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Scholarly Paper Instructions:
- This paper is designed to help students utilize a systematic process to produce evidence-based results. This process enables the students to analyze scholarly articles in order to develop appropriate interventions to address an identified community/public health problem/issue. This assignment will enable students to apply the nursing process in community/public nursing practice. Students are required to choose a community, neighborhood, town, or city in the state of Maryland, identify one of the major issues that affects that area (must be supported by data), then conduct a literature search to identify interventions that have been used to address the issue. Students will then make recommendations for appropriate intervention(s) for the issue/problem identified based on research/evidence. Lastly, include how the recommended intervention(s) will be evaluated.
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The following Nursing Process Outline could be used as a guideline:
Assessment: Identification of geographical community and investigation into problems and issues that affect the community.
Diagnosis: Identification of a priority community nursing diagnosis.
Planning and Intervention: Identification of appropriate and relevant interventions. Recommendation of the chosen intervention(s) for the target community.
Evaluation: Development of an evaluation plan for the intervention recommended.
- All TOPICS have to be approved by the Faculty, before students can start work on the paper.
- Paper Length: 4 pages maximum (excluding Title & Reference pages)
- Formatting: Double spaced, 12-font size.
- Use APA Format. STRICTLY APA.
- References: Must include a minimum of 3 scholarly articles from professional sources. These articles must be recent (not older than 2000)
- Drafts should be submitted in a timely manner for review (draft submission not required) at least two weeks before the submission due date.
- Students are strongly encouraged to use the SMART THINKING software on Blackboard.
- Sub-headings may be used in the body of the paper
- ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE THE DUE (please see late policy under course policies)
- Please PROOFREAD, points will be subtracted for spelling and grammatical errors.
- PLAGIARISM is strictly prohibited. All papers must be submitted through the plagiarism software on Blackboard- Safe Assign. Any Safe Assign percentage greater than 30% will not be accepted (Please see policy under course policies)
- NO PICTURES, NO GRAPHICS (UNLESS A RESULT FROM PRIMARY RESEARCH/SURVEY CONDUCTED FOR THE PAPER, DO NOT IMPORT FROM ANOTHER SOURCE & PASTE).
- Paper Outline
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