Assignment: Nursing Practice-related Issues
Assignment: Nursing Practice-related Issues
Question Description
Scholarly Paper: Analyze a current nursing practice-related issue using the PICOT process. Select an issue from your NURS 412 clinical practice and write a PICOT research question.
The scholarly paper should be typed, double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman, and limited to 6 pages, including the title and reference pages, in APA format. References must be no older than 2018. UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARLY PAPER RUBRIC WILL BE EVALUATED.
Support your claim with at least two peer-reviewed journal reference articles from no earlier than 2018.
The Rubric is included in the SYLLABUS, and some power point slides are attached below for your convenience.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.