, language and communication practices, technology uses and application, economic trends, and globalization
– Current Conversations
– Current trends, debates, issues, or challenges
– Problem & Solution
– Explain a problem related to the culture of the field and propose a solution
– Conclusion
– Summarize main points and relate to larger ideas
Notes:
1. Avoid using first and second person in this essay.
2. If you have significant issues or it is clear you did not use the resources available
to you (Purdue Owl, Library Resources, Moodle Resources) you will lose points on this assignment.
1 See the Field Essay tab in Moodle for more resources about completing this assignment & the

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.
For this assessment, research best practices related to a current health care problem. Your selected problem or issue will be utilized again in Assessment 4. To explore your chosen topic, you should use the first two steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking.
Select one of the health care problems or issues presented in the Assessment 02 Supplement: Applying Research Skills [PDF] Download Assessment 02 Supplement: Applying Research Skills [PDF]resource. Write a brief overview of the selected health care problem or issue. In your overview:
Summarize the health care problem or issue.
Describe the professional relevance of this topic.
Describe any professional experience you have with this topic.
Identify peer-reviewed articles relevant to this health care issue or problem.
Conduct a search for scholarly or academic peer-reviewed literature related to the topic and describe the criteria you used to search for articles, including the names of the databases you used. You will select four current scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles published during the past 3–5 years that relate to your topic.
Refer to the NHS-FPX4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective Library Guide to help you locate appropriate references.
Use keywords related to the health care problem or issue you are researching to select relevant articles.
Assess the credibility and explain relevance of the information sources you find.
Determine if the source is from an academic peer-reviewed journal.
Determine if the publication is current.
Determine if information in the academic peer-reviewed journal article is still relevant.
Analyze academic peer-reviewed journal articles using the annotated bibliography organizational format. Provide a rationale for inclusion of each selected article. The purpose of an annotated bibliography is to document a list of references along with key information about each one. The detail about the reference is the annotation. Developing this annotated bibliography will create a foundation of knowledge about the selected topic. In your annotated bibliography:
Identify the purpose of the article.
Summarize the information.
Provide rationale for inclusion of each article.
Include the conclusions and findings of the article.
Write your annotated bibliography in a paragraph form. The annotated bibliography should be approximately 150 words (1–3 paragraphs) in length.
List the full reference for the source in APA format (author, date, title, publisher, et cetera) and use APA format for the annotated bibliography.
Make sure the references are listed in alphabetical order, are double-spaced, and use hanging indents.
Summarize what you have learned while developing an annotated bibliography.
Summarize what you learned from your research in a separate paragraph or two at the end of the paper.
List the main points you learned from your research.
Summarize the main contributions of the sources you chose and how they enhanced your knowledge about the topic.

Step 1: Reflect on your community and review the Week 1 Practicum Project Health Promotion Topics and Resources document Links to an external site. to select a specific topic (i.e. firearm safety, rather than injury prevention).
Step 2: Select a topic that is a health concern in your community. This topic will be used for your Practicum Project throughout the course. See the Apply My Learning at the bottom of Week 1 Explore Page 2 for an example. 
 Step 3: Answer the discussion prompts below with explanation and detail.   
Paragraph one: Describe your selected topic. Provide a rationale for your topic selection and explain how you determined that it is a significant concern within your community. 
Paragraph two: Use the Week 1 Practicum Project Health Promotion Topics and Resources documentLinks to an external site. to review the resources associated with your topic. Explain why professional organizations view the selected issue as a community health concern. Cite at least one outside scholarly source in this paragraph as evidence.  
Paragraph three: Describe how the social determinants of health impact your selected topic. Provide two examples. 
References: Provide complete references for all citations. 

For your initial post, use the biopsychosocial formulation grid from the weekly reading to formulate your diagnosis and develop a comprehensive treatment plan for the case scenario.
If you can, give an example from your clinical experience. How was your suggested intervention received by the client and how did they respond to the treatment?
Please use two sources

Please be sure to address all bullet points. Please review scoring guide. All references within the last 5 years.