To learn how to review and summarize existing evidenced-based literature on a topic
Objectives:
Course:
3. Examine influences that affect population health.
5. Discuss the importance of scholarship to the advanced roles of nursing
Unit 1:
6. Explain the importance of EBP in selected advanced nurse roles
7. Demonstrates scholarly communication
The purpose of writing this topic of interest issue paper is to
encourage you to research and examine current issues in todayâs
health care environment.
Issues may deal with practice, education, research, funding,
licensure/credentialing, management delivery systems, and access to
health care.
Directions:
1. Write a 3 â 4 page paper, not including title and reference pages:
a. Identify and provide background information on your topic of
interest issue. Use at least 2 peer reviewed sources (within the
last 5 years) from the
literature when describing the issue.
b. Conduct a literature review on the impact of your topic of
interest on population health, finding at least 4 peer-reviewed
sources (within the last 5
years). Look for literature that details how the topic of
interest is affecting our overall population health (not just
individual health) and supports the
topic. These should be different sources than were used in
direction 1a. A written literature review is a synthesis of all the
information you can find on
a specific topic.
c. Now that you have reviewed the literature and selected
relevant articles you must write the actual review. Summarize your
findings from your literature
review regarding the impact of the topic of interest on
population health. Synthesize (blend) the 4 articles into a written
presentation of all the
information you found. Remember to give proper credit and
cite the information found in each article using APA format 6th
edition.
d. Define what scholarship is for advanced practice nurses.
Describe how a review of the literature relates to scholarship for
advanced nurse roles. This
final section is for you to identify WHY doing literature
reviews is an important part of scholarship for advanced practice
nurses. This section must be
written in third person.
Assignment 2 and 3 are an introduction to graduate level writing
and the expectations of such. Papers must reflect understanding of
scholarly writing and
APA. Assignments 2 and 3 must be written in third person.
Please refer to the sixth edition of the APA Manual. In reality,
the assignments represent one
paper but we have broken it into 2 parts to make it more
manageable. Assignment 3 will build on Assignment 2.
The paper should be typed in 12 point font, double-spaced, in Microsoft Word, with a title page and reference page.
2.
APA 6th edition format must be used. Please use headings to organize your paper. The title of your paper should be developed according to APA styl
